CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5] — Page 229

2.

disposed to reconsider the matter,

should

experience

have

proved that

to the

Ordinance, as it now stands, works well.

I have consulted the sitting

3.

Magistrates

nɩ

this

point,

and I now

cases decided

enclose an

Abstract of the

under the Ordinance during the part five mouths which

your Lordship with observe to be only four in number, and I would call your Lordship's attention to the fact of the complainants being respectively subjects of Holland-, :America, Sweden, and Hamburgh.

4. In this Colony neither Holland, Sweden, or Hamburgh have Conents, and the fact of Vessels of Nations having no representatives here, although pequenting the Port, had

presented itself to me,

when I caused the

?

Ordinance to be drafted, and

be drafted, and was indicte

one reason which induced-

Me

to

but my

prefer it in its present shape to that in force at New South Wales; principal object in deviating from that Inactiuent arose

Circumstanees

from the

of this Colony being

those

of

altogether different from New South Wales - At that Colony

Aro

a foreign Seaman has comparatively

object in deserting, and if

he should deserts, he cannot get out of the country or beyond the purisdiction of the Courts - while at Houghing he has only to crore the water, and he is on the mainland of China within five minutes, where being a foreigner authority, and that

he

can

defy

our

within sight of the Vessel from whica

he

༩་་་༥

have deserted to which

must be added the

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