MON
DROIT
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 8.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1873.
VOL. XIX.
No. 26.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Act of the Imperial Parliament "to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts," is published for general information..
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th February, 1873.
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CHAP. 110.
An Act to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts.
[21st August, 1871.]
AS it is expedient to amend the Merchant Shipping Acts: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Preliminary.
1. This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Act, 1871.
A.D. 1871.
Short title.
2. This Act shall be construed as one with the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and Act to be construed the Acts amending the same, and the said Acts and this Act may be cited collectively with Merchant Ship- as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1871.
ping Acts.
3. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January one thousand Commencement of ight hundred and seventy-two.
Registry (Part II. of Merchant Shipping Act, 1854).
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4. Every British ship shall, before registry, be permanently and conspicuously Particulars to be marked, to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Customs, as follows; that is to say, registry.
marked on ship before Her name shall be marked on each of her bows, and her name and the name of her
rt of registry shall be marked on her stern, on a dark ground in white or yellow
letters, of a length not less than four inches, and of proportionate breadth.
Her official number and the number denoting her registered tonnage shall be marked on her main bean.
:
A scale of feet shall be marked on her stem and on her stern post, in Roman capi- letters or in figures, six inches in length, the lower line of such letters or figures to incide with the draught line denoted thereby.
The Board of Trade may, however, exempt any class of ships from the requirements
of this section, or any of them.
If the said scale of feet is in any respect inaccurate, so as to be likely to mislead, the owner of the ship shall incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds.