good faith with the requirements of the Law.
4.
Under these circumstances,
I do not think any inconvenience need be caused to the Peninsular & Oriental Co. and the Messageries Maritimes by requiring their vessels when carrying Chinese passengers to come under the Chinese Passengers Act, and I could not advise the grant of an exemption which in practice it would be found impossible to confine to their ships.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your Obedient Servant,
A. H. Handoch
Immediate,
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Sir,
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With reference to your letter of the 16th July, respecting
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or the applicability of the Chinese "Passengers' Act" to the Steamers of
Peninsula & Oriental Co. and to those of Messageries Maritimes, I
—Earl of Kimberley
Miscellaneous Offices
I am to forward to you a copy of a further Report on the subject from the Governor of Hong Kong, and a report from the Emigration Commissioners.
His Lordship proposed, with Lord Granville's concurrence, to instruct the Governor of Hong Kong by telegraph to inform the Agents of the two Companies that their exemption will cease on the 1st October. A despatch will also be addressed to Sir H. Murray instructing...