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for 97 term of their contracts the means necessary for which that purpose:- Considering the inconvenience may attend to the Governments of the countries in which the said Labourers reside from which they remain, served, they should prefer returning to their homes, and the necessary means may be wanting to them that purpose:
Considering that it is the intention of His Majesty's Government, for which it has been providing when the state of vagrancy per-chance they may at the termination of their contracts a return passage is not immediately procurable, or that they are unable to occupy themselves in other works..
Considering the difficulties which the said Labourers may experience when, being unwilling to enter into new Contracts at the Countries where they have ... recommended, that in allowing Emigration through this Port, there may be secured to the Labourers not only liberty in emigrating, but also that all the conditions tending to better their situation should be promoted, - amongst which cannot fail to be comprised the possibility and certainty of their returning to their native land,