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hereby direct, with the advise of the Council of Government, that in the Contracts for which in future may service be entered into with the Chinese who propose to emigrate through this port, there be included a condition that a return passage be secured to the labourer, or its equivalent in "money," as soon as the respective contracts have terminated, without which condition such contracts will not be approved. And I further direct, that this order shall come into operation from the date of this Proclamation.
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The authorities whom it concerns to carry out these instructions will accordingly govern themselves.
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Government House, Macao, January 1873.
(Signed) Viscount de Lam Jamane Governor of the Province.
(True Copy)
/ar/hit Acting Colonial Secretary.