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expired, - although their attention was expressly called to the clause at the foot of
the certificate which reads:-
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" This certificate unless "previously cancelled or revoked
• to be in force until the 24th Aug: 1895. If the ship is then out "the United Kingdom she must
of
be surveyed and have a new
" Certificate before she first begins of to ply with passengers after her
"next subsequent return to the
United Kingdom.
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This refusal is entirely
without precedent so
far
as my
own experience goes, which is one of twenty five years in the same trade. I need not point out that it renders entirely meaning- less the clause in the Board's certificate quoted above.
A new departure of this character involves consequences of Euch vital importance to ship
owners.
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