CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887 — Page 385

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laying

tus let:

before

Viscount Cross

· you

J

will draw his attention to Section No. 31

Act 2° 1x of 1874 of the gov" of Jordia entitted

"The Suropean. Vagrancy Act 1874".

Section hd 31 of

that Act

deals with the liability of importers of Scopeens

or employers of soldiers or ailors not being

British subjects

who become chargeable

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Vagrants

within one year after

leaving the Army

the State as

their anival in India,

on deschayed from their ships.

Lord. Iddesleigh is disposed

to think that in the case

of the Colony gfting. Way

Even

it were

Such stringent Provisions are hardly called for

1

I F-WWD scarcely be reasonable practicable to hold the several persons responsible

ة

for the Vagrancy of

an individeral who

may

have

have been when he was landed in deant

cire, but has become a

afterwards

-

Jam.

Vagrant

10 or 11 moulter

Therefore, to

-request that expiry

You will move Lord hors to cause

to be made of the competent authorities in India in order to ascertain how far the section 31 of the Vagrancy Act above referred to has been found took satisfactorily, sexfecially whether the limit assigned within which the parties designated are held responsible. for the Vagrant is

is considered to be unduly

long,

a whether it has given vide

complaint on the part of Freyri consuls

বই

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I masters of Consignees of Forey in Vessels

I am to request that the enclosed

copy of the Strap Onds of tony. Rong Ordce Hong-Kong.

be

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