ought apparently to be done: but perhaps it was Kaybe that the subjection
lies conferred in A Murdachi's cast of
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This however is a minor point : The main question relates to the fixed jurisdiction entertained by the Admiralty to
any
enactment
which gives captains of Her Majesty's Ships the duties
of a naval police.
on
the high seas.
· Internally examining taken.
Had been stopping ships
The same jurisdiction was made the subject of a proposal
of the Admiralty during the war, that foreign ships should in like manner be stopped
to look to their certificates. and it prevailed. Nor do I think they are at all likely to have so rooted a principle on
any
agreements
or official correspondence. If it is thought important to insist on the point, it must be gained I think by first regulation. It seems important
to ascertain whether
other nations impose duties of this particular sort on officers of the Navy. The Merchant Shipping Act is not, so far as
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am
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I have examined it: but I am
very familiar with the subject.
Could this difficulty be overcome,
I concur for my own part with great reluctance
seeing nothing unreasonable, or very difficult of execution, in the provisions
of the Statute
In Labouchere
5th May
I cannot help thinking that the apprehensions expressed by
Sir Henry Elliot are to a great extent founded on misconception at all events on a supposition that naval officers
are intended
to do everything which by the
Act they are
legally empowered
On the contrary it is proposed by instructions to limit their
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Office