of cross causes.

XX. The registrar of any Vice Admiralty Court shall have power Registrar may to administer oaths in relation to any matter depending in the court; administer oaths. and any person who shall wilfully swear falsely in any proceeding before the registrar, or before any other person authorized to administer oaths in the court, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall be liable to all the penalties attaching to wilful and corrupt perjury. XXI. If a cause of damage by collision be instituted in any Vice As to the hearing Admiralty Court, and the defendant institute a cross cause in respect of the same collision, the judge may, on application of either party, direct both causes to be heard at the same time and on the same evidence; and if the ship of the defendant in one of the causes has been arrested, or security given by him to answer judgment, but the ship of the defendant in the other cause cannot be arrested, and security has not been given to answer judgment therein, the court may, if it think fit, suspend the proceedings in the former cause until security has been given to answer judgment in the latter cause. XXII. The appeal from a decree or order of a Vice Admiralty Court No appeal save lies to her Majesty in council; but no appeal shall be allowed, save by permission of the judge, from any decree or order not having the force or effect of a definitive sentence or final order.

from final sentence or order.

months.

XXIII. The time for appealing from any decree or order of a Vice Appeal to be Admiralty Court shall, notwithstanding any existing enactment to the made within six contrary, be limited to six months from the date of the decree or order appealed from; and no appeal shall be allowed where the petition of appeal to her Majesty shall not have been lodged in the registry of the High Court of Admiralty and of Appeals within that time, unless her Majesty in council shall, on the report and recommendation of the judicial committee of the privy council, be pleased to allow the appeal to be prosecuted, notwithstanding that the petition appeal has not been lodged within the time prescribed.

established under

XXIV. The Acts enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed marked Acts repealed. B. are hereby repealed, to the extent therein mentioned, but the Saving rules repeal thereof shall not affect the validity of any rules, orders, regu- 2 & 3 W. 4, c. 51. lations, or tables of fees heretofore established and now in force, in pursuance of the Act of the second and third William the Fourth, chapter fifty-one; but such rules, orders, regulations, and tables of fees shall continue in force until repealed or altered under the provisions of this Act.

List of the existing Vice Admiralty Courts to which this Act

Reference to Act.

SCHEDULE B.

ACTS AND PARTS OF ACTS REPEALED.

Title of Act.

Extent of Repeal.

56 Geo. III. c 82. An Act to render valid the Judicial Acts of Surrogates of Vice Admiralty Courts abroad, during vacancies in office of judges of such courts.

5 Geo. IV. c. 113. An Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to the abolition of the slave trade.

2&3 Will. IV. c. 51 An Act to regulate the practice and the fees in the Vice Admiralty Courts abroad, and to obviate doubts as to their jurisdiction.

6 & 7 Vict. c. 38.- An Act to make further regulations for facilitating the hearing appeals and other matters by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

17 & 18 Vict. c. 37. An Act for establishing the validity of The whole Act.

certain proceedings in her Majesty's
Court of Vice Admiralty in Mauritius.

APPENDIX OF FORMS RELATING TO THE REGISTRY, BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS, AND

Closed-in spaces above the tonnage deck, if any; viz.,
Space or spaces between decks

I, the undersigned

Total

Feet.

Tenths.

No. of Tons.

having surveyed the above-named ship, hereby certify that the above particulars are true; that her name and the port of registry are properly painted on a conspicuous part of her stern in manner directed by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854.

Surveyor.

Dated at

the

day of

18 .

SALE AND MORTGAGE OF BRITISH SHIPS, ISSUED
APPROVED OF BY THE BOARD OF TRADE (a).

Number of Engines

Combined power (estimated horse-power) number of

horses-power

Name and address of Engine Maker

The iron water-tight partitions

the rules of the Board of Trade.

Feet.

Tenths.

• Say whether

ths or ths

of gross tonnage, or as measured.

46 are," if not, or

any doubt, leave this blank.

I, the undersigned having surveyed the above-named ship, the surveyor has hereby certify that the above particulars are true, and that the name and the port of Registry are properly painted on a conspicuous part of her stern in manner directed by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854. Dated at

the

18

day of

Surveyor.