CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8] — Page 332

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& paid by the Emigrante money was not memselves. At the same time as the Car in the U.States gave no facility for inforcing

after the Emigrants his observance fit deponder honesty or on his sonse of the guarantur he had given before leaving China-

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any objection can will be made. It would have been simpler & have pre= cvented complication to adhere to the

original bule that no smigration should take place from Hong Kong recept

at in British Refele or to Britids Estonice. but the only result would have been to drive the American Steamen to Canton or Amoy - to the inconvenisuees and loss of the Merchants

of Hongkong. and to the disadvantage of the smigrants who would have lost the protections of the Chinese baserngere Aas-. The pope = billy that Peruvian & Spanish vasele might

claim the same privilege foreseew. but it was considered that sufficient reasone existed to justify the refusal of permision to take (hinese prone tongkong to 'vern or suba.–

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The questions nom to be considered are two. First whether the Governor i to continue to refuse permission to Resuvian Shipe to carry emigrants to ja. Francisco. Second. In what way he is to meet the attempts that will be made to yet Emigrants for bem or Cuba through Hongkong. The first question has for the present been otti's

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