shipping vbl n Cp DC ~ paper Nfld (1964); see also SHIP v. Attrib shipping paper: written agreement specifying terms of service of member of a fishing crew or other person with whom a contract is made.
[1776] 1895 PROWSE 344 Agreement in writing with fishermen obligatory. No advance to fishermen to be more than half their wages—other half on return home. Master must produce Shipping paper. 1866 WILSON 207-8 A written agreement is made which defines the work each [member of the shore crew] is to perform. This agreement is called the shipping-paper. [1885] 1897 Nfld Law Reports 100 Some of them were employed in St John's and entered into their agreements or 'shipping papers' with Ellis on the premises of the defendants ... and there, upon the printed forms supplied by the defendants, Ellis and these servants executed their agreements. 1893 Trade Review Christmas No 13 A case is on record where the planter and youngster could not, for a long time, agree on the usual terms, where the shipping paper stipulates £18 a year and one boot. 1937 DEVINE 43 In the old days, a 'Shipping Paper' was used for practically all seasonal employment by the planter or merchant: for fishermen, shipbuilders, maids, etc. 1977 BURSEY 57 [He] gave each of us a shipping paper, very similar to the shipping paper used for engaging men to work at the Labrador fishery.
