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Memorandum
Rece
Rra228 JUN 09
From
The Master Attendant, S.S.
To
Harbour Master, Hongkong.
Native seamen employed in Foreign Ships are required to sign on at the Shipping Office under the provisions of Section 115 of Indian Act I of 1859, and other provisions of this Act are interpreted as including their discharge in the same manner.
Section 115 of Indian Act 1 of 1859.
When the Master of a foreign ship being at any port in the Colony engages any lascar or other native seaman to proceed to any port out of the Colony he shall enter into an agreement with such seaman and the agreement shall be made before a shipping master in the manner hereinbefore provided for the making of agreements in the case of foreign-going ships and all the provisions of Section twenty-two respecting the form of such agreements and the stipulation to be contained in them and the making and signing of the same shall be applicable to the engagement of such seaman; and the master of such foreign ship shall give to the shipping master a bond with the security of some approved person resident in the Colony for an amount calculated at the rate of fifty dollars for every such seaman and conditioned for the due performance of the said agreement and stipulations.
Section 49 of the proposed Merchant Shipping Ordinance.
When the master of a foreign ship being
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