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to the time of clearing.

In the case of crews whose agreements terminate while the ship is at the Port achou is quided by the terms of the Agreement. If these provide for discharge in the Colony sanction is not withheld if the men have a reasonable balance of wages

due them; if for discharge in United Kingdom the usual practice is to require the Master to either provide the man if they so desire,

• passage home or with employ= ment on board a ship bound to the United Kingdom either immediately

short period.

with a

or within a short

The local Ordinance provider that no seaman should be discharged

from

a

British ship

or any Foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a Consul elsewhere that at the Mercantile Marine Office and that

us Mooks of any ship shall discharge

in

in the Colony under a penalty

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exceeding 25 dollar any shipped on board there of, unler th. femon a certificate from the Super-

intendent of the Mercantile Marine Office or his deputy, or from the Consul or Vice Consul, if any, ro= presenting the nation to which the ship belongs; and the Supersistendent or his deputy and the Consul ortice Consul are empowered to withhold or grant his certificate upon suc- conditions for the subsistence of the seaman as he shall think fit.

P. R. Murray Runway

Deme 24th, 1897.

Starbour Master.