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uveless.

The requiren

vaque

The

irements for safety

and loose as to be practically

1 peralty for breaches is 20

- ridiculously inadequate

kerrent..

to be no de-

As there has been no

envigration

from Canton for the last 15 years it is perhaps natural that their existence should have been forgotter.

As in Kingehow there is no

they are not

one to enforce than it is conceivable that

very strictly acted or if known. du Swator if known they

dis regarded.

The

implied correction.

are

Menco.

The Chinese Sussenger Pripe Act

1855, 18 and 19 Vie. C. 104 by section. 1 " Chinese Passenger Thip every

deftives.

L'a

ship carrying from any port in Hong

British Chip carrying "Kong and every

x

X

from any port in China x " more than twenty passengers being natives

of Asia.

The local Ordinance 1 of 1889 anronded by Ardinance 25 of 1889 recto=

emphasizes this.

raks and

"

of

the

XV paragraph of the Committees Report

does not therefore apply.

So 14.0.H. Aachings,

312 August, 1896.

Section 268 of the Imperial Act

ved di

of 1894 defines

Ensigrant ship

Ad

"every sea going rewel whether British or Foreign

خیر کی

than

X

X

X

conveying

fifty steerage passengers.

C

"It is plain therefore that the

Chinese Passenger Phip Act 1855 dow not apply to the Straits settlements but equally clear that sections 267, 268, 270.