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You will see that as to the first question Mr Nothing doubted whether the Avn was entitled to claim exemption under the Postal Convention, and this point was therefore referred to the Law Officers of the Crown, who requested to advise were upon the two following questions.
1. Whether a French vessel which engaged in the French Government Postal Service and called in either occasionally or regularly in the course of her voyage at some British port, was exempt under the terms of the Postal Convention from the liability, which attached to all other vessels, for any damage which she might have done in collision with any other vessel.
2. Whether if such a vessel was not within the terms of the Convention, but was chartered or subsidized...