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pased for the purpose of putting a stop to Chinese Cmmigration under Contracts of Service from
Woughtong
to
amy
but British
Pepesins by compelling the mover
or Master of every
"Chinese Passenger
"Ship" to apply for a License
before the Ship
for
The
can be laid on
Conveyance of Emigrants.
No such. Liceuse can be obtained
unless the Destination of the Ship be a British Port
The Ordinance mly applies Chinese Paperrger Ships" clearing from Wongkong, and
any place
in China,
yet
masmuch as
Chmrose Emigration to the West
Indies has been reopened at
Cantor and
inay papilly
be
revived at other Preaty Ports, it
would
Reen
to be
a.
good opportunity
while amending Ordiname No 44
나
of 1870, to extend it's operation,
as
regards British Ships, to the Treaty Ports.
This has been done in the
accompanying Draft Ordinance
substituting the interprctation the Tenu Chinese Passenger
Papergen
of "
"Ship" given by the Chinese Pasangan Act 1888" for that contained in Section II of 11:44 of 1870
Section IV
of the proposed
new Ordinance defines the Pradice