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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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US agent W. Lee in Bordeaux announces policy to prevent discharge of American sailors without ensuring their return passage, as over 140 are left destitute and begging after frivolous dismissals. Reported in New York from Captain Allen.
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The Following was communicated to us by a respectable mercantile house in this city.
The following advertisement appeared at Bordeaux a few days before Captain Allen of the Perseverance, left there, and will shew that our sea-faring brethren begin to feel the effects of the peace. Captain Allen says that the Americans at Bordeaux are much pleased with Mr. Lee's conduct towards them, and with his attention to their concerns.
United States Agency Office,
Bordeaux, January 20, 1802.
The undersigned commercial agent of the United States, for the port and district of Bordeaux, makes known to the American captains and supercargoes, that there are upwards of one hundred and forty American sailors now rolling about the streets of this city, entirely destitute of employment, and many of them are so wretched as to be obliged to beg their bread, and that most of these men have been discharged from their respective vessels upon the most frivolous pretences—Therefore the undersigned finds himself obliged to declare, in conformity with the laws of the United States, that in future no American seaman can be discharged from his vessel, whether sold or not, until the captain of said vessel has proved to the agent, that he has procured such seaman a passage home, or until he has paid into the office of the agency, such a sum of money as shall be judged sufficient for his return to the place where he shipped on board.
(Signed)
W. LEE.
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Bordeaux
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January 20, 1802
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upwards of one hundred and forty american sailors destitute and begging; new policy requires captains to prove passage home or pay sufficient sum before discharging seamen.
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United States commercial agent W. Lee declares that no American seaman can be discharged from his vessel without the captain proving passage home or paying into the agency a sum sufficient for return to shipping place, in conformity with US laws, due to many sailors discharged on frivolous pretences and left destitute.