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The Insurance Notary, and the Sentence That Ends a Voyage
The insurance notary is an officer of the port rather than of a court, is licensed by the syndicate, and does one thing: he records the facts on which a risk is written. What the cargo is. How it is stowed. What the hull is, what her survey says, who her master is, what season it is, what route is proposed, what she is carrying that the manifest does not name. He does not advise, does not price, does not decide whether a thing may be insured. He writes.
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