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provisions and water on board
if
admits
- a principle which would render all inspection worthless - Sir R. Mersonnell and the Emigration Agent both assume the conjecture, which the previous circumstances had suggested to me, that part of the provisions were fraudulently landed and disposed of before the ship sailed
Governor
nor considers that he has power to put a watch -
the
man on board an
Emigrant
ship and requests to be advised how he is to prevent frauds of this description in future upon
such a
occasion
a point to offer any advice. The course to
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be adopted must depend
on local circumstances with which
I am unacquainted : Probably
however, there are some
Officers charged with the police of the
harbour whose services might
be made use
of for that purpose
At any rate the withholding of the Emigration Officer's clearance till the ship is ready to sail would to some extent make the perpetration of such frauds
difficult.
more
7. Third - the Governor states
that I was in error
as to the
size of the hatchways which
admitted light and ventilation to the between decks - that
instead of 12 square feet they were in reality 77 square feet.