the Act as quick and easy as is possible with such an Act, and I have preferred to run the risk of offending by excessive cross-references, than of failing to help through insufficiency. The table of sections in the Act has been split up, and the appropriate portion placed at the head of each part, and a lengthy index has been provided. For business men and captains, the aim has been to enable them, by the index and cross-references, to find what they want quickly, and, where necessary, to explain it clearly. In such matters as deductions from wages (§ 132), or entries in the log-book (§ 240), the various provisions of the Act bearing on the point have been collected in one note. Such rules as the Merchant Shipping Rules, 1894, the Collision Regulations, the Rules for Life Saving Appliances, and the Rules for Courts of Survey, and a list of the principal pilotage districts are included in the Appendix. The material parts of the Interpretation Act, 1889, which is indispensable to the construction of this Act, have also been printed. I am indebted to my friends, Mr. A. B. Langridge, of the Middle Temple, for the compilation of the Table of Cases, and for much valuable help in revising the proof-sheets; Mr. H. F. Previté, of the Inner Temple, for help in Part II.; and Mr. Grant Wilson, of the Inner Temple, for help in Parts III. and IV. of the Act. It is very improbable that the pages which follow are free from mistakes and misprints, and I shall be grateful both for corrections and for an opportunity of using them in another edition. 3, TEMPLE GARDENS, E.C., December 31, 1894. T. E. S. CONTENTS. 43 47 47 Forfeiture of Ship (§ 76) ..... Measurement of Ship and Tonnage (§§ 77-87) .... Ports of Registry in Place under Foreign Jurisdiction Act (§ 88)..... Rights of Seamen in respect of Wages (§§ 155-163) Power of Courts to rescind Contracts (§ 168)........ Property of Deceased Seamen (§§ 169-181) Reimbursement of Relief to Seamen's Families (§§ 182, 183)............................ 3. Provisions applying to Trawlers (§§ 399-417): Engagement of Seamen (§§ 399–408)... Payment of Wages and Discharge of Seamen (§§ 409-412) Inquiries and Investigations as to Shipping Casualties (§§ 464–468) Power as to Certificates of Officers, &c. (§§ 469-474) Rehearing of Investigations and Inquiries (§ 475) Supplemental Provisions as to Investigations and Inquiries (§§ 476-479) 368 Powers of Board of Trade as to Pilotage Districts and Authorities Bye-laws by Pilotage Authorities (§§ 581-584).. Returns by Pilotage Authorities (§ 585).. Licensing of Pilots (§§ 586-590) Recovery of Pilotage and other Rights of Pilots (§§ 591-598) |