Coolies

East Indian and Chinese laborers who emigrate either independently or under contract with foreign employers. The former abuses of the contract system which amounted to practical slavery have been reformed by Chinese treaties and Indian government inspection. The Indian Emigration Act of 1883 only permits contract-emigration to Mauritius, Jamaica, British and Dutch Guiana, Trinidad, St. Lucia, Grenada, St. Vincent, Natal, St. Kitts, Fiji, Martin i que, Guadeloupe, and St. Croix. These colonies contain ab. 450,000 Indian coolies. The Chinese have been restricted recently in America and Australia by Exclusion Acts.