Longreach 9 010 5 16 0 8 869 4 1011 3 01 } Blackwall or London 6 12 3 8 19 6 10 4 911 0 612 16 Standgate Creek Gravesend 3 6 2 3 17 04 8 2 4 19 0 5 10 3 Note 1.-Foreign ships are to pay one fourth more than British ships, except when tonnage as are paid by British ships, in which cases such ships are to pay the same Note. For half a foot exceeding the above draughts of water, the medium price When a pilot is put on board by a boat from the shore, one seventh to the pilot, and the remaining six sevenths to the boat and crew. TABLE U. (Continued.) INWARDS. 14 Feet. 15 Feet. 16 Feet. 17 Feet. 18 Feet. 19 Feet. 20 Feet. 21 Feet. 22 Feet. 23 Feet and upwards. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 11 0 611 16 312 12 013 7 916 1 319 0 0.22 1 024 9 228 13 3 5026 11 18 1012 18 313 14 015 0 917 14 421 4 224 5 126 9 228 13 330 17 4 12 17 314 0 414 16 016 13 919 7 523 8 826 9 228 13 3 6 1 3 6 12 3 7 3 3 7 14 4 8 5 4 8 16 4 9 74 privileged to enter the ports of the United Kingdom upon paying the same duties of rates of pilotage only as are payable by British ships. between the two limits.-For intermediate distances a proportionate rate. And for each man's service in those boats, 88. per tide. For removing a Ship from Moorings into a Dry or Wet Dock: TABLE V.-(See Section 455.) FEES AND REMUNERATION OF RECEIVERS. For every examination on oath instituted by a receiver with £ s. d. But so that in no case shall a larger fee than two For every report required to be sent by the receiver to the For wreck taken by the receiver into his custody, a percentage of five per cent. upon the value thereof, But so that in no case shall the whole amount of percentage so payable exceed twenty pounds. In cases where any services are rendered by a receiver, in respect of any ship or boat in distress, not being wreck, or in respect of the cargo or other articles belonging thereto, the following fees instead of a per-centage; that is to say, If such ship or boat with her cargo equals or exceeds in value six hundred pounds, the sum of two pounds for the first, and the sum of one pound for every subsequent day during which the receiver is employed on such service; but if such ship or boat with her cargo is less in value than six hundred pounds, one moiety of the above-mentioned sum. TABLE W.-(See Section 486.) SALVAGE BOND. 1 0.0 0.10 0 [N.B.-Any of the particulars not known, or not required by reason of the claim being only against the cargo, &c., may be omitted.] Whereas certain salvage services are alleged to have been rendered by the ship [insert names of ship and of commander], commander, to the merchant ship [insert names of ship and master], master, belonging to [name and place of business or residence of owner of ship], freighted by [the same of the freighter], and to the cargo therein, consisting of [state very shortly the descriptions and quantities of the goods, and the names and addresses of their owners and consignees]: And whereas the said ship and cargo have been brought into the port of [insert name and situation of port], and a statement of the salvage claim has been sent to [insert the name of the consular officer or vice-admiralty judge, and of the office he fills], and he has fixed the amount to be inserted in this bond at the sum of [state the sum]: Now I, the said [master's name], do hereby, in pursuance of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, bind the several owners for the time being of the said ship and of the cargo therein, and of the freight payable in respect of such cargo, and their respective heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay among them such sum not exceeding the said sum of [state the sum fixed], in such proportions and to such persons as if the parties agree on any other Court, substitute the name of it here, the High Court of Admiralty in England shall adjudge to be payable as salvage for the services so alleged to have been rendered as aforesaid. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this [insert the date] day of Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said [master's name]. (L. s.) In the presence of [name of consular officer or vice-admiralty judge, and of the office he fills]. No. II. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 120. An Act to repeal certain Acts and Parts of Acts relating to Merchant WHEREAS by "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," the acts relating Preliminary. I. This act may be cited for all purposes as "The Merchant Ship- Short title of ping Repeal Act, 1854." act. II. In the construction and for the purposes of this act the interpre- Interpretation of tation of terms contained in "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," terms in this act. shall be considered as incorporated with and forming part of this act. III. With the exception of such provisions of this act as are berein- Commencement after expressly stated to be intended to come into operation imme- of act. diately after the passing thereof, this act shall come into operation at the same time as the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854. IV. There shall be hereby repealed- Repeal of acts schedule. The several acts and parts of acts set forth in the first schedule mentioned in hereto, to the extent to which such acts or parts of acts are therein expressed to be repealed, and all such provisions of any other acts or of any charters, and all such laws, customs, and rules as are inconsistent with the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854: Provided that such repeal shall not affect 1. Any provisions contained in the act of the seventh year of his 2. Any security duly given before this act comes into operation: 6. The institution of any investigation or legal proceeding or any local marine boards. V. The local marine boards, the members of which have been Continuation of appointed or elected under the Mercantile Marine Act, 1850, shall continue to act until the fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, or until other boards have been constituted in lieu thereof in pursuance of the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854. Construction of VI. The fourth and ninth sections of "The Pilotage Law Amend- sections 4 and 9 of ment Act, 1853," shall be construed as if the fifth part of "The Amendment Act, the Pilotage Law Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," were therein referred to, in lieu of 1853. Expenses of life charged on mier cantile marine fund. the act of the sixth year of King George the Fourth, chapter one hundred and twenty-five. VII. The Board of Trade may, out of the Mercantile Marine Fund, boats, &c, may be direct payment to be made of such expenses for establishing and maintaining on the coasts of the United Kingdom proper life boats, with the necessary crews and equipments, and for affording assistance towards the preservation of life and property in cases of shipwreck and distress at sea, and for the granting rewards for the preservation of life in such cases, as it thinks fit; and this section shall come into operation immediately after the passing of this act. Existing liabilities on mercantile marine fund continued. Provision as to wages, &c., re VIII. Nothing in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, or in this act contained, shall operate to prevent the exercise of the powers contained in the twelfth and sixteenth sections of the Merchant Shipping Law Amendment Act, 1853, of paying the debts, liabilities, and expenses therein mentioned out of the Mercantile Marine Fund; and whereas it was arranged that a sum to be ascertained by the calculation of actuaries should before the said last-mentioned act came into operation be paid by the Trinity House out of the cash balance then in their hands for the purpose of supplying a deficiency in the funds of the Cinque Ports pilots, and of indemnifying the funds of the Trinity House pilots against any loss consequent upon the settlements to be made under the Pilotage Law Amendment Act, 1853; and whereas when the Merchant Shipping Law Amendment Act, 1853, came into operation, the said calculation was not completed: be it enacted, that such payment may, with the consent of the Board of Trade, be made by the Trinity House in the same manner as payment of the debts, liabilities, and expenses referred to in the said twelfth section of the said last-mentioned act; and this section shall come into operation immediately after the passing of this act. IX. All monies arising from any wages and effects of deceased ceived before 1852, seamen or apprentices to the sea service which were received before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, shall be applied in the same manner as if the same had been received under the provisions of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854." 13 and 14 Vict. c. 102, s. 31. Receiver-general to conform to directions of X. The receiver-general of droits of Admiralty shall, as to all things to be done by him in virtue of his office, conform to all lawful Board of Trade. directions given for that purpose by the Board of Trade; and on a vacancy occurring in his office no successor shall be appointed, but thereupon all powers and privileges vested in such receiver-general shall be transferred to the Board of Trade; and this section shall come into operation immediately after the passing of this act. Powers of Board of Trade as to appointment of receivers. Payment of receivers. XI. Receivers appointed by the said receiver-general under the act of the tenth year of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter ninety-nine, shall hold their offices only during the pleasure of the Board of Trade; and the serjeants of the Admiralty of the Cinque Ports, their deputies or other officers, authorized to perform the duties and to exercise the powers within the jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports elsewhere performed and exercised by such receivers as aforesaid, shall perform and exercise the same only during the pleasure and subject to the directions of the Board of Trade; and all such receivers, serjeants, deputies, and other officers as aforesaid, shall possess in the several districts within which they have hitherto exercised their duties the same powers, rights, and privileges, and perform the same duties, as are by the said Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, vested in and committed to the receivers therein mentioned, save only that they shall not be entitled to take the command in cases of ships or boats stranded or in distress, unless authorized so to do by the Board of Trade. XII. There shall be payable to such receivers, serjeants, deputies, and other officers as aforesaid, such fees and other remuneration as are by the said Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, made payable to receivers appointed thereunder, and payment thereof shall be inade by the same persons and in the same manner, and shall be capable of being enforced |