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for raising the fee charged ~ for, the issue of certificates to certain chinese desirous of -entering, the United States of etmerica from $25 to $50.
2. の
The point
point was
as duly considered by me in Execu tive Council, before the fee
was raised.
3.
The ground of the
decision to raise the fee was that the fee then being paid
did not
+ prevent malâ fide applicants from coming for=
ward
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:ward and fabricating. rative which the officers of
the Registrar General's office
could not say
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false.
passing of malà fide applicants prejudicial to the interests of bond fide applicants who, being of the classes above the labouring class, could afford to pay $50. The Americans will
4.
not admit working
whose return gives
men
trouble
to all the heightened fee
to
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