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by their own Officers only those veseele which have been insp cted by an independent qualified Officer lawfully appointed for such purpose by the public of ruling Authority at foreign ports, appear to the Committee to be unnecessary and vexatious interferences with a long- standing practice which he worked efficiently and proved a commercial convenience. The Committee submit that such changes should not be adopted from an abstract desire for uniformity of system with the Board of Trade, but only if, and when, some practical necessity has been proved to exist.
The stipul ion alluded to in the previous paragraph place the Austrian Lloyds Steam Navigation Company in an extremely difficult position, inasmuch
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as Austria has no Institution corresponding to the Marine
exit Department of the Board of Trade, and no Ruler in that country for the survey of vessele carrying passengers or emigrants. No periodical surveys of any kind are carried out by the Government on such vessels, and the Port Authorities do not inep-ct them except for the Annual Boiler Survey. It appears therefore that, if the contemplated alterations of practice are carried cut, the Company will have no alternative, unless they abandon the trade, but to dock their vessels for examina- tion at various Bastern porte instead of at Trieste, their home port, where, as already mentioned, they have their own docking and repairing facilities. Such a procedure must occasion serious expense, and be a source of great dissatisfaction to this important Company, who would of course wish this work to be carried out as far
as possible under the eyes of their Chief Officials in
their own yards at Headquarters.
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