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CONFIDENTIAL.
Sir,
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With reference to my Despatch No. 241 of the 8th. ultimo, and to previous correspondence, I have the honour to transmit for your consideration the enclosed copy of a Bill to
amend the Deportation Ordinances 1912-1914 in order to take the necessary powers to give effect to the deportation of a person by virtue of Article 3 of the China (Amendment) Order-in-Council 1910.
There is at present no power except under the Travellers' Restrict- -ion Ordinance 1915, which is inapplicable to the case referred to,
to place such a deportes in a particular ship.
2.
Section 2 of the Bill has, as you will observe, been made general. This has been done because of recent years the
Authorities in some neighbouring countrisa, e.g. the Netherlands-
-India and the Philippines, have objected to the landing of
deportees from this Colony in their territory. The power to choose
the ship by which a deportee may depart will therefore be of use in
certain casės.
3.
I have addressed on the point covered by
you
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Section 3 of the Bill in my Confidential Despatch of the 17th. of
June last.
4.
Section 4 is inserted because it has been
contended that an ordinary birth certificate is a certificate of
British birth within the meaning of section 4(12)(e) of the
Deportation
RIGHT HONOURABLE
ANDRE BONAR LAW, M.P.,
&C...