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last session.
Mrs. Labmahere
W.
desires
me to contact to express his
regret
that it appears
that by some means the LC.
was not expressly
consulted respecting
this measure at the
time when it was
in progress through Parliament."
I am directed
to enclose the copy
of a report from the Law Officers upon
the question which
is now pending.
It will be observed
that there are
four conjunctures in which
the intervention of an office representing
the British Government
may be required
for the enforcement
of the Act. In the
first of these, namely, the
means of enforcing
compliance with the Act as against
British or Foreign Passenger ships,
there appears little or
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