Section 83. Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. THIRD SCHEDULE. TABLE OF MAXIMUM FEES TO BE PAID FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF Section 200. REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED WITH RESPECT TO ANTI-SCORBUTICS. (1.) The anti-scorbutics to be furnished shall be lime or lemon juice, or such other anti-scorbutics (if any) of such quality, and composed of such materials, and packed and kept in such manner as Her Majesty by Order in Council may direct. (2.) No lime or lemon juice shall be deemed fit and proper to be taken on board ship, for the use of the crew or passengers thereof, unless it has been obtained from a bonded warehouse for and to be shipped as stores. (3.) Lime or lemon juice shall not be so obtained or delivered from a warehouse as aforesaid, unless (a.) it is shown, by a certificate under the hand of an inspector appointed by the Board of Trade, to be proper for use on board ship, the certificate to be given upon inspection of a sample, after deposit of the lime or lemon juice in the warehouse; and Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. (b.) it contains fifteen per cent of proper and palatable proof spirit, to be approved by the inspector or by the proper officer of customs, and to be added before or immediately after the inspection thereof; and (c.) it is packed in such bottles at such time and in such manner and is labelled in such manner as the Commissioners of Customs may direct. (4.) If the lime or lemon juice is deposited in a bonded warehouse, and has been approved as aforesaid by the inspector, the spirit, or the amount of spirit necessary to make up fifteen per cent, may be added in the warehouse, without payment of any duty thereon; and when any spirit has been added to any lime or lemon juice, and the lime or lemon juice has been labelled as aforesaid, it shall be deposited in the warehouse for delivery as ship's stores only, upon such terms and subject to such regulations of the Commissioners of Customs as are applicable to the delivery of ship's stores from the warehouse. (5.) The lime or lemon juice with which a ship is required by this Act to be provided shall be taken from the warehouse duly labelled as aforesaid, and the labels shall remain intact until twenty-four hours at least after the ship has left her port of departure on her foreign voyage. Serving out of Anti-scorbutics. (6.) The lime or lemon juice shall be served out with sugar (the sugar to be in addition to any sugar required by the agreement with the crew). (7.) The anti-scorbutics shall be served out to the crew so soon as they have been at sea for ten days; and during the remainder of the voyage, except during such time as they are in harbour and are there supplied with fresh provisions. (8.) The lime or lemon juice and sugar shall be served out daily at the rate of an ounce each per day to each member of the crew, and shall be mixed with a due proportion of water before being served out. (9.) The other anti-scorbutics, if any, provided in pursuance of an Order in Council shall be served out at such times and in such quantities as the Order in Council directs. SIXTH SCHEDULE. REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED WITH RESPECT TO ACCOMMODATION ON (1.) Every place in a ship occupied by seamen or apprentices, and Sections 79, appropriated to their use, shall be such as to make the space which it 210. is required by the second part of this Act to contain available for the proper accommodation of the men who are to occupy it, and shall be securely constructed, properly lighted and ventilated, properly protected from weather and sea, and as far as practicable properly shut off and protected from effluvium which may be caused by cargo or bilge water. (2.) A place so occupied and appropriated as aforesaid shall not authorize a deduction from registered tonnage under the tonnage Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. regulations of this Act unless there be in the ship properly constructed privies for the use of the crew, of such number and of such construction as may be approved by the surveyor of ships. (3.) Every place so occupied and appropriated as aforesaid shall, whenever the ship is registered or re-registered, be inspected by one of the surveyors of ships under this Act, who shall, if satisfied that the same is in all respects such as is required by this Act, give to the collector of customs a certificate to that effect, and if the certificate is obtained, but not otherwise, the space shall be deducted from the register tonnage. (4.) No deduction from tonnage as aforesaid shall be authorized unless there is permanently cut in a beam, and cut in or painted on or over the doorway or hatchway of every place so occupied and appropriated, the number of men which it is constructed to accommodate, with the words "Certified to accommodate seamen." (5.) Upon any complaint concerning any place so occupied and appropriated as aforesaid, a surveyor of ships may inspect the place, and if he finds that any of the provisions of this Act with respect to the same are not complied with he shall report the same to the chief officer of customs at the port where the ship is registered, and thereupon the registered tonnage shall be altered, and the deduction aforesaid in respect of space disallowed, unless and until it be certified by the surveyor, or by some other surveyor of ships, that the provisions of this Act in respect of the place are fully complied with. Maximum Fees for Inspection. (6.) The fee for each visit to the ship shall not exceed ten shillings. (7.) The aggregate amount of the fees for any such inspection shall not exceed one pound, whatever be the number of separate visits. (8.) When the accommodation is inspected at the same time with the measurement of the tonnage, no separate fee shall be charged for the inspection. Constitution of local marine board. Section 244. SEVENTH SCHEDULE. CONSTITUTION OF LOCAL MARINE BOARDS. Elections. 1. A local marine board shall consist of the following members; viz.— (a.) The mayor or provost and the stipendiary magistrate, or such of the mayors or provosts and stipendiary magistrates of the place (if more than one) as the Board of Trade appoint: (b.) Four members appointed by the Board of Trade from among persons residing or having places of business at the port or within seven miles thereof : (c.) Six members elected by the owners of such foreign-going ships and home-trade passenger ships as are registered at the port. 2. The elections shall be held on the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and on the twenty-fifth day of January in every third succeeding year, and the appointments shall be made within one month after the elections. Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. 3. Upon the conclusion of that month and the constitution of a new board, the functions of the then existing board shall cease, and the board, consisting of the members then newly elected and appointed, shall take its place. 4. A casual vacancy happening in the intervals between the general elections and appointments, by death, resignation, disqualification, or otherwise, shall be filled up within one month after it happens ; and every person elected or appointed to fill a casual vacancy shall continue a member until the next constitution of the new board. 5. The mayor or provost shall fix the place and mode of conducting elections, and also, in the case of casual vacancies, the day of election, and shall give at least ten days' notice thereof. 6. The Board of Trade may decide any question raised concerning any election. Registry and Votes of Electors. 7. Owners of foreign-going ships and of home-trade passenger ships registered at the port shall have votes at the election as follows; namely, Every registered owner of not less than 250 tons in the whole of such shipping shall at every election have one vote for each member for every 250 tons owned by him, so that his votes for any one member do not exceed ten. 8. The qualification of electors shall be ascertained as follows: (a.) In the case of a ship registered in the name of one person that person shall be deemed the owner: (b.) In the case of a ship registered in distinct and several shares in the names of more persons than one the tonnage shall be apportioned among them as nearly as may be in proportion to their respective shares, and each of them shall be deemed the owner of the tonnage so apportioned to him : (c.) In the case of a ship or shares of a ship registered jointly without severance of interest in the names of more persons than one the tonnage shall, if sufficient either alone or together with other tonnage, if any, owned by the joint owners, to give a qualification to each of them, be apportioned equally between or among the joint owners, and each of them shall be deemed the owner of the equal share so apportioned to him; but if it is not so sufficient the whole of the tonnage shall be deemed to be owned by such one of the joint owners resident or having a place of business at the port or within seven miles thereof as is first named on the register : (d.) In making any such apportionment any portion of the tonnage may be struck off so as to produce a divisible amount : (e.) The whole amount of tonnage so owned by each person, whether in ships or shares of or interests in ships, shall be added together, and if sufficient, shall constitute his qualification. 9. The chief officer of customs in the port shall, with the assistance of the Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen, on or before the twenty-fifth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and in every third succeeding year, make out an alphabetical list of the persons entitled by this Act to vote at the election, containing the name and residence of each such person, and Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. the number of votes to which he is entitled, and shall sign the list, and shall cause a sufficient number of copies thereof to be printed and shall cause copies thereof to be fixed on or near the doors of the custom-house of the port for two entire weeks next after the list has been made, and shall keep two copies of the list, and permit the same to be perused by any person, without payment, at all reasonable hours during those two weeks. 10. The mayor or provost of the port, or such of them, if more than one, as is or are for the time being so appointed as aforesaid, shall, at least twenty days before the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, and in each succeeding third year, nominate two justices of the peace (in this schedule referred to as the revisers) to revise the list. 11. The revisers shall, between the eighth and fifteenth days of January, both inclusive, in the year in which they are so nominated, revise the list at the custom-house of the port, or in some convenient place near thereto, to be hired if necessary, by the said chief officer. 12. The revisers shall give three clear days' notice of the revision by advertising the same in some local newspaper, and by affixing a notice thereof on or near to the doors of the custom-house. 13. The revisers shall make the revision by inserting in the list the name of every person who claims to have his name inserted therein and gives proof, satisfactory to the revisers, of his right to have his name so inserted, and by striking out therefrom the name of every person to the insertion of whose name an objection is made by any other person named in the list who gives proof satisfactory to the revisers that the name objected to ought not to have been inserted therein. 14. The decision of the revisers with respect to every such claim or objection shall be conclusive. 15. The revisers shall, immediately after the revision, sign their names at the foot of the list so revised. 16. The list so revised shall be the register of voters at elections for three years from the twenty-fifth day of January then next ensuing inclusive to the twenty-fourth day of January inclusive in the third succeeding year. 17. The revised list, when so signed, shall be delivered to the mayor or provost as aforesaid, who shall, if necessary, cause a sufficient number of copies thereof to be printed, and shall cause a copy thereof to be delivered to every voter applying for the same. 18. The chief officer shall, if required, for the assistance of the revisers in revising the list, produce to them the books containing the register of ships registered at the port; and the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, if required, shall also produce or transmit to them such certified extracts or returns from the books in his custody as may be necessary for the same purpose. 19. The revisers shall certify the expenses properly incurred by the chief officer in making and printing the list and in the revision thereof, and the Board of Trade shall pay the same, and also all expenses properly incurred by the mayor or provost in printing the same, or in any election; and the Board of Trade may disallow any items of any of those expenses in their opinion improperly incurred. 20. Every person whose name appears on the revised list and no other person, shall be qualified to vote at the election on the twenty |