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beling as they then obtain a bounty for ~ supplying other ships with Seamen:

manya

Seamen themselves roam about the island-

Grofaing

over to Aberdeen, or elsewhere, utterly indifferent to the

day of Lailing, and

unless stringent regulations exist - not Necessarily to be enforced - by which auch enduct may be punished, the evil woned So long as the penalty to be

which

increasi

awarded

may

and

may be

$25,

be 25 cents. rests with the

Marine Magistrate the Board of Trade need entertain no fear of "great injustice"

being inflicted.

No doubt the Books so

strongly

recommended by the Board of Frade

are most valuable, but I believe that not

one vessel in

thim in

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fifly entering this port has board. European ships make their

numbers which

are

repeated by the signal

difficulty

man at the Peak, and no has hithert's been experienced.

great

I have written the foregoing in

haste, and

from a

sick-bed,

which will I hope be accepted

escense

as an

any irregularity of form

and am yen

(signed) Mr. H. Adams,

I. d'Almada & Castr Pop,

Clerk of Councils.

C

c. J.

(True copy) MAAlexande

Acting Colonial Secretary