CO129-585-5 Sino-Japanese conflict- shipping on Pearl River 3-1-1940 - 25-8-1940 — Page 110

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the construction of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, or of the local Acts or charters relating to the particular district (u).'

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"By section 803 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, compulsory pilotage, subject to existing exemptions, was kept in force in all districts in which pilotage was compulsory immediately before the commencement of the Act (x)"

I have, etc.,

(Sga.) W. Stark Toller,

CONSUL-GENERAL.

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