CO129-052 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [9-12] — Page 75

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one or two CANN Cortes

To assured of their favourable reception at Melbourne, that in only me in the declaration seemed to cause them any appreciable uneasiness.

"That His Excellency may be fully acquainted with the circumstances under which Inch qualified certificates (long since discontinued) were granted, They to refer you to my letters, N.1 of 16 December 1854, and N: 3 of 20 January 1856, by which you will be reminded that from the time of the passing of the Imperial Act in 1852 until May 1854, although then as was the Colony was not exempt from its provisions, the thousands of emigrants who left this place were shipped without the slightest restriction in regard to number corresponding to ship tonnage. When abuse called loudly for interference it was found that the Imperial Act was ill-suited to emigration the peculiar features of which had become apparent only subsequent to the enactment of the Law. Vessels had been bought and chartered, and contracts to a large amount made in the supposition that, as far as the Authorities here were concerned, as many passengers might be carried as the ships would hold; and a great outcry was roused against the rigorous enforcement in the letter, as well as in the spirit, of a legislative measure apparently needlessly stringent, and inapplicable in its details.

Therefore, pending a reference home, and the acquisition of the experience necessary in order to frame a supplementary local enactment, the ...

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one or two CANN Cortes To assured of their favourable reception at Melbourne, that in only me in the declaration seemed to cause them any appreciable uneasiness. "That His Excellency may be fully acquainted with the circumstances under which Inch qualified certificates (long since discontinued) were granted, They to refer you to my letters, N.1 of 16 December 1854, and N: 3 of 20 January 1856, by which you will be reminded that from the time of the passing of the Imperial Act in 1852 until May 1854, although then as was the Colony was not exempt from its provisions, the thousands of emigrants who left this place were shipped without the slightest restriction in regard to number corresponding to ship tonnage. When abuse called loudly for interference it was found that the Imperial Act was ill-suited to emigration the peculiar features of which had become apparent only subsequent to the enactment of the Law. Vessels had been bought and chartered, and contracts to a large amount made in the supposition that, as far as the Authorities here were concerned, as many passengers might be carried as the ships would hold; and a great outcry was roused against the rigorous enforcement in the letter, as well as in the spirit, of a legislative measure apparently needlessly stringent, and inapplicable in its details. Therefore, pending a reference home, and the acquisition of the experience necessary in order to frame a supplementary local enactment, the ...
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Cortes

To assured of their farmable reception at Melbourne, that in only me in the declaration seemed to cause them any appreciable measiness.

"That His Excellency may be fully

requainted with the cirdumstances under sclucl _ Inch qualified certifientes (unr long since diveontinued) were granted, They to refer you to my letters, N.1 if 16 December 1854, and N: 3 of 20 January

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