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reported by the Portmaster General of this Colony, led to a correspondence (a copy of which I now enclose),
terminated with a very lucid Memorandum from the Attorney General, from which it appears that the "Master of the "Chevinge" is not liable to any penalty under Imperial Act, and that the local Port office Ordinance also falls short of meeting the case.
Such a state of affairs leads me to lay the question before Your Lordships, not so much with regard to the special case of the Chevinge, as in the hope that will be provided for the remedy of the serious inconveniences which may arise from carelessness, malice or dishonesty on the part of Shipmasters, to which those inconveniences might become (and in the absence of some legislative enactment to occur) appears from a review of the situation.
6.
The extreterritorial privilege enjoyed by an Englishman in China and Japan, introduces the British Shipmaster to perhaps the longest, and certainly the most important cluster of ports in the world where the Consular Officer has to check upon his acts in Consular authority. The native Authorities have been...
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reported by the Portmaster General of this Colony, led to a correrpendance (a copy of which I now enclose),
terminated with
a
a very
lucid
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candum from the Attorney General, from which it appears that the "Marter of the "Chevist is not liable any penalty Imperial Abhi, and that the local Part office Ordinance abo falls short of meeting the case.
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claimed
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is almost certain
a review
The extensitorial privilegn
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by an Corcntryman China and Japan, introduce the British Shifemaster ta perhaps the longail, and extainly the mat. important cluster of pork in the
world where the
mey Carsular
chedź upon
his act in Consuelos anchority. The
native Austerities have been husher's
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