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Correspondence (private letter). Minutes (5), Enclosures (untranscribed) (4), Other documents (1).
would be liable to seizure should she proceed to any ports on the Coast.
The minutes note as a duplicate,
and report that
The four documents included in the file all relate to
The Humble Memorial of
That your memorialist is a British Subject, and resident Colonist of this Island, employed in Commerical pursuits.
That on the d July Ulto"," chartered, & consigned to your Memorialist by his
agents in
That on the th
That the Collector of Customs denied Compliance with the application under the plea of the Schooner being a foreign bottom.
That your Memorialist, in answer to this objection, shewed, by
reference to the Custom House books, that the Honble Hudsons Bay Co
had been in the habit of employing foreign vessels on the Coast without
let or
That the said foreign vessels so employed by the Hudsons Bay Co had been regularly permitted to go Coasting.
That other vessels owned and employed by, and representing in toto the interests of, nonresidents and foreigners had in no instance been refused permission to take in cargoes at other ports on the Coast.
That foreign vessels, having been chartered in
That the Collector of Customs still persisted in his refusal, and also informed your memorialist that the vessel would be liable to seizure should she proceed to any ports on the Coast.
Your memorialist then addressed a letter to this Officer on the
subject. Copies of this Communication andr Sangster
That in the reply an entirely new ground of refusal is urged, viz. "because there are no settlements on the coast". In this averment your memorialist most distinctly asserts that the Collector of Customs is wrong. There are settlements on the Coast! Your memorialist has had for nearly six months white men settled on the west coast collecting native produce for exportation, which fact is notorious to the whole Colony. Your memorialist being thus, as he most humbly conceives, grievously and illegally hampered, and embarrassed, in the peaceful prosecution of his business by the officer at the Head of the Customs department of this Island, by and with the consent, advice, and knowledge of the Head of the Executive, and fearing a reiteration of similar, or equally pernicious (to him), proceedings Most humbly lays his case before your Right Honorable Self, and while averring to the truth of the foregoing statement your memorialist most respectfully asserts
That he is entitled to the same rights and privileges of trade in this Colony, as those enjoyed by the Hudsons Bay Co.
That any foreign vessel he may employ is, by the laws and usage of commerce, entitled to proceed after discharging cargoe at one port of this Colony, to other port or ports on the same coast to load for abroad.
That as he is, in the prosecution of his business, necessitated
to employ ships and land goods on the west coast of this Colony
his rights to proceed thither without interference after entering at the
Custom House of
And further that the Honorable Lessees of this Island in their
prospectus issued to the world (where, in publishing the Conditions of
the Lease) affirm, in the latter part of the sixth clause that
And in conclusion your Memorialist most humbly prays, that, as there is no law officer in the Colony to advise with in these matters, such definite instructions may be addressed to the Head of the Customs department of this Colony, as shall enable him to act at all times, in all matters Connected with the Commerce of this Island, in accordance with the laws of Great Britain.
And your memorialist