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Merchant Shipping Act, apples the system
of Suweys to steamer which do not carry
Passengers, which, in the absence of any Knowledge of special or exceptional circumstances would appear to this Board to be a doubtful
step. The Merchant Shipping Aer of 1846
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proceeds in the opposite direction, as it
exempto from Survey Steamers carrying Passengero
hvelve,
when the number does not exceed
As regards the extension of the
Bill to Foreign Steam Ships, dam to state that the Board think that the only cucumstances under which the Survey showed
be applied to Foreign Ships
Foreign Ships are the hos
following, viz:-
(1) When the Foreign Ship plies as a Passenger Steamer within the Colony
in