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Carrying Foreign Papengers

which

arrive at their respective

porty.

I have the hour to be

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Your obedient Dewant

Parner Borth

Circular No. 77.

BOARD OF TRADE,

20 October, 1857.

за

appears

evryme

that the Board of Grade has Applied direct to to Foreign Office for any

Instructions which it wishes that

Department to issue to the Consuls

abroad. This letter could

therefore seem to be only sent to our Department for informncation

presume that it

may

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INSTRUCTIONS TO CONSULS-

Merchant Ships and Seamen, referring to paragraphs 117, 126, and 182.

board British

inquired into,

Whenever a death happens on board a British Ship, All deaths on whether in the case of a British Subject or of a Foreigner Ships to be serving on board, the Consul at the Port at which the Ship and reported first arrives after the occurrence, will inquire into the cause of the death and the circumstances attending it, and will indorse on the Ship's Articles the result of such inquiry.

He will, at the same time, forward to the Board of Trade a report of the death, and the result of the inquiry.

If it appears to him that any such death has been caused by violence, ill treatment, neglect, or other improper means, the Consul will act as pointed out in the Instructions, para-

graphs 117, 124 to 136, and 182.

T. H. FARRER,

Assistant Secretary,

Marine Department.

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on.

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