Functions of Board of Trade may appoint Inspectors. Powers of In spectors. Merchant Shipping (Part I. Board of Trade.) And if upon Requisition duly made by any Person so authorized in that behalf as aforesaid, any Person refuses or neglects to produce any such Official Log Book or Document as he is herein-before required to produce, or to allow the same to be inspected or copied as aforesaid, or impedes any such Muster of a Crew as aforesaid, or refuses or neglects to give any Explanation which he is herein-before required to give, or knowingly misleads or deceives any Person herein-before authorized to demand any such Explanation, he shall for each such Offence incur a Penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds. XIV. The Board of Trade may from Time to Time, whenever it seems expedient to them so to do, appoint any Person, as an Inspector, to report to them upon the following Matters; (that is to say,) (1.) Upon the Nature and Causes of any Accident or Damage which any Ship has sustained or caused, or is alleged to have sustained or caused: (2.) Whether the Provisions of this Act, or any Regulations. made under or by virtue of this Act, have been complied with: (3.) Whether the Hull and Machinery of any Steam Ship are sufficient and in good Condition. XV. Every such Inspector as aforesaid shall have the follow ing Powers; (that is to say,) (1.) He may go on board any Ship, and may inspect the same or any Pait thereof, or any of the Machinery, Boats, Equipments, or Articles on board thereof to which the Provisions of this Act apply, not unnecessarily detaining or delaying her from proceeding on any Voyage: (2.) He may enter and inspect any Premises the Entry or Inspection of which appears to him to be requisite for the Purpose of the Report which he is directed to 'make : (3.) He may, by Summons under his Hand, require the Attendance of all such Persons as he thinks fit to call before him and examine for such Purpose, and may require Answers or Returns to any Inquiries he thinks it to make : (4.) He may require and enforce the Production of all Books, Papers, or Documents which he considers important for such Purpose: (5.) He may administer Oaths, or may, in lieu of requiring or administering an Oath, require every Person examined by him to make and subscribe a Declaration of the Truth of the Statements made by him in his Exami nation: And Merchant Shipping (Part I. Board of Trade.) Functions of Trade. And every Witness so summoned as aforesaid shall be allowed Witnesses to such Expenses as would be allowed to any Witness attending be allowed Expenses; on Subpoena to give Evidence before any Court of Record, or if in Scotland, to any Witness attending on Citation the Court of Justiciary; and in case of any Dispute as to the Amount of such Expenses the same shall be referred by the Inspector to One of the Masters of Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench in England or Ireland, or to the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer in Scotland, who, on a Request made to him for that Purpose under the Hand of the said Inspector, shall ascertain and certify the proper Amount of such Expenses; and every Person who refuses to attend as a Witness before Penalty for any such Inspector, after having been required so to do in the refusing to Manner hereby directed and after having had a Tender made give Evito him of the Expenses (if any) to which he is entitled as aforesaid, or who refuses or neglects to make any Answer, or to give any Return, or to produce any Document in his Possession, or to make or subscribe any Declarations which any such Inspector is hereby empowered to require, shall for each such Offence incur a Penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds. dence. the Execu XVI. Every Person who wilfully impedes any such Inspector Penalty for appointed by the Board of Trade as aforesaid in the Execution obstructing of his Duty, whether on board any Ship or elsewhere, shall in- Inspectors in cur a Penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds, and may be seized tion of their and detained by such Inspector or other Person or by any Duty. Person or Persons whom he may call to his Assistance until such Offender can be conveniently taken before some Justice of the Peace or other Officer having proper Jurisdiction. PART II. BRITISH SHIPS: THEIR OWNERSHIP, MEASURE- XVII. The Second Part of this Act shall apply to the whole of of Part II. of Her Majesty's Dominions. Description and Ownership of British Ships. Act. Description and Ownership of British Ships. Description XVIII. No Ship shall be deemed to be a British Ship unless she belongs wholly to Owners of the following Description; and Owner(that is to say,) (1.) ship of British Ships. Description and Ownership of British Ships. British Ships with certain Exceptions must be registered. Merchant Shipping (Part II. Registry.) (1.) Natural-born British Subjects: Provided that no natural-born Subject who has taken the Oath of Allegiance to any Foreign Sovereign or State shall be entitled to be such Owner as aforesaid, unless he has subsequently to taking such last-mentioned Oath taken the Oath of Allegiance to Her Majesty, and is and continues to be during the whole Period of his so being an Owner resident in some Place within Her Majesty's Dominions, or if not so resident, Member of a British Factory, or Partner in a House actually carrying on Business in the United Kingdom or in some other Place within Her Majesty's Dominions : (2.) Persons made Denizens by Letters of Denization, or naturalized by or pursuant to any Act of the Imperial Legislature, or by or pursuant to any Act or Ordinance of the proper legislative Authority in any British Possession: Provided that such Persons are and continue to be during the whole Period of their so being Owners resident in some Place within Her Majesty's Dominions, or if not so resident, Members of a British Factory, or Partners in a House actually carrying on Business in the United Kingdom or in some other Place within Her Majesty's Dominions, and have taken the Oath of Allegiance to Her Majesty subsequently to the Period of their being so made Denizens or naturalized: (3.) Bodies Corporate established under, subject to the Laws of, and having their principal Place of Business in the United Kingdom or some British Possession. XIX. Every British Ship must be registered in manner hereinafter mentioned, except, (1.) Ships duly registered before this Act comes into opera tion: (2.) Ships not exceeding Fifteen Tons Burden employed solely in Navigation on the Rivers or Coasts of the United Kingdom, or on the Rivers or Coasts of some British Possession within which the Managing Owners of such Ships are resident : (3.) Ships not exceeding Thirty Tons Burden, and not having a whole or fixed Deck, and employed solely in fishing or trading coastwise on the Shores of Newfoundland or Parts adjacent thereto, or in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, or on such Portion of the Coasts of Canada, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick as lie bordering on such Gulf: And no Ship hereby required to be registered shall, unless registered, be recognized as a British Ship; and no Officer of Customs shall grant a Clearance or Transire to any Ship hereby required to be registered for the Purpose of enabling her to proceed to Sea as a British Ship, unless the Master of such Merchant Shipping (Part II. Registry.) such Ship, upon being required so to do, produces to him such Certificate of Registry as is herein-after mentioned; and if such Ship attempts to proceed to Sea as a British Ship without a Clearance or Transire, such Officer may detain such Ship until such Certificate is produced to him. Measurement of Tonnage. Description and Ownership of British Ships. Measurement of Tonnage. Decimals. XX. Throughout the following Rules the Tonnage Deck shall Tonnage be taken to be the Upper Deck in Ships which have less than Deck; Feet; Three Decks, and to be the Second Deck from below in all other Ships; and in carrying such Rules into effect all Measurements shall be taken in Feet and Fractions of Feet, and all Fractions of Feet shall be expressed in Decimals. RULE I: XXI. The Tonnage of every Ship to be registered, with the For Ships to Exceptions mentioned in the next Section, shall previously to be registered her being registered be ascertained by the following Rule, and other herein-after called Rule I.; and the Tonnage of every Ship to which the Ships of which such Rule can be applied, whether she is about to be Hold is clear. registered or not, shall be ascertained by the same Rule: (1.) Measure the Length of the Ship in a straight Line along Lengths. TABLE. Class 1. Ships of which the Tonnage Deck is according to the above Measurement 50 Feet long or under, into 4 equal Parts: 2..Ships of which the Tonnage Deck is according to 3. Ships of which the Tonnage Deck is according to 4. Ships of which the Tonnage Deck is according to Class Measurement of Tonnage. Transverse Computation from Areas. Merchant Shipping (Part II. Registry.) Class 5. Ships of which the Tonnage Deck is according to the above Measurement above 225 Feet long, into 12 equal Parts. (2.) Then, the Hold being first sufficiently cleared to admit of the required Depths and Breadths being properly taken, find the Transverse Area of such Ship at each Point of Division of the Length as follows:-Measure the Depth at each Point of Division, from a Point at a Distance of One Third of the Round of the Beam below such Deck, or, in case of a Break, below a Line stretched in continuation thereof, to the upper Side of the Floor Timber at the Inside of the Limber Strake, after deducting the average Thickness of the Ceiling which is between the Bilge Planks and Limber Strake; then, if the Depth at the Midship Division of the Length do not exceed Sixteen Feet, divide each Depth into four equal Parts; then measure the inside horizontal Breadth at each of the Three Points of Division, and also at the upper and lower Points of the Depth, extending each Measurement to the average Thickness of that Part of the Ceiling which is between the Points of Measurement; number these Breadths from above (i. e. numbering the upper Breadth One, and so on down to the lowest Breadth); multiply the Second and Fourth by Four, and the Third by Two; add these Products together, and to the Sum add the First Breadth and the Fifth; multiply the Quantity thus obtained by One Third of the common Interval between the Breadthis, and the Product shall be deemed the Transverse Area; but if the Midship Depth exceed Sixteen Feet, divide each Depth into Six equal Parts instead of Four, and measure as before directed the horizontal Breadths at the Five Points of Division, and also at the upper and lower Points of the Depth; number them from above as before; multiply the Second, Fourth, and Sixth by Four, and the Third and Fifth by Two; add these Products together, and to the Sum add the First Breadth and the Seventh; multiply the Quantity thus obtained by One Third of the common Interval between the Breadths, and the Product shall be deemed the Transverse Area. (3.) Having thus ascertained the Transverse Area at each Point of division of the length of the Ship as required by the above Table, proceed to ascertain the Register Tonnage of the Ship in the following Manner :-Number the Areas successively 1, 2, 3, &c., No. 1. being at the extreme Limit of the length at the Bow, and the last No. at the extreme Limit of the Length at the Stern ; then, whether the Length be divided according to the Table into Four or Twelve Parts as in Classes 1 and 5, or any intermediate |