CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4] — Page 234

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Copy of a letter from the Board of Trade regarding the payment of fees on the shipping of Merchant Seamen from this Colony, and asking me to consider and report in what manner the Colonial law and practice on the subject should be amended.

2. In reply, therewith are reports from the Attorney General and Harbour Master, to whom I referred your Lordship's Despatch. As your Lordship will be seen, the Attorney General suggests two modes of carrying out the suggestions of the Board of Trade; either (a) "to strike out of subsection 4 of section 16 of Ordinance 12 of 1879 the words 'except with the Harbour Master's sanction'; the effect of which will be to abolish fees in the nature of permit fees and to compel the shipping of all seamen at the Harbour Master's Office"; or (b) "to permit shipping of seamen for foreign ships at the Consulates of their respective flags,

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232 Copy of a letter from the Board of Trade regarding the payment of fees on the shipping of Merchant Seamen from this Colony, and asking me to consider and report in what manner the Colonial law and practice on the subject should be amended. 2. In reply, therewith are reports from the Attorney General and Harbour Master, to whom I referred your Lordship's Despatch. As your Lordship will be seen, the Attorney General suggests two modes of carrying out the suggestions of the Board of Trade; either (a) "to strike out of subsection 4 of section 16 of Ordinance 12 of 1879 the words 'except with the Harbour Master's sanction'; the effect of which will be to abolish fees in the nature of permit fees and to compel the shipping of all seamen at the Harbour Master's Office"; or (b) "to permit shipping of seamen for foreign ships at the Consulates of their respective flags, ...
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copy of a letter from the Board

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two modes

modes of

of

Trade

regarding the payment

carrying out the

of

suggestions the Board of Trade; either (a)

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of fees

on the shipping of

Merchant Seamen from this

Colony, and asking me to

consider and report in what

manner the Colonial law

and practice on the subject.

should be

2.

amended.

In reply, there with

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the

Allorney General and starbour

Master, to whom I referred

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will be seen, the Attorney General

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"of section 16

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Ordinance

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"the starbour Master's sanction;

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"the shipping of all seanser at

"the starbons Master's Office"; or ()

" to permit shipping of seamen " for foreign ships at the Consulates " of this respective flags,

and let

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