I am directed by the
Board of Trade to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the
3 Instant inclosing a transcript,
herein returned, of an Act passed by the Legislature of
British
Columbia entitled "An Act to prevent desertion from Merchant
Ships" together with a copy of the report of the local
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Attorney
General thereupon, and I am to state for the information of the
Earl of Kimberley that this Board see no reason why this Act
should not be allowed to remain in operation.