CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902 — Page 545

Any furiker conmurication should be dressed to:-

THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY, MARINE DEPARTMENT),

the following letter and number gnoted:

4795.

Telegraphic Address.

BOARD TRADE, MARINE,

LONDON.

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MARINE DEPARTMENT,

PARTMENT,

7, WHITEHALL GARDENS,

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LONDON, S.W.

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In reply to your letter (6.259,002) with enclosures

2007/

of the 3rd March lost/respecting the Hong Kong, Merchant

Shipping Ane uiment Ordinance, 1901, I am directed by

the Board of Trade to Forward to you, to be laid before

Jr Secretary Chamberlain, the acco) parving copy of a

Hemorandum by the Solicitor to this Departent deali'c

with the remarks of the Acting Attorney General.

"ith reference to the first Section of this Temorandum

I am to state that it appears to the Board to he undesir-

able tuut persons who are not qualified under Sectio› 1

of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, should be engovered

to own British ships.

The Report on the Ordinance by the Acting Attorney-

General is returned herewit th.

an

T have the honour to be,

sir,

Your obedient Servant,

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e Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

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