CO129-239 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [9-12] — Page 83

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were

passengers being carried.

The ease was exee,

and would be

exceptional,

so with any

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: vessel having to carry these, people

as "Aistressed seamen, "spécial arrangements would have to be made

on board

any such vessel for the

accommodation

same

of

as

the woman and child, and it would have been open to the Master or Agents of any vessel to object on the onine grounds the Agents of the Priam",

for, almost without exception, every - steamer sailing from Hongkong towards the United Kingdom; Carries Chinese Emigrants to the Straits Settlements.

The Board of Trade further desire to know what "Special arrangements were, if

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any, afterwards made by which "they were conveyed. No special arrangements were

ordered by me, as I had no authority to so order. I received a letter from the master stating that he would not carry these people; the next I knew of them was that they had been taken, and this fact confirmed me

in my opinion that they were refused conveyance,

not because there was no suitable

there accommodation for them, - but because the master was not disposed to make the_ arrangement for their

in

accommodation which would have been incumbent on the Master of any vo

vessel in which

they were carried.

I acted deliberately

and,