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3.

nal

sleight legal provisions

Section 34 of the

sonce such

for themselves;

da

at

thase in

insure the

passage money, capense of passage

passengers

Act 12 & 13 Fict : Cap 33 (annexed

reference / be extended

for

with ado

advantage

to all Britiss

pesels, home or Colonial,

and all classes of passengers.

If the Consul or

other

relicsing authority could recover from the Owner in case of Shipwreck

moderate amount.

a certai

of relief,

-the effect would be that

the

owner would do for the codule of the passengers

what individual passengers.

wowt

The

would be

seightly enhanced;

and the Government would

be pretty

secure

against loss.

as

the

owner in

eneral

genera

exould be easily found

C

and

A

person of substance, Provisions of this kind migh eiter be enacted by different Colonial Legislatures

ar

by

At of Parliament, giving power for its own repeat to those legislatures. Relief would of course he refused to the tessels of any Colony

to lick

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