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THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY, MARINE DEPARTMENT),
the following letter and number gnoted:
4795.
Telegraphic Address.
BOARD TRADE, MARINE,
LONDON.
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MARINE DEPARTMENT,
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In reply to your letter (6.259,002) with enclosures
2007/
of the 3rd March lost/respecting the Hong Kong, Merchant
Shipping Ane uiment Ordinance, 1901, I am directed by
the Board of Trade to Forward to you, to be laid before
Jr Secretary Chamberlain, the acco) parving copy of a
Hemorandum by the Solicitor to this Departent deali'c
with the remarks of the Acting Attorney General.
"ith reference to the first Section of this Temorandum
I am to state that it appears to the Board to he undesir-
able tuut persons who are not qualified under Sectio› 1
of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, should be engovered
to own British ships.
The Report on the Ordinance by the Acting Attorney-
General is returned herewit th.
an
T have the honour to be,
sir,
Your obedient Servant,
10 14
e Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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