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fine of $500 or six months imprison-
ment with or without hard labour.
" The regulations under review apply however only to Canton, Swatow
and Amoy; inferentially therefore Amoy is without regulations.
By the courtesy of the Chinese
Commissioner of Customs,
a list of the
German and Chinese ships carrying emigrants from Canton has been obtained.
In 1879 there were five German ships and one Chinese vessel conveying emigrants to Hongkong - list marked B.
In 1880 and 1881 eight German
and two Chinese ships cleared with emigrants from Canton - list marked C.
Since that date none to the present.
The Committee need not trouble themselves further with Canton.
At present the Chinese
regulations are in force.
At Amoy there is no German Consul.
It is a fair presumption that German shipping do pretty well the best they can for
themselves, and as no statistics are to hand to lay before the Committee on the working of the Regulations, they need not be further considered.
Statistics from Amoy and
Swatow
are attached hereto, for which thanks are due
to a local firm.
The regulations under review have
mainly
to be considered with reference to Swatow, the last port to which apparently
they were intended to
apply.
The attached lists marked D and
E for Swatow show the emigrants carried from by vessels of all nationalities to either Amoy or Hongkong during July to December 1875, inclusive D, and January to June 1876, inclusive E.
In the column for certificate it is
noted whether a vessel has a
Singapore certificate.
The Chinese Commissioner of Customs does the
duty,
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