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9. Every place of meeting for religious worship certified to the said registrar-general under the said act of the 15 & 16 Vict, c. 36, or this act, and recorded by him as aforesaid, so long as the same continues to be bonâ fide used as a place of religious worship, and the record of the certification thereof has not been cancelled as herein before is provided, shall be wholly freed and exempted from the operation of an act passed, in the session holden in the 16 & 17. Vict, c. 137, intituled The Charitable Trusts Act, 1853," and shall not be subject or liable to any of the provisions of the same act, save that the exempted charities may avail themselves of the 63rd and 64th sections of the said act, if they shall think fit.

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10. Nothing in this act shall affect or be construed to affect the churches or chapels of the United Church of England and Ireland, or the celebration of divine service according to the rites and ceremonies of the said united church by ministers of such church, in any place hitherto used for such purpose, or being now or hereafter duly consecrated or licensed by any of bis 97ote » d SCHEDULE (B.) gon 400 19ftue to fiɑnsq archbishop or bishop, or other person lawfully authorised to To the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, in England. Hede plomes to moitag

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11. The registrar-general, on payment to him of a fee of 28. 6d., shall, with respect to place certified to him as a place of meeting for religious worship, the record whereof remains uncancelled, give a certificate, sealed or stamped with the seal of the General ar, one of the trustees, Register Office, that at the time or respective times, in such occupiers, (as the case may be), of a certain building known certificate in behalf stated the place therein described was by the name of [or, a certain dwelling-house, &c... duly certified and at in the county of that at the date y recorded as required by this act, and (as the case may be)], s such scaled or stamped certificate the record within the superintendent registrar's district of [and of such certification remained uncancelled; and every such being now resident within the same district], do hereby desealed or stamped certificate, if tendered in evidence upon any clare and give you in pursuance of an act passed in the trial or other judicial proceeding in any civil or criminal court, shall be received as evidence of the said several facts therein building, [or," dwelling-house," &c.], which was on the mentioned, without any further or other proof of the same. day of 185-, recorded by you as a place of meeting for 12. All sums to be received by or on account of the

general in pursuance of this act shall be acounted for registrar,

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registering births, deaths, and marriages in England," with
respect to sums received by him or on his account under the
provisions of that act; and all expenses incurred by the said
registrar-general, or by any superintendent registrar, or regis.
trar, with his sanction and acting under his direction or au-
thority, in carrying this act into execution and making known
its provisions, shall be deemed to have been incurred in carry-
ing on the business of the General Register Office, and be de-"
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13. Notwithstanding the provisions of this or any other act, all marriages which heretofore have been had or solemnised in any building which has been registered for the solemnisation of marriages pursuant to the provisions of an act passed in the 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 85, but which may not have been certified as required by the provisions of this or any other act, shall be as valid in all respects as if such place of worship had been so certified. TAKE WEE VE 99%

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[was used as a place of meeting for religious worship. before the 30th June, 1852, and, if the place was not so used before the 30th June, 1852, expunge the words within brackets], is intended to be used as heretofore, if the building have not been previously used as a place of worship, erase the words "as heretofore"], and will accordingly be forthwith used as a place of meeting for religious worship by a congre

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CAP. LXXXIIjob of of (d.eagq yna of An Act to abolish certain Payments charged on the Consoli-dated Fund in favour of the Provost and Fellows of Trinitys College, Dublin, and of certain Professors in the said Coli lege and to repeal the Stamp Duties payable on Matricula lations and Degrees in the University of Dublin. 199ędne 972 phopold 191 2af14th August, 1855.Jr7 din 20 of 399gest mi,noigiler deiwyl st CAP LXXXIII. *nsidne od linde,qide An Act to continue certain Acts for regulating Turnpike Roads in Ireland is borlgad ni stotus (14th August, 1855.}wel 208 eid? To gaie do gaied smit sɗt CAP. LXXXIV.

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An Act for carrying into effect the Engagements between her
Majesty and certain Chiefs of the Sherbro Country near Sierra
Leone, in Africa, for the more effectual Suppression of the
Slave Trade blerone go bating7 90 [14th August, 1855.]
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An Act for securing the Liberty of Religious Worship.
[14th August, 1855.]
Sect. 1. No prosecution to be maintainable for assembling for
religions worship in a place of meeting not cer-
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Whereas it is expedient that the laws affecting assemblies for religious worship should be amended: and whereas by an act passed in the 1 Will.) & Moysess. c18] intituled" An Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws, it is enacted that no congregation or assembly for religious worship shall be permitted or allowed until the place of such meeting shall be certified and registered or recorded as described in such act; and whereas by an act passed in the 52 Gee: 3, 155, intituled An Act to repeal certain Acts, and to amend other Acts, relating to Religious Worship and Assemblies, and Persons teaching or preaching therein," it is enacted that no congregation or assembly for religious worship of Protestants (at which there shall be present more than twenty persons, besides the immediate family and servants of the person in whose house or upon whose premises such meeting, congregation, or assembly shall be had) shall be permitted or allowed unless the place of such meeting is certified as described in such act, and that every person who shall knowingly permit or suffer any congregation or assembly as aforesaid to meet in any place occupied by him, until the same shall have been so certified, shall forfeit for every time any such congregation or assembly shall meet a sum not exceeding 201. nor less than 20%., at the discretion of the justices who shall convict for such offence be it enacted &c. as follows: m

towards his maintenance, or support: be it therefore enacted &c. as follows:

Sect. 1: Sects. 5 and 6 of the said act shall be repealed.

2. In every case in which any juvenile offender shall be detained in a reformatory school under the said act, the parent or step-parent, if of sufficient ability, shall be liable to contribute to his support and maintenance a sum not exceeding 58. two justices of the peace, upon the complaint of any person a week; and it shall be lawful in England and Wales for any authorised by one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State to take proceedings in that behalf, to summon the parent or step-parent, as the case may be, and examine into his or her ability, and (if on consideration of all the circumstances of the case they think fit) to make an order upon him or her for such weekly payment, not exceeding 5s. per week, as they shall think reasonable, during the whole or any part of the de tention of such juvenile offender in such reformatory school, such payment to be made at such times as by such order may be directed, to the person so authorised to take proceedings as aforesaid, or to such person as the Secretary of State may from" time to time appoint to receive the same, and by him to be accounted for and paid as the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury may direct.

3. In case default be made for the space of fourteen days in Sect. 1. From and after the passing of this act, nothing con-able by such parent or step-parent under such order, such sum payment of any sum of money which may have become paytained in the above-mentioned acts, or in an act passed in the of money shall in every such case be levied upon the goods and 15 & 16 Vict. c. 36, shall apply to the congregations or assemchattels of the defendant by distress and sale thereof; and if it blies hereinafter mentioned, or any of them; that is to sayshall appear to the said justices, on confession of defendants or (1). To any congregation or assembly for religious worship otherwise, or if it shall be returned to the warrant of distress held in any parish or any ecclesiastical district, and in any such case, that no sufficient goods of the party against conducted by the incumbent, or in case the incum- whom such warrant shall have been issued can be found, it bent is not resident, by the curate of such parish or shall be lawful for the justice to whom such return is made, or district, or by any person authorised by them re- for any other justice of the peace for the same county, riding, spectively: division, liberty, city, borough, or place, by his warrant as aforesaid, to commit the defendant to the house of correction or common gaol for any term not exceeding ten days, unless the sum to be paid, and all costs and charges of the distress, and of the commitment and conveying of the defendant to prison, (the amount thereof being ascertained and stated in such commitment), shall be sooner paid.

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(2). To any congregation or assembly for religious worship meeting in a private dwelling-house, or on the premises belonging thereto, (3). To any congregation or assembly for religious worship meeting occasionally in any building or buildings not usually appropriated to purposes of religious worship: and no person permitting any such congregation to meet as herein mentioned in any place occupied by him shall be liable to any penalty for so doing1 969

26-So much of an act passed in the 2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 115, as enacts that her Majesty's subjects professing the Roman Catholic religion, in respect to their places for religious worship, shall be subject to the same laws as the Protestant Dissenters are subject to, and so much of an act passed in the 9 & 10 Vict. e. 59, as enacts that her Majesty's subjects professing the Jewish religion, in respect to their places for religious worship, shall be subject to the same laws as Protestant Dissenters are subject to, shall be respectively read as applicable to the laws to which Protestant Dissenters in England are subject for the time being after the passing of this act. AZZZI S4)

one set skivorgarsk soll sil: woâ on ¤AP/LXXXVII. yn ke 1943597 202 An Act to amend the Act for the better Care and Reformation of Youthful Offenders, and the Act to render Reformatory and Industrial Schools in Scotland more available for the Benefit of Vagrant Children. 14th August, 1855.] Sect. 1. Sects. 5 and 6 of the 17 & 18 Vict. c. 86, repealed. 2. Provision for enforcing contribution by parents to the maintenance of juvenile offenders in reformamenstory schools.

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6. In Scotland justices of peace to have same power with sheriff. 7. Powers given to sheriffs, &c. under the 17 & 18 Vict. c. 74, may be exercised by justices. Whereas it is expedient to amend the act of the last session of Parliament, 17 & 18 Vict. c. 86, "for the better Care and Reformation of Youthful Offenders in Great Britain," so far as respects the provision thereby made for charging the parent or step-parent of an offender in certain cases with payments

4. In Scotland an action for payment of sums for the sup port and maintenance of a juvenile offender under the said act shall and may be raised before the sheriff or any two justices of the peace within the county in which sentence was passed on the offender, or in which the defender in such action may happen to reside; and such action shall and may be brought by the procurator fiscal of the sheriff court of such county, and by no one else; and it shall be lawful for the sheriff or justices before whom such action is brought to inquire into the circumstances of the party sued, and to decern for payment of such weekly sum, not exceeding 5s. per week during the period of detention of such offender, as he or they shall think fit, or, in his or their discretion, to dismiss the action; and such decree for payment of a weekly sum shall be held to be and have all the effect of a decree in each week for payment of the sum ordered to be paid for such week; and the sums recovered shall be accounted for and paid as the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury may direct, re

5. It shall be lawful for one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, or in Scotland for the Lord Advocate, from time to time, where such Secretary of State or Lord Advocate shall in his discretion think fit, to remit all or any part any order under this act. 738 of any weekly payment which may have been made payable by Longerhar suit I

6. In Scotland any two or more justices of the peace shall within the bounds of their jurisdiction have the same powers as are by the said recited act conferred on any sheriff, magis trate of a burgh, or police magistrate self ad↑ 7. And whereas by the ace last session of Parliament, trial Schools in Scotland more available for the Benefit of c. 74, intituled An Act to Reformatory and IndusVagrant Children," certain powers are given to be exercised

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in Scotland by sheriffs or magistrates: be it the peace in

such powers may be exercised by any justice of
Scotland within the limits of his jurisdiction; and the word
deemed to include the words **justice of the peace.'
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CAP. LXXXVIII.

An Act to facilitate the Erection of Dwelling-houses for the
Working Classes in Scotland. [14th August, 1855.]

Sect. 1. Persons proposing to form association for erecting or improving dwelling houses under act to apply to sheriff for his sanction.

2. Sheriff, if satisfied with contract, plans, &c., may interpone his sanction and grant warrant for recording the contract and proceeding with the undertaking.

3. On registration, the members of the association and their successors to subsist as an association for the purposes of the act, subject to only a limited liability for debts, &c.

4. Association may acquire property, and sheriff may grant warrant for erection of additional dwelling-houses.

5. When work duly executed sheriff to declare so, and till then not lawful to let or dispose of houses nor transfer shares. 6. No engagement lawful except for purposes of association, or beyond stock or rents.

7. Title of association to be effectual in perpetuity, without renewal of the investiture.

8. Rules in contract to be real burthens on the property.
9. Shares to be deemed moveable estate.
10. As to transfer of shares.

11. Contract may provide either that houses may be held and let, or that they may be disposed of in separate lots.

12. Where lots are provided to be disposed of, the association to lodge with sheriff clerk a plan and a register book for recording transfers thereof.

13. Mode of disponing lots by the association. 14. Recovery of feu duty.

15. Powers of owners in repairing and rebuilding.

16. As to subsequent transfers.

cessful, costs to be recovered as between subject and subject.

2. Defendant entitled to costs if successful against the Crown.

3. Power to judges to make rules and orders for regulation of pleading and practice in Crown suits. Whereas in divers proceedings instituted by or on behalf of the Crown against the Queen's subjects in respect of matters relating to the revenue no costs are recovered by the Crown except in certain cases, and no costs are paid by the Crown to the subject: and whereas it is expedient to assimilate the law as to the recovery of costs in such proceedings by or on behalf of the Crown to that in force as to proceedings between subject and subject: be it therefore enacted &c. as follows:

Sect. 1. In all informations, actions, suits, and other legal proceedings to be hereafter instituted before any court or tribunal whatever in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, by or on behalf of the Crown, against any corporation or person or persons, in respect of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or of any goods or chattels, belonging or accraing to the Crown, the proceeds whereof, or the rents or profits of which said lands, tenements, or hereditaments, by any act now in force or hereafter to be passed, are to be carried to the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, or in respect of any sum or sums of money due and owing to her Majesty by virtue of any vote of Parliament for the service of the Crown, or of any act of Parliament relating to the public revenue, her Majesty's Attorney-General, or in Scotland the Lord Advocate, shall be entitled to recover costs for and on behalf of her Majesty, where judgment shall be given for the Crown, in the same manner, and under the same rules, regulations, and provisions as are or may be in force touching the

17. Mode of registering right of the representative of a party payment or receipt of costs in proceedings between subject and deceased.

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36. Interpretation of terms.

subject, and such costs shall be paid into the Exchequer, and shall become part of the Consolidated Fund.

2. If in any such information, action, suit, or other proceeding judgment shall be given against the Crown, the defendant or defendants shall be entitled to recover costs, in like manner, and subject to the same rules and provisions, as though such proceeding had been had between subject and subject; and it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury and they are hereby required to pay such costs out of any monies which may be hereafter voted by Parliament for that purpose.

3. And whereas the procedure and practice in informations, Crown in her Majesty's Court of Exchequer is dilatory, and suits, and other proceedings instituted by or on behalf of the requires amendment, and it is desirable that the same should be assimilated as near as may be to the course of practice and procedure now in force in actions and suits between subject and subject: be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Barons of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer in England, or any three of them, and also for the Barons of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer in Ireland, or any three of them, in their respective courts, to make all such general rules and orders for the regulation of the pleading and practice in such informations, suits, and other proceedings, and to frame such writs and forms of proceedings, as to them may seem expedient for the purpose aforesaid; and all such rules, orders, or regula

tions shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, if Parliament be then sitting, immediately upon the making of the after the next meeting thereof; and no such rule, order, or same, or if Parliament be not sitting, then within five days regulation shall have effect until three months after the same shall have been so laid before both Houses of Parliament; and any rule, order, or regulation so made shall, from and after

37. Nothing to exempt association from provisions of future such time aforesaid, be binding and obligatory on the said general acts.

CAP. LXXXIX.
An Act to amend the Provisions of the Huddersfield Burial
Ground Act, 1852.
[14th August, 1855.]

CAP. XC.

An Act for the Payment of Costs in Proceedings instituted on behalf of the Crown in Matters relating to the Revenue, and for the Amendment of the Procedure and Practice in Crown Suits in the Court of Exchequer. [14th August, 1855.] Sect. 1. In all Crown suits, &c., where the Crown is suc

court, and on all courts of error into which any judgment of the said court shall be carried by any writ of error, and be of the like force and effect as if the provisions contained therein had been expressly enacted by Parliament: provided always, that it shall be lawful for the Queen's most excellent Majesty by any proclamation inserted in the London Gazette, or for either of the Houses of Parliament by any resolution passed at any time within three months next after such rules, orders, and regulations shall have been laid before Parliament, to suspend the whole or any part of such rules, orders, or regulations, and in such case the whole, or such part thereof as shall be so suspended, shall not be binding and obligatory on the said courts, or on any other court of common law or court of error.

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CAP. XCI.

An Act to facilitate the Erection and Maintenance of Colonial
Lighthouses, and otherwise to amend the Merchant Shipping
Act, 1854.
[14th August, 1855.]

Sect. 1. Short title of act. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104.

COLONIAL Lighthouses.

2. Her Majesty may by Order in Council fix dues for
colonial lighthouses.

3. No such dues to be levied in any colony without the
consent of the colonial legislature.

4. Mode of collecting the said dues. 17 & 18 Vict.
e. 104, ss. 399, 400, 401.

5. Dues to be paid over to her Majesty's Paymaster-
General.

6. Dues to be applied to expenses of lighthouse, &c. for
which they are levied.

7. Power to borrow money on security of dues. 17 & 18
Vict. c. 104, ss. 424. 425, 426.
8. Accounts for each lighthouse, &c. to be kept,
before Parliament, and to be audited.
Vict. c. 104, s. 428.

REGISTRY OF SHIPS.

and laid
17 & 18

Part II of Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.
9. Penalty on false declarations under Part II of Mer-
chant Shipping Act. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104, s. 103.
10. Shares in shipping within the Trustee Act, 1850.
13 & 14 Vict. c. 60.

11. Forms of instruments. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104, s. 96.
12. Delivery of certificate upon transfer of registry.
17 & 18 Vict. c. 104, s. 90.

13. Exemption of certain ships from having name painted
on stern. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104, s. 34.

14. Ships measured under Rule II may be measured
under Rule I. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104, ss. 21, 22.
15. General register books in London. 17 & 18 Vict.
c. 104, s. 107.

MASTERS AND SEAMEN.

Part III of Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.
16. Extension of provisions concerning the relief of
destitute seamen. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104, ss. 211,

212, 213.

tive authority of such possession, her Majesty may, by Order in Council, fix such dues in respect thereof, to be paid by the owner or master of every ship which passes the same or derives benefit therefrom, as her Majesty may deem reasonable, and may in like manner from time to time increase, diminish, or repeal such dues, and from the time specified in such order for the commencement of the dues thereby fixed, increased, or diminished, the same shall be leviable throughout her Majesty's

dominions in manner hereinafter mentioned.

3. No such dues as aforesaid shall be levied in any colony unless and until the legislative authority in such colony has, either by address to the Crown, or by an act or ordinance duly passed, signified its opinion that the same ought to be levied in such colony.

4. The said dues shall in the United Kingdom be collected by the same persons by whom, and by the same means, in the same manner, and subject to the same conditions, so far as circumstances permit, by, in, and subject to which the light dues leviable under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, are collected; and shall in each British possession abroad be collected by such persons as the governor of such possession abroad may appoint for the purpose, and shall be collected by the same means, in the same manner, and subject to the same conditions, so far as circumstances permit, by, in, and subject to which the light dues leviable under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, are paid and collected, or by such other means, in such other manner, and subject to such other conditions as the legislative authority in such possession may direct.

5. All dues levied under this act shall be paid over to her Majesty's Paymaster-General at such times and in such manner as the Board of Trade may direct, and shall be applied, paid, and dealt with by him, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, in such manner as such board may direct.

6. The dues levied under the authority of this act in respect of any such lighthouse, buoy, or beacon as aforesaid shall, after deducting any expenses incurred in collecting the same, be applied for the purpose of paying the expenses incurred in erecting and maintaining such lighthouse, buoy, or beacon, and for no other purpose whatever.

7. For the purpose of constructing or repairing any such lighthouse, buoy, or beacon as aforesaid, the Board of Trade may raise, upon the security of the dues to be levied in respect thereof, such sums of money as they may deem fit; and the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, out of any monies which may be provided by Parliament, the Public Works Loan Commissioners, or any other person or body of persons, may advance the same accordingly, such advances to be made in the same manner, with the same powers, and subject to the same provisions, so far as circumstances permit, in, with, and subject to which, under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, advances may be made upon the security of the Mercantile 19. In case of wreck of foreign ships, consul-general to Marine Fund for the construction and repair of lighthouses in be deemed agent of owner.

17. Enactment concerning savings banks extended to
seamen in the navy. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104, s. 180.
18. Additional powers of naval courts. 17 & 18 Vict.
c. 104, ss. 260 to 266.

WRECKS, CASUALTIES, AND SALVAGE.
Part VIII of Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.

20. Remuneration for services by coast guard.

LEGAL PROCEDURE.

Part X of Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.

the United Kingdom.

8. Accounts shall be kept of all sums expended in the construction, repair, or maintenance of every lighthouse, buoy, or beacon in the British possessions abroad for which dues are levied under the authority of this act, and of the dues received

21. Jurisdiction in case of offences on board ship. 12 & in respect thereof, in such manner as the Board of Trade may

13 Vict. c. 96.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Part XI of Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.

22. Relief of destitute Lascars.

23. Contracts may be made with natives in India, under

certain conditions, binding them to go to the United
Kingdom, and then to serve in other ships back to
India or elsewhere.

24. Saving of former enactments. 4 Geo. 4, c. 80, ss.
25 to 34; 17 & 18 Vict. c. 120, s. 16.
Whereas it is expedient to make provision for facilitating
the erection and maintenance of lighthouses in the British pos-
Bessions abroad, and otherwise to amend the Merchant Shipping
Act, 1854: be it therefore enacted &c. as follows:--

of

Sect. 1. This act may be cited as "The Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1855," and shall be taken to be part the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and shall be construed accordingly.

COLONIAL LIGHTHOUSES.

2. In any case in which any lighthouse, buoy, or beacon has been or is hereafter erected or placed on or near the coasts of any British possession, by or with the consent of the legisla

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direct, and shall be laid before Parliament annually; and the said accounts shall be audited in such manner as her Majesty may by Order in Council direct.

REGISTRY OF SHIPS.

Part II of Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.

9. Any person who, in any declaration made in the presence of or produced to any registrar of shipping, in pursuance of the second part of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, or in any documents or other evidence produced to such registrar, wilfully makes, or assists in making, or procures to be made, any false statement concerning the title to, or the ownership of, or the interests existing in any ship, or any share or shares in any ship, or who utters, produces, or makes use of any declaration or document containing any such false statement, knowing the same to be false, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.

10. Shares in ships registered under the said Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, shall be deemed to be included in the word "stock," as defined by the Trustee Act, 1850, and the provisions of such last-mentioned act shall be applicable to such shares accordingly.

11. In any case in which any bill of sale, mortgage, or other instrument for the disposal or transfer of any ship, or

any share or shares therein, or of any interest therein, is made in any form or contains any particulars other than the form and particulars prescribed and approved for the purpose by or in pursuance of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, no registrar shall be required to record the same without the express direction of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs.

12. Upon the transfer of the registry of a ship from one port to another, the certificate of registry required by the 90th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, to be delivered up for that purpose, may be delivered up to the registrar of either of such ports.

13. The Commissioners of Customs may, with the consent of the Board of Trade, exempt any pleasure yacht from the provision contained in the 34th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, which requires the name of every ship, and the port to which she belongs, to be painted on her stern.

14. The owner of any ship which is measured under rule 2 contained in the 22nd section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, may at any subsequent period apply to the Commissioners of Customs to have the said ship remeasured under rule 1 contained in the 21st section of the same act, and the said commissioners may thereupon, and upon payment of such fee not exceeding 78. 6d. for each transverse section as they may authorise, direct the said ship to be remeasured accordingly, and the number denoting the register tonnage shall be altered accordingly.

15. The copy or transcript of the register of any British ship which is kept by the chief registrar of shipping at the Customhouse in London, or by the registrar-general of seamen, under the direction of her Majesty's Commissioners of Customs or of the Board of Trade, shall have the same effect, to all intents and purposes, as the original register of which the same is a copy or transcript.

MASTERS AND SEAMEN.

Part III of Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.

16. The Board of Trade may issue instructions concerning the relief to be administered to distressed seamen and apprentices, in pursuance of the 211th and 212th sections of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and may by such instructions determine in what cases and under what circumstances and conditions such relief is to be administered; and all powers of recovering expenses incurred with respect to distressed seamen and apprentices, which by the 213th section of the said act are given to the Board of Trade, shall extend to all expenses incurred by any foreign Government for the purposes aforesaid, and repaid to such Government by her Majesty's Government, and shall likewise extend to any expenses incurred by the conveying home such seamen or apprentices in foreign as well as British ships; and all provisions concerning the relief of distressed seamen and apprentices, being subjects of her Majesty, which are contained in the said sections of the said act, and in this section, shall extend to such seamen and apprentices, not being subjects of her Majesty, as are reduced to distress in foreign parts by reason of their having been shipwrecked, discharged, or left behind from any British ship; subject nevertheless to such modifications and directions concerning the cases in which relief is to be given to such foreigners, and the country to which they are to be sent, as the Board of Trade may, under the circumstances, think fit to make and issue. 17. The enactment of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, relating to savings banks shall apply to all seamen, and to their wives and families, whether such seamen belong to the royal navy or to the merchant service, or to any other sea service.

18. Any naval court summoned, under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, to hear any complaint touching the conduct of the master or any of the crew of any ship, shall, in addition to the powers given to it by the said act, have power to try the said master or any of the said crew for any offences against the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, in respect of which two justices would, if the case were tried in the United Kingdom, have power to convict summarily, and by order duly made to inflict the same punishments for such offences which two justices might in the case aforesaid inflict upon summary conviction: provided, that in cases where an offender is sentenced to imprisonment the sentence shall be confirmed in writing by the senior naval or consular officer present at the place where the court is held, and the place of imprisonment, whether on land or on board ship, shall be approved by him as a proper place for the purpose; and copies

of all sentences made by any naval court summoned to hear any such complaint as aforesaid shall be sent to the commander-in-chief or senior naval officer of the station.

WRECKS, CASUALTIES, AND SALVAGE.

Part VIII of Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.

19. Whenever any articles belonging to or forming part of any foreign ship which has been wrecked on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom, or belonging to or forming part of the cargo thereof, are found on or near such coasts, or are brought into any port in the United Kingdom, the consul-general of the country to which such ship, or, in the case of cargo, to which the owners of such cargo, may have belonged, or any consular officer of such country authorised in that behalf by any treaty or agreement with such country, shall, in the absence of the owner of such ship or articles, and of the master or other agent of the owner, be deemed to be the agent of the owner, so far as relates to the custody and disposal of such articles.

20. In cases where services are rendered by officers or men of the coast guard service in watching or protecting shipwrecked property, then, unless it can be shewn that such services have been declined by the owner of such property or his agent at the time they were tendered, or that salvage has been claimed and awarded for such services, the owner of the shipwrecked property shall pay in respect of the said services remuneration according to a scale to be fixed by the Board of Trade, so, however, that such scale shall not exceed any scale by which payment to officers and men of the coast guard for extra duties in the ordinary service of the Commissioners of Customs is for the time being regulated; and such remuneration shall be recoverable by the same means, and shall be paid to the same persons, and accounted for and applied in the same manner as fees received by receivers appointed under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.

LEGAL PROcedure.

Part X of Merchant Shipping Act, 1854. 21. If any person, being a British subject, charged with having committed any crime or offence on board any British ship on the high seas or in any foreign port or harbour, or if any person, not being a British subject, charged with having committed any crime or offence on board any British ship on the high seas, is found within the jurisdiction of any court of justice in her Majesty's dominions which would have had cognisance of such crime or offence if committed within the limits of its ordinary jurisdiction, such court shall have jurisdiction to hear and try the case as if such crime or offence had been committed within such limits: provided, that nothing contained in this section shall be construed to alter or interfere with the act of the 12 & 13 Vict. c. 96.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Part XI of Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.

22. It shall be the duty of the East India Company to take charge of and send home or otherwise provide for all persons, being Lascars or other natives of the territories under the government of the said company, who are found destitute in the United Kingdom; and if any such person is relieved and maintained by any guardians, overseers, or other persons administering the relief of the poor, such overseers, guardians, or other persons may, by letter sent through the post or otherwise, give notice thereof in writing to the secretary of the court of directors of the East India Company, specifying, so far as is practicable, the following particulars, viz.

1. The name of the person so relieved or maintained: 2. The presidency or district, or part of the territories of the East India Company, of which he professes to be a native :

3. The name of the ship in which he was brought to the United Kingdom:

4. The port or place abroad from which such ship sailed. and the port or place in the United Kingdom at which such ship arrived, when he was so brought to the United Kingdom, and the time of such arrival: and the said East India Company shall repay to the said overseers, guardians, or other persons, out of the revenues of the said company, all monies duly expended by them in relieving or maintaining such destitute person, after the time at which such notice aforesaid is sent or otherwise given.

23. It shall be lawful for any master or owner of a ship, or

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