The Law Relating to the Telegraph, the Telephone and the Submarine Cable: Including the Provisions of the Telegraph Acts, 1863-1899, the Public Health Amendment Act, 1890, the London Overhead Wires Act, 1891, the Post Office Acts, 1884-1898, and the Submarine Telegraph Acts, 1885 and 1886, Together with an Introduction, Notes, and IndexKnight & Company, 1904 - 388 pages |
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Page 289 - A steam vessel when under way shall carry — (a) On or in front of the foremast, or If a vessel without a foremast, then in the fore part of the vessel...
Page 290 - ... apart. The highest and lowest of these lights shall be red, and the middle light shall be white, and they shall...
Page 290 - ... light, so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on each side of the vessel, namely, from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on either side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least five miles.
Page 232 - Bill, so far as it relates to such order, may be referred to a select committee, and the petitioner shall be allowed to appear and oppose as in the case of private bills...
Page 164 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales, with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 231 - Office, and, if those moneys are insufficient, shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, or the growing produce thereof.
Page 293 - ... shall, on conviction thereof by a court of summary jurisdiction, or on indictment as hereinafter mentioned, be liable either to pay a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour.
Page 151 - In the event of any contravention of or wilful non-compliance with this section by the company or their agents the company shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds for every day during which such contravention or non-compliance continues, or if the telegraphic communication is wilfully interrupted, not exceeding fifty pounds for every day on which such interruption continues...
Page 114 - Foreign-going ships include every ship employed in trading or going between some place or places in the United Kingdom, and some place or places situated beyond the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, and the Continent of Europe between the rivers Elbe and Brest, inclusive...
Page 223 - ... used only as a canal or towing-path for the same, or as a railway constructed under the powers of any Act of parliament for public conveyance, shall be assessed in respect of the same in the proportion of onefourth part only of such net annual value thereof :