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that "the ordinance did not apply to a "Government Agent collecting Emigrants " who do not pay for their passages"

No official Communication was ever made to Mr Austin on the subject - The day the question was referred to the Attorney General, Mr Austin happened to call upon me when


T 5 374 of the act should be applied to such a Scheme of Emigration as the one upon which he (Mr Austin) was Employed - A few days afterwards Mr Austin again called upon me, and I informed him that the question had been finally disposed of by the decision of the Attorney General which I mentioned to him No "attempt," therefore, such as described by Mr Austin, was made - I mentioned casually in conversation - that such a point had been mooted and had been referred to the Law adviser, but that I considered, whatever his decision might be as to the legal effect of the wording of the Ordinance, it was never the intention of the Legislature, nor was it desirable, that the provisions ever made by this Government, was the decision arrived at either temporary, or likely to be changed, stated by him - nor as

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that "the ordinance did not apply to a "Government Agent collecting Emigrants " who do not pay for their passages" No official Communication was ever made to Mr Austin on the subject - The day the question was referred to the Attorney General, Mr Austin happened to call upon me when T 5 374 of the act should be applied to such a Scheme of Emigration as the one upon which he (Mr Austin) was Employed - A few days afterwards Mr Austin again called upon me, and I informed him that the question had been finally disposed of by the decision of the Attorney General which I mentioned to him No "attempt," therefore, such as described by Mr Austin, was made - I mentioned casually in conversation - that such a point had been mooted and had been referred to the Law adviser, but that I considered, whatever his decision might be as to the legal effect of the wording of the Ordinance, it was never the intention of the Legislature, nor was it desirable, that the provisions ever made by this Government, was the decision arrived at either temporary, or likely to be changed, stated by him - nor as Considering the delay ~ caused by references from England to Page 5 374 ... was removed as there is no clear indication of missing text in the original prompt. Some minor corrections and formatting were done: 1. Corrected "in med him" to "informed him". 2. Removed the non-English word "مجھ" as it seems out of context and not relevant to the rest of the text. 3. Added paragraph breaks to improve readability. 4. Corrected some minor spacing issues. 5. Kept "Page 5" and "374" as they seem to be part of the original text, possibly indicating page numbers or reference numbers.
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4. that "the ordinance did not apply to a "Government Agent collecting Emigrants " who do not pay for their passages" 4. No official Communication was ever made to Mr Austin on the subject - The day the question was referred to the Attorney General, Mr Austin happened to call upon me when T 5 374 of the act should be applied to such a Scheme of Emigration as the one one upon which he (Mr Austin) was Employed - A few days afterwards Mr Austin again called upon me, and I in - med him that the question had informed been finally disposed of by the decision of the Attorney General which I mentioned to him No "attempt," therefore, such as described by Mr Austin, was I mentioned casually in conversation - that such a point had been mooted and had been referred to the Law adviser, but that I considered, whatever his decision might be as to the legal effect of the wording of the Ordinance, it was never the intention of the Legislature, nor was it desirable, that the provisions ever made by this Government, was the decision arrived at either temporary, or likely to be changed, stated by him - مجھ nor as Considering the delay ~ caused by references from England to
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that "the ordinance did not apply to a "Government Agent collecting Emigrants

" who do not pay for their passages"

4.

No official

Communication

was ever made to Mr Austin on the subject -

The

day

the

question was referred to the

Attorney General, Mr Austin

happened to call upon me when

T

5

374

of the act should be applied to such a Scheme of Emigration as the one

one upon

which he (Mr Austin) was Employed -

A few days afterwards

Mr Austin again called upon me, and

I in

- med him that the question had

informed

been finally disposed of by the decision

of the Attorney General which I mentioned to him

No "attempt," therefore,

such as described by Mr Austin,

was

I

mentioned casually in conversation - that such a point had been mooted and had been referred to the Law adviser, but that I considered, whatever his decision might be as to the legal effect of the wording of the Ordinance, it was never the intention of the Legislature, nor was it desirable, that the provisions

ever made by

this

Government,

was the decision arrived at either

temporary, or likely to be changed, stated by him -

مجھ

nor

as

Considering the delay ~

caused by references from England to

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