650
by him from the Superintendent of
the
Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company to the effect that in future distressed British
Seamen cannot be
conveyed to England except by such steamers
as
are
of the Company despatched direct to the
United Kingdom.
...
I submitted the
point raised by Captain
Rumsey
Encl: 2. 3. Septor, 7 1890.
Encl: 3.
Rumsey to the Acting Attorney-General; copy of whose
opinion I enclose, together
with
P. Septer, 1890.
a.
copy of a
minute
by
"Captain Rumsey in which
he contends that section
211
of the Merchant,
Shipping Act
requires more liberal interpretation than the Superintendent
of
the Company and Mr Ackroyd would put upon it, and points out various
inconveniences which
would