the Emigration Commissioners
in
1857, a copy of
which
is enclosed for
your information Jurdance.
5.
observe
You will
that I have
directed the omission
of the seventeenth
of Section #
I in the
Draft Chinese Immigration Ordinance which would
authorize the seizure
under all circumstances of any ship (British
or
Foreign) which
Chinese
carrying Immigrants might
come
within the waters of
the
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the Colony, and which
in fact forbids, under
and
penalty of seizure and detention, the waters of the Colony to every ship wherever equipped and however employed
in carrying every description of
Chinese
Immigrants to any part
of the world,
6.
This omission
has been directed
under the advice of the Law Officers to
whom the Draft
Ordinance was referred, and who reported.
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