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ultims prohibiting the smilgration

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of Chinese Cooling from Hongkong. Z. 6. to places not within the British Dominions has anticipated this application. The power conferred on the Governor in council by the II. section, to exempt certain resels from the operation of the ordinance, inpersedes to some extent the restrictions of the

II. section. but the Governor would

f course

urse exercise that power

rot

except in con

formity with the

instructions of the secretary of state

As far therefore

as smigration to

Foreign Countries is concerned

the XI. section is for the present moperative. -

4.

repoch

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The Attorney General in his on the ordinance suppseld

that the existing bond of £1000. might not be sufficient

bo ensure

the conveyance of Chinese Cookies to which they embark, a band equal

the bort

for

and that a

to the

Нигорев whole value of the repel should be required. He alludes &presume

to the posibility that Forsign refull might clear nominally for a British Colony and afterwards

their smigrants to a Foreign Port. The profit on thinse intro = Josmer

carry

-duced into Cuba has in

grais

been so

large that if

Bond is the only protection against

such a fraud the Attorney General's

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