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of Loss, Abandonment, Damage or Casualty to ships.

Section 4 of the Ordinance provides

"Upon the conclusion of the case, "the said Court shall send a

"Report to the Board of Trade ___ containing a full statement of "the case and of their opinion "thereon, accompanie by such "Reports of or Extracts from the "Evidence, and such Observations

(if any) "fit"."

as the Court may think

Section 6 also provides that the Court may require the Master or mate to deliver his certificate to them and they shall hold the certificate so deliverie

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untit the conclusion of the Investigation,

and shall then either return the same

to such master or mate, or, if their "Report is such as to enable the Board of

Trade to cancel or

suspend such. "Certificate under the Powers given to such Board by the Third Part of the - " Merchant Shipping Act 1851 shall_ "forward the same to the Board of Grade, to be dealt with as such Board "thinks fit":"

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It appears therefore that at that date the Board of Trade alone had the power of cancelling or suspending

certificate and that they could only exercise the power, if (1) the local Court had reported that the