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3.
nal
slight legal provisions
Section 34 of the
sonce such
for themselves;
da
at
those in
insure the
passage money, expense of passage
passengers
Act 12 & 13 Vict : Cap 33 (annexed
reference) be extended
for
with advantage
to all British
vessels, home or Colonial,
and all classes of passengers.
If the Consul or
other
relieving authority could recover from the Owner in case of Shipwreck
a moderate amount
of relief,
the effect would be that
the
owner would do for the comfort of the passengers
what individual passengers
would
The
freight would be
slightly enhanced;
and the Government would
be pretty
secure
against loss.
as
the
owner in
general
would be easily found
a
person of substance,
Provisions of this kind might either be enacted by different Colonial Legislatures
or
by
Act of Parliament, giving power for its own repeal to those legislatures. Relief would of course be refused to the vessels of any Colony
to lick
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