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foreign and Independent Powers
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while trading in the waters - of foreign and Independent Territory, and does so through
factitious citizenship (establishing)
and allegiance to the British
Crown against the owner, agent
and charterer
of
his
the foreign ressel, from the fact of residence within this Colony for the time being whereas it is
notorious that such residence
merely
is in many cases casual and hansitory, while the allegiance thus created is
a me fiction Lecond.
of
of
Law.
Because
Because the propneed s
Ordinance is thus not
marely
but as
objectionable in principle, involving the possible seizure
and
Our
confiscation of Forlign Vigils, jealously protected this seaboard by their powerful
oun
marine, is one not
unlikely to lead to the most
and formid
sudden and
dable collision
between the armed forces of
Her Majesty and Towers.
of Foreign
The undersigned would contemplate with the mast
anxious apprehension such a possible contingency
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