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tion Rules and Regulations may be framed, it is 

 wholly impossible for Government to provide against 

 poor people being enticed from their homes under 

 delusions, the falsity of which cannot be made appa- 

 rent until the victims are beyond seas, and the reach 

 of help. I have no hesitation in saying that many 

 if not all the evils above commented on in regard to 

 Coolie immigration to Assam, exist, though possibly 

 in a milder form, in the present system of emigration 

 to British and foreign colonies. The Government 

 of India has no information of the emigrants, after 

 they leave the shores of India, neither en route to 

 their destination, nor when they reach it ; and there 

 is too much reason to believe that, in some instances, 

 the mortality on the voyage is excessive, and that 

 the climate, and the work the Coolies are put to, 

 causes a very large proportion to be c expended/* 

 In these circumstances, I have very grave doubts 

 how far, from a moral point of view, the British 

 Government is justified in permitting its subjects to 

 be removed from under the aegis of its protection, 

 until such times as they are of full age, without some 

 better guarantees than at present seem to exist, that 

 in doing* so it is not violating the very principle it 

 has sacrificed so much to uphold. The Government 



* The climate of the French Colony of He-union is considered 

 fatal to Africans, and Dr. Mouat, an advocate for emigration 

 both to He-union and Mauritius, thinks, that if the mortuary 

 returns are correct, the climate is not much more adapted for 

 Asiatics than for Africans. He states the number necessary 

 to supply the full wants of the Island at 50,000. 



