to Singapore
overcrowded
are dangerously
and whether there statements
be commit or no
I
own
of opinion
measures & directed be Earlier
that Colonial legislation
should
be resorted to
at the earliest opportunity to prevent the possibility of abuses,
The
Hong Kong
Ordinance of 1871 which
I will be found at p 148
of appendix
of Report of 1872, requires
that Emigrants from
that Colony to the
Straits Settlements
should have in
between decks 9 superficial
and
from China
"Jackie,"
If the
including
I have consulted Mr Manders to
he suggests that it should apply to all Ships, as no passage
law has
Ship
'havever shall, where the
233 and 54 cubical feet, deck 16 super
and on
ficial feet per adult,
and this, in the opinion
of Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners,
is not more
enough
even
than
assuming
that the great bulk
of the Emigrants pass
their time on
deck during the passage.
I request
to introduce a
Bill
providing in
substance
that no vessel shall
carrying emigrants to any of
bring into the Colony
if a greater
number than
shall be crowded as Ships to Singapore
are said to be more than beam of
then need is
adopted it wird in as well to add
Conway
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I think you would alap
word me that I with
India suspiratimi is in
le but to compile the data for the perusal at all trout to China.
WTH