Si & Rogers.
Lund copy
for his infor
5 War
to the Acting forewor
also.
call
lion
Suggestion
made
by the B° of Jade with respect
attention to the
& clause 8 of the Ord
MR
278
to request you to state to the Duke of Newcastle that as the Local Authorities, whose knowledge of the peculiar circumstances of the Colony is much greater than that possessed by their Lordships, appear to entertai
a
general and strong opinion that Clauses 4 and 8 of the above mentioned Ordinance ought to be retained in
their present form, My Lords do not insist on the objections suggested by
them.
I am
am at the same time to
state, with reference to Clause 8, that
as the Ordinance makes it criminal
for a seaman to remain wilfully
negligently in the
By
in the Colony without a
Certificate, but makes no provision for
giving