CO129-060 - Public Offices - 1856 — Page 295

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"in the conveyance of Chinese Emigrants of such calamities

"as have resulted in too many

"instances from the absence of "proper care and attention on the

"part of those engaged in the "transport from China of this class of Emigrants:

The class of Emigrants which the Act is designed to protect consists of the destitute Chinese Labourers, engaged for a term of years, and sent in large bodies to distant foreign countries. These know nothing of their future destinations and have resigned all control over themselves, and the parties shipping them, having little interest beyond completing a cargo of the allotted number of souls and forwarding them at the smallest cost, are liable to the temptation to overcrowd them in vessels insufficiently supplied with necessaries for their voyage. Many among the emigrants have been perhaps seduced to emigrate under false pretences, or even kidnapped, and, smarting under a sense of injury, are disposed to infect the remainder with discontent. It is on ships carrying passengers of this class that the calamities alluded to have occurred.

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"in the conveyance of Chinese Emigrants of such calamities "as have resulted in too many "instances from the absence of "proper care and attention on the "part of those engaged in the "transport from China of this class of Emigrants: The class of Emigrants which the Act is designed to protect consists of the destitute Chinese Labourers, engaged for a term of years, and sent in large bodies to distant foreign countries. These know nothing of their future destinations and have resigned all control over themselves, and the parties shipping them, having little interest beyond completing a cargo of the allotted number of souls and forwarding them at the smallest cost, are liable to the temptation to overcrowd them in vessels insufficiently supplied with necessaries for their voyage. Many among the emigrants have been perhaps seduced to emigrate under false pretences, or even kidnapped, and, smarting under a sense of injury, are disposed to infect the remainder with discontent. It is on ships carrying passengers of this class that the calamities alluded to have occurred. Page 293 The 15

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" in the conveyance of Chinese " Emigrants of such calamities

" as have resuited in too many

" instances from the absence of "proper care and attention on the

"hart of those engaged in the "Fransport from thina of this class of Emigrants:

The class of Emigrants which the Ack is designed to protect consists of the destitute Enimese Labourers, engaged for a term of years, and sent in large bodies to distant foreign countries. These know nothing. of their future destinations and have resigned all control

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over themselves, and the parties shipping them, having little interest beyond completing a cargo of the allotted number of souls and forwarding them at the smallest cost, are liable to the temptation to overcrowd them in vessels insufficiently supplied with. necessaries for their voyage Mais among the emigrants have been perhaps seduced to imériak under faise pretences, or even kidnapped,

and, smarting under a sense of injury, are disposed to inject the remainder with discontent. IF

is me ships carrying passengers of this class that the calamities alluded to have occurred.

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