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. 1877 Excerpt: ...been effectually excluded from the merchant service. in House of Commons. Every impartial person who really understands this question in all its bearings, admits that the advance note is an evil. But there are some who regard it as a necessary evil. As, however, the advance note is not known in any other of the ...
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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. 1877 Excerpt: ...been effectually excluded from the merchant service. in House of Commons. Every impartial person who really understands this question in all its bearings, admits that the advance note is an evil. But there are some who regard it as a necessary evil. As, however, the advance note is not known in any other of the principal maritime countries of Europe, what becomes of the assertion that it is indispensable in our own mercantile marine? In an able article in the Nautical Magazine for August 1875, it is stated that, in the case of ships belonging to, and sailing from, Austro-Hungary, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, RussianFinland, advances of wages, if there be any advances, are made in cash, according to agreement, and the advance note is absolutely unknown. In German ships, leaving German ports, the advance is often for two months' wages, and the payment is always in cash, unless, indeed, the ship after leaving Germany is about to trade at an English port, when one month is paid down in cash, and the second by advance note. The second month's advance is by note, which, in order to protect the owners against the effects of the English system on the German seaman, is not paid in Germany until the ship leaves England. The proposal to do away with the 'advance-note system' was, after all, merely a proposal to put the British seaman on an equality with seamen serving in ships in most foreign countries; and if the British sailor is only held to the British flag by the British advance-note system, as shipowners soberly believe to be the case, what is there to attach him to the foreign flag under which no such system exists 9 Assertions made with the greatest gravity are not always correct. The advance note is not necessary to enable married Allotment seamen to make provisi...
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Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 399 pages with 44 pages of publisher's ads, dark blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Solid copy with a spine lean, bumps on corners of covers, cloth is worn off of a 2 " strip on bottom edge of front cover, and covers show light wear. Someone has re-glued the front and rear hinges between the covers and end papers, a decent job which has made the interior solid. Some soiling on top edge of inside pages and interior is unmarked.
