Gray to Under-Secretary of State

I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 3rd 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 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.