CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875 — Page 262

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in which

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Vessel is attached for

Seamen's wages, he grounds his decision

(page 19) substantially upon the

Consular Convention between the M. S.

and the Ottoman Empire, by virtue

of which (page 22) all local Jurisdiction

over the discipline...

have I confined...

ourselves to the question,

stated by Mr Lister, but, whilst

we are

of opinion that the

Jurisdiction is clear.

we

think

that, in cases where the Consular

officer of the nation, to which the ship and the parties belong, protests

and internal order

of Merchant

the local Court should entertain

only

cases of great

Vessels belonging to the Ottoman

Empire had been superseded -

In making this Report, in

obedience to Y. L.'s commands, we

have

the suit.

urgency.

And we doubt whether

the local Court should as

a matter

of discretion, entertain the suit at

all