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I think that the Governor should be required to endorse the ship's agreement. The necessary endorsement should be made by the officer who usually endorses ship's papers or grants clearances, such as the Harbor Master, Master Attendant, or principal officer of the Customs.
I am inclined to think that the provisions in the 3rd paragraph as to delivering the party charged are unnecessary. I think in all cases a Constable should take charge of the party accused. In practice, except in some cases where parties have been sent to England, it is almost always done. I conceive of no case in which a Constable ought not to be in charge of an offender unless the Bill were extended to allow of bail being taken in certain cases to appear and answer any charge which might be preferred.
The penalty against a master for not giving a passage should, I think, be recoverable summarily in any part of Her Majesty's possessions where he might be found thereafter; and affidavits in places other than that in which the offence was committed should be receivable in evidence, and the penalty should be enforceable by distress.