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but who, whilst being perfectly free willing emigrants, have had the passage money advanced to them by Chinese firms and have to repay it with interest after arrival in Australia.

2.1. return to China after a few years in Australia.

168 returning from Australia and America, with large sums of money in their possession, land in a similar condition.

I have,

(Signed) H. G. Thomsett

Harbor Master,

It may or may not be right in his conclusions, but as he does not express any opinion as to whether the transaction of borrowing and repaying is a Contract of Service I presume he is unable to satisfy his mind on the point.

As regards the men being shoeless and stockingless, that is the natural condition of Chinese labourers, but had he looked at the fingers of some of the Glamis Castle's emigrants, he would have seen them wearing gold rings. I have seen numbers of Chinese,

Submitted 20.4.01.

(Signed) F. S.

Immediate. I should be glad if the Attorney General would read these papers and then return them to me as soon as possible.

(JA) S. FH6. 28th April 1881

Immediate. To the Attorney General

20.4.81.

(JA) I. S.

returning

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but who, whilst being perfectly free willing emigrants, have had the passage money advanced to them by Chinese firms and have to repay it with interest after arrival in Australia.2.1. return to China after a few years in Australia.168 returning from Australia and America, with large sums of money in their possession, land in a similar condition.I have,(Signed) H. G. ThomsettHarbor Master,It may or may not be right in his conclusions, but as he does not express any opinion as to whether the transaction of borrowing and repaying is a Contract of Service I presume he is unable to satisfy his mind on the point.As regards the men being shoeless and stockingless, that is the natural condition of Chinese labourers, but had he looked at the fingers of some of the Glamis Castle's emigrants, he would have seen them wearing gold rings. I have seen numbers of Chinese,Submitted 20.4.01.(Signed) F. S.Immediate. I should be glad if the Attorney General would read these papers and then return them to me as soon as possible.(JA) S. FH6. 28th April 1881Immediate. To the Attorney General20.4.81.(JA) I. S.returningPage ...It appears that the original text was a scanned document with OCR errors. I have corrected the spelling, spacing, and formatting issues while preserving the original content and structure.Here is the output in HTML format as requested:No significant reordering or rephrasing was done. The text is presented in paragraphs using `` tags.Please let me know if further assistance is needed.
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