in any act or acts of parliament as to the pilots or pilotage, or to the pilotage within the limits prescribed by any act or acts of parliament relating to pilotage for such ports, or to the burthen of vessels navigating to or from such ports."

8. The Pilot Act, &c.

6 Geo. 4, c. 125.

marks and bea

Sect. 90. "All provisions, clauses, penalties, and forfeitures, contained in Provisions of foran act passed in the eighth year of the reign of queen Elizabeth, or any mer acts for preother act or acts made and in force for the preservation of sea-marks and servation of sea beacons, shall extend and be construed to extend to all vessels duly appointed cons to extend to to exhibit lights therein for the preservation of ships and vessels at sea, and all vessels apto all persons removing, injuring, or destroying such vessels or lights, which pointed to exhibit offences may be laid and tried in any county in England."

lights, &c.

or beacon.

Sect. 91. "Every person who shall ride by, make fast to, or remove, or Penalty for riding wilfully run down, or run foul of any vessel, appointed or placed to exhibit by, &c. such veslights, or any buoy or beacon belonging to the said corporation of Trinity sels, or any buoy House of Deptford Strond, or belonging to or placed by any other corporation having lawful authority to place the same, shall, besides being liable to the expense of replacing or making good any damage occasioned thereby, forfeit for every such offence any sum not exceeding 50l., nor less than 10%., to be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information in which no essoign, protection, privilege, wager of law, or more than one imparlance shall be granted or allowed; one-third of which said penalty shall go to the persons who shall inform or sue for the same, and the remainder of which said penalty shall go to the said corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond, or other the corporation to which such vessel, buoy, or beacon shall belong, or by which the same shall have been placed as aforesaid, as the case may be, to be applied to the charitable purposes of the said corporations respectively."

Sect. 92. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and Public act. shall be judicially taken notice of as such, by all judges, justices, and others,

without being specially pleaded."

Sect. 93. "This act may be altered, amended, or repealed by any act or Act may be al

acts to be passed in this present session of parliament."

The act then gives the following schedules :

SCHEDULE (A.) See it, post, 702, 703.

SCHEDULE (B.)

Oath to be taken by the Master and Wardens of the Society of Cinque-Port Pilots. "I, A. B., do swear that I will diligently and impartially examine and inquire into the capacity and skill of in the art of piloting ships and vessels

over the flats, and round the Long Sand Head, and up the rivers of Thames and Medway, and into Ramsgate, Dover, Sandwich, and Margate harbours, and also upon the coasts of Flanders and Holland; and will make true and speedy return thereof to the Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports for the time being, or his deputy, without favour, affection, fee, or reward.

SCHEDULE (C.)

"So help me God."

Oath to be taken by Sub-Commissioners of Pilotage.

"I, A. B., do swear, that I will diligently and impartially examine into the capacity and skill of in the art of piloting ships and vessels into the roadstead, port, or harbour, and upon the coasts following: videlicet [here describe the limits within which the person examined is intended to act as pilot]; and will make true and speedy return thereof to the corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond, without favour, affection, fee, or reward, other than such fee or reward as is allowed by the bye-laws or regulations duly established in that behalf. "So help me God."

tered or repealed this session.

SCHEDULES REFERRED TO IN THIS ACT.. -SCHEDULE (A).

TABLE (A.)-Table of the Rates of Pilotage to be demanded and received by Pilots, licensed by the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond, for Piloting Ships and Vessels within the Limits in the said Table mentioned.

In the River Thames, above Gravesend

For a Boat of a Class carrying an Anchor of above 4 Cwt. with a corresponding Tow.Line

DO

Do.

2 Cwt.

SCHEDULE (A.)—Continued.

For Half-a-Foot exceeding the above Draughts of Water, the medium Price between the Two Limits.

From off the South Foreland to the Downs

1 5+ 0

1 5+ 0

1 10 0

2 0 0

330

And for each Man's Service in those Boats, 8s. per Tide.

3 & 4 Wil. 4, c. 54.

IX. The Nabigation Act.

By the 3 & 4 Wil. IV. c. 54, intituled " An Act for the Encouragement o British Shipping and Navigation," [28th August 1833,] reciting, “Where 6 Geo. 4, c. 109. an act was passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late majesty, kin

Commencement

of act.

Ships in which only enumerated goods of Europe may be imported.

Places from which
only goods of
Asia, Africa, or
America may he
imported.

George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the Encouragement of British Ship ping and Navigation,' whereby the laws for the encouragement of Britis shipping and navigation were consolidated and amended: and where since the passing of the said act divers acts for the further amendment of th law have been found necessary, and it will be of advantage to the trade an commerce of the country that the said acts should be consolidated inte o act;" it is enacted, " that this act shall commence upon the 1st day of Sep tember, 1833, except where any other commencement is herein particulari directed."

Sect. 2. "The several sorts of goods hereinafter enumerated, being the produce of Europe; (that is to say,) masts, timber, boards, tar, tallow, hemp flax, currants, raisins, figs, prunes, olive oil, corn or grain, wine, brandy tobacco, wool, shumac, madders, madder roots, barilla, brimstone, bark oak, cork, oranges, lemons, linseed, rape seed, and clover seed, shall not be ported into the United Kingdom to be used therein, except in British ships, or in ships of the country of which the goods are the produce, or in ships the country from which the goods are imported."

Sect. 3." Goods, the produce of Asia, Africa, and America, shall not be imported from Europe into the United Kingdom, to be used therein, except the goods hereinafter mentioned: (that is to say,)

'Goods the produce of the dominions of the emperor of Morocco which may
be imported from places in Europe within the Straits of Gibraltar:
'Goods, the produce of Asia or Africa, which (having been brought inte
places in Europe within the Straits of Gibraltar, from or through places
Asia or Africa within those Straits, and not by way of the Atlantic Ocean
may be imported from places in Europe within the Straits of Gibraltar.
'Goods, the produce of places within the limits of the East India company
charter, which (having been imported from those places into Gibraltar
Malta in British ships) may be imported from Gibraltar or Malta:
'Goods taken by way of reprisal by British ships:

'Bullion, diamonds, pearls, rubies, emeralds, and other jewels or precio

stones.'

Ships in which Sect. 4. "Goods, the produce of Asia, Africa, or America, shall not b only goods of Asia, imported into the United Kingdom, to be used therein, in foreign ships, un Africa, or America less they be the ships of the country in Asia, Africa, or America, of which may be imported, the goods are the produce, and from which they are imported, except

Manufacture

goods hereinafter mentioned; (that is to say,)

'Goods, the produce of the dominions of the Grand Seignor, in Asia Africa, which may be imported from his dominions in Europe, in shipe his dominions:

Raw silk and mohair yarn, the produce of Asia, which may be importe from the dominions of the Grand Seignor in the Levant Seas, in ships his dominions.

'Bullion.'"

Sect. 5. "Provided that all manufactured goods shall be deemed to deemed produce. the produce of the country of which they are the manufacture." Sect. 6. "No goods shall be imported into the United Kingdom fr the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, except in Brit ships."

From Guernsey,

&c.

Exports to Asia, &c., and to

Guernsey, &c.

Sect. 7. "No goods shall be exported from the United Kingdom to British possession in Asia, Africa, or America, nor to the islands of Guernse Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, except in British ships."

Sect. 8. "No goods shall be carried coastwise from one part of the 9. The NaviUnited Kingdom to another, except in British ships."

Sect. 9. "No goods shall be carried from any of the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, to any other of such islands, nor from one part of any of such islands to another part of the same island, except in British ships."

gation Act.

3 & 4 Wil. 4, c. 54. Coastwise.

Between Guern

Sect. 10. "No goods shall be carried from any British possession in Asia, sey, Jersey, &c. Africa, or America, to any other of such possessions, nor from one part of any of such possessions to another part of the same, except in British ships."

Between British possessions in Asia, &c.

Sect. 11. "No goods shall be imported into any British possession in Asia, Imports into Bri. Africa, or America, in any foreign ships, unless they be the ships of the tish possessions in country of which the goods are the produce, and from which the goods are Asia, &c. imported."

such.

Sect. 12. "No ship shall be admitted to be a British ship unless duly No ship British, registered and navigated as such; and that every British registered ship (so unless registered, long as the registry of such ship shall be in force, or the certificate of such and navigated as registry retained for the use of such ship) shall be navigated during the whole of every voyage, (whether with a cargo or in ballast), in every part of the world, by a master who is a British subject, and by a crew, whereof three fourths at least are British seamen ; and if such ship be employed in a coasting voyage from one part of the United Kingdom to another, or in a voyage between the United Kingdom and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, or from one of the said islands to another of them, or from one part of either of them to another of the same, or be employed in fishing on the coasts of the United Kingdom or of any of the said islands, then the whole of the crew shall be British seamen."

navigation upon

rivers, &c. al.

Sect. 13. "Provided that all British-built boats or vessels under fifteen But vessels under tons' burthen, wholly owned and navigated by British subjects, although not fifteen tons' burregistered as British ships, shall be admitted to be British vessels, in all navi- then admitted in gation in the rivers and upon the coasts of the United Kingdom, or of the British possessions abroad, and not proceeding over sea, except within the though not regislimits of the respective colonial governments within which the managing tered. owners of such vessels respectively reside; and that all British-built boats Vessels under or vessels wholly owned and navigated by British subjects, not exceeding thirty tons for the burthen of thirty tons, and not having a whole or a fixed deck, and being Newfoundland employed solely in fishing on the banks and shores of Newfoundland, and fishery, &c. need not be registered. of the parts adjacent, or on the banks and shores of the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, adjacent to the gulf of St. Lawrence, or on the north of Cape Canso, or of the islands within the same, or in trading coastwise within the said limits, shall be admitted to be British boats or vessels, although not registered, so long as such boats or vessels shall be solely so employed."

and Colonies in America.

Sect. 14. Provided that "all ships built in the British settlements at Hon- Honduras ships duras, and owned and navigated as British ships, shall be entitled to the to be as British, privileges of British registered ships in all direct trade between the United in trade with Kingdom or the British possessions in America and the said settlements; United Kingdom provided the master shall produce a certificate under the hand of the superintendent of those settlements, that satisfactory proof has been made before him that such ship (describing the same) was built in the said settlements, and is wholly owned by British subjects; provided also, that the time of the clearance of such ship from the said settlements for every voyage shall be endorsed upon such certificate by such superintendent."

country; or Bri

Sect. 15. "No ship shall be admitted to be a ship of any particular Ship of any focountry, unless she be of the built of such country; or have been made prize reign country to of war to such country; or have been forfeited to such country under any be of the built of, law of the same, made for the prevention of the slave trade, and condemned or prize to such as such prize or forfeiture by a competent court of such country; or be British tish-built, and built (not having been a prize of war from British subjects to any other owned and naviforeign country); nor unless she be navigated by a master who is a subject gated by subjects of such foreign country, and by a crew of whom three-fourths at least are of the country. subjects of such country; nor unless she be wholly owned by subjects of Ꮓ Ꮓ

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