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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH MARCH, 1890.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 110.

The following Acts are published for general information.

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By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th March, 1890.

W. M. DEANE,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

52 & 53 VICT. CHAPTER 43.

Merchant Shipping (Tonnage) Act, 1889.

An Act to amend the Law relating to the Measurement of the Tonnage

of Merchant Ships.

Be it

[26th August 1889.]

E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:—

rules for measure- ment of tonnage.

1.-(1.) In the measurement of a ship for the purpose of ascertaining her register Amendment of tonnage, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of any space which has not been first included in the measurement of her tonnage.

(2.) In section twenty-one, paragraph (4), of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104. the words "First, that nothing shall be added for a closed-in space solely appropriated

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to the berthing of the crew, unless such space exceeds one twentieth of the remaining

tonnage of the ship, and in case of such excess the excess only shall be added; and secondly"; and in section twenty-two, paragraph (2), of the same Act the words subject to the deduction for a closed-in space appropriated to the crew, as mentioned "in Rule I." shall be repealed.

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years

Provided that this section shall not apply until after the expiration of five from the date of the passing of this Act to any ship in the measurement or re-measure- ment of which the deductions prohibited by this section have been made before the tenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, or to any ship the building of which was commenced before the tenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, and which is registered for the first time between that date and the last day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, unless in either case the ship is, before the expiration of the said five years, measured or re-measured in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and any such ship may be measured or re- measured at the request of the owner.

But this exemption shall not extend to any ship in the case of which the allowance for propelling-power space exceeds fifty per cent. of the gross tonnage of the ship.

Subject as aforesaid, the tonnage of every ship shall be estimated for all purposes as if any deduction prohibited by this section had not been made, and the particulars relating to the ship's tonnage in the register book, and in her certificate of registry, shall be corrected accordingly.

2. In the case of any ship built or measured after the passing of this Act, such portion of the space or spaces above the crown of the engine room and above the upper deck as is framed in for the machinery or for the admission of light and air, shall not be included in the measurement of the space occupied by the propelling power, except in pursuance of a request in writing to the Board of Trade by the owner of the ship, and shall not be included in

pursuance of such request unless :-----

(a.) that portion is first included in the measurement of the gross tonnage ; and (b.) a surveyor appointed under the Fourth Part of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, certifies that the portion so framed in is reasonable in extent and is so constructed as to be safe and seaworthy, and that it cannot be used for any purpose other than the machinery or for the admission of light and air to the machinery or boilers of the ship.

Rule as to allow- room in steamers.

ance for engine

3.-(1.) In measuring or re-measuring a ship for the purpose of ascertaining her Deductions for register tonnage, the following deductions shall be made from the space included in the navigation spaces, measurement of the tonnage

(a.) In the case of a ship wholly propelled by sails, any space set apart and used

exclusively for the storage of sails :

&c.