Registration of Ships At the Court at Windsor, the 9th day of July, 1869: WHEREAS by "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," it is provided that the following persons are required to register British ships, and shall be Straits Settle- deemed to be registrars for the purpose of that Act (that is to say)-[Here follows a recital of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, s. 30, sub-s. 4.] ments. And whereas by "The Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Act, 1869," it is provided that [Here follows a recital of the Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Act, 1869, 8. 6.] And whereas at Singapore, Penang, and Malacca ports or places within the Straits Settlements, no custom house is established; and whereas the legislative council of the Straits Settlements have, by an Ordinance (No. 3) of the 24th day of March, 1869, provided that the officers for the time being acting as master attendant at Singapore, and harbour masters at Penang and Malacca, shall be registrars of shipping under "The Imperial Merchant Shipping Act, 1854:1 Now, therefore, her Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in her by the said recited Acts, and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to declare and direct that the officers for the time being acting as master attendant at Singapore, and harbour masters at Penang and Malacca, shall, from and after the date of the proclamation of this Order in the Straits Settlements, be registrars of British ships in the Straits Settlements. ORDER IN COUNCIL directing that the Provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 and 1864, with respect to life Salvage, shall apply to Prussian Ships, whether within British Jurisdiction or not. At the Court at Windsor, the 7th day of April, 1864: Present,-The Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council. Salvage (Life) WHEREAS by "The Merchant Shipping Amendment Act, 1862," it is pro-Prussian vided that-[Here follows a recital of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1862, Ships. 8.59.] And whereas it has been made to appear to her Majesty that his Majesty the King of Prussia is willing that salvage shall be awarded by British courts for services rendered in saving life from Prussian ships when beyond the limits of British jurisdiction; and whereas the principal Act referred to in the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862, is the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854: Now, therefore, her Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in her by the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862, and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, does hereby direct that the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862, and of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, with respect to salvage for services rendered in saving life from British ships, shall in all British courts be held to apply to services rendered in saving life from Prussian ships, whether such services are rendered within British jurisdiction or not. ORDERS IN COUNCIL relating to the Registering and Lettering and Numbering of British Sea-Fishing Boats. At the Court at Windsor, the 18th day of June, 1869: Present, The Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by "The Sea Fisheries Act, 1868," it is (among other things) enacted that it shall be lawful for her Majesty by Order in Council from time to time to do all or any of the following things, namely [Here follows a recital of sub-sections (a) to (f) of the Sea Fisheries Act, 1868, s. 23.] And whereas her Majesty did, on the 4th day of February last, by Order in Council, make certain regulations for the lettering, numbering, and registering of British sea-fishing boats, under Part II. of the Act: And whereas it is expedient that the said Order so made should be revoked: Now, therefore, her Majesty, in exercise of the power vested in her by the said recited Act, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to revoke the said Order so made on the 4th day of February last, and is pleased to make, in lieu of the regulations to the said Order annexed, the regulations which are set forth in the schedule hereto annexed, and to direct that the same shall come into force from the date of the present Order. SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Order refers. 1. The following regulations shall be in future observed by owners and masters of all British boats or vessels hailing from, or belonging to, any port or place in the United Kingdom, the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, of whatever size, and however propelled or navigated, which find any portion of their ordinary employment in sea fishing, or oyster or mussel dredging, for purposes of sale; subject, however, to the following qualifications: (1.) Yachts, vessels, or boats, not usually employed in fishing or dredging for purposes of sale, shall not be subject to the following regulations when they are not so employed. (2.) If a boat or vessel, employed in fishing or dredging for purposes of sale, is also used as a pilot boat, and is marked and numbered as such, under any laws or regulations governing such pilot boat, such boat or vessel shall not be subject to the following regulations. (3.) Boats employed in the pilchard seyn fishery on the coast of Cornwall shall, if otherwise duly marked to the satisfaction of the officers of Customs or Coast Guard, be exempt from the necessity of having letters and numbers painted on their sails, bows, or sterns, as required by the following regulations. 2. Every sea fishing vessel or boat, whether registered under any other act or not, shall, except as hereinbefore provided for, be lettered, numbered, and have a certificate of registry, and shall for that purpose be entered or registered in a register of sea fishing boats to be kept at the principal office of Customs in each collectorship. Application, as hereafter prescribed, for letters, numbers, and certificates of registry shall be made by all owners of fishing boats to the officer of Coast Guard or Fishery Officer in charge of the station at or near the place where the boat may for the time being be employed. In any case where a boat belongs to a place situated at a distance from a Coast Guard Station, such application may be delivered to the principal officer of Customs, or to any Fishery Officer, at the creek or station at or nearest to the place to which the boat belongs, or at which she may be temporarily employed in fishing. And such application, upon being received by any such officer, shall be forthwith forwarded to the Collector of Customs of the port in which the place to which the boat belongs is situated, who, upon the receipt of such application, shall cause the boat to be registered and numbered, and grant the certificate of such registry, and forward the same to the officer through whom the application was received, who is to deliver such certificate to the applicant. Sea Fisheries 3. The port or place at which any British vessel or boat is registered, under -Registra- the provisions of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854" (17 & 18 Vict. c. 104), tion, &c. of shall be considered the port or place to which she belongs. Sea-Fishing Boats. 4. In Scotland the Officers of the Board of British White Herring Fishery shall assist the officers of Customs and of Coast Guard in the performance of the duties imposed by these regulations; and shall, in places where there are no Coast Guard, themselves discharge the duties hereby imposed upon the Coast Guard. 5. If, in the opinion of the Collector of the port to which any boats belong, or of the Inspecting Commander or Divisional Officer of the district, it is desirable, from local circumstances or otherwise, that the mode of application prescribed in the second article of these regulations should be partially modified or altered, such collector, inspecting commander, or divisional officer shall make a special report to the Board of Trade, setting forth the reasons for, and particulars of, such modification or alteration. 6. There shall be series of numbers and distinguishing letters for the boats belonging to each Collectorship of Customs. The following shall be the distinguishing letters : 7. For purposes of numbering, lettering, and registration, boats shall be divided into three classes, as follows: 1st class :-Boats of 15 tons burthen and upwards: 2nd class:-Boats of less than 15 tons burthen, navigated otherwise than by oars only. 3rd class :-Boats navigated by oars only. Provided that the officer to whom the application to register is made may, if he think proper, place any small boat occasionally navigated or propelled by sail in the third instead of the second class. 8. For boats of the above classes the positions and dimensions of the letters and numbers shall be as follows: 1st class: For the hulls, 18 inches in height, and 23 inches in breadth, and for the sails, one-third larger every way. 2nd class:-For the hulls, 10 inches in height, and 14 inches in breadth, and for the sails, one-third larger in every way. 3rd class:-Three inches at least in height, and half an inch in breadth. Provided that in boats that have a "bend piece" or "rubbing streak," the letters and numbers shall be as high as the space above the "bend piece" or "rubbing streak" will admit. In boats where the space between the gunwale and water-line is not sufficient in size for the prescribed letters and numbers, the letters and numbers shall be as high as the size of the boats will admit. 9. In boats of the 1st and 3rd class the number will follow, and in those of the 2nd class precede, the distinguishing letter or letters. 10. When vessels carry, or have attached to them, small boats as tenders or otherwise, such boats must be marked with the same numbers and letters as the vessels to which they belong. Such numbers and letters may be of the size appropriate to the class to which the boat would belong according to its own size Sea Fisheries and means of propulsion, but in position and precedence according to the class 11. In sailing boats, and boats navigated by the occasional use of sails, the letters and numbers shall be placed on each bow, three or four inches below the gunwale, and on each side of the main-sail, except for lug-sail boats, in which the letters and numbers may be placed on the foresail or mizen instead of the mainsail. For boats of the 3rd class, the letters and numbers shall be placed on the outside of the stern of the boat immediately under the name. On the hulls all letters and numbers shall be painted in white oil colour on a black ground; and on sails in black oil colour on white or grey sails, and in white oil colour on tanned or black sails. Except in the case of vessels only occasionally engaged in fishing for purposes of sale, hereinafter in the thirteenth article of these regulations specially provided for, the letters and numbers of sails shall be painted on each side of the cloth forming the substance of the sail, and not upon any cloth or other thing sewn or otherwise attached to it: and shall be placed on each side of the centre cloth or cloths of the mainsail, clear of and immediately above the close reef, and so as to be at all times conspicuous whether the sail be reefed or not. 12. All boats of whatever class shall have their names, and those of the ports to which they belong, painted in white oil colour on a black ground on the outside of the sterns, in letters which shall be at least three inches in height and half an inch in breadth. 13. In the case of any vessel or boat only occasionally engaged in fishing for purposes of sale, and not usually so employed, the letters and numbers prescribed by these regulations may be temporarily affixed, by pieces of canvass or board attached to the mainsail and bows, but of the same dimensions as those specified in the eighth article of these regulations. 14. The letters, numbers and names placed on boats and on their sails shall not be effaced, covered, or concealed, in any manner whatsoever. 15. All the buoys, barrels, and principal floats of each net, and all other implements of fishery, shall be marked with the same letters and numbers as the boats to which they belong, so as to be easily distinguished. The owners may further distinguish them by any private marks they think proper. Provided that this regulation shall not apply in the case of boats employed, (1.) In the Scotch herring fishery; (2.) In the drift net and seyn fisheries in Cornwall; (3.) In such other drift net and seyn fisheries (if any) as the Board of Trade may direct. In the above-mentioned cases it will be held sufficient that the nets and buoys be numbered, so as to identify their true owners; but in all cases of doubt it will devolve upon the masters of buoys and nets to satisfy sea fishery officers (as defined by the 8th section of "The Sea Fisheries Act, 1868"), that the said buoys and nets properly form part of the trains of the boat with which they may be found, or that they belong to the fishermen of other boats temporarily fishing in it. 16. The owner and master of any boat not having all its nets, buoys, and other implements duly marked in the manner above directed, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds. 17. A register of sea fishing boats, in the form contained in Table A. hereto annexed, shall be kept by the Collector of Customs at each collectorship, which shall contain the date of registry, name of the vessel or boat, and of the port or place to which she belongs, names of owner and master, description of her rig and of her ordinary mode of fishing, her registered number, class, tonnage, and length of keel, and number of crew usually employed. 18. Certificates of registry in the above register shall be issued by the respective Collectors of Customs, on application being duly made as directed by the second article of these regulations; and such certificate shall be in the form contained in Table B. hereto annexed, and when necessary shall be transmitted to the officer of Coast Guard or Customs or other Fishery Officer through whom the application may have been transmitted for delivery by such officer to the owner. The certificates of registry shall contain the name of the collectorship, and the distinguishing letters, the name and description of boat, the name of the owner and master, the registered number and class, and the date of entry. 19. All applications for letters, numbers, and registration of fishing boats must be in writing, and according to the form contained in Table C. hereto |