CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12] — Page 39

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and Slipendiary, Magistrates hower, however, of the Governoris so great in such matters for the prevention of abuses in a Prritish West Indian

Colony that there is no paralled

an

kunigrant

between the case of thither mider brotiction of Ber

Majesty's Government and am Emigrant to Pern or elsewhere.

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I have not heard that similar stipulation has worked badly in Surinam, and in the

absence of more exact information as to the treatment of Smigrants

in Pern I can offer.

as

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ofrinion

to the probable result of fermitting such a frovision to remain in future Contracts for

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labon.

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5.. I apprehend, however, that its exclusion from Contracts would

hout an and to Emigration,

ات

result which I think would be

greatly to be deplored, but- nevertheless I wish to draw attention to the subject because it is under color of that fart

that the greatest

of the

agreement that the abuses prevail. Thus I am told the arrival of

that

on

chinese

are

Imigrants in Cuba, they fublich sold by Auction _ the purchasers becoming the Asigns of the party with whom the original Contract had been made,