Historical Records of New Zealand
Attorney-General and Solicitor-General to Hon. A. McLeay
Attorney-General and Solicitor-General to Hon. A. McLeay.
Sir,—
We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant, transmitting a letter from the Acting Collector of Customs, enclosing an application made by Mr. Thomas Raine for a register for the New Zealander, built at Ho Kiango, New Zealand, and requesting us to report our opinion with as little delay as possible, whether a register can legally be granted at this port to a vessel built at the above-mentioned island, observing that it was there built by British subjects in the actual employment of persons resident in this colony.
2nd. In reply, we have the honor to enclose the communications transmitted to us, and at the same time to report, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, our opinion to be that no register can be legally granted at this port to the vessel in question under the Act of 6 Geo. 4, c. 110.
We have, &c.,
A. M. Baxter, Attorney-General. John Sampson,
Solicitor-General. The Honorable Alexander McLeay.