Any further commouication on this subject
should be addressed to-
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY,
MARINE DEPARTMENT,
BOARD OF TRADE,
À WHITEHALL GARDENS, S.W.
And the following letter and umber should be i
quoted in the cognication, any mariced plainty
n the outrate of the nylope,
M
6376774
Sir
GRIVE
c.c.
5 MAY 1874
5051/7
Board of Grade,
Whitehall Gardens,
639
5th May 1877.
Merchant Shipping Act. Colonial
I am directed by the Board of Frade
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th Ulhino, forwarding a transcript of an Qidinance passed by the Legislature of Hong Kong N. 1 of 1874, entitled "An Ordinance " to empower the Governor to exercise certain powers under the Merchant Shipping Act 1873" together with a Report of the Local Attorney General thereupon, and requesting to be informed whether this Ordinance may properly be allowed to remain in operation.
Referring to the last paragraph of Section I which provides that "all moneys payable. " by the Governor in respect or by reason of
(1
the survey or detention of the ship under The Under Secretary
of State
Colonial Office
the