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emigration from Hongkong should be confined to British
Colonies. This ruling was subsequently interpreted by Sir
Arthur Kennedy to apply only to emigration under contract
for service, an interpretation held by Lord Kimberley in
his Despatch No. 33 dated the 3rd. December, 1873, to be
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a correct one. In 1875 correspondence passed between Lord
Carnarvon and the Officer then administering the Government
of Hongkong on the subject of a refusal of the latter to
allow free emigration to Aeheen, that country being in a
disturbed state, and was followed by instructions to the
Governor (Colonial Office Despatch No. 109 dated the 4th.
December, 1875.) as to amendments to be made in the Chinese
Emigration Ordinance of 1874 then in force. These instruct-
-ions resulted inter alia in the enactment of the two
subsections of the Ordinance No. 5 of 1876 to which refer-
-ence is made above.
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The original object of His
Majesty's Government in imposing the restrictions is made
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clear by a letter from the Foreign Office to the Colonial
Office dated the 25th. August, 1869, in which Lord
Clarendon considered that "looking to the atrocities cormit
*-ted by Chinese crimps in procuring emigrants in the
Chinese
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