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or otherwise, as shall seem to the Court most advantageous-shall be specified in the decree of the Court and notified by advertisement.
15. The proceeds of the sale shall be paid into Court, and therefrom shall the decree or decrees, on a day fixed for the appearance before the Court of the parties interested for the marshalling of their claims, be satisfied; and the surplus shall remain in Court until the person or persons claiming to be entitled thereto shall
establish their claim or claims.
Norm.—It shall be competent for any person, at any period in a mat, la file in Court a petition that he be decreed to share in the proceeds or in the Talaver thers f; and any proceedings of the desemption shall be conducted in the same way a such a claim would have becu eunducted against the Res itself.
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16. It shall be competent for the Court to refor any matter requiring investiga- tion, or having reference to accounts, rate of interest, repairs done to any ship, &c., to the Registrar alone, or to the Registrar assistel by one or two merchants or shipmasters to be appointed by it; and such reference shall take place within ten days from the date of the order therefor. Leave shall, when prayed for by either party, be given to file affidavits and counter-affidavits provided always that the Judge shall have power to extend the time within which the reference is to take place whenever the filing of affidavits and counter-affidavits necessitates such extension.
Witnesses may be produced before the Registrar, provided four days' notice of an intention to examine them be given; and it shall be optional with the Registrar to permit or refuse to allow the attendance of Counsel or Solicitora at the licaring before him, and no costs shall be allowed for such attendance if the Registrar shall be of opinion that it was unnecessary.
The Report of the Registrar shall be filed within ten days of the hearing before him, and notice of any objection to be made thereto shall be filed by the party making it, within five days of the filing of the Report.
All questions of cost of the reference shall be in the discretion of the Registrar, subject to the decision thereon of the Chief Justice.
17.-To all cases the Court shall apply the English Law as administered in Admiralty Courts in Englaul; and all matters of procedure, not otherwise provided for in these Rules or in the General Rules of Procedure for this Court, shall be governed, is far as may be, by the Rules in force in Her Majesty's High Court of Admiralty.
APPENDIX A.
Causes of Damage.
In causes of de maga each party shall, at the time of filing his petition or answer, bring into and deposit in the Registry a scaled packet containing a statement of the following particulars:
1. The names of the two vessels which came into oollision, and the names of their respective
mastere.
2. The time of the collision as nearly as can be stated.
3. The locality of the collision.
4. The direction of the wind at the time.
5. The state of the weather.
A. The state and force of the tide.
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7. The course and speed of the vessel when the other was first seen.
8. The lights, if any, carried by her.
9. The distance and bearing of the other vessel when first scen.
10. The lights, if any, of the other vessel which were first seen.
11. Whether any lights of the other vessel other than those first seen came into view before
the collision.
12. What measures were taken, and when, to avoid the collision.
13. Th. parts of each vessel which first came into contact.
Such packeta shall remain sealed and shall not be opened, save by order of the Judge, until the pleadings and proofs are filed; they may be referred to at the hearing of the cause.