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On the suggestion of the Governor, Mr. Whittall and I presented Memoranda dated the 27th of June, 1867, embodying our reasons which was transmitted to the Duke of Buckingham by the Governor with an answer dated July 4th, 1867. This Ordinance was re-enacted by No. 12 of 1868, which re-enacted most of its provisions.
11. I am answerable for contents of the above Memorandum; but I am not entitled to credit for a single word in it, as I never saw it until in fair Copy signed. Therefore the more freely may I say that fully concurring in it I thought its reasons conclusive.
The experience since 1867 has satisfied me that the entire prohibition of the Coolie Trade then advocated has become the only effectual remedy; because its atrocities are so inherent in the Trade that all attempts at modification have utterly failed.
12. I should have thought that in as full force the American Act (Public Act No. 94) on p. 259 of Hong Kong Directory for 1872, "An Act to prohibit the Coolie Trade by American Citizens in American Vessels" would have been large enough to have covered the case of the "Kiushu," and have brought its owners within its stringent Provisions.
13. If the Slave Trade Abolition...