The efforts made by the Crown
Agents to obtain Bills of Lading
before the departure of
the
Stores must
ships carrying occasionally fail, when as not wefrequently happens, the masters of thips sign those documento
the last thing before starting,
a
practice often
me avoidable
and one it is impossible always
to contend against
with success.
You state that asintuvation
duplicate
of sending a still of Ending
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with the ship should be regularly
adhered to there would be no
need to fear the recurrence
loss to the Hong
of such a
Kong Government entailed by
the
Qo
wxs
delay
in
the non-
bringing the Stamp Ordinance into operation through receipt of the Machinery.
The
case appears tome to
stand thus: You
were in possession
by Overland post of the original
was received
of the arrival
of
the
the "Thales" in Port, and you add that of
arrangement
and duplicate Bills of Lading with advice of the shipment per "Thales" before that vessel arrived,
of
ih