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In reply,
I am to state, for the
information of Lord Derby, that the
first suggestion of the Attorney General
appears to this Board to be quite
insufficient to meet the case, as,
whulst
abolishing the permit fee, it would oblige Masters of Foreign vessels to engage their seamen before the Harbour Master, and to remove them from the cognizant
of their own Consuls.
The second treggestion of the Attorney General appears more to meet the case, but the proposal to regulate
the engagement of Seamen before Foreign Consuls seems to this Board to be
unnecessary and inexpedient.
In the view of the Board of Frade,
Foreign