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Olsen. The practice of requiring
some licensed Boarding House Master to undertake to take charge of sea for a reasonable time is custom that has been adopted by merely a Consuls of Foreign Powers when discharging
a.
seamen
seamen in this Port with the view of obtaining some Kind of assurance that the men will
not be destitute.
2.
As the American Ship "F. P. Litchfield"
from which this
mnan
Olsen has been discharged
is still in the Port I am directed by the
Administrator to enquire whether considering
that the fact of his insanity
to
your
you
was not brought
notice at the time of his discharge,
could not require the Captain of this
ship to take charge of the
3.
man
again.
Should
you
not have it in
your power to do this, the Lunatie will be m forwarded home by an early opportunity leaving it to the Secretary of State to decide
whether
any
claim should be made
·
against
your Government or that of Norway of which Olsen is represented to be a native,
in
respect of the expenses to which this Colony has been put on his account.
I have Ac.
(signed) F. Stewart,
Asting Colonial Secretary.
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