For each Indenture of Apprenticeship completed with the Superintendent's assistance.

58.

N.B.-No charge is to be
made for inquiries by widows
or persons in humble
circumstances.

Spirits only (each Cask).

All Board of Trade officials are distinctly prohibited from demanding or receiving any Remuneration or Gratuity whatever, either directly or indirectly, for or in
respect of any Services rendered by them to the Owners or Masters of Ships in facilitating the transaction of their official business, or for hiring or procuring
Seamen, excepting the lawful fees payable under the Merchant Shipping Acts. All fees and expenses are to be paid to the Superintendent or Deputy
Superintendent of a Mercantile Marine Office, and to no other person (a).

BOARD OF TRADE, Marine Department.

No. 56.-Deposition before Receiver of Wreck. (See M. S. Act, 1854, s. 448.)

EXAMINATION ON OATH

INSTITUTED BY THE RECEIVER OF WRECK

At the Port of

In pursuance of the 448th Section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854

1.

2. That he

(17 & 18 Vict. c. 104).

being duly sworn, deposes as follows: namely,

2. State whether deponent is "master," "mate," &c. of the ship; the name of the ship; and register tonnage of particulars as to her tonnage and official number.

If the ship is a steam ship, the fact should be stated, as well as the nominal horse power of the engines, and whether paddle or

screw.

3. Names and residence of

owners.

4. Particulars of rig, build, age and class of ship.

5. Particulars as to the number

5. That the crew consist of

of hands composing crew, and of that the deponent's certificate is a certificate of
the certificates of the master, numbered
mates and engineers.

6. That the said ship had on board a cargo of
tons, shipped by

7. That the said ship had on board in addition to the cargo aforesaid

passengers.

8. That the said ship proceeded from as named below, on the

day of

on her intended voyage last past, at the weather

and the

from the

the tide at the time being

wind blowing

11. That the said ship proceeded on her said intended voyage as above stated

12. That on
at the time being
blowing

ship

13. That

14. That

15. That the loss on the said ship is estimated by at

and amount of insurance on ship, pounds sterling, and on the said cargo at pounds sterling,

cargo and freight.

and that the ship was insured in the sum of pounds sterling, the cargo in pounds sterling, and the freight in pounds sterling.

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17. That the above contents are in all respects correct and true to the best of deponent's knowledge and belief.

* In the number of the crew should be included all officers except the master.
† Obliterate the words that do not apply.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL relating to Colonial Certificates of Competency for
Masters, Mates, and Engineers (a).

At the Court at Windsor, the 27th day of June, 1876:
Present,-The Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS by the "Merchant Shipping (Colonial) Act, 1869," it is (among Certificates other things) enacted, that-[Here follows a recital of the Merchant of competency Shipping (Colonial) Act, 1869 (32 Vict. c. 11), s. 8.]

And whereas the governor-general of India in Council has by an act, entitled "An Act for the Amendment of the Law relating to Merchant Seamen, No. 1 of 1859," and the lieutenant-governor of Bengal in Council has by an act, entitled "The Steam Boat Survey Amendment Act of 1868," provided for the examination of and grant of certificates of competency for foreign ships to persons intending to act as masters, mates, or engineers on board British ships, which certificates are herein-after denominated colonial certificates of competency, and the Board of Trade have reported to her Majesty that they are satisfied that the said examinations are so conducted as to be equally efficient as the examinations for the same purpose in the United Kingdom under the acts relating to merchant shipping, and that the certificates are granted on such principles as to show the like qualifications and competency as those granted under the said acts, and are liable to be forfeited for the like reasons and in the like

manner:

Now, therefore, her Majesty, in exercise of the powers vested in her by the said first recited act, by and with the advice and consent of her Privy Council, is pleased,

1. To declare that the said colonial certificates of competency granted by the lieutenant-governor of the said British possession of Bengal shall be of the same force as if they had been granted under the said acts.

2. To declare that all the provisions of the said acts which relate to certificates of competency for the foreign trade granted under those acts, except so much of the 139th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, and the 10th section of the Merchant Shipping Amendment Act, 1862, as requires the delivery by the Board of Trade to any master, mate, or engineer of a copy of any certificate to which he appears to be entitled as therein mentioned, so much of the third paragraph of the 23rd section of the said last-mentioned act as requires, at the conclusion of a case relating to the cancelling or suspending of a certificate, such certificate, if cancelled or suspended, to be forwarded to the Board of Trade, and the whole of the provisions of the fourth paragraph of the same section shall apply to such colonial certificates of competency.

3. To impose and make the conditions and regulations following, numbered 1 to 10 respectively, with respect to the said colonial certificates of competency, and to the use, issue, delivery, cancellation, and suspension

(a) See the M. S. (Colonial) Act, 1869, 32 Vict. c. 11, s. 8.

(Bengal).

Certificates thereof, and to impose for the breach of such conditions and regulations of competency the penalties therein mentioned. (Bengal),

Form of Certificate.

1. Every such colonial certificate of competency shall be on parchment, and as nearly as possible similar in shape and form to the corresponding certificate of competency for the foreign trade granted by the Board of Trade under the acts relating to merchant shipping.

Name of Possession to be inserted.

2. Every such colonial certificate of competency shall have the name of the said possession of Bengal inserted prominently on its face and back.

Certificates to be numbered consecutively.

3. Such colonial certificates of competency shall be numbered in consecutive order.

Lists of Certificates granted, cancelled, &c., to be sent to Registrar-General of Seamen. 4. The government of the said possession shall furnish the registrar-general of seamen in London, from time to time, with accurate lists of all such colonial certificates of competency as may be granted by the lieutenant-governor of the said possession as aforesaid, or as may for any cause whatsoever be cancelled, suspended, renewed, or re-issued, and shall also furnish him with duplicates of the applications for examination made by the persons to whom such certificates are granted.

Three Years' Domicile or Service necessary.

5. Such colonial certificates of competency shall be granted only to any person who, for a period of three years immediately preceding his application for such colonial certificate, or for several periods amounting together to three years, the earliest of which shall have commenced within five years prior to such application, has been domiciled in, or has served in a ship or ships registered in any part of her Majesty's Indian dominions.

Certificates of competency granted contrary to this regulation shall be regarded as improperly granted.

Certificates not to be granted when former are cancelled.

6. Such colonial certificates of competency shall not be granted to any person who may have had a certificate, whether granted by the Board of Trade or by the government of a British possession, cancelled or suspended under the provisions of the said acts, or of any act for the time being in force in any part of her Majesty's dominions, unless the period of suspension has expired, or unless intimation has been received from the Board of Trade, or the government by whom the cancelled or suspended certificate was originally granted, to the effect that no objection to the grant of such colonial certificate is known to exist, or unless a new certificate has been granted to him by such board or government; and in the last-named event no such colonial certificate of competency shall be for a higher grade than the certificate so last granted as aforesaid.

Colonial certificates of competency granted contrary to this regulation shall be regarded as improperly granted.

Certificates improperly granted may be cancelled without formal Investigation. 7. Any such colonial certificate of competency which appears from information subsequently acquired, or otherwise, to have been improperly granted, whether in the above or in any other respect, may be cancelled by the lieutenantgovernor of the said possession, or by the Board of Trade in the United Kingdom, without any formal investigation, under "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and the holder of such certificate shall thereupon deliver it to the Board of Trade or the lieutenant-governor of the said possession, or as they or either of them may direct, and in default thereof shall incur a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds in the United Kingdom, or five hundred rupees in India, which shall be recoverable in the same manner as penalties imposed by the acts relating to merchant shipping are thereby made recoverable.