CO129-169 - Others - 1874 — Page 210

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with reference to desp. D: 7,

say

to what

it is impossible to expedients the Coolie Agents may resort to evade the stringent

of the Passenger Pregulations Regulations stately published in the Macas Gazette. I call them Passenger Regulations for you will observe from the copy of the Boletin N. 6 of the 3, 20 January which I enclose that they refer only to Asiatics & not to Chinese emigrants, the preamble to the Ordinance disposing of the latter as prostitied

The Decree of the 27th Decr.

by

1873

31

This last mentioned decree

ww 30

prease in its terms,

"

Emigration of Chinese Coolies "must cease at the expiration "of three months from the 208 date there of that the Coolie Agents, even, concluded their

business was closed, but, on the publication of the Passenger Regulations above mentioned, they appear to have seen their way a restoration of the traffic, and the plain they

to

adopted was to have the Barracoons licensed as Inns er Hotels for Chinese passenger, en route for foreign countries.

&, strange

Z

say, they

obtained

much licences from the Goot

although it must have been

patent

"Emigration

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