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74. Transmission of interest of mortgagee by death, bankruptcy, or marriage.

75. Entry of transmitted mortgage.

Certificates of Mortgage and Sale.

76. Powers of mortgage and sale may be conferred by certificate.

77. Requisites for certificates of mortgage and sale.
78. Restrictions on certificates of mortgage and sale.
79. Forms of certificates of mortgage and sale.
80. Rules as to certificates of mortgage.

81. Rules as to certificates of sale.

82. Power of Commissioners of Customs in case of loss of certificate of mortgage or sale.

83. Revocation of certificates of mortgage and sale.

Registry anew and Transfer of Registry.

84. Alteration in ship to be registered.

85. On alteration registry anew may be required.

86. Grant of provisional certificate in respect of alteration. 87. Consequence of omission to register anew.

88. On change of owners, registry auew may be granted, if required.

89. Registry may be transferred from port to port. 90. Manner of transfer of registry.

91. Transfer of registry not to affect rights of owners. Registry, Miscellaneous.

92. Inspection of register books.

93. Indemnity to registrar.

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for unduly assuming a British character:

for concealment of British or assumption of foreign
character:

for acquiring ownership if unqualified:
for false declaration of ownership.

104. Officer not liable for any seizure made on reasonable grounds.

105. Penalty for carrying improper colours.

Shipping Offices.

122. Local marine boards to establish shipping offices. 123. Board of Trade to have partial control over shipping offices.

124. Business of such offices generally.

125. Fees to be paid upon engagements and discharges. 126. Masters to pay fees, and to deduct part from wages; proviso as to excess.

127. Penalty on shipping masters taking other remuneration. 128. Business of shipping offices may be transacted at cus tom-houses.

129. In London sailors' homes may be shipping offices. 130. Dispensation with shipping master's superintendence. Examinations and Certificates of Masters and Mates. 131. Examinations to be instituted for masters and måtes. 132. Powers of Board of Trade over examinations. 133. Fees to be paid by applicants for examination. 134. Certificates of competency to be granted to those who pass.

135. Certificates of service to be delivered to persons who served as masters or mates before 1851, and to certain naval officers; and certificates of service for home-trade passenger ships to be delivered to persons who have served as masters or mates in such ships before the 1st January, 1851.

136. No foreign-going ship or home-trade passenger ship to proceed to sea without certificates of the master and mates. 137. Certificates for foreign-going ships available for hometrade passenger ships.

138. The registrar to record grants, cancellations, &c. of certificates; duplicates and entries to be evidence. 139. In case of loss, a copy to be granted.

140. Penalties:- For false representations; for forging or altering or fraudulently using or lending any certificate. Apprenticeships to the Sea Service.

141. Shipping masters to assist in binding apprentices, and may receive fees.

142. Indentures of boys bound apprentices to sea service by guardians or overseers to be witnessed by two justices.

143. Indentures of apprenticeship to be exempt from stamp duty, and recorded.

144. Rules to govern apprenticeship of paupers in Great Britain and Ireland respectively.

145. Apprentices and their indentures to be brought before shipping master before each voyage in a foreign-going ship.

Engagement of Seamen.

146. Board of Trade may license persons to procure seamen. 147. Penalties:-) For supplying seamen without license; for employing unlicensed persons; for receiving seamen illegally supplied.

148. Penalty for receiving remuneration from seamen for shipping them.

149. Agreements to be made with seamen, containing cer

106. Effect of declaration in the act that a ship shall not be tain particulars; proviso as to forms for colonial ships. recognised as a British ship.

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150. For foreign-going ships such agreements, when made in the United Kingdom, except in special cases, to be made before and attested by a shipping master; to be in duplicate; provision for substitutes.

151. Foreign-going ships making short voyages may have running agreements.

152. Engagement and discharge of seamen in the meantime. 153. Duplicates of running agreements, how to be dealt with. 154. Fees to be paid on such running agreements.

155. In home-trade ships agreement to be entered into before a shipping master or other witness.

156. Special agreements for home-trade ships belonging to

same owners.

157. Penalty for shipping seamen without agreement duly executed.

155. Changes in crew to be reported.

159. Seamen engaged in the colonies to be shipped before some shipping master or officer of customs.

160. Seamen engaged in foreign ports to be shipped with the sanction and in the presence of the consul.

161. Rules as to production of agreements and certificates of masters and mates of foreign-going ships.

162. Rules as to production of agreements and certificates for home-trade ships.

163. Alterations to be void unless attested to have been made with the consent of all parties.

164. Penalty for falsifying agreement.

165. Seamen not to be bound to produce any agreement. 166. Copy of agreement to be made accessible to crew. 167. Seamen discharged before voyage to have compensation.

Allotment of Wages.

168. Regulations as to allotment notes.

206. Forcing seamen on shore a misdemeanour. 207. No seamen to be discharged or left abroad without certificate of some functionary.

208. Proof of such certificate to be upon the master. 209. Wages to be paid when seamen are left behind on

169. Allotment notes may be sued on summarily by certain ground of inability. persons and under certain conditions.

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187. Period within which wages are to be paid. Mode of recovering Wages.

188. Seamen may sue for wages in a summary manner. 189. Restrictions on suits for wages in superior courts. 190. No seaman to sue for wages abroad, except in cases of discharge or of danger to life.

191. Master to have same remedies for wages as seamen. Relief to Seamen's Families out of Poor Rates.

192. Relief to seamen's families to be chargeable on a certain portion of their wages.

193. Notice to be given to owner, and charge to be enforced on return of the scam.an.

Wages and Effects of deceased Seamen. 194. Masters to take charge of or sell effects of deceased seamen which are on board, and enter the same and wages due in the official log.

195. Such effects and wages to be paid either to consul or to shipping master, with full accounts.

196. Penalties for not taking charge of, remitting, or accounting for such monies and effects.

197. Officers of customs and consuls to take charge of effects left by seamen abroad, and to remit the same and their wages to Board of Trade.

198. Wages and effects of seamen dying at home to be paid in certain cases to Board of Trade.

199. If wages and property of deceased scamen less than 501., they may be paid over, without probate or administration, to the persons entitled.

200. Mode of payment under wills made by seamen. 201. Provision for payment of just claims by creditors, and for preventing fraudulent claims.

202. Mode of dealing with unclaimed wages of deceased

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210. Such wages to be treated as money due to the seamen, subject to payment of expense of their subsistence and passage home.

211. Distressed seamen found abroad may be relieved and sent home at the public expense.

212. Masters of British ships compelled to take them. 213. Power to sue for the amount advanced for the relief of seamen left abroad.

Volunteering into the Nary. 214. Seamen allowed to leave their ships in order to enter the navy.

215. Clothes to be delivered at once; wages to be given to the Queen's officer on account of the seamen.

216. Repayment to owner of advance paid and not duly earned.

217. If new seamen are engaged instead of the original seamen, the owner may apply for repayment of any extra expense he has been put to.

218. Application, how to be decided on, and amount of repayment, how to be ascertained.

219. Accountant-General to pay sums when ascertained. 220. Penalty for forgery and false representations in support of such applications.

Provisions, Health, and Accommodation.

221. Survey of provisions and water on complaint made. 222. Forfeiture for frivolous complaint.

223. Allowance for short or bad provisions.

224. Medicines, lime, or lemon juice, sugar, and vinegar, to be provided and kept on board certain ships.

225. Masters to keep weights and measures on board. 226. Board of Trade and local boards may appoint inspectors of medicines, who are to see that ships are properly provided. 227. Penalty for selling bad drugs for ships.

228. Expense of medical attendance and subsistence in case of illness, and of burial in case of death, how to be defrayed. 229. Expenses, if paid by consul, to be recoverable from

owner.

230. Certain ships to carry medical practitioners; penalty. 231. Place appropriated to seamen to have a certain space for each man, and to be properly constructed and kept clear. Power of making Complaint.

232. Seamen to be allowed to go ashore to make complaint to a justice.

Protection of Seamen from Imposition. 233. Sale of and charge upon wages to be invalid. 234. No debt exceeding 5s. recoverable till end of voyage. 235. Penalty for overcharges by lodging-house keepers. 236. Penalty for detaining seamen's effects.

237. Persons not to go on board before the final arrival of ship without permission.

238. Penalty for solicitations by lodging-house keepers. Discipline.

239. Misconduct endangering ship or life or limb a misde

meanour.

210. Power of Admiralty Courts to remove master. 211. Power to investigate cases of alleged incompetency and misconduct.

242. Board of Trade may caucel or suspend certificates in certain cases.

213. Offences of seamen and apprentices, and their punishments:- Desertion; neglecting or refusing to join or to proceed to sea; absence within twenty-four hours before sailing, and absence without leave; quitting without leave before ship is secured; act of disobedience; continued disobedience; assault on officers; combining to disobey; wilful damage and embezzlement; act of smuggling, causing loss to owner.

244. Entry of offences to be made in official log, and to be read over or a copy given to the offender, and his reply, if any, to be also entered.

245. Seamen whom masters of ships are compelled to convey, and persons going in ships without leave, to be subject to penalties for breach of discipline.

246. Master or owner may apprehend deserters without

warrant.

247. Deserters may be sent on board in lieu of being imprisoned.

248. Seamen imprisoned for desertion or breach of discipline may be sent on board before the termination of the sentence.

249. Entries and certificates of desertion abroad to be copied, sent home, and admitted in evidence.

250. Facilities for proving desertion, so far as concerns forfeiture of wages.

251. Costs of procuring imprisonment may, to the extent of 31., be deducted from wages.

252. Amount of forfeiture, how to be ascertained when seamen contract for the voyage.

253. Application of forfeitures.

254. Questions of forfeitures may be decided in suits for wages.

255. Penalty for false statement as to last ship or name. 256. Fines to be deducted from wages, and paid to shipping

master.

257. Penalty for enticing to desert, and harbouring de

serters.

258. Penalty for obtaining passage surreptitiously. 259. On change of masters, documents hereby required to be handed over to successor.

Naval Courts on the High Seas and Abroad.

260. Naval courts may be summoned for hearing complaints, and inquiring into wrecks on the high seas or abroad. 261. Constitution of such courts.

262. General functions and mode of action of such courts. 263. Powers of such courts :-To supersede the master; to discharge a seaman; to forfeit wages; to decide disputes as to wages, fines, and forfeitures; to direct costs of imprisonment to be paid out of wages; to send home offenders for trial; to order payment of costs and compensation.

264. Orders to be entered in official log.

265. Report to be made of proceedings of naval courts. 266. Penalty for preventing complaint or obstructing investigation.

Crimes committed on the High Seas and Abroad. 267. Offences committed by British seamen at sea or in foreign ports to be within Admiralty jurisdiction.

268. Conveyance of offenders to United Kingdom or some British possession, to be tried, with the necessary witnesses. 269. Inquiry into cause of death during voyage.

270. Depositions to be received in evidence when the witness cannot be produced.

Registration of and Returns respecting Seamen.

271. Establishment of register office. 272. Register of seamen to be kept.

273. Lists to be made for all ships, containing certain particulars.

274. Lists for foreign-going ships to be delivered to shipping master on arrival.

275. Lists to be delivered by home-trade ships half-yearly. 276. Lists to be sent home in case of transfer of ship and in case of loss.

277. Shipping masters and other officers to transmit documents to registrar; registrar to permit inspection, to produce originals, and give copies.

278. Officers of customs to make returns of ships to registrar.

279. Agreements, indentures, and assignments, on arrival at a foreign port, to be deposited with the consul, and in a colony, with the officers of customs.

Official Logs.

East Indies and Colonies.

288. Provisions of act, as applied by East Indian and colonial governments to their own ships, may be enforced through. out the empire.

289. East Indian and colonial acts to be subject to dis allowance, and require sanction as in other cases. 290. Conflict of laws.

PART IV.

SAFETY AND PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS. 291. Application of Part IV of act.

Boats for Sea-going Ships.

292. Rules as to boats and life buoys not to affect provisions of Passenger Act, 15 & 16 Vict. c. 44, s. 10.

293. Penalties on masters and owners, &c. neglecting to provide boats and life buoys.

294. Officers of customs not to clear ships not complying with the above provisions.

Lights and Fog Signals, and Meeting and Passing. 295. Regulations as to lights and fog signals. 296. Rule as to ships meeting each other.

297. Rule for steamers in narrow channels.

298. If collision ensues from breach of the above rule, owner not to be entitled to recover.

299. Breaches of such rules to imply wilful default. Build and Equipment of Steam Ships.

300. Iron steamers to be divided by water-tight partitions. Officers of customs to refuse to clear such ships unless so divided.

301. Equipment of steam ships. Safety valve. Compasses to be adjusted. Fire hose. Signals. Shelter for deck pas

sengers.

302. Penalty for improper weight on safety valve. Survey of Passenger Steamers.

303. Definition of passenger steamer. 304. Passenger steamers to be surveyed. 305. Board of Trade to appoint surveyors, and fix their remuneration.

306. Surveyors to have power to inspect.

307. Board of Trade to regulate mode of making surveys. 308. Penalty on surveyors receiving fees unlawfully. 309. Owners to have surveys made by shipwright and engineer surveyors, and surveyors to give declarations containing certain particulars.

310. Transmission of declarations to Board of Trade. Penalty for delay.

311. Times for surveys and transmission of declarations. 312. Board of Trade to issue certificates.

313. Manner of issuing and transmitting certificates. 314. Fees to be paid for certificates.

315. How long certificates to continue in force.

316. Board of Trade may cancel certificates, and require fresh declarations.

317. Copy of certificate to be placed in conspicuous part of ship.

318. Passenger steamer not to go to sea, or on any voyage or excursion, without certificate.

319. Penalty for carrying passengers in excess of numbers specified in certificate.

320. Forgery of declaration or certificate a misdemeanour. 321. Surveyors to make returns of the build and other particulars of steam ships, and owners and masters to give information for that purpose.

Misconduct by Passengers in Steamers.

322. Penalty on persons forcing their way on board, or

280. Official logs to be kept in forms sanctioned by Board refusing to quit the ship.

of Trade.

281. Entries to be made in due time.

282. Entries required in official log:-Convictions; offences; punishments; conduct and character of crew; illnesses and injuries; deaths; births; marriages; quitting ship; wages of men entering navy; wages of deceased seamen; sale of deceased men's effects; collisions.

283. Entries, how to be signed.

284. Penalties in respect of official logs.

285. Entries in official logs to be received in evidence.

286. Official logs to be delivered to shipping master.

287. Official logs to be sent home in case of transfer of ship and in case of loss.

323. Penalty for avoiding payment of fares.

324. Penalty on persons refusing to give their name and address.

325. Power to refuse or remove passengers who are drunk or misconduct themselves.

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PART V. PILOTAGE.

330. Application of Part V of act.

Power of Pilotage Authorities (General).

331. General jurisdiction of pilotage authorities.

332. Power of pilotage authorities to make and extend ex

emptions from compulsory pilotage.

333. Powers of pilotage authorities.

334. Publication of bye-laws.

335. Bye-laws to be laid before Parliament.

336. Power of appeal to Board of Trade.

Returns by Pilotage Authorities (General).

337. Pilotage authorities to make full returns to Board of Trade of certain particulars connected with pilotage.

338. If local authorities fail to give the required returns, their jurisdiction may be transferred to the Trinity House. 339. Returns to be laid before Parliament.

Licensing of Masters and Mates (General).

340. Master or mate, if examined and passed, to receive a pilotage certificate enabling him to pilot certain ships. 341. Renewal of pilotage certificate.

342. Board of Trade to examine and grant pilotage certificates to masters and mates on pilotage authorities refusing to do so.

343. Fees to be paid upon such certificates, and the renewals thereof.

344. Power to withdraw pilotage certificates.

Pilot Boats (General).

345. Pilot boats, how to be provided.

346. Characteristics of pilot boats.

373. Liability limited.

374. Continuance and renewal of licenses. 375. Power to revoke and suspend licenses.

Compulsory Pilotage (Trinity House).

376. Penalty on masters of ships employing unlicensed pilots or acting as pilots.

377. Trinity House to make regulations for a constant supply of qualified pilots at Dungeness.

378. Ship coming past Dungeness, not having a pilot on board, to take the first qualified pilot who offers; penalty on masters failing to display usual signal for pilot. 379. Exemptions from compulsory pilotage.

Rates of Pilotage (Trinity House).

380. Rates of pilotage.

381. Payment of pilotage due from foreign ships trading to and from the port of London.

382. Certificate of payment of pilotage to be given. 383. Application of such monies by Trinity House. 384. Settlement of difference as to draught of ship. Pilot Fund (Trinity House).

385. Payments to be made to the Pilot Fund. 386. Application of Pilot Fund.

Appointment of Sub-Commissioners by Trinity Houses of Hull and Newcastle.

387. Power to Trinity Houses of Hull and Newcastle to appoint sub-commissioners.

Limitation of Owners' and Masters' Liability. 388. Limitation of liability of owner where pilotage is com

347. Qualified pilot to display flag, though not in pilot boat. pulsory.

348. Penalty on ordinary boat displaying pilot flag.

Pilot Licenses (General).

349. Registry of pilot license.

350. Copies of regulations to be furnished to qualified pilot, and to be produced by him.

351. Qualified pilot to produce license to employer.

352. Licenses to be delivered up when required, and returned on death.

Compulsory Pilotage (General).

353. Compulsory pilotage, in what mode to be enforced. 354. Home-trade passenger ships to employ qualified pilots, unless they have certificated masters or mates.

355. Certificate, how to be granted to such masters and

mates.

Rights, Privileges, and Remuneration of Pilots (General). 356. Qualified pilot unable to board, when entitled to pilotage.

357. Allowance to qualified pilot taken out of his district. 358. Penalty on qualified pilot receiving or master offering improper rate.

359. Penalty on making a false declaration as to draught of ship, or falsifying marks.

360. Power of qualified pilot to supersede unqualified pilot. 361. Penalty on unqualified person acting as pilot. 362. Occasions on which unlicensed persons may act as pilots.

363. Liability for and recovery of pilotage dues. 364. Power of consignees to retain pilotage dues paid by them.

Offences of Pilots (General).

365. Penalties on qualified pilot exercising certain trades and committing certain offences:-Offending against the revenue; guilty of corrupt practices; lending license; acting when suspended; acting when drunk; unnecessarily causing expense; declining to go off; unnecessarily cutting or slipping cable; refusing to conduct ship into port; quitting ship. 366. Penalty on pilot endangering ship, life, or limb. 367. Penalty on pilot in charge of ship doing her wilful injury.

General Power of Trinity House. 368. Power of Trinity House to alter regulations.

Sub-Commissioners and Pilots (Trinity House). 369. Power of Trinity House to appoint sub-commissioners. 370. Trinity House to license pilots to act within certain limits.

371. Publication of notice of licenses of pilots by Trinity House.

372. Bonds to be given.

PART VI.
LIGHTHOUSES.

Management of Lighthouses.

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397. Light dues to be subject to revision by her Majesty in Council.

398. Powers of general lighthouse authorities to alter and regulate dues.

399. Publication of dues and regulations.

400. Ship not to be cleared without production of receipt for light dues.

401. Power of distress for light dues.

402. Light dues to be paid over and accounted for. 403. Application of light dues.

Construction of and Dues for New Lighthouses. 404. Power to lighthouse authorities to erect, place, and alter lighthouses, buoys, and beacons.

405. This power, in the case of the commissioners and corporation, to be subject to approval by Trinity House, with appeal to Board of Trade.

406. Sanction of Board of Trade, how to be obtained. 407. Trinity House to inform lighthouse authorities of decision of Board of Trade.

408. Power to Trinity House, with sanction of Board of Trade, to compel execution of works by commissioners and corporation.

409. Sanction of Board of Trade, how to be obtained.

410. Her Majesty may by Order in Council fix dues to be taken for new lighthouses.

411. No dues to be levied in the Channel Islands without consent of the States, and no power to be exercised therein but by Order in Council.

412. Incorporation of the 8 & 9 Vict. cc. 18, 19.

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MERCANTILE MARINE FUND.

417. Sums to be carried to Mercantile Marine Fund. 418. Application of Mercantile Marine Fund.

419. Application of ballastage rates.

420. Establishments for lighthouses, and ballastage charged

on fund, to be fixed by her Majesty in Council.

421. Power to grant superannuation allowances.

422. Estimates and accounts for other expenses to be approved by Board of Trade.

423. No expense to be allowed unless sanctioned by Board of Trade.

424. For the purpose of erecting and repairing lighthouses, and other extraordinary expenses, Treasury may advance money. 425. Power to Board of Trade to borrow money on the credit of fund.

426. Power to Public Works Loan Commissioners to advance money on the credit of the fund.

427. Lighthouse authorities to account for receipt and expenditure to the Board of Trade.

428. Accounts of fund to be audited by commissioners of audit.

429. Accounts to be laid before Parliament.

430. Property used for the purposes of Parts III, IV, and VI of act to be exempt from all rates and taxes. 431. Ships of lighthouse authorities to be exempt from harbour dues.

PART VIII.

WRECKS, CASUALTIES, AND SALVAGE.

Inquiries into Wrecks.

432. Inquiries to be instituted in cases of wreck and casualty. 433. Formal investigation before justices. 434. Power to appoint nautical assessor.

435. Stipendiary magistrate to be the magistrate who is member of local marine board, and to be paid. 436. Costs of such investigations.

437. Investigations in Scotland.

438. Master or mate may be required to deliver certificate, to be held until close of inquiry.

Appointment and Duties of Receivers.

439. Board of Trade to have superintendence of wreck, with power to appoint receivers.

440. Admirals not to interfere with wreck.

441. Duty of receiver when any ship is stranded or in distress. 442. Powers of receiver to procure assistance.

443. All articles washed on shore, or lost or taken from any ship, to be delivered to the receiver.

444. Power of receiver to suppress plunder and disorder by force.

445. Certain officers to exercise powers of receiver in his absence.

446. Power, in case of a ship being in distress, to pass over adjoining lands with carriages.

447. Penalty on owners and occupiers of land refusing to allow persons and carriages to pass over their land.

448. Power of receiver to take examination with respect to ships in distress.

449. Original or certified copy of examination to be primâ facie evidence.

450. Rules to be observed by persons finding wreck. 451. Power to receivers to seize concealed wreck. 452. Notice of wreck to be given by receiver for the purpose of informing owners.

453. Goods deemed perishable or of small value may be sold immediately.

454. In cases where any lord of the manor or other person is entitled to unclaimed wreck, receiver to give notice to him. 455. Payments to be made to receiver.

456. Disputes as to sums payable to receiver to be deter

mined by Board of Trade.

457. Application of fees.

Salvage in the United Kingdom.

458. Salvage in respect of services rendered in the United Kingdom.

459. Salvage for life may be paid by Board of Trade out of Mercantile Marine Fund.

460. Disputes as to salvage, how to be settled.

461. Manner in which justices may decide dispute. 462. Costs of arbitration.

463. Justices may call for documents and administer oaths. 464. Appeal to Courts of Admiralty.

465. Justices to transmit copy of proceedings, and certifi. cate of value, to court of appeal.

466. Payment of salvage, to whom to be made in case of dispute as to apportionment.

467. Apportionment of salvage.

468. Manner of enforcing payment of salvage.

469. Power of receiver to sell property salved in cases of non-payment.

470. Subject to payment of expenses, fees, and salvage, owner entitled to wreck.

Unclaimed Wreck in the United Kingdom.

471. Receiver to deliver up possession of unclaimed wreck to lord of manor, or other person entitled.

472. Disputed title to wreck, how to be decided.

473. Appeal from decision of justices.

474. Power of the Board of Trade, on behalf of the Crown, to purchase rights to wreck.

475. Unclaimed wreck to be sold.

Jurisdiction of the High Court of Admiralty. 476. High Court of Admiralty may decide on all salvage cases, whether on sea or land.

Offences in respect of Wreck.

477. In case of ship wrecked being plundered by a tumul. tuous assemblage, the hundred to be liable for damages.

478. Penalty for plundering in cases of shipwreck, for ob structing the saving of shipwrecked property, and for secreting the same.

479. Penalty for selling wreck in foreign ports.

Dealers in Marine Stores and Manufacturers of Anchors. 480. Regulations to be observed by dealers in marine stores. 481. Manner of obtaining permit to cut up cables. 482. Permit to be advertised before dealer proceeds to act thereon.

483. Manufacturers to place marks on anchors.

Salvage by her Majesty's Ships.

484. No claim for salvage services to be allowed in respect of loss or risk of her Majesty's ships or property.

485. Claims for salvage by her Majesty's officers not to be determined without consent of Admiralty.

486. Steps to be taken when salvage services have been rendered by her Majesty's ships abroad.

487. Consular officer or judge to fix amount, for which a bond is to be given.

488. On master executing bond, the right of detention to

cease.

489. Provision for additional security in the case of ships owned by persons resident out of her Majesty's dominions. 490. Documents to be sent to England.

491. Whom the bond shall bind.

492. Court in which it is to be adjudicated on.

493. Power of High Court of Admiralty to enforce bonds. 494. Saving clause.

495. Documents free from duty.

496. Punishment for forgery and false representations.

Salvage (General).

497. Voluntary agreement may be made, which shall have the same effect as the bond above mentioned. 498. Powers for Courts having Admiralty jurisdiction to apportion salvage.

Miscellaneous.

499. Foreign goods found derelict &c. to be subject to the same duties as on importation.

500. Goods saved from ships wrecked to be forwarded to the ports of their original destination.

501. Provision as to certain terms in Scotland.

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