controlling it.
But we submit, whether with firm deference, in fact with a Naval Officer would seize any ship by reason of any sick on board under the circumstances specified in the Act - the court would only have said) for having no papers at all, or forged or altered papers. The fact of the absence of papers would admit of no dispute and create no risk. The case of forged or fraudulently altered papers is the only one which would present any difficulty.
But in this case an Officer would not seize a ship unless his acquaintance with the forms of Emigration papers and with the signature of the Officers who issue and attest them were such as to give him a moral certainty that those produced to him were altered. In all cases of doubt he would, for his own sake, for the sake of caution, abstain from seizing a ship.
The last case in which it was contemplated in the letter to the Admiralty that an Officer might be required to act would be in conveying ... to ...