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CHARTERPARTIES.-(continued.)
charterparty for ship of 500 tons, freighted for East India service.-(continued.)
no freight or demurrage to be paid till the ship is safe arrived in the
river, 290.

and then to be paid in moieties, 291.

deduction for Poplar hospital, 291.

(on contract tonnage), 291.

ship may be employed in trade and warfare, and to let her to freight, 291.
ship may return to England after limited time, giving notice and protest,

291.

master to be supplied with £200 per month whilst in India or China,
291.

at what rates, 292.

proviso to make the charterparty void, if covenants are broken by the
part owners and master before the ship leaves England, 292.

and be unladen, 292.

owners to account for all damages, 292.

allowance for soldiers, if the ship touches at places for refreshment, 292.
company to be repaid bills of exchange with interest, though the ship be
lost, 293.

company to pay for the hire of Lascars, in the room of seamen, employed
in India, 293.

exception, 293.

ship to call at Madeira for wine free of expence, if not detained above ten
working days, 293.

not to be employed to the northward of the line, 293.

owners and commander to conform to the rules and regulations of the
company, 293.

allowance for war contingencies, 294.

(contract tonnage), 294.

expences on Lascars to be paid by company, 294.

times of payment of war contingencies, 294.

(one pound ten shillings in part of six-sevenths of contingencies),

294.

(remainder of six-sevenths of contingencies), 294.

(remaining one-seventh of contingencies), 294.

payments to be in full, 294.

deductions in case of loss previous to being fully equipped, &c., 294.
allowance to be made to the company in case of peace, 294.

for ship of 500 to 600 tons, to be freighted for the East India company's ser-
vice, 295.

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passengers, 296.

penalty for not taking in

tons of goods, 296.

(builders' measurement), 296.

tons outwards, freight free, 296.

tons outwards, 296.

CHARTERPARTIES.-(continued.)

for ship of 500 to 600 tons, to be freighted for E. I. Co's. service.-(continued.)
four-fifths chartered tonnage, 296.

to pay £5 per ton for all above

tons outwards, 296.

notice to be given of her arrival at Gravesend, 296.

how long to stay there, 296.

when to be dispatched to the Downs, 297.

demurrage for detention, 297.

when to be in the Downs and dispatched from thence, 297.

if not dispatched, the company to pay demurrage 6d. per ton on builder's
measurement, 297.

if the ship does not arrive at Gravesend and the Downs, and sail at the
above time, the owners to pay demurrage, 297.

calculated at 6d. per ton on builder's measurement, 297.

ship's company, 297.

(twelve lascars for nine Europeans), 298.

kintledge, 298.

denuage, 298.

pieces of ordnance, quantity of gunpowder, and other warlike stores,

298.

penalty for deficiency of guns, and also for sale of guns abroad, 298.
company to have liberty to survey the ship, &c. at any time, 298.
to lie by for surveyors, &c., who are to be civilly treated and victualled,

298.

the hatches to be sealed if required, and the ship surveyed, 298.
if the ship is defective, to be amended by the owners, &c., 299.
if the ship is overladen, to be lightened, 299.

master to obey the company's orders, 299.

and those of agents abroad, 299.

qualification of the masters and mates, 299.

master and officers may be displaced and restored, 299.

none to be employed if disapproved, 299.

master or officers displaced, the next in rank to succeed, 300.

if master or officers are not confirmed or kept out of employ, the char-
terparty to be void, 300.

no office in the ship to be sold, 302.

ship to sail from the Downs to the place appointed, 302.

part owners and master to pay for deficiency of tonnage under

303.

the same amount as freight, 303.

tons,

except the deficient tonnage had been demanded and refused to be laden
to make up

tons, 303.

ship to touch at such places as shall be ordered, and receive and deliver
out any goods, &c., 303.

ship not to touch at any places not ordered to touch at, 304.

penalty, 304.

the charterparty demurrage, 304.

cargo to be stowed in best manner to prevent damage, 304.

no freight to be paid for goods stowed in the powder-rooms improperly,

304.

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CAARTERPARTIES.-(continued.)

for ship of 500 to 600 tons, to be freighted for E. I. Co's. service.-(continued.)
goods, lost, damaged, or undelivered outward and homeward bound to be
paid for with £30 per cent., 304.

exception, 305.

what sum the owners are to pay for damaged goods, 305.

(£5 per ton on builder's measurement), 305.

damages to be adjusted and paid for in London on demand, though the
ship be lost, 305.

ship to make no deviation, and the whole cargo to be delivered into the
company's warehouses, 306.

if ships are not cleared within 22 days by the company's neglect, then to
pay £3 a-day till cleared, 306.

if the ship touch at Ascension homeward bound, or sail from Saint Helena
in the night without leave, 306.

penalty, 306.

or touch at Barbadoes or elsewhere in America without orders, 306.
penalty, 306.

not in any ports of Europe, 306.

penalty, 306.

the charterparty demurrage, 306.

master, chief and second mates to keep journals, &c. of ship's proceed-
ings, 307.

and also of every thing received into and delivered from the ship, 307.
to whom the said accounts are to be produced, and copies taken, 307.
to be delivered to the company on oath if required, 307.

no unlicensed goods to be carried in the ship, 308.

or any pasengers without leave, 308.

penalty, 308.

company to do what is necessary to prevent unlawful trade, 308.
covenant not to do any thing against the act of navigation, 308.

ship to have her complement of men during the voyage, 308.

paymaster to be appointed by the company, and owners to pay seamen's
wives, &c., 309.

one month's wages in six, 309.

and in default, what advance to be thereon, 309.

master to deliver the paymaster an account of what is due to the seamen,
309.

allowance of tonnage to master and ship's company out and home 5 per
cent. on chartered tonnage out and home, 309.

tonnage of goods, 310.

company has liberty to load more than the ship is let for, if they think fit,
310.

freight, 310.

claim for short tonnage homewards not to be admitted unless certified,
310.

nor unless such short tonnage shall be found on survey, 310.

no survey to be made if bulk has been broken before demand, 310.
liberty to put passengers on board out and home, 311.

what to pay for passengers, 311.

not to receive more for fresh provisions than allowed by the court of di-
rectors, 311.

penalty, 311.

liberty to put on board passengers from port to port, 311.

such passengers first ageeing with the presidents, &c. abroad, 311.
passengers to be civilly treated, under the penalty of £50, 311.

CHARTERPARTIES.-(continued.)

for ship of 500 to 600 tons, to be freighted for E. I. Co's. service.-(continued.)

tonnage of passengers from port to port, 311.

in case of embargo, 311.

the company may annul charterparty, 311.
on what condition, 311.

what allowance to make if they do not, 312.
ship to be laden home, 312.

ready to receive her cargo, 312.

one-third of her builder's measurement to consist of sugar or saltpetre,

&c., 312.

sixpence per ton per day on the builder's measurement, 312.

if the ship is dispatched after the times herein inserted, 312.

then owners not to be answerable for damage done to the homeward
cargo, occasioned by the late dispatch, 313.

demurrage for ship's detention for convoy, 313.

no demurrage to be paid for time taken in repairing the ship, 313.

no freight or demurrage to be paid till the ship is safe arrived in the river,

313.

payment of freight, 313.

to be consigned to any ports in India, 314.

(four-fifths builders' measurement), 314.

ship may return to England after limited time, giving notice and protest,

314.

proviso to make the charterparty void if covenants are broken by the part
owner and master before the ship leaves England, 314.

owners to account for all damage, 315.

allowance for soldiers if the ship touches at places for refreshment, 315.
company to be repaid bills of exchange, with interest, though the ship be
lost, 315.

company to pay for the hire of Lascars in the room of seamen employed
in India, 315.

charterparty for a ship let to freight in the transport service, 317.

the owners to fit the long boat with two fore and aft carlings, and a car-
riage with a spindle, on which one of the guns of the ship is to be
mounted, and a magazine chest, agreeable to a model to be seen at the
transport office, Deptford, 318.

all additional ammunition for the above six guns, required by the commis-
sioners of the transport office to be provided, to be paid for by them,
and to be allowed gun money as usual for all additional guns the owners
shall find, and for the ammunition for the said additional guns above
the proportion mentioned for the six in charterparty, the number of
additional guns to be limited by the transport board, and no allowance
to be made for any that are put out on board without their consent and
order, 318.

master,

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the form of certificate :-"These are to certify the commissioners for
conducting his majesty's transport service, that the transport,
tons, is at this time in his majesty's service, fit for the
service employed upon, and complete according to charter in men and
stores, and that the master has behaved himself properly, and was
always obedient to command during the time he has been under my
direction. Given under my hand," &c., 319.

agreement for freight to a place between one that has a charterparty for a cer-
tain number of tons to a merchant for part of that number, 320.

for tonnage on a ship's returning home, 320.

for freight from a place (the ship to sail with a convoy) and to execute a
charterparty, 321.

CHARTERPARTIES.-(continued.)

protest for not executing charterparty according to memorandum of agreement,
321.

for refusing to sign bill of lading for goods shipped at the freight con-
tracted, 322.

of demurrage, 322.

for breach of charterparty, 323.

award awarding compensation for short loading of a vessel, 380.

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CLERK.-(See "Principal and Agent."

indentures, &c. between a trader and clerk for services of, 50 to 55.
bonds, &c. of indemnity for faithful services of, &c., 65 to 67.

COASTING TRADE.

contracts between master and mariners in, 61.

COLLATERAL SECURITY.-(See " Bill of Sale.")

66

COMPOSITION, Deeds of, &c.-(See "Letter of Licence," Assignments,"
Inspectorship, Deed of," "Trust, Deed of.")

66

clause in power of attorney to execute and receive dividend, 11. 22.

clause in deed of copartnership not to compound debts without authority, &c.,
109. 124.

power for trustees, in deed of assignment for benefit of creditors, to compound
debts, 466.

memorandum of agreement at a meeting of creditors to receive a composition
of debts, 416.

the like in another form, 416.

agreement to accept stock in trade in full of all demands, debtor agreeing to
assign same to trustee, 416.

assignment of all the goods, furniture, &c. of a debtor to trustees for the benefit
of his creditors, 416.

assignment of personal property, 417.

power to enter upon debtor's premises, and seize such property, 417.
assignment of debtor's debts and securities, 417.

of real property, 417.

habendum, 417.

upon trust for payment of debts, &c., 417.

debts before payment to be verified by affidavit if required, 418.

overplus to debtor, 418.

power for trustees to sue for debts due to debtor, 418.

covenant of debtor to do any further act to carry trust into execution, 418.

power for trustee to compound, 418.

trustees not liable for any thing but wilful default, 418.

trustees to be reimbursed their expences, &c., 418.

covenant by creditors to receive the dividend in full satisfaction of debts,
418.

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covenant not to sue, &c. debtor, 418.

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