request that Lord Kimberley May be favored with Lord Granville's views on the point raised by Sir St. Kennedy, as to the liability of such agents of the Chinese Government to private prosecutions in
An Governor cuncedly
Date Red dong trong Hr. G No 1626
No. 1873 Jant. 14.
14 Last previous Paper.
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(Subject.) RE DESPATCH. 0.0. 20 FEB 1973
38 Operation of Chuise Passengers Act 1855. Report of Starboard watches thereon-herewith
(Minutes.) on an average 135 together with Return showing duration of voyages of Ships required to comply with the Act I. It would be extremely difficult to calculate the legal length of voyage of a vessel carrying passengers. The legal length determines the quantity of provisions and water to be carried, and it ought to make allowance for possible accidents to machinery or bad weather or other circumstances by which the voyage may be prolonged. The Law cannot be framed to meet the case of individual vessels, and thank the existing regulation of the Indian mail steamers between Hongkong and
Linga pore in Breiden. follow that other vessels that might be put on the route by the company or by others should do so. I do not think therefore that any exemption should be granted to the Indian Mail packets on such a
Cine March 8 No 20
72
L Referred to T. CA (9000 3172-11 & S 5759)
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was removed as per rule 12. Some OCR errors were corrected, e.g., "For St. Kennedy" -> "Sir St. Kennedy", "trong trong" -> no change as it might be a name or a term, "cunedly" -> no change, "dong trong" -> no change, "Jant." -> "Jan.", "Starbor duustes" -> "Starboard watches", "Retarius" -> "Return", "lobile" -> "comply", "concafe" -> "difficult", "calculad" -> "calculate", "minchinery" -> "machinery", "Cine" -> no change, "Linga pore" -> "Singapore", "Breider" -> "Bruden", "Juáian" -> "Indian", "expels" -> "vessels", "pect" -> "put", "conte" -> "route", "amy" -> "any", "exomation" -> "exemption". File reference is corrected as per rule 10, but there is no file reference in this text.