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(e.) all fees and other sums payable in respect of any services performed by any person employed under the authority of the Third Part of this Act (i):

(f) all fees paid upon the engagement or discharge of
members of the crews of fishing boats when effected
before a superintendent (k):

(g.) such proceeds of the sale of unclaimed wreck as are
directed to be paid thereto during the lifetime of Her
present Majesty under the Ninth Part of this Act (1):
(h.) any fees received by receivers of wreck under the
Ninth Part of this Act (m):

(i.) all light dues or other sums received by or accruing
to any of the General Lighthouse Authorities under
the Eleventh Part of this Act (n):

(k.) all costs and expenses ordered by the court to be paid to the Board of Trade in pursuance of the Boiler Explosions Acts, 1882 and 1890 (0):

(1.) any sums which under this or any other Act are directed to be paid to the Mercantile Marine Fund. (2.) All fees mentioned in this section shall be paid at such time and in such manner as the Board of Trade direct.

Mercantile

677. Subject to the provisions of this Act and to any Applicaprior charges that may be subsisting on the Mercantile tion of Marine Fund under any Act of Parliament or otherwise Marine there shall be charged on and payable out of that fund the following expenses so far as they are not paid by any 418. private person :

Fund.

1854, 8.

30 & 31 Vict. c.

124, s. 10. Vict. c. 22,

43 & 44

(a.) the salaries and other expenses connected with Local Marine Boards and Mercantile Marine Offices, and with the examinations conducted under the Second 8. 6. and Fourth Parts of this Act:

45 & 46 Vict. c. 55,

(b.) the salaries of all surveyors of ships and officers 8. 3. appointed under this Act and all expenses incurred in

connection with the survey and measurement of ships.

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under this Act (p), and the remuneration of medical inspectors of seamen under the Second Part of this Act (q):

(c.) the salaries and expenses of persons employed under the Third Part of this Act:

(d.) the superannuation allowances, gratuities, pensions, and other allowances granted either before or after the passing of this Act to any of the said surveyors, officers, or persons:

(e.) the allowances and expenses paid for the relief of distressed British seamen and apprentices (r), including the expenses declared under this Act to be payable as such expenses, and any contributions to seamen's refuges and hospitals:

(f) any sums which the Board of Trade, in their discretion, think fit to pay in respect of claims to moneys carried to the Mercantile Marine Fund on account of the property of deceased seamen (s), or on account of the proceeds of wreck (t):

(g.) all expenses of obtaining depositions, reports, and returns respecting wrecks and casualties (u):

(h.) all expenses incurred in carrying into effect the provisions of this Act with regard to receivers of wrecks and the performance of their duties under this Act (u): (i.) all expenses incurred by the general lighthouse authorities in the works and services of lighthouses, buoys, and beacons, or in the execution of any works necessary or expedient for the purpose of permanently reducing the expense of those works and services (x): (k.) any pensions or other sums payable in relation to the duties formerly performed by the Trinity House (y) in respect of lastage and ballastage in the River Thames :

(1.) such expenses for establishing and maintaining on the coasts of the United Kingdom proper lifeboats

(p) §§ 6, 83.

(9) § 203, s. 2. (r) § 194.

(s) § 676, s. 1 (c.).

(t) § 676, s. 1 (g.).

(u) Part IX.

(r) Cf. §§ 654, s. 2, and 658, 659. (y) Defined, § 742

with the necessary crews and equipments, and for
affording assistance towards the preservation of life
and property in cases of shipwreck and distress at sea,
and for rewarding the preservation of life in such
cases, as the Board of Trade direct:

(m.) such reasonable costs, as the Board of Trade may
allow, of advertising or otherwise making known the
establishment of, or alterations in, foreign lighthouses,
buoys, and beacons to owners, and masters of, and
other persons interested in, British ships:
(n.) all costs and expenses incurred by the Board of
Trade under the Boiler Explosions Acts, 1882 and
1890 (z) (so far as not otherwise provided for), including
any remuneration paid in pursuance of section seven
of the Boiler Explosions Act, 1882, and any costs and
expenses ordered by the court in pursuance of those
Acts to be paid by the Board of Trade:

(o.) any expenses which are charged on or payable out
of the Mercantile Marine Fund under this or any other
Act of Parliament (a).

liament to

678. There shall be paid to the Mercantile Marine Fund Subsidy out of moneys provided by Parliament such sum in each from Faryear as may be determined by the Treasury, with the con- Mercantile currence of the Board of Trade, having regard to the Fund. receipts and expenditure of the Mercantile Marine Fund 45 & 46 under this Act.

Marine

Vict. c. 55 8.5.

1854, s.

679. (1.) The accounts of the Mercantile Marine Fund Accounts shall be deemed to be public accounts within the meaning and auit of section thirty-three of the Exchequer and Audit Depart- 429. ments Act, 1866 (b), and shall be examined and audited 45 & 46 accordingly.

(2.) The Board of Trade shall as soon as may be after the meeting of Parliament in every year cause the accounts. of the Mercantile Marine Fund for the preceding year to be laid before both Houses of Parliament.

(z) 45 & 46 Vict. c. 22; 53 & 54 Vict. c. 35.

(a) Cf. § 429, s. 3; § 476, s. 2; and § 531, s. 2.

(b) 29 & 30 Vict. c. 39, s. 33, providing for audit by the Comptroller and Auditor-General.

Vict. c. 55 8. 7.

PART XIII.

1854 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104.

1862 = 25 & 26 Vict. c. 63.

1883 46 & 47 Vict. c. 41.

Int. Act, 1889 = Interpretation Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 63); and see Appendix.

The marginal references are to the sections reproduced.

Section.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

Prosecution of Offences.

680. Prosecution of offences (p. 513).

681. Application of Summary Jurisdiction Acts in certain cases (p. 514).

682. Appeal on summary conviction (p. 514).

683. Limitation of time for summary proceedings (p. 514).

Jurisdiction.

684. Provision as to jurisdiction in case of offences (p. 515). 685. Jurisdiction over ships lying off the coasts (p. 516). 683. Jurisdiction in case of offences on board ship (p. 516). 687. Offences committed by British seamen at foreign ports to be within Admiralty jurisdiction (p. 516).

Damage occasioned by Foreign Ship.

688. Power to arrest foreign ship that has occasioned damage (p. 517).

Provisions in case of Offences Abroad.

689. Conveyance of offenders and witnesses to United Kingdom

or British possession (p. 518).

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