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foreign and Independent Powers

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while trading in the waters - of foreign and Independent Territory, and does so through

factitious citizenship (establishing)

and allegiance to the British

Crown against the owner, agent

and charterer

of

his

the foreign ressel, from the fact of residence within this Colony for the time being whereas it is

notorious that such residence

merely

is in many cases casual and hansitory, while the allegiance thus created is

a me fiction Lecond.

of

of

Law.

Because

Because the propneed s

Ordinance is thus not

marely

but as

objectionable in principle, involving the possible seizure

and

Our

confiscation of Forlign Vigils, jealously protected this seaboard by their powerful

oun

marine, is one not

unlikely to lead to the most

and formid

sudden and

dable collision

between the armed forces of

Her Majesty and Towers.

of Foreign

The undersigned would contemplate with the mast

anxious apprehension such a possible contingency

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