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shall herein have the same significations as are assigned to them in the said "Passengers Act, 1855," and "The Passengers Act Amendment Act, 1863," respectively, and the term "Board of Trade" shall herein have the meaning assigned to it by "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854."

Pilotage

ORDERS IN COUNCIL authorizing Vessels under 60 tons burthen, and belonging to certain foreign Countries and Places, to be piloted and conducted without having a licensed Pilot on board, upon the same terms and conditions as are required in the case of British Ships. At the Court at Windsor, the 13th day of December, 1843: Present,-The Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by an act passed in the fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George IV. c. 77, intituled, "An Act to authorize his Majesty, under certain circumstances, to regulate the Duties and DrawExemption. backs on Goods imported or exported in Foreign Vessels, and to exempt certain Foreign Vessels from Pilotage," it was, amongst other things, enacted, that it should be lawful for his Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, or by any Order or Orders in Council, in all cases in which British vessels, of less burthen than 60 tons, are not required by law to take pilots, to exempt foreign vessels, being of less burthen than 60 tons, from taking on board a pilot to conduct them into or from any of the ports of the United Kingdom, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding:

(Great Britain)

Small

Foreign
Vessels.

And whereas his said late Majesty King George IV. in Council did, by six several orders respectively, bearing date the 21st of July, 1823, the 18th of November, 1823, the 10th of March, 1824, the 25th of May, 1824, and the 19th of October, 1824, issued in pursuance of the said recited act, grant the exemption, by the said act authorized to be granted as hereinbefore is mentioned, to vessels of less burthen than 60 tons, belonging to the following countries and places (that is to say): The Netherlands, Hanover, Denmark, Hamburgh, Lübeck, and Bremen:

And whereas by an act of parliament, passed in the 6th year of the reign of his said late Majesty King George IV., intituled, "An Act for the Amendment of the Law respecting Pilots and Pilotage, and also for the better Preservation of Floating Lights, Buoys, and Beacons," it is enacted that-[The Order then recites from the 6 Geo. IV. c. 125, so much of section 1 as relates to the repeal of portions of the 4 Geo. 4, c. 77; so much of section 59 as allows a master of a vessel under 60 tons having a British register to pilot the same, and the whole of sections 60 and 89; and continues]: And whereas her Majesty is desirous of confirming the exemption so granted as aforesaid to the vessels of the countries and places heretofore mentioned, and of placing such vessels as are hereinafter described, being under 60 tons burthen, upon the same footing, with regard to exemption from pilotage, as vessels of like burthen having a British register, and for that purpose to exercise the powers so vested in her as herein before is mentioned, in manner hereinafter expressed:

Now, therefore, her Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in her by the said recited acts respectively, and of every other powers authorizing her Majesty in that behalf, and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after the date of this order, as respects the ports and places following, namely: the port of Kingston-upon-Hull, the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the ports and places being members thereof, respectively, and all other ports and places in respect of which the power vested

in her Majesty by virtue of the said recited act, of the 4th year of the reign of his said late Majesty King George IV., is still subsisting, all such vessels as are described in the schedule to this order annexed, being of less burthen than 60 tons, which shall enter into or clear out from any of the said ports or places, shall be, and they are hereby, exempted from taking on board a pilot to conduct them into or from any such port or place, in all cases where British vessels, being of less burthen than 60 tons, are not required by law to take pilots, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding:

And it is hereby further ordered, that from and after the date of this order, as respects all other ports and places in the United Kingdom, all such vessels as are described in the schedule to this order annexed, being of less burthen than 60 tons, which shall enter and clear out of any such ports and places, shall be, and they are hereby authorized and permitted to be piloted and conducted without having a duly licensed pilot on board, upon the same terms and conditions as by the said recited act of the 6th year of the reign of his said late Majesty King George IV. are required upon British ships and vessels not exceeding the like burthen:

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions accordingly.

SCHEDULE.

1. Vessels belonging to the following countries, viz., France, Sardinia, Portugal, Texas, coming from or departing for the ports of the countries to which they respectively belong, or, if in ballast, coming from or departing for any other place.

2. Vessels belonging to the following countries and places, viz., Sweden and Norway, Russia, Denmark, Hanover, Prussia, the Free Hanseatic Cities of Bremen, Lübeck, Hamburgh and Frankfort, the Netherlands, Greece, the United States, Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata, Uruguay.

Pilotage

(Great Britain)

Exemption.

Small Foreign

Vessels.

Orders in Council of a similar character to the above Order of the 13th of December, 1843, were subsequently made with respect to all ships (irrespective of the places from or to which they were bound) belonging to the under-mentioned countries and places on the respective dates set against the names of such countries and places.

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PilotageTrinity House of Deptford Strond

ORDERS IN COUNCIL relating to Pilotage within the Pilotage Jurisdic-
tion of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond (a) (London District
and Trinity House Outport Districts).

The Orders, other than the Order of the 17th of May, 1867, relating to the
Bridgwater Trinity Outport District, infra, are printed in order of date.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 18th day of February, 1854:
Present, The Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council.
WHEREAS by "The Pilotage Law Amendment Act, 1853," sect. 21, it was
enacted, that-[Here follows a recital of the section in question].

And whereas the Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond, being the pilotage authority for the port of London and the seas and (Exemptions). channels leading thereto according to the meaning of the said recited act, have submitted, for the consent of her Majesty in Council regulations hereunto annexed for the extension of the exemptions from compulsory pilotage now existing

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Now, therefore, her Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in her by the said recited act, and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to approve, and does hereby approve, of the said regulations so submitted as aforesaid.

Regulation for the extension of the exemptions from compulsory pilotage now existing under the provisions of the 59th section of the act 6 Geo. IV. c. 125, submitted by the Corporation of Trinity House for the consideration of her Majesty in Council, pursuant to the provisions of the 21st section of the act 16 & 17 Vict. c. 129:

The masters of the under-mentioned ships and vessels shall, subject to the provisions contained in the 59th section of the act of parliament 6 Geo. IV. c. 125, in respect of the employment of unlicensed persons, be exempted from compulsory pilotage, viz.:

Of ships and vessels trading to Norway, or to the Cattegat or Baltic, or round the North Cape, or into the White Sea, when coming up by the South Channels: + The Baltic

Of ships and vessels trading to ports between Boulogne inclusive on their outward passages, and when coming up by the South Channels: Of ships and vessels passing through the limits of any pilotage district on their voyage from one port to another port, and not being bound to any port or place within such limits nor anchoring therein: Trinity House, 28th December, 1853.

(a) Such Orders in Council as only relate to the dues to be taken in the several Trinity Outport Districts are omitted. See "General Table of Pilotage Authorities,” infra.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 1st day of May, 1855:

Pilotage

Trinity House of Deptford

Present, The Queen's most excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by the 333rd section of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," it is enacted that, subject to the provisions contained in the fifth part of the act, it shall be lawful for every pilotage authority by bye-law, made with the consent of her Majesty in Council, amongst other things "to determine the qualifications to be required from persons applying to be licensed as pilots," and "to fix the terms and conditions of granting Trinity House licences to pilots":

And whereas it is expedient to make regulations to determine the qualifications to be required from persons so applying to be licensed, and to fix the terms and conditions of granting such licenses:

And whereas, by the 354th section of the said recited act, it is enacted that-[Here follows a recital of the section].

And whereas it has been made to appear to the Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond, being the pilotage authority for the port of London, and the seas and channels leading thereto, according to the meaning of the said recited act, that certain persons, freemen of London and of the Waterman's Company, have for a long period of time been employed in piloting steam passenger ships up and down the River Thames, between London Bridge and Gravesend, without being duly licensed as pilots by the said pilotage authority:

And whereas it has been resolved by the said Corporation of the Trinity House, that such a number of the said persons, being freemen of the said Waterman's Company, as the corporation shall from time to time see fit, shall be licensed as pilots by the corporation for the purpose of piloting "home trade" steam passenger ships up and down the River Thames between London Bridge and Gravesend :

And whereas it has been deemed expedient that the qualification to be required from such last-named persons, and the terms and conditions of granting licences to them should differ and be distinct from the qualification, terms, and conditions which apply to the appointing and licensing of pilots for the general service within the said London district, and it is intended to designate such persons to be so licensed as "watermen pilots for home trade steam passenger ships":

And whereas the said corporation have submitted, for the consent of her Majesty in Council, certain regulations (hereunto annexed), for the licensing of persons as pilots; and whereas the said regulations appear to proper and reasonable:

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Now, therefore, her Majesty, by virtue of the power vested in her by the said recited act, and by and with the advice of her Privy Council, is pleased to approve, and doth hereby approve, of the said regulations so submitted as aforesaid.

Strond (Qualifications of

Pilots and Watermen Pilots for Home Trade Passenger Ships between Lon

and

Gravesend).

REGULATIONS.

First.-All persons applying for licences as pilots in the London district (except freemen of the said Waterman's Company applying to be licensed for home trade steam passenger ships), shall produce such certificates as shall be deemed satisfactory by the Trinity House, previously to examination, as in the said act provided, on the following points, viz.:

1st. Their qualification by previous service, under the rule hereinafter provided;

2nd. Their previous good conduct and habits of sobriety;

3rd. Their age; and

4th. That they are in good health, and not afflicted with any bodily complaint or infirmity rendering them unfit properly to perform the duties of a pilot, which last certificate shall be under the hand of a duly authorized medical practitioner.

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Trinity
House

of Deptford
Strond
(Home Trade
Passenger
Ships

between London Bridge and

Second. No person shall be licensed as a pilot for the London district (except freemen of the said Waterman's Company), who shall have passed the age of 35 years, nor in the Trinity House Outport Districts, who shall have passed the like age, except under such special circumstances as shall appear to the Trinity House to afford sufficient grounds for his appointment after that age.

Third. No person shall be licensed as a pilot for the London district (except freemen of the said Waterman's Company), who shall not have served as mate for three years on board of, or shall not have been for one year in actual command of, a square-rigged vessel of not less than eighty tons register tonnage for the north channel upwards; and not less than 150 tons register tonnage for the north channel downwards, or for any of the south channels, or who shall not have Gravesend). been employed in the pilotage or buoyage service of the said Trinity House for seven years, and have served, in addition thereto, for two years in a squarerigged vessel, or who shall not have served an apprenticeship of five years to some licensed pilot vessel, and shall also have served for two years in a squarerigged vessel.

Fourth.-No person licensed as a pilot for the London district (except freemen of the said Waterman's Company, to be licensed as hereinafter provided), shall take charge as such of any ship drawing more than fourteen feet water, in the River Thames or Medway, or any of the channels leading thereto or therefrom, until such person shall have acted as a licensed pilot for three years, and shall have been after such three years, on re-examination, approved of in that behalf by the said Trinity House, on pain of forfeiting ten pounds (107.) for every such offence, unless there shall be no qualified pilot to be obtained, who has passed the said examination for ships drawing more than fourteen feet water.

Fifth.-Every pilot who by the 385th section of the said "Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," is required to pay a sum of three pounds three shillings (37. 3s.) to the pilot's fund, on the 1st of January in every year, shall, on receiving a licence, pay a like sum of three pounds three shillings (37. 3s.), and for every extension of such licence a further sum of one pound one shilling (17. 18.) to the said fund. Sixth. Every pilot who shall of his own accord relinquish his employment as such, or who shall be dismissed from the service, shall not be entitled to a return of any sum or sums paid by him to the said pilot's fund, and shall forfeit all claim to any allowance therefrom.

Seventh. Any person, being a freeman of the said Waterman's Company, who shall be able to prove to the satisfaction of the Trinity House that he has piloted steam passenger ships on the River Thames, between London Bridge and Gravesend, for a period of two years, or who shall have obtained his freedom of the said company, by servitude as apprentice to any such freeman employed in so piloting such steam passenger ships, shall be deemed qualified, after examination as in the said act provided, to be licensed as a pilot for the navigation up and down the River Thames, between London Bridge and Gravesend, subject to the following terms and conditions, viz.:

1st. That such licence shall authorize him to act as pilot only on board steam
passenger ships, being "home trade ships," and no others; all pilots so
licensed being intended to be designated "watermen pilots for home
trade steam passenger ships;"

2nd. That such licence shall not authorize him to supersede, in the charge of
any steam passenger ship, any other pilot duly licensed by the Trinity
House, for the said navigation between London Bridge and Gravesend;
3rd. That he shall be subject to all bye-laws, rules, orders and regulations
made, or hereafter to be made, by the Trinity House, for the government
of pilots generally; and to all penalties thereby imposed and provided,
unless specially exempted therefrom;
4th. That he shall pay the like sums of money as are payable by pilots licensed
for the London district, on their appointment, and on the annual re-
newal of their licences; but shall not be required to pay to the pilot's
fund the poundage of sixpence in the pound upon the pilotage earnings
of pilots licensed by the Trinity House, as provided by the 385th section
of the said act; nor shall he, or his widow or children, be entitled to any
benefit from the said pilot's fund.

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