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The steamer conformed to the Passenger Regulations, under the supervision of the Harbour Master. These rules allow a complement of passengers to every 2 tons.
The number they accounted for would be 1,407. The remaining 700 carried by her are due to a special & temporary relaxation in her favour, allowing her to carry a number calculated on her gross tonnage in place of her net tonnage.
The Chinese Authorities, in granting this, were actuated by fears for the good conduct of the then unusually large number of intending Emigrants which their feeble powers of...
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