CO129-075 - Public Offices - 1859 — Page 313

Hong Kong in explaining to my

Lords the

accounts

are

reasore

why the rendered by the

Colonial Treasurer

"

there is

no

states that

Shipping Master

"in the Colony and that the

"accounts

are

rendered by the

"Colonial Treasurer and transmitted

" from his (the Colonial Secretary's) "Office, because all payments on

'account

of

British Leamen

are

"made from the Treasury

on

" production by the Harbour Master "of proper and authorized bouchers.

As the only difficulty in the way of rendering the accounts by

the Harbour Master direct to t this Department appears to lie in the fact that the Harbour Master has no

funds in hand

My

Mus

My Lords would

consideration

319

suggest for the the Duke of

of the

Newcastle whether it would not

be as

us

are

well that the same

conferred

си

a

powers Shipping

Master should be given to the

Harbour Master, or

that a

...

Shipping Master should be appointed in terms of the Merchant Shipping Act whereby all impediments

#effecting

au

object so desirable

as the speedy settlement

matters

connected with

of

all

the

estates of deceased seamen would

be removed

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your obedient servant,