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inserted to Forfeitures of Impenger ships, if incurred under the English Sapengers Act, are enforceable as if they had been incurred under the law relating to the factory. As, however, the present law will be principally carried into effect, not by Custom House officers, but by captains of queens and Consuls at Foreign Ports, we have assumed that it would be more convenient that the process of enforcing it should be that practised under the Act relating to the slave trade, with which those officers are more familiar. But as we have ourselves no practical experience expecting the working of these laws it is very possible, that the clauses which prescribe the mode of enforcing the forfeiture of ships and of distributing the penalties might have been more conveniently framed and with this view we would suggest that they should be specially brought under the notice of the solicitor's office.
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