CO129-132 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [8-9] — Page 59

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

forstond.

I have the honor to state that it is incorrect to say that the occasion of other ships going to England hunce is not availed of As every opportunity

Commensurate

with the proper care of disheased seamen is embraced and when

ships fail here and the men

are able to undertake

a

voyage

without requiring Medical attendance they are sent to & Consular ports to be prevented . Holt's, line of Steamers - a great boon to sumon and

is

is made use

Seamen

the

of for the conveyance

of the sick, who, but for those

assels would have to remain

in

die

the Colony and

probably

To

J

57 may appear

To. NO 7 Holt it. hand that the mere fact of his

ships carrying surgeons should

render him liable to this but as the Board of Rede has always expressed its willingness to pay any reasonable extra = expenses which may have been incurred in the conveyance of distressed Seamen, I do not

think he has much to complain

of.

These teamers average

ཚིག་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ཅིག་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་ ་

1300 tons so that by the Merchant Shipping Act the Masters Could not object to receive The Seamen if so

if so ordered

by His Excellency, but in

no vistaver have more

than 6

persons been placed on board

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