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not to alter the Register of the ship.

As

regards

at Hong Kong

the measurement made

Th

Surveyor

has used

the approximate Rule, Rule 2 which on account of the Form and proportions of

the vessel differing from those of medicin

on which the rule is based gives

ships

very

wide approximation to

hie

Tonnage

under the true Rule Rule 1; he has also

a

not measured the spaces above the tonnage

deck in accordance with the Act and has

not followed Rule 3 Sechon 23

Act now in

Engine

force in measuring

Worm and

of the

the

estimating the allowanc

for same, his measurement, thus being

wholly incorrect.

regards the other hos alife referred

As re

to the "Rinshan and Kin

Shang"

th

former appears to have been built in

the