CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 326

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In reply,

I am to state, for the

information of Lord Derby, that the

first suggestion of the Attorney General

appears to this Board to be quite

insufficient to meet the case, as,

whulst

abolishing the permit fee, it would oblige Masters of Foreign vessels to engage their seamen before the Harbour Master, and to remove them from the cognizant

of their own Consuls.

The second treggestion of the Attorney General appears more to meet the case, but the proposal to regulate

the engagement of Seamen before Foreign Consuls seems to this Board to be

unnecessary and inexpedient.

In the view of the Board of Frade,

Foreign