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complying with the requirements of the Merchant Shipping Act.
In our Report of the 15th September last we expressed our opinion that the Fortuna had violated the provisions of the Act in not obtaining the required clearance for proceeding on a voyage of a duration beyond that allowed for a home-trade ship.
and that the ship, accordingly, rendered herself liable to forfeiture. The same opinion is expressed very decidedly by the Attorney General of Hong Kong and Fix I Bowring. The former in a persuasive statement says that the voyage from Hongkong to Manila is sometimes made in three days in favourable weather, and that an average voyage from Macau to Manila at the same season would be seven, or at the outside fifteen days.
In regards to a voyage from Hongkong to Manila, Fix & Bowring in a proclamation of 26th January last...
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complying with the require.
ments of the thuien la progr
Act.
In our Report of the 15th 2500 / st september last we expreped
our opinion
that the Fortuna
had violated the provisions
Act is not
1 the Rupergers procuring the Einigen
Enization the piss
required for bepets proceeding
on a voyage
of
love
share.
sroru day
duration_and
that the hard, accordingly,
undered herself.
liable to
forfeiture. The same opinion
i
is expreped very decidedly by
the Attor
Kong
Allorway
General
of Hong
and Fix I Bowring. The
fousut we perisive states that the voyage pour Hongkongto
*
Manila is sometimes made
ie fior, and sare in three
days in the favorable housoow, and that an ao
wyage from Ausoy
averag
at the
same season would be seven, best agre
aganist
fifteen days..
the mousson
Ai U
regards
di a
voyage pour Hongkong Manila, fir & Bowring
Favelamation
of
26th January
last
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