CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12] — Page 476

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

" and another

survey

has to

be held. It is manifestly impossible that he can & examine every package and it would be unsrise to do so

as salted meat and other

preserved articles of food must naturally deteriorate

by exposure to the Atmosphers. After such an inspection shipmasters are invariably

told to consume the contents

of the opened packages. first. The provisions of the Dayspring were examined

and passed good quality. The provisions of Emigrant ships

in this

of

way

are

as

always

rejected when it is necessary

to do so and there is

ᄂᄋ

1

reason

why the "Dayspring

should have been

exempted

from this rule beyond that the necessity did not appear. 13 It is also impossible that

the officer shoned personally ascertain the actual quantity

of provisions and water

board and the Imperial

Legislature when framing the Chinese Tassengers act 1855 made provision for this by compelling the Master

to enter into a

thousand

bond of one

esand pounds "that if

" all and every of the Requirements " of the said Chinese Fassenger "Act and of the Regulation "Contained in Schedule (A) "to the said Act anneyed

IX.

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