A Manual for Shipmasters Letters Author:James Lees General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1851 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: LETTER II. Engaging of seamen -- their moral character -- motives to be observed on hiring -- fickleness and love of change -- certificate of character, fec. -- necessity for production of, before engaging -- effect of -- probable causes of love of change in seamen -- number of British seamen necessary -- when vessel duly navigated -- when proportion destroyed, certificates or evidence must be produced, or proof made -- when proportion cannot be made on reasonable terms -- who are British seamen -- who made so by proclamation in time of war -- general duties of shipping master, in reference to engagement of- -- printed forms issued by the Board of Trade must be used -- heads of -- observations as to first head -- instances of defective specification of voyage -- observations on second head, and 36th section of act, and section 9 of the General Merchant Seamen's Act -- explanation of third head -- fourth head as to wages, and section 53 -- scale of provisions -- section 12 of General Merchant Seamen's Act -- section 81 of Mercantile Marine Act -- advance and allowance notes -- must be made in sanctioned forms -- when payable -- allotments of wages to wives and families -- in foreign-going ships, agreement must be signed before shipping master -- and made in duplicate -- seamen engaged out of United Kingdom, or substitutes -- crews of home-trade ships -- may be engaged before shipping master -- fees payable, and by whom -- erasures,« less