Page images
PDF
EPUB

A.D. 1875.

Dues charged

tonnage.

The tonnage of a ship or vessel, whether ascertained and registered under this Act, or under the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1873, shall be repeated in every subsequent registry of such ship or vessel until the ship or vessel is re-measured; but if any alteration is made in the form of any ship or vessel, or if it is dis- 5 covered that the tonnage of any ship or vessel has been erroneously computed, that ship or vessel, if the owners desire, may be remeasured under the provisions of this Act.

16. Where, under the provisions of any Act passed before or on registered after the passing of this Act, any tolls, rates, dues, or fees are 10 charged on a ship or vessel in proportion to her tonnage, that tonnage shall, in the absence of any provision to the contrary, be deemed to be the registered tonnage of the ship or vessel, whether registered before or after the commencement of this Act.

Application of Act to

ships of

17. Whenever it appears to Her Majesty in Council that the 15 tonnage regulations of this Act have been adopted by the Government of any foreign country, and are in force there, either without modification or with such modifications only as appear to Her provisions of Majesty in Council immaterial, Her Majesty may, by Order in

foreign

countries

adopting

Act.

Substitution

for Board of Trade and Commissioners of Customs.

Council, direct that the ships of that country shall, and such ships 20 shall accordingly, be deemed for all purposes in Her Majesty's dominions to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other national papers.

Provided that, where it does not appear from such certificate of registry or other national papers of a ship that the ship has been 25 measured in accordance with the tonnage regulations of this Act, such ship shall not necessarily be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in such certificate or papers, but may be measured in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

18. In any British possession where any ship or vessel is regis- 30 of governor tered under the authority of the Merchant Shipping Acts, the governor, lieutenant governor, or other person administering the government in that possession, or in any foreign port of registry such person as may be appointed by Order in Council, shall, subject to any provisions which Her Majesty may make by Order 35 in Council, be considered in all respects as occupying the place of the Board of Trade with regard to the performance of any act or thing relating to the measurement of a ship or vessel in that possession or port of registry, and as occupying in all respects the place of the Commissioners of Customs and Registrar General 40 of Seamen, respectively, with regard to the performance of any

act or thing relating to the registry of a ship or vessel in that A.D. 1875. possession, or of any interest in a ship registered in that possession.

19. The Board of Trade may from time to time appoint fit and Surveyors and regulaproper persons to superintend the survey and measurement of ships tions of their 5 and vessels, and to be surveyors under and for the purposes of any duties. Act being in force relating to merchant shipping, and may from time to time remove any of such persons; and the Board of Trade may assign to them their duties, and their salaries or remuneration, and may from time to time make and, when made, revoke and 10 alter regulations respecting the performance of the duties of such

15

20

25

surveyors.

20. All fees and other sums payable in respect of the survey Fees and or measurement of ships and vessels under the Acts for the time expenses. being in force relating to merchant shipping shall,—

(a.) If payable in the United Kingdom, be paid to such person,

at such time, and in such manner as the Board of Trade
may from time to time direct, and shall be carried to
the Mercantile Marine Fund; and,

(b.) If payable in any British possession, shall be paid to such
person, and at such time, and in such manner, and be
disposed of in such manner as the executive Government
of that British possession may from time to time direct;
and,

(c.) If payable in any foreign port of registry, shall be paid to
such person, at such time, and in such manner, and be
disposed of in such manner as Her Majesty may by Order
in Council from time to time direct.

The salaries of surveyors and the other expenses connected with
the survey
and measurement of ships and vessels under the Acts
30 for the time being in force relating to merchant shipping shall,
if incurred in the United Kingdom, be paid out of the Mercantile
Marine Fund.

21. Penalties under this Act may be recovered as penalties Recovery of under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and the Acts amending penalties. 35 the same.

continue till

22. The registered tonnage of any ship or vessel measured Existing under any enactment previous to this Act shall continue to be tonnage to the registered tonnage of such ship or vessel until she is re- remeasuremeasured in pursuance of this Act; and any Order in Council ment. 40 made with respect to the tonnage of ships or vessels of foreign countries shall continue in force and be deemed to have been made

A.D. 1875. under this Act, subject nevertheless to the proviso contained in this Act with respect to the re-measurement of such ships or vessels where they have not been measured in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

Saving of rights and liabilities.

of

23. Nothing done under this Act shall affect any right, obliga- 5 tion, or liability acquired, accrued, or incurred under any previous Act, or any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect any offence committed against any previous enactment, or any investigation, legal proceeding, or remedy in respect of any such right, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment as 10 aforesaid; and any such investigation, legal proceeding, and remedy may be carried on as if this Act had not passed.

A.D. 1875

SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

RULES FOR MEASUREMENT OF TONNAGE.

THE registered tonnage of every ship or vessel to be registered (with the 5 exceptions mentioned in rule 2) shall previously to being measured be ascertained by the following rule, herein-after called rule 1; and the registered tonnage of every ship or vessel to which rule 1 can be applied, whether she is about to be registered or not, shall be ascertained by such rule.

Rule 1. Ascertain the horizontal curves of the ship's or vessel's sides running 10 parallel to the line at which such ship or vessel usually floats or is intended to float when fully laden, and at such a distance above the line as will meet the lowest point at which the sides of the ship or vessel (unbroken by apertures) meet with and are level with the upper side of the deck planking of a complete deck extending from one end of the vessel unto the other. Such curves of the 15 vessel's sides shall commence and terminate at an imaginary plane bisecting the ship or vessel longitudinally and vertically.

[ocr errors]

The area of the horizontal plane bounded by and included within the two outer curves of the ship's or vessel's sides is calculated in square feet, and after the same measurements and calculations have been gone through with 20 another plane one foot below and parallel at all points with the said plane, the sum of the square feet contained in the two planes shall be divided by two, and again by thirty-five, and the result will be the displacement in tons of thirtyfive cubic feet each of the solid contained between the said two planes. Continue this operation to the lowest part of the vessel, and the sum of the whole 25 will be the entire displacement of the vessel.

30

Ships or vessels which have no deck shall be measured by rule 1, as if all reference to the deck were omitted from the said rule.

Rule 2. All ships or vessels which from any peculiarity in their structure or otherwise are, in the opinion of the Board of Trade or other properly constituted authority, incapable of being measured and having their tonnage ascertained under rule 1, shall be measured and have their tonnage ascertained in such manner as the Board of Trade or other properly constituted authority shall from time to time direct.

[blocks in formation]
« PreviousContinue »