The trouble will be that these men under the seamens act have the right to demand their pay and to leave the service of the vessel. and then they are authorized to land. and there is no supervision over them except that a report must be made by the master when the vessel sails. Those men have landed and have not returned to the vessel. Well. vessels frequently are in port for several (lays or a week. and sometimes longer. and. of course. if the purpose should have been to evade the immigration law. it will be of very little value to know a week or two after a man landed that he did land. They will not find him. and his namie will not be the same. and probably the color of his hair will not be the same. He will have changed. Now. I do not undertake to say just what ought to be done. but I call it to the attention of the gentleman now. because when the seamans act was up the matter gave me a good deal of difficulty as to what would happen with the immigration act if the literacy test did become the law.
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