Report Upon Samoa; Or, the Navigation's Island, Made to the Secretary of State - Albert Barnes Steinberger

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...or paid any consular dues, although you have kept a full crew; and in consequence you come under that part wherein you have " no burdens to bear, neither shipped or discharged any seamen, or paid consular dues," and that " enjoys favors and immunities that regular documented vessels in the United States does not possess." You will therefore report the number of men you have shipped and discharged since your arrival at the port of Apia, with the amount of wages paid to each, and whether you have deducted the usual hospital fees enjoined on shipmasters to collect. Whether you have paid in full the seamen discharged, and in what manner, and whether there is any money still due such seamen. After your report to me, and cash settlement of all dues and arrears of wages (if any) of seamen discharged, you will be entitled to your register when you leave for another consular district, but not till then, and, as a shipmaster of long standing, you know the penalty--her register will be sent to the Department and canceled, and the vessel liable to seizure and condemnation, and you yourself are personally liable to fine or imprisonment by order of any pourt in tbe United States, in any port you may happen to go to. I am, your obedient servant, S. S. FOSTER, United States Consul. Capt. G. Hamilton, Schooner Peerless, Apia Harbor. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my haud and the seal of the kingdom of Samoa, this 28th day of October, 1875. seal. THOMAS WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary to the Taimua. F 2.--Letter from Col. A. B. Steinberger to Hon. S. S. Foster, relative to yacht Peerless. Mulinuu, 21st September, 1875. Hon. S. S. Foster, United States Consul: Sir: All information you ...