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shipped of seamen on or about the
you instant without payment of fees.
3. Section 8 of Ordinance of 1862 provides that no seaman shall "be shipped either for
English
or a Foreign ship elsewhere than
at the office of the Harbor Master,
"who shall charge for every seaman shipped a fee of
one dollar.
Seaman
4. In order to facilitate the
to facilitate the
work at the various consular offices
it has been the
practice for the
Consular office requiring and a permit (blank copy enclosed, to the Shipping office requesting permission to ship
certain
certain men whose names are
inserted on the Forms; and on presentation of such permit the fees are paid to the signing officer.
5. This was not done in the
case of the Alice E. Lickerman and the Treasury has consequently been deprived of $... fees.
6. I have no present information as to whether any
other seamen
have been shipped without the
without
permission of the Harbor Master, and consequently payment of fees; but it is just possible that, as the United States Consul is new to the Colony,