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Wood that
more care was not taken to ascertain whether his papage had been found him or paid out of his
wages, as
in the latter case it would have been
evident he would anive at the Colony
destitute.
Parliament it was
I do not altogether that under the Act of competent to a Mastir to discharge
concur with
you
men
months
been
wages
at a Treign Port on payment of two
because, such power had exprefly reserved in the articles of agreement. Moasters are excpnebly prohibited from discharging Seamen anywhere out of the thruited Kingdom except under certain conditions. "Whether these conditions
have been fulfilled or not,
Ꮧ
is
for
the Conoul
to determine, and unless he decides in
the
affirmative,
any agreement betiveen the Master and the men to the contrary
he is not authorized
notwithstanding, he is
to permit the discharge.
Port
Whether two months wages at your
is a
sufficient quarantee that a discharged beaman will find employment before it is exhausted and not the Public for Maintenance or a f
come
upom papage
home, is a question for the banaul to
he is satisfied decide. But apuredly unles he is that such is the case he is not wananted
in sanctioning their discharge
their discharge without a
further quarantee from the ship of the
cast of a papage home in the event his becoming chargeable to the Public
of