CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5] — Page 231

"Shipowne

vers in

a MueauJ

America anda

Whaling Captainsi the Arctic sea, of inducing Whalers to "frequent this port for refrechments "and repairs? -

6. As regards the last clans of

the Ordinance which has attracted

the reasons

Your Lordship's notice, I have only to remark that having, for already assigned, considered it desirable to dispense with the intervention of the Foreign Coneal in the first

instance, without which

by

the

New South Wales Ordinance no deserter can be arrested, _ I thought

it desirable to make that

-

offices party to the transaction, and with

this view inserted this Provision in

the Ordinance... By the Houghing Ordinance the Governor, at the

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requisition of a Foreign Consul, has, the former, exercicing his own

if the

discretion, sees

so to do,

the

fit 20 to power of exspending the operation of the ordinance as regards Ships of the State which the batter represents, while by that in

South Wales no

to me

force

steps

in New

can be taken

by the Magistrate to apprehend deserters, unless the Foreign Concal deems it right to take the initiative and to make a complaint in writing to the Magistrate. It seems

therefore that the Foreign Consal of euch countries as are represented at Houghong is vested with less power of interference, than

Officer at new South Wales;, and this I think not only desirable account of the ncecurity arising from breal position of diepatch in

the same

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