CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7] — Page 252

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and when it is considered that the

great source

of all malpractices, the

entrusting Chinese brokers in one

Government, thas

that however much.

my

bear

may

lecter to the Emigration Board

the character of a complaint - for such

shape

it

appears

considered

or another and it can assume many

avich a pecuniary

subtle forms- awich

per capitiem interess in the collection of emigrants, is inn

in stongsting,

operation inn

my reperience teaches me that the

greatīss vigilance and much experisued

are

required

d Ar

eut the numerous

prevent

plaws of the brokers partarting of

that character.

In conclusion I beg it to be undusteed, as I have since explanter to M. Walcott when he pointed out ti me that I should have addresse

through the Hougtong

uny

letter to or

to have been my some measure

it was mot ncrittew in that

spirit, but merely

facts which led

as

a

statement of the

May

me to close

establishment in Honghong, and of my

views, which

way of

differ from

chose of persons of different experiences,

of a state of affairs in the matter of

enuigration, which

remediable in a

may not be wholly

Colorry situated like

Hongkong; but whechar remediable or

not, or even whecker worthy the attention of the Hongking Government

I

ment or not,

did not, intentionally at least, presume

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