CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5] — Page 182

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to ascertain whether there be a

car

scaparding paver

err

their part to

fulfil their share of the Contract.

16.

I enclose for your information copy Encoure #2.

of the Harbor Master's report for

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year

1569). The history there given of the working

of the Warber and Coasts Ordinance is preof sufficient that such

operation

A~

A

conparatively

minor

the disarming of all fishing

vessels frequenting this Colony could be carried out strictly and confiletely, if were are made law, and

such policy

w life it were to be strictly carried

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aut it would seem un

ary

17.

weem undesirable that

such law should be made.

It, therefore, becomes urguitly necessary, before passing such an Ordinance

8-

(See Governor Dazy. The late No473 of kapilho 8.

how, that the Governor should have

of judging whether the Vice Ray'a

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proclamation would or

could be carried

wut along the Planes Peast. It is manifest that if fishing vessels fell they

Wen v

exposed to

more

stringent Regulations

arriving

here than douwhere and that,

in these watus, they had no hope of

retaining

and

11.0

their

guns

and ammunitions,

street

chances of escaping

search - all which shey might perhaps

avoid elsewhere for years

such

am

equal application of a law" nominally identical hure and in China would have a defurent effect on vefeels frequent

ing this Colony, and might drim away hundreds to the

matt1

mifest. injury of the

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