167 with the fees payable by local law on merchant seamen shipped from this Colony
2 In the terms of Ordinance 8 of 1879, Cap: 5, sec: 16, subsec: 5, "No seaman shall, except with the Harbour Master's sanction, be shipped on board any Merchant ship whatever elsewhere than at the Office of the Harbour Master, who shall charge for every seaman shipped the sum of one dollar, such sum to be paid in the first instance by the Master of the ship shipping such seaman; and such master shall deduct the same from the wages of such seaman. The above-mentioned fee shall be accounted for by the Harbour Master to the Treasury. The only vessels that are exempted by law from payment of these fees are men-of-war and the mail Steamers of the French Messageries Maritimes Company, which by local Ordinance have the status of men-of-war.
3. As far back as in 1879, the Harbour Master complained (Enclosure 1).