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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 18, 16 October 1907, Page 10

There is a provision in thc,P: and 0. Company's new mail contract to the .effect that the master, officers, and at least threeiourtlis of tho crew, of every; ir.iiil steauior must be British subjects. It is also provided that a majority of the' board of , directors shall possess the same.qualification.■ ■■AVlion. ttlie Kbyal Mai! Company obtained a new charter in 1904, what may bo called an allBritish clause.confining tlio control of the company to British subjects, was inserted. The contract between tho Government and the Cunard Company, under'wliich the Lusitania and the Mauretania linvo been built, was also very precise'An" this point. Further, when tho'Government entered into an agreement in respect of tho ships of the British Companies included in tho North Atlantic combine, it was laid down that tho companies should continue to.be British, and that a majority of their directors and a reasonable proportion of officers, and.crews should be British subjects. . . •