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Copy of a letter from the Board of Trade regarding the payment of fees on the shipping of Merchant Seamen from this Colony, and asking me to consider and report in what manner the Colonial law and practice on the subject should be amended.
2. In reply, therewith are reports from the Attorney General and Harbour Master, to whom I referred your Lordship's Despatch. As your Lordship will be seen, the Attorney General suggests two modes of carrying out the suggestions of the Board of Trade; either (a) "to strike out of subsection 4 of section 16 of Ordinance 12 of 1879 the words 'except with the Harbour Master's sanction'; the effect of which will be to abolish fees in the nature of permit fees and to compel the shipping of all seamen at the Harbour Master's Office"; or (b) "to permit shipping of seamen for foreign ships at the Consulates of their respective flags,
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