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Steward Joseph D.Ellis, in accordance with law: That at my request the account of wages of the said Cellis was submitted to me by
by the master of the said ship, and by me to the man Ellis: that the same was
duly approved and pronounced/correct by him in my presence; that I then collected from the master the balance due and issued to the man Ellis the certificate of discharge, as provided by instructions from my Government.
I then called the attention of the man discharged to the fact that under the Harbor Regulations of Hongkong he would be obliged to lodge at either the Sailor's Home.c.
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a licensed boarding house, and that until he complied with said regulation
I could not under my instructions pay over to him the balance of wages due as I should then have no security_-_-_ that he would not come upon the Consulater, in a few days ( his money -being gone) for relief: - That the man Cellis thereupon declined to comply with said regulation and at once brought an action in the Supreme Court of this Colony in Aummary Jurisdiction against the master of hi's late ship, the Lattley Rich. That this action was not only for the balance of wages rendered and in - my hands, but for the sun