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All the telegrams I sent you on the same subject and copy of my reply are annexed.
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On the 12th October, the Consul-General was informed by the British Minister at Peking that Canton had been notified to the Chinese Government.
34701 HK
6.
W.
A meeting of the Consul-General and Vice-Consul at Canton and the Transvaal Migration Agent with the two Chinese Inspectors that had been appointed by the Viceroy was then fixed for the 17th October at Canton to decide on arrangements. At this meeting, the Viceroy's deputies stipulated for the following conditions as regards recruiting.
1. All persons recommended as recruiting agents "by the Transvaal Emigration Agents shall be guaranteed by respectable Chinese and accepted by the Chinese Inspectors appointed in accordance with Article 2 of the Convention of May 13th."
2. "Persons so recommended, guaranteed and accepted shall receive documents issued under the seal of the Viceroy through the Chinese Inspectors above mentioned, entitling them to recruit labourers for South Africa in a certain specified district. Such documents shall be cancelled, and new documents issued for other districts in Kwangtung, whenever necessary.
3. "Such recruiting agents shall be introduced personally to the Magistrates and Officials of the Districts mentioned in their documents by deputies specially appointed by the Viceroy for the purpose. The Viceroy's deputies shall remain in those districts while recruiting is being carried on, and shall deal with all matters relating to such recruiting agents in those districts.
4. "The expenses of the Viceroy's deputies shall be defrayed by the Transvaal Migration Agents. These expenses are fixed at Taels Eighty-four per month for each deputy."
These conditions were provisionally accepted by the Transvaal Emigration Agent, who, however, appealed on the 24th instant to this Government on the subject of the guarantees. He considered that the amount of $1,000 per recruiter that had been suggested by the Consul-General was excessive and objected to the stipulation that the guarantors should be persons domiciled in
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you sent me on the same subject and of my reply are annexed.
33917
On the 12th. October the Consul-General was informed by the British Minister at Peking that Canton had been notified to
the Chinese Goverment.
34701 HK
6.
W.
A meeting of the Consul-General and Vice- Consul at Canton and the Transvaal migration Agent with the two Chinese Inspectors that had been appointed by the Viceroy
was then fixed for the 17th. October at Canton to decide on
arrangements. At this meeting the Viceroy's deputies stipulated for the following conditions as regards recruiting.-
1. *All persons recommended as recruiting agents "by the Transvaal Emigration Agents shall be guaranteed by
respectable Chinese and accepted by the Chinese Inspectors "appointed in accordance with Article 2 of the Convention of "May 13th.
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2. "Persons so recommended guaranteed and accepted # shall receive documents issued under the seal of the Viceroy
through the Chinese Inspectors above mentioned entitling them "to recruit labourers for South Africa in a certain specified 'district. Such documents shall be cancelled, and new docu- *ments issued for other districts in Kwang tung, whenever "necessary.
3. "Such recruiting agents shall be introduced #personally to the Magistrates and Officials of the Districts
"mentioned in their documents by deputies specially appointed "by the Viceroy for the purpose. The Viceroy's deputies shall "remain in those districts while recruiting is being carrie?
on, and shall deal with all matters relating to such recruit- *ing agents in those districts.
A.
"The expenses of the Viceroy's deputies shall The defrayed by the Transvaal higration Agents. These ex- *penses are fixed at Taels Eighty-four per month for each deputy".
These conditions were provisionally accepted by the Transvaal Emigration Agent who however apnealed on the 24th. instant to
this Government on the subject of the guarantees. He consider-
ed that the amount of $1,000 per recruiter that had been sug-
gested by the Consul-General was excessive and objected to the
stipulation that the guarantors should be persons domiciled
in
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