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emigration from Hongkong should be confined to British

Colonies. This ruling was subsequently interpreted by Sir

Arthur Kennedy to apply only to emigration under contract

for service, an interpretation held by Lord Kimberley in

his Despatch No. 33 dated the 3rd. December, 1873, to be

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a correct one. In 1875 correspondence passed between Lord

Carnarvon and the Officer then administering the Government

of Hongkong on the subject of a refusal of the latter to

allow free emigration to Aeheen, that country being in a

disturbed state, and was followed by instructions to the

Governor (Colonial Office Despatch No. 109 dated the 4th.

December, 1875.) as to amendments to be made in the Chinese

Emigration Ordinance of 1874 then in force. These instruct-

-ions resulted inter alia in the enactment of the two

subsections of the Ordinance No. 5 of 1876 to which refer-

-ence is made above.

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The original object of His

Majesty's Government in imposing the restrictions is made

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clear by a letter from the Foreign Office to the Colonial

Office dated the 25th. August, 1869, in which Lord

Clarendon considered that "looking to the atrocities cormit

*-ted by Chinese crimps in procuring emigrants in the

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