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Operatini.
In reply.
...
Estate,
f.
the
information of
the Secretary of
State from the
Colonies, that this Board are of opinion
that the Ordinance is a
very proper
one to be applied to merchant Ships, and that
it meets with their approval.
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at the same time to request
whether the attention of the Governor of
Hong Kong has been called to Section 5
of
the Merchant Seamen (Payment of
Wages and
Rating) Act, 1880, which is
intended to prevent unauthorised persons
going
on board ship at all, and to state
that the clause referred
to has operated
very beneficially in putting down Crimping in the United Kingdom.
The transcript of the Colonial India
Ordinance
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