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complying with the requirements of the Merchant Shipping Act.
In our Report of the 15th September last we expressed our opinion that the Fortuna had violated the provisions of the Act in not obtaining the required clearance for proceeding on a voyage of a duration beyond that allowed for a home-trade ship.
and that the ship, accordingly, rendered herself liable to forfeiture. The same opinion is expressed very decidedly by the Attorney General of Hong Kong and Fix I Bowring. The former in a persuasive statement says that the voyage from Hongkong to Manila is sometimes made in three days in favourable weather, and that an average voyage from Macau to Manila at the same season would be seven, or at the outside fifteen days.
In regards to a voyage from Hongkong to Manila, Fix & Bowring in a proclamation of 26th January last...