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imposible of accomplishment, as the Clinice provengers already on board ~

crowded round these entrances but,

your

Petitioners show that finding the systeme useless for the intended ... as hundreds of passengers.

bard without

Purpose

succeded in getting tallics or with false ones they obliged to abandon it and have suvice adopted other arrangements. For --- instance inmediately after the of the Kinahan

Ai

case

September 1877

your Petitiours doubled the

fares

~ -..

for Chinese passengers but in January of the present year, they

fares owe half o

opposition steamer

reduced

such days

the

as

rau

there being then little likelihood of over crowding, and on other days retained the doreble fare.

15: that the regulations for preventing

passungors from getting on board, the

of the cumber

steamer in excess

in

allowed by the Ordinance now i force on your

Petitioner vessels

over and

Au

are

generally successful when there are not many passengers above the proper umber seeking to get on board, but wher nuusually large number sect..... passages it is very difficult and often impossible to prevent than

board; the awmage from coming

on

number for trip carried during the

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