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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47

Shipping Masters and Shipping of Seamen

Shipping Masters and Shipping of Seamen.

The returns for this service from the different ports were as follows:—
Shipped. Discharged.
Montreal 480 291
Quebec 1,771 720
St. John, NT.B 3,904 1,269
Halifax, N.S 2,879 2,178
Chatham, N.B 324 137
Lockport, N.S 591 323
Lunenburg 474 387
Picton 400 273
Yarmouth 640 479
Charlottetown, P.E.I 887 450
Total 12,416 6,469

The fees received amounted to $8,197. With the exception of Quebec and Montreal the fees received at any port form the salary of the Shipping Master, he paying office expenses. Ac. At Montreal the Chief Officer of Customs, and at Quebec the Chief Constable of the River Police, acts as Shipping Master, and the fees revert to the Treasury.