CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6] — Page 563

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for ith this rare case of a female distressed seamen is with a 2 months infant in addition, surely such exceptional

Caste shendet mot mat such exceptional treatment?

Those who have the administering of the laws should not arbitrarily vindicate the law's authority by forcing it to an unwise conclusion, when an alternativl presented

itself which would have given the same result to the

Official administering the Board of Trade regulations, and provided accommodation suitable to the sex and age

of these exceptional distressed subjects.

We will not follow the report, as to the carriage of infants under ordinary circumstances: that, we opine is entirely

a matter of privati arrangement, without- The fate of the Board of Trace powers. They can only act according to the lawr the child's passage would not have been questioned have the "friam not bein filled with Native passengers, but since the letter of the law is dealt

out, we are well within our rights in providing no more than the Low sanctions.

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