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cases, or else to exempt all Consuls from payment. The opinion of the Attorney-General as to the power of enforcing the law has been given in the following terms :-

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"To ship a seaman (except with the Harbour Master's sanction) to do duty on board any merchant ship whatever elsewhere than at the Office of Harbour Master, is a breach of section 16 of Ordinance 8 of 1879, and the person so shipping him is liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty of $25 or imprisonment for a month (see 32).

"Refusal to pay the fee after the man is shipped would not be an offense, but the amount of the fee is recoverable in a summary manner before a Magistrate (see 435).

7. Other Foreign Consuls at Hong Kong (including the German Consul), are (as I am informed), about to follow the example of the Consul of the United States in stopping payment of the fees to the Harbour Master's Office. This is a question which might lead to international complication:

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10 171 11 cases, or else to exempt all Consuls from payment. The opinion of the Attorney-General as to the power of enforcing the law has been given in the following terms :- # کا "To ship a seaman (except with the Harbour Master's sanction) to do duty on board any merchant ship whatever elsewhere than at the Office of Harbour Master, is a breach of section 16 of Ordinance 8 of 1879, and the person so shipping him is liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty of $25 or imprisonment for a month (see 32). "Refusal to pay the fee after the man is shipped would not be an offense, but the amount of the fee is recoverable in a summary manner before a Magistrate (see 435). 7. Other Foreign Consuls at Hong Kong (including the German Consul), are (as I am informed), about to follow the example of the Consul of the United States in stopping payment of the fees to the Harbour Master's Office. This is a question which might lead to international complication:
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10 171 11 cases, or else to exempt all Consuls the from payment. The opinion of the Attorney-General as to the power of enforcing the law has been given in the following terms :- # کا "To ship a a seaman (except with the Harbour Master's sanction) to do duty board. any in merchant - ship whatever elsewhere than at # the Office of Harbour Master, is a breach of section 16 of Ordinance 8 of 1879, and the person so shipping "him is liable, on sum summary. "conviction, to a penalty of $25 or "imprisonment imprisonment for a month (see see:32). refusal to pay the ofee after il mere the man is # shipped would not be an offense, but the amount of the fee id recoverable in a summary mamer before a Magistrate (sest: 435. 7. Other Foreign Consuls at HongKong (including the German Consul), are (as I am informed), about to follow the example of the Consul of the United States in stopping stopping the payment of the fees to the Harbour Master's Office. This is a question which might lead to international complication:
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10

171

11

cases, or else to exempt all Consuls

the

from payment. The opinion of the Attorney-General as to the power of enforcing the law has been given in the following terms :-

#

کا

"To ship a

a seaman

(except

with the Harbour Master's sanction)

to do duty

board.

any in

merchant

- ship whatever elsewhere than at

#

the Office of Harbour Master, is a

breach of section 16 of Ordinance 8 of 1879, and the person so shipping

"him is liable, on sum

summary.

"conviction, to a penalty of $25 or

"imprisonment

imprisonment for a month (see see:32).

refusal to pay the ofee after

il mere

the man is

#

shipped would not be an

offense, but the amount of the fee

id

recoverable in a summary mamer

before a Magistrate (sest: 435.

7.

Other Foreign Consuls at

HongKong (including the German Consul), are (as I am informed), about

to follow the example of the Consul of the United States in stopping

stopping the

payment of the fees to the Harbour

Master's

Office.

This is

a question

which might lead to international

complication:

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