Needed to entitle the vessel to a deduction of 32 per cent of the gross tonnage, which necessitates the use of form b, or 175 per cent of the propelling-power space.

Light and air space need not be measured in the United States when the register shows there was no omission from the tonnage of the vessel.

Masters should be required to present, on entering, any certificate of measurement granted at another American port.

Objection has been made that it is difficult to secure a correct admeasurement of the boiler and engine rooms after all the machinery has been set up, but the Bureau is advised that while the spaces may be dirty and the process of admeasuring intricate they can be admeasured.

APPENDIX III.

BRITISH LAWS CONCERNING THE MEASUREMENT

OF VESSELS.

TEXT OF THE PRINCIPAL PROVISIONS OF THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT OF 1894 RELATING TO TONNAGE MEASUREMENT, AS AMENDED BY SUBSEQUENT ACTS.

APPENDIX III.

TEXT OF THE PRINCIPAL PROVISIONS OF THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1894. RELATING TO TONNAGE MEASUREMENT, AS AMENDED BY SUBSEQUENT ACTS.

6. Survey and measurement of ship.-Every British ship shall before registry be surveyed by a surveyor of ships, and her tonnage ascertained in accordance with the tonnage regulations of this act, and the surveyor shall grant his certificate specifying the ship's tonnage and build, and such other particulars descriptive of the identity of the ship as may for the time being be required by the Board of Trade, and such certificate shall be delivered to the registrar before registry.

7. Marking of ship.-(1) Every British ship shall, before registry, be marked permanently and conspicuously to the satisfaction of the Board of Trade, as follows:

(a) Her name shall be marked on each of her bows, and her name and the name of her port of registry must be marked on her stern, on a dark ground in white or yellow letters, or on a light ground in black letters, such letters to be of a length not less than 4 inches, and of proportionate breadth.

(b) Her official number and the number denoting her registered tonnage shall be cut in on her main beam.

(c) A scale of feet denoting her draft of water shall be marked on each side of her stem and of her stern post in Roman capital letters or in figures, not less than 6 inches in length, the lower line of such letters or figures to coincide with the draft line denoted thereby, and those letters or figures must be marked by being cut in and painted white or yellow on a dark ground, or in such other way as the Board of Trade approve.

(2) The Board of Trade may exempt any class of ships from all or any of the requirements of this section, and a fishing boat entered in the fishing-boat register, and lettered and numbered in pursuance of the fourth part of this act, need not have her name and port of registry marked under this section.

(3) If the scale of feet showing the ship's draft of water is in any respects inaccurate, so as to be likely to mislead, the owner of the ship shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £100. (4) The marks required by this section shall be permanently continued, and no alteration shall be made therein, except in the event of any of the particulars thereby denoted being altered in the manner provided by this act.

(5) If an owner or a master of a British ship neglects to cause his ship to be marked as required by this section, or to keep her so marked, or if any person conceals, removes, alters, defaces, or obliterates, or suffers any person under his control to conceal, remove, alter, deface, or obliterate any of the said marks, except in the event aforesaid, or except for the purpose of escaping capture by an enemy, that owner, master, or person shall for each offense be liable to a fine not exceeding £100, and on a certificate from a surveyor of ships, or Board of Trade inspector under this act, that a ship is insufficiently or inaccurately marked, the ship may be detained until the insufficiency or inaccuracy has been remedied.

48. Registry of alterations.--(1) When a registered ship is so altered as not to correspond with the particulars relating to her tonnage or description contained in the register book, then,

if the alteration is made at any port having a registrar, that registrar, or, if it is made elsewhere, the registrar of the first port having a registrar at which the ship arrives after the alteration, shall, on application being made to him and on receipt of a certificate from the proper surveyor stating the particulars of the alteration, either cause the alteration to be registered, or direct that the ship be registered anew.

(2) (M. S. Act, 1906, sec. 53.)—If default is made in registering anew a ship, or in registering an alteration of a ship so altered as aforesaid, the owner of the ship shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £100, and in addition to a fine not exceeding £5 for every day during which the offense continues after conviction.

77. Rules for ascertaining register tonnage.—(1) The tonnage of every ship to be registered, with the exceptions hereinafter mentioned, shall, previously to her being registered, be ascertained by Rule I in the second schedule to this act, and the tonnage of every ship to which that Rule I can be applied, whether she is about to be registered or not, shall be ascertained by the same rulǝ.

(2) Ships which, requiring to be measured for any purpose other than registry, have cargo on board, and ships which, requiring to be measured for the purpose of registry, can not be measured by Rule I, shall be measured by Rule II in the said schedule, and the owner of any ship measured under Rule II may at any subsequent period apply to the Board of Trade to have the ship remeasured under Rule I, and the board may thereupon, upon payment of such fee, not exceeding 7 shillings and 6 pence for each transverse section as they may authorize, direct the ship to be remeasured accordingly, and the number denoting the register tonnage shall be altered accordingly.

(3) For the purpose of ascertaining the register tonnage of a ship the allowance and deductions hereinafter mentioned shall be made from the tonnage of the ship ascertained as aforesaid. (4) In the measurement of a ship for the purpose of ascertaining her register tonnage, no deduction shall be allowed in respect of any space which has not been first included in the measurement of her tonnage.

(5) In ascertaining the tonnage of open ships Rule IV in the said schedule shall be observed. (6) Throughout the rules in the second schedule to this act, the tonnage deck shall be taken to be the upper deck in ships which have less than three decks, and to be the second deck from below in all other ships, and in carrying those rules into effect all measurements shall be taken in feet, and fractions of feet shall be expressed in decimals.

(7) The Board of Trade may make such modifications and alterations as from time to time become necessary in the rules in the second schedule to this act for the purpose of the more accurate and uniform application thereof, and the effectual carrying out of the principle of measurement therein adopted.

(8) The provisions of this act relating to tonnage, together with the rules for the time being in force, are in this act referred to as the tonnage regulations of this act.

78. Allowance for engine-room space in steamships.—(1) In the case of any ship propelled by steam or other power requiring engine room, an allowance shall be made for the space occupied by the propelling power, and the amount so allowed shall be deducted from the gross tonnage of the ship ascertained as in the last preceding section mentioned, and the remainder shall (subject to any deductions hereinafter mentioned) be deemed to be the registered tonnage of the ship, and that deduction shall be estimated as follows (that is to say):

(a) As regards ships propelled by paddle wheels in which the tonnage of the space solely occupied by and necessary for the proper working of the boilers and machinery is above 20 per cent and under 30 per cent of the gross tonnage of the ship, the deduction shall be thirtyseven one-hundredths of the gross tonnage; and in ships propelled by screws, in which the tonnage of such space is above 13 per cent and under 20 per cent of the gross tonnage, the deduction shall be thirty-two one-hundredths of the gross tonnage.