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for his infor

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to the Acting forewor

also.

call

lion

Suggestion

made

by the B° of Jade with respect

attention to the

& clause 8 of the Ord

MR

278

to request you to state to the Duke of Newcastle that as the Local Authorities, whose knowledge of the peculiar circumstances of the Colony is much greater than that possessed by their Lordships, appear to entertai

a

general and strong opinion that Clauses 4 and 8 of the above mentioned Ordinance ought to be retained in

their present form, My Lords do not insist on the objections suggested by

them.

I am

am at the same time to

state, with reference to Clause 8, that

as the Ordinance makes it criminal

for a seaman to remain wilfully

negligently in the

By

in the Colony without a

Certificate, but makes no provision for

giving