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remedy..
16.. If the contention that Coolie Emigration may in some cases be effected from this Colony with benefit to the Chinese Coolies as well as to the Planters should have value.
in the estimation of the Government
a
clause might be introduced into the Imperial act authorising exceptional Legislation in Supplementary and into the Hongkong Emigration Ordinance a proviso might be introduced authorizing the Colonial Executive (upon such evidence of necessity and under such conditions as it might impose in each case for protecting the Coolie during his term of servitude and for securing his return at its termination) to permit Emigration by an authorisation in each case under the Colonial Seal somewhat in the terms used in the Ordinance No7 of 1870; but all this would be a matter of detail in a view of circumstances in which I do not concur.-
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Coolie Emigration.
Hongkong has no proper Emigration of its own. Emigration is not necessary there and it can be expedient there only merely as a Commercial venture which is an element always tending in Emigration