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Authorities " on the application of a Consular offi-

cer of the Foreign Country".

It will be observed that no distinction is made

in the ordinance between those particular countries

with whom special Conventional arrangements on the

subject have been entered into by the United Kingdom

and Foreign States generally.

I am, C.,

JA Villies

(Signed)

Copy.

No. M. 12800.

Sir: -

BOARD OF TRADE,

302

C. O.

18680

RESP (6: 18 UG 16

(Marine Department),

7, WHITEHALL GARDENS,

LONDON, S.W.

10th. August 1698.

I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknow-

ledge the receipt of your letter of the 27ta. June

last, transmitting a copy of a communication with en-

closure from the Colonial Office, in which the ques-

tion is raised in connection with a case of desertion

from an American ship while at Hongkong whether it

primarily rests with the Consul of the United States,

as that Officer contenus, or with the Stipendiary

Magistratu, to determine whether a seaman in certain

cases is a "deserter"

The Board of Trade desire ne to transmit to you.

to be laid before the Marquess of Salisbury, a copy

of a Memorandum by the Solicitor to this Department;

and

The Under Secretary of State,

Foreign Office.