INDEX. A. ABANDONMENT. Page Forcing seamen on shore or leaving them abroad; see SEAMEN (MER- 190 ACCIDENTS. Appointment of inspectors to inquire and report; see BOARD OF TRADE. ACCOUNTS. Annual accounts to Parliament as to persons employed in public offices 78 Form for laying accounts as to half-pay and pensions before Parliament - Accounts to be laid before Parliament - 384 385 Casting rubbish in sea; limitation, venue, and general issue under statute Slave trade; limitation of actions for penalties or forfeitures Quarantine; recovery of penalties for breach of orders Power for attorney-general or Queen's advocate to stop General issue and limitation of actions Sea fishery officers, actions against 22 49 66 66 67 68 147 147 148 148 149 149 149 149 149 149 150 150 150, 614 Customs officers, actions against; see CUSTOMS. Scotland; solicitors and others competent to act for defendants 614 Deserters from merchant ships, wrongful arrest; penalty a bar to an action 204 Greenwich Hospital; power for Admiralty to sue and be sued and to ACTION-continued. Page 66 Admiralty Suits Act" Admiralty; actions by and against; title of Rights and prerogatives of the Crown 361, 392, 463 392, 463 392, 463 392, 463 - 398 - 398 681 Dockyard Ports Regulation Act, 1864; actions against Queen's harbour Notice and limitation of actions, general plea, tender and costs Courts having jurisdiction See also EVIDENCE. ADMIRAL, LORD HIGH. See LORD HIGH ADMIRAL and ADMIRALTY. ADMIRALTY. Commissioners of to exercise authority and power of lord high admiral Powers and privileges of lord high admiral extend to commissioners and - Powers and privileges of first commissioner extend! to lord high admiral Substitution of commissioners for commissioners of navy and victualling Commissioners to the number of five may sit together in Parliament Commissioners as justices not affected by the Municipal Corporations Power for two commissioners to act in official matters Style of commissioners in deeds, &c. Style and title of commissioners 36 75, 361, 463 If in Admiralty subject to the Admiralty Lands and Works Act, 1864 567 ALIENS. See NATURALIZATION. ALLIES. Joint capture of prize Page 352 5 5 - 128 376 629 APPRENTICES. Temporary exemption from impressment Protection from impressment granted by lord high admiral Irish paupers, apprenticeship by guardians Wages, payment of seamen or marines if claimed by a master under apprenticeship deed - Power for court to rescind contract with master See also SEAMEN (Merchant). (1) "ARMY ACT, 1881." Subject to an annual Act ARSON. See BURNING. ARTILLERY. See VOLUNTEERS and ROYAL NAVAL ARTILLERY Volunteers. AUDIT. See PUBLIC MONEYS. 631 631 Penalties relating to ballast, recovery of Jurisdiction of commissioners of navy and justices of the peace as to Perjury of witnesses 21 Appeal to quarter sessions Actions; limitation, venue, general issue, and costs offences Form of conviction Penalty on witnesses not attending on summons 668 668 669 669 669 670 - 670 BOARD OF TRADE. General functions of Board of Trade Powers of officers if they suspect the law is not complied with 376 - 376 Effect of taking oath of allegiance to foreign power 165 How that effect overcome Denizens and persons naturalized 165 Conditions on which they can be owners 166 Aliens not qualified by the Naturalization Act, 1870 480 - 166 Transmission on death, &c. to unqualified owner; sale on application to court 176 Ship may be seized for above offences and brought before Admiralty Declaration in Merchant Shipping Act that ship is not to be recognised as 179 C. CERTIFICATES. Discharge, certificate of-temporary protection from renewed service Suspension and cancellation of masters' and mates' certificates By whom the power is to be exercised For incompetency or gross misconduct Or wrongful act causing loss or damage to ship or loss of life Or misconduct or causing loss or damage to ship or loss of life - Rules respecting suspension and cancellation Decision as to suspension or cancellation to be given in open court - 201 319 319 319 320 Power for Board of Trade to return certificate or shorten period of sus- 405 405 Written undertakings substituted for bonds required by Lands Clauses 253 Powers given to apply to lands already taken or thereafter to be taken Substitution of new sewers, gas, and water pipes for any stopped Repair of substituted sewers, &c. for twelve months by commissioners Exercise of powers under the Chatham Lands Purchase Act, 1857, by Rights of the Queen in legal proceedings not to be prejudiced by the |