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was observed.
from
Your Lordship will have seen my despatch that I
was not satisfied as to the conditions
and refused my consent
in spite of the strongest possible appeals by the German Consul.
3.
The Emigration of Assisted Emigrants to
foreign countries is provided for in Ordinance 4 of 1908 which
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was submitted under cover of HPH.May's despatch 143 of
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1907 and approved by Your Lordship in despatch 193 of
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11th September 1907.
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The draft Ordinance as approved defined an
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28 any Chinese male labourer who has entered
or agreed to enter into a Contract to labour for hire in some
place beyond the limits of the Colony" &c. It appeared to me
that this definition by sanctioning contract emigration to foreign
countries was opposed to the policy of His Majesty's Government
and I altered it to exclude indentured coolies as explained in
my covering despatch of 16th March 1908. Your Lordship informed
me of the "confirmation and allowance" of the Ordinance in your
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/29, despatch 114 of 5th June, 1908.
4.
I would remind Your Lordship that prior to
the enactment of this Ordinance the class of persons now defined
au "Assisted Emigrants had been included in the term "voluntary
passengers", and that the object of the Ordinance (and of the
extra
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