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34 question does not exceed £5, but if the superintendent is of opinion that the question is one which ought to be decided by a court of law, he may refuse to decide it. Amounts exceeding £5 have to be submitted to a court of law to be decided by a magistrate competent to deal with it. This, however, is merely what happens if there is any dispute about it, and in these days of Seamen's Unions, pettifoggery and red-hot coddling, everything is promptly disputed on principle; and generally successfully too! . The following are the chief statutory provisions relating to

the discipline of the crew, and is the real code provided by the.