CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7] — Page 98

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indenturd cookies to be shipped

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I have the honour to acknowledge

Your Lordship's Despatch No. 65 dated the 29th. March, 1906

asking for my observations on the question whether it

would be expedient or desirable to amend the existing law

under which contract coolies cannot be conveyed in a

British vessel to ports outside the British Dominions.

2.

The restrictions at present em-

-bodied in Sections 10 and 14 of the Chinese migration

Ordinance (No. 1 of 1889) originally appeared on the

Statute Book of the Colony as subsections 5 and 8 of

Section 2 of Ordinance No. 5 of 1876 and followed on

correspondence and legislation on the general subject of

Chinese emigration from Hongkong which had gone on from the

early days of the Colony. Lord Granville in his Despatch

No. 174 of the 19th. October, 1869, had laid down that

IGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

&c. ..

emigration

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