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CHAPTER XII.

§ 1. Trade and Navigation.

The Customs Establishments in all the 3 are under the control and management several Colonial Governments, and the | Legislatures are empowered to establish vn Customs Regulations and Rates of

The Imperial Act, 16 & 17 Vict., c. 107, 5, provides for a freedom of navigation the United Kingdom, or the British ions, and Foreign Countries. But with a placing British Ships in Foreign Ports ly as possible on the same footing as Ships in British Ports, the Crown has er, by Order in Council, of restricting ileges of Foreign Ships, and of imposing al Duties, in cases in which British

ay be subject in any Foreign Country to tions or Restrictions from which the

f that Country are exempt, or in which eference whatever may be shown to 1 Vessels over British Vessels, or in British Trade and Navigation is not by such Country upon as advantageous a as the Trade and Navigation of the most d Nation.

Cancelled by Circular 24th July, 1889.

Under sec. 89 of the Merchant Shipping 94, the Governor is entrusted with the

which, in respect to the Registry of or of any interest therein, are vested by t in the Commissioners of Customs in d. It is to the Governor, therefore, that gistrars of Shipping are directed to look ructions.

The Governor usually appoints the Col- of Customs in the Colony to act as ars of Shipping and Superintendents of tile Marine under the Merchant Shipping he duties of the Registrars and Superin- to being defined in the Instructions

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which are issued from time to time by the Board of Trade, with the sanction of the Secretary of State.

381. It being, however, important for statis- tical purposes that information respecting the Trade and Navigation of the Colony should be forwarded to the Home Government, the points enumerated in the following sections should have the Governor's careful attention.

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are issued from time to time by the Board le, with the sanction of the Secretary of

It being, however, important for statis- urposes that information respecting the and Navigation of the Colony should be ded to the Home Government, the points erated in the following sections should :he Governor's careful attention.