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With regard to Dr Bowenigs Correspondence and the painted copy of

the Ordinance as originally proposed which is inclosed in his letter to Lord

Malmesbury, I am to observe, that Clause

III in that Copy as well as that part-

a

of Clause VIII in the same Copy which imposed Ice of one Dollar on

every Seaman discharged, buing the provisions to which his objections fremerpally if not exclusively, apply are omitted in the\'\\\ Ordinance" as purally passed, and that the "Representatives of Foreign Nations; who, Dr Bowring" "thinks, might cause differthes, have been consulted and

neur.

eme

in the bidmance as it now stands.

My Lords are however of Opanion

that there are too point in which the Ordinance still requires Amendment.

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By Clause V the Harbour Master

is authorized to charge

a fee of One Dollar

for every Seaman Shipped. This fee

is in the prot mistance to be "paid.

by

the Master of the Thip, and he is to deduct it from the Seamen's wages.

There fees are by the 13th Clause made applicable to the threefold purpose of keeping up the establishment necessary for the purpose of the Act ofmankiming a Water police, and of Relieving seck skamen.

ears to my Lordo to be

It appears

at the least extremely doubtful whether it is pist to apply Kas taken for shipping

Seamen to any except the first of there objects, they suggest that the Ices should be fixed at such an amount

and

as may

be necessary for this

purpose

only

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