CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5] — Page 279

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

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277 6068

No 40.

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70

Harbor Master's Office

Hongesting 14 aprel 1870

I deem it my duty to bring to the notice of the Government the great inconvenience at present experienced in the matter of the enigration of Chinese to this United States of America from the dissimilarity of British and American Laws affecting the

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subject.

Elutil the arrival at this Port of the

present United States Consul Colonel

Goulding, ships clearing from Hong Kong with Chinese Passengers weres usually admitted into San Francisco and other Porte

in the Pacific States without led of hindrance

with the Passengers embarsted in accordance with the provisions of the Imperial Chinese Passangers Act 1855.

The Honorable

The Colonial Secretary.

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