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provision as that foreigners residing in this
portion of Her Majesty's dominions should not be allowed the same privileges as British subjects. The ACTING COLONIAL TREASURER-The power has always existed. We have deported American women.
His EXCELLENCY-Clause 3, which we are coming to, says
The Governor in Council may, by order, prohibit any person not being a natural born or naturalized subject of Her Majesty from residing or being within this Colony during any space of time not exceeding five years, and may by the same or any subsequent order, fix the time for the departure of such person from the Colmiy. Every order made under this section prohibiting any person from residing or being within this Colony shall contain statement of the grounds upon which it is made.
In other words, the Governor in Council is given power to deport any person, Chinese or other, who may happen not to be a British subject. What we are now discussing, clause 2, is in effect not a banishment clause, it is a clause which goes on to say such and such a person may be deemed dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony. It will be in your recollec- tion that this power of deportation is exercised by the consuls, and we see here foreigners de- ported from the Treaty Ports, and then I have to do the best I can by paying their passage or getting them away somehow.
Hon. P. RYRIE-But the Consuls deal with their own nationals; they send them to their own colonies.
His EXCELLENCY-Unfortunately they some- times come here. But by the law as it stands- we are only consolidating it-the Governor has this power at this moment of prohibiting any person not a British subject from residing in the Colony.
The ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY moved that the words "Chinese person" be struck out, and that the words "not being a natural-· born or naturalized subject of Her Majesty" be inserted.
Carried, by four two. The other clauses having been considered, the Ordinance was passed.
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