Section 18 amended as the end of the section the following words :-" Provided always, that the maximum number of life preservers required on any steamboat shall not exceed two hundred." 3. Section eighteen of the said Act is hereby amended by to number of adding thereto the words "Provided always, that passenger fire-buckets. steamboats of more than seventy-five and less than one hundred and fifty tons gross shall not require to be provided with and have on board more than twelve fire buckets, and that passenger steamboats of seventy-five tons gross and under, and steam tugs under one hundred and fifty tons gross, shall not be required to be provided with and have on board more than six fire buckets." Section 19 amended as to number of life-boats. Proviso. Proviso. Section 26 amended as to small steamers. Section 27 amended. Section 32 to inspection fees. 4. Section nineteen of the said Act is hereby amended by adding after the word "Fredericton," in the eighth line, the words "the waters in the District of Muskoka, the County of Victoria and the County of Peterborough, in the Province of Ontario, and the waters of the Ottawa River and its tributaries above the City of Ottawa;" and also by adding at the end of the said section the words "Provided always, that steamboats not exceeding one hundred and fifty tons gross shall not be required to carry more than one good boat, of the capacity above-mentioned; and provided also, that steam tugs on the canals and in harbours shall not be required to carry any boat." 5. The twenty-sixth section of the said Act is hereby amended by striking out the words "except on any of the Lakes Memphremagog, Ontario, Erie, Huron, Simcoe or Superior;" also by striking out the words "except on any of the lakes above named," and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "or of any freight steamboat or tug steamboat less than one hundred and fifty tons gross." 6. Section twenty-seven of the said Act is hereby amended by striking out the word "two," in the fifth line, and inserting in lieu thereof the word one." 66 7. Section thirty-two of the said Act is hereby amended amended as by striking out the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth lines, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "or master of every passenger steamboat exceeding one hundred tons shall pay an inspection fee of eight dollars for each inspection made imperative by this Act, and the owner or master of all passenger steamboats of one hundred tons and less, and all other steamboats, shall pay an inspection fee of five dollars for each inspection made imperative by this Act." Section 37 amended. 8. Section thirty-seven of the said Act is hereby amended by inserting immediately before the first word of the section the words "Except when otherwise specially provided;" and and also by striking out the word "forty," in the fifth line, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "twenty." 9. Section forty-three of the said Act is hereby amended Section 43 by striking out the words "and with substantial handrails" amended. and inserting in lieu thereof the words "protected at the sides in a suitable manner against danger from falling overboard;" and also by striking out the words " and wharf or landing place" in the fifth line. amended. c. 10. Section eleven of the Act passed in the Session held in Section 11 of the thirty-second and thirty-third years of Her Majesty's reign 32-33 VC. 39 (1869), chapter thirty-nine, intituled "An Act to amend the Act respecting the Inspection of Steamboats, and for the greater safety of passengers by them," is hereby amended by inserting immediately before the first word of the section the words "except when otherwise specially provided;" and also by striking out the word "forty," in the fifth line, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "twenty." 36 V. c. 53 11. The second section of the Act passed in the thirty- Section 2 of sixth year of Her Majesty's reign (1873), chapter fifty-three, amended. intituled "An Act to amend the Acts respecting the Inspection of Steamboats," is hereby amended by striking out the word "six," in the fifth line, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "twelve." 37 V. c. 30 12. The second section of the Act passed in the thirty- Section of seventh year of Her Majesty's reign (1874), chapter thirty, amended as intituled "An Act further to amend the Act respecting the to protection Inspection of Steamboats," is hereby amended by striking out of boats. the words "the boats shall be covered with canvas or tarpaulin covers, to protect them from the sun and weather," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "the boats shall be kept in good condition, water-tight and ready for immediate use;" and also by striking out the words "once a week," and inserting in lieu thereof "once a month." 13. This Act, and the Acts hereby amended, shall be Short title. known and may be cited as "The Steamboat Inspection Acts, 1868 to 1877 " CHAP. CHAP. 19. Preamble. 36 V. c. 128 Con. Stat. Can. c. 41. Imp. Act, 17, 18 V. c. 104. Steamships registered in Canada before 27th March, 1874, to be remeasured. to such remeasurement. An Act respecting the Measurement of Steam Ships registered under the repealed Act of the late Province of Canada. WE [Assented to 28th April, 1877.] HEREAS by the Act passed in the thirty-sixth year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act relating to Shipping, and for the registration, inspection and classification thereof," which came into force by proclamation on the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, the Act chapter forty-one of the Consolidated Statutes of the late Province of Canada, intituled "An Act respecting the registration of Inland Vessels," was repealed, but ships registered under it were not required to be re-registered or re-measured; and whereas steamships registered in Canada on or after the said day were and are under the Act first above cited, to be measured for registration in the manner prescribed by the Act of the Imperial Parliament, known as "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and such measurement is made by different rules and gives a tonnage different from that given by the rules prescribed by the said Canadian Act; and whereas this difference is found to be inconvenient and unfair, and it is expedient that the same rules of measurement should be used in both cases: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Every steamship registered in Canada before the said twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, and measured for registration by any other rules than those prescribed by "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," shall, after the passing of this Act, be re-measured for tonnage in the manner and according to the rules prescribed by "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854;" and, Provisions as for the purpose of making such re-measurement, the Surveyor at any Canadian Port, or any Surveyor appointed for the purpose by the Governor, is hereby authorized to go on board such steamship at any seasonable time, and the owner, master or officers of the ship shall afford him the proper New tonnage facilities and assistance in making the same; and the ship's tonnage ascertained by such re-ineasurement shall be marked as the law requires, and entered on her register and certificate of registry by the registrar of her port of registry, and shall thereafter be deemed to be her tonnage for all purposes except those of "An Act respecting the Inspection of Steamboats and for the greater safety of Passengers by them,' passed in the thirty-first year of Her Majesty's reign, and for all pur poses except 31 V. c. 65. the 1877, to not re-mea the Acts in amendment thereof,-for which last mentioned. purposes the tonnage shall remain as at present: and on and No clearance after the first day of July next, no clearance shall be after 1st July, granted to any such steamship at any port in Canada, nor steamships shall she exercise any privilege of a British ship, or be recog; sured. nised as being so, until she has been re-measured and the tonnage so ascertained has been entered on her register and certificate of registry, and marked as hereby required : Provided always, that the tonnage dues on any such steam- Proviso; as ship shall be payable according to her present registered dues up to tonnage until the first of July next (1877),-on and after 1st July, 1877... which day they shall be payable according to her registered tonnage under this Act. to tonnage 2. Any owner, master or officer of a ship refusing or Penalty for neglecting, when called upon by a duly appointed surveyor Surveyor, or not assisting so to do, to afford him the proper facilities and assistance wilfully obfor the measurement of the ship under this Act, or any structing him person wilfully obstructing such surveyor in making such measurement, shall thereby incur a penalty of forty dollars, recoverable in a summary manner before any Justice of the Peace; and such penalty shall belong to the Crown for the public uses of the Dominion. measurement. 3. No fee shall be payable to the surveyor by the owner No fee for reor master of any steamship for the re-measurement thereof under this Act. 4. This Act shall be construed as one Act with that Construction.. herein first cited and hereby amended. of this Act. CHAP. 20. An Act to amend the Pilotage Acts of 1873 and of 1875. [Assented to 28th April, 1877.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Pilotage Act of Preamble. 1873, and also the Act passed in the thirty-eighth 38 V. c. 28. year of Her Majesty's reign and intituled "An Act further to amend The Pilotage Act, 1873,'" as respects exemption from the payment of pilotage dues and in other respects, and to provide for the more certain collection of pilotage dues: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Section seventy-five of "The Pilotage Act" 1873, is S. 75 of hereby amended by striking out the words "two lights (in 36 V. c. 54 this to lights. amended as Ss. 78, 79 amended. this Act called pilot lights) one above the other, the upper light white, the lower light red" and by substituting in lieu thereof the words "one white light (in this Act called pilot light"), and by striking out the words "pilot lights" wherever else they occur in the said section, and substituting instead thereof the words "a pilot light." 2. Sections seventy-eight and seventy-nine of the said of 36 V. c. 54 Act are hereby amended by striking out the words "pilot lights" and substituting in lieu thereof the words "a pilot light" in each of the said sections. Sub-section 3 of section I repealed. What steamships shall be exempt dues. 3. Sub-section three of the first section of the said Act of 1875 is repealed and the following substituted therefor : "3. Ships propelled wholly or in part by steam employed from pilotage in trading from port to port in the same Province, or between any one or more of the Provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia or Prince Edward Island, and any other or others of them, or employed on voyages between any port or ports in the said Provinces or any of them and the Port of New York or any port of the United States of America on Exception as the Atlantic, north of New York, shall be exempt from the to Halifax, Pictou and Miramichi. No clearance until such or settled for. compulsory payment of pilotage dues; except only in the ports of Halifax, Sydney Pilotage District, Miramichi and Pictou, as respects each of which ports the Pilotage authorities of the district may, from time to time, determine, with the approval of the Governor in Council, whether any, and which, if any, of the steamships so employed shall or shall not be wholly or partially, and, if partially, to what extent and under what circumstances, exempt from the compulsory payment of pilotage dues." 4. No clearance shall be granted to any ship liable to dues, if pay pilotage dues at any port in Canada where there is a duly able, are paid constituted Pilotage authority which collects the pilotage dues, and at which pilotage dues are payable, unless and until a certificate, from the Pilotage authorities of the district or some officer or person authorized by such authority to grant the same, that all pilotage dues in respect of such ship have been paid or settled for to the satisfaction of such authority, has been produced to the Customs officer granting such clearance. Construction and short title. 3. This Act shall be construed as one Act with that amended by it; and "The Pilotage Act, 1873," and the Acts of 1874 and 1875 amending it, and this Act, may be cited as "The Pilotage Acts of Canada CHAP |