N.P. Trist ...: Report [from] the Committee on Commerce, to Whom was Referred the Petition of Certain Shipmasters, Ship-owners, and Other Citizens, in Relation to the Conduct of N.P. Trist, Consul of the United States at Havana1840 - 475 страници |
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Abraham Wendell addressed afforded American citizen American consul American ship-masters answer attention authorities believe Bell brig Kremlin Bumstead called Captain Babbit Captain Clark Captain Wendell cargo character charge circumstances Commander Babbit communication conduct Coninck & Spalding consequence consignees consul at Havana Consul Trist consular copy course crew Cuba desertion discharge documents duty Enclosure excellency extra wages fact favor Ferdinand Clark Fitch flag foreign Government honor imprisonment informed instant Jellison JOHN FORSYTH John Peters July letter MANUEL PEREZ mariners master Matanzas merchant Messrs months N. P. TRIST obedient servant occasion Oramel H owners Pensacola person port present prison proceedings proved Purser Southall question received regard reply request resident respect respectfully sailors schooner seamen second mate ship William Engs sloop of war Spanish statement Sub-enclosure testimony thing tion truth United vice-consul Wendell's William Bell witnesses York
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Страница 306 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Страница 138 - I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, Your Excellency's most obedient servant, ROBERT BACON His Excellency The Right Honorable JAMES BRYCE Etc., Etc., Etc.
Страница 27 - It is agreed between the master and seamen or mariners of the , of which is at present master, or whoever shall go for master, now bound from the port of , , to...
Страница 308 - ... word when it was his interest to break it ; but then I never knew a Greek who was not unnecessarily and habitually a liar. He is subtle in spirit, insidious in discourse, plausible in his manner, and indefatigable in dishonesty; he is an accomplished scoundrel ; and beside him, the Turk, with all the desire to defraud, is so gauche in knavery, that, to avoid detection, he is constrained to be honest.
Страница 73 - Every master of any vessel of the burden of fifty tons or upward, bound from a port in one State to a port in any other than an adjoining State, except vessels of the burden of seventy-five tons or upward, bound from a port on the Atlantic to a port on the Pacific, or vice versa, shall, before he proceeds on such voyage, make an agreement in writing or in print, with every seaman on board such vessel except such as shall be apprentice or servant...
Страница 27 - ... pay for every day which he shall so absent himself, 18 be deducted out of his wages ; but if any seaman or mariner shall absent himself for more than forty-eight hours at one time, he shall forfeit all the wages due to him, and all his goods and chattels which were on board the said ship or vessel, or in any store where they may have been lodged, at the time of his desertion, to the use of the...
Страница 73 - ... vessel (except such as shall be apprentice or servant to himself or owners) declaring the voyage or voyages, term or terms of time, for which such seaman or mariner shall be shipped.
Страница 27 - ... they will be liable to all the penalties and forfeitures mentioned in the Marine Law, enacted for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchants...
Страница 70 - ... designated on such list as a citizen of the United States, three months' pay, over and above the wages which may then be due to such mariner...
Страница 27 - ... without leave of the master or officer commanding on board ; and the mate, or other officer having charge of the log-book, shall make an entry therein of the name of such seaman or mariner, on the day on which he shall so absent himself, and if such seaman or mariner shall return to his duty within forty-eight hours, such seaman or mariner shall forfeit three days...