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Office
7.
as
a mere
farce. To
some
of those
representations Captain Thomsett ~ answered in words similar to what
to
he uses in the first report of his own : (dated 20th July, 1880) he now submits
to Your Lordship (Enclosure A Page 6) Kidnapped
cases can be stopped, but no others unless it can be proved
that a
written contract has been entered into!
But, on reading the opinion of Mr. O'Malley, the Attorney General, of the 30th July, 1880, (page 15 of Enclosures), Captain Thomsett assured me
would in future act upon
may be a contract
that there
"whether written.
that he
the
ruling
of
of service
of unwritten.
8.
That wound The context
C
8.
Recently, however, he
obtained legal advice, or, as he told me, himself, it had been volunteered to him unsolicited, to the effect that he had been right all along in believing that as Emigration Officer he was not bound to pass " as free Emigrants under
no contract of service whatever, all Emigrants with respect to whom it could not be proved to his satisfaction that they had actually signed written printed contracts.
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9.
Though in his letter to Your Lordship, Captain Thomsett quotes the present Attorney General as saying in his opinion of the 30th of July 1880, "I do not
agree with Mr. Phillippo as to
not agree
" what
or