Scale of Medicines and Medical Stores suitable to Accidents and Diseases gating between the United Kingdom and any place out of the same. Issued

NOTE 1.-Section 224 of the "Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," contains the following provisions, viz.:— "The following rules shall be observed with respect to medicines, medical stores, and antiscorbutics; that is to say: (1.) The Board of Trade shall from time to time issue and cause to be published a scale of medicines and medical stores suitable to accidents and diseases arising on sea voyages. (2.) The owner of every ship navigating between the United Kingdom and any place out of the same, shall provide, and cause to be constantly kept on board such ship, a supply of such medicines and medical stores in accordance with the said scale. And if, in any such ship as aforesaid, such medicines, medical stores, lime or lemon juice, or other articles, sugar or vinegar, as are herein-before required, are not provided and kept on board, as hereinbefore required, the master or owner shall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds; and if the master of any such ship as aforesaid neglects to serve out the lime or lemon juice, or other articles, sugar or vinegar, in the case and manner herein-before directed, he shall for each such offer ce incur a penalty not exceeding five pounds; and if any master is convicted in either of the last-mentioned penalties, and it appears thai

arising on Sea Voyages, to be kept on board British Merchant Ships naviby the Board of Trade, in pursuance of 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104. sect. 224.

the offence is owing to the act or default of the owner, such master may recover the amount of such penalty, and the costs incurred by him, from the owner.

NOTE 2.-In ships employed trading solely between places in Europe, or between places on the shores of the North Atlantic or Mediterranean, and in ships employed in the Greenland or Baffin's Bay trade, or in any of the northern fisheries, the proportion of the various articles above-mentioned need not exceed the proportions mentioned in the second of the above columns, notwithstanding that the number of men and boys may exceed 20.

NOTE 3.-Passenger ships which are certified under the 44th section of the "Passengers' Act, 1855," to be duly supplied with medicines, need not be also provided with medicines or other articles according to the above scale.

March 1856.

NOTICE TO OWNERS OR AGENTS.-Seanien's Allotments of Wages may be remitted from Port to Port, free of Expense, by means of Seamen's Money Orders, to be obtained at the Shipping Offices.

to

-his (a).

and continue to make such payment monthly, until duly

(a) Here insert the word "Wife," "Sister," or other description of relationship, if any. In case of a Wife the Marriage
Certificate must be produced, if required, when payment is demanded.

(b) Security for repayment in case of Desertion, if required, is to be given by the Seaman when this Allotment Note
is granted.
(c) If the Owner or Agent give the note, this must be altered accordingly.
(d) Here the Seaman is to sign.

• CAUTION.-The Act provides a summary remedy, under certain conditions, for the recovery of Sums allotted, when
the Notes are made in favour of the Wife, Father, Mother, Grandfather, Grandmother, Child or
Grandchild, Brother or Sister of the Seaman, but provides no remedy whatever in the case of Notes
given in favour of other persons.

RECEIVED ON THE WITHIN WRITTEN NOTE.

Name of Ship.

CERTIFICATE OF DISCHARGE, FOR SEAMEN NOT DISCHARGED BEFORE A SHIPPING MASTER.

Dated this

(Countersigned)

I CERTIFY that the above particulars are correct, and that the abovenamed Seaman was discharged accordingly.

Witness

Address of Witness

Occupation of Witness

NOTE.-One of these Certificates must be filled up and delivered to every Seaman who is discharged otherwise than before a Shipping Master.

Official Number.

RELEASE AT THE TERMINATION OF A VOYAGE.

Port

Date and Place

of Termination of Voyage.

We, the undersigned, members of the crew of the said ship, do hereby release the said ship and the master and owner or owners thereof from all claims for wages or otherwise in respect of the above-mentioned voyage; And I, the master, do hereby release the said crew from all claims in respect of the said voyage. Dated at

the

day of
Shipping
Office or
Home No., of Crew.
if any.

18 .

(Signed)

Signatures

Master.

Shipping Office or Home No., if any.

I attest the execution of the above release in my presence.

(Signed)

Shipping Master,

Master

Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, issued in pursuance of the Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862, and of an Order in Council, dated 9th January, 1863.

NOTICE.

1. By virtue of the "Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," and of an order in council dated 9th January, 1863, the following regulations, containing certain verbal amendments, are substituted for the regulations contained in the schedule to the Act.

2. The following regulations came into operation on the 1st of June, 1863. 3. The following regulations apply to all ships, whatever their nationality, within the limits of British jurisdiction, and to British and French ships, whether within British jurisdiction or not.

4. They also apply to ships belonging to the following countries and places, whether within British jurisdiction or not; viz.,

The governments of the countries and places named above have already notified their acquiescence. Other governments are expected to follow.

5. The French copy of the regulations in the following pages is reprinted from the French version, as published in France under the authority of the French government.

Board of Trade, 2nd September, 1864.