CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6] — Page 566

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with #is rare case of a female distreseed seaman with a 2 months infant in addition, surely such exceptional cases should not mut such exceptional treatment ?

Those who have the administering of the laws should not arbitrarily vindicate the law's anchorityy 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 Trass regulations,

and provided accommodation suitable to the sex and age

of those exceptional distressed subjects.

We will not follow the report as to the carriage of

infants under ordinary sercumstances: that, we stins Vis enter by

a maiter of private arrangement, without the fate of the Board of Trade powers. They can only sel

according to the lawn The child's passage would not have been questioned have the "Dream» not been filled with

Native passengers, but since the letter of the lawn is dealt

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

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