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Merchant Shipping Act, apples the system

of Suweys to steamer which do not carry

Passengers, which, in the absence of any Knowledge of special or exceptional circumstances would appear to this Board to be a doubtful

step. The Merchant Shipping Aer of 1846

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proceeds in the opposite direction, as it

exempto from Survey Steamers carrying Passengero

hvelve,

when the number does not exceed

As regards the extension of the

Bill to Foreign Steam Ships, dam to state that the Board think that the only cucumstances under which the Survey showed

be applied to Foreign Ships

Foreign Ships are the hos

following, viz:-

(1) When the Foreign Ship plies as a Passenger Steamer within the Colony

in