CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870 — Page 76

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

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be seized and detained until the Licence and the Emigration officers clearing certificate given up to be cancelled.

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5. I have the honour to report that Less no reason. why the proposed dedinauer, which is in conformity with the in:

= structions transmitted to the Governor, should not receive Earl Granville's approval. When pased it will require by thie terues of the 2nd sect of the Emperial Chinese basenger Act 1855., Hen Majsetips confirmation, and that such confirmation should be proclaimed in Hongkong before

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6. The principal point to be

Haft in mind is that the condition, under which lierners are to be.

granted are, by the 6th section of the Ordinances, required to be prescribed by instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies. It will rest therefore with the Secretary of State to decide from time to time what those instructions should be; and

expecially whether the prohibition of Chinese Emigration from Hong Kong

is to be extended to all

oronly

to certain Foreign Countues.

In the absence of any grash

instructions to the contrary, the

Governor will no doubt

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allow emigration, even though

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