commonly known as Coolie houses
with
a view to re-
removing any
mis-
apprehension which might exist and to preventing any
misunders.
tanding arising
as to their object. That euch misapprehension didvesist was evident, for the head coolies and
those who work under them were
under
an erroneous im
labouring pression that registration fees would be charged and that photographs of coolies would be required. In - addition to orally informing repre. sentatives of the Coolies that no fees
charged and that
would be
no
photographs would be required, I
caused a Cluvieze whice to be drawn.
up to the same effect, and distributed
arwongst the
wi
un large
numbers
beadmen and coolies.
Having learned at the same kine that a rumour was being spread that the ultimate object of
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regard to codic
an all
the Government in wintroducing the regulations with regard houses was to levy a pool tax Chinese resident in the Colony, I caned a contradiction of this baseless fa- brication to be inserted in the Chinese
notice and offered a reward to any
one who could furnish in- formation which would lead to the discovery of the persons who had put the rumour in crado-
how. No
ave
av
yet shown any
desire to obtain the reward.
4.
of
In addition to holding several
interviews with headcoolies and coolics and notifying them as in dicated, I also requested this leaching Olues Merchants who are large employers of coolie labour toesplaci. the position to their employees, and urged
the most influerer hat repre- sentatives of the district in China from which the cooler in
khung trong
chiefly