90 vessels arriving in this Colony from the Coast Ports and other places, I have now the honour to transmit for your consideration Enclosure 1 (With six spare Copies).
2 Draft Bill entitled the Vagrancy Ordinance, which was introduced during the last session, and was withdrawn, after it had been read a first time, as it was thought desirable that it should be first sent to the Colonial Office for consideration, as some of its provisions impose liabilities on Foreign as well as English vessels or their owners, agents, or consignees and their application might give rise to protests by the Consuls of the Countries under whose flag such vessels are sailed.
While it is therefore considered that the Colony is fully justified in protecting itself against the introduction of destitute Europeans, some of whom absolutely refuse employment when it has been found for them, and prefer a precarious existence of loafing varied by occasional short sentences of ...
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