CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868 — Page 731

2.

with Sir. R. Me. Donnell

Jague that if these regulations are fairly and honestly carried out it will be scarcely popible that any Emigrant should be pub on board thick without hir own concent. The weak point is, the Governor has painted ouch, the mode of dealing with those who on examination before the Feferintendent decline to

af

proceed. Any such persons are,

by articles 22 &

27

to be cent

back to thesix homes at the

to whom,

expense of the Agench, if sting have been 10-days

the

in

Depoh, they are to be indebted

in the

amount.

721

of half the

cost of their papage,

cash

this

per diem

very

avad 100.

for maintenance.

unlikely that a man in the condition fansmigrant

would be able to make these

payments and the modified

slavery which the Chinese law appears to allow in the case of

insolvent deblore would

probably give the

to compel

agent power

a recalcitrant Cooly

way

the

to smigrate. In thes freedom which the regulations

are intended to secure to Emigrants might in practice be curtailed.

On the other hand it ie noh