Any deputy vice-admiral may seize any articles not reported, and deposit the same, and within two days thereafter send a report in writing of the articles seized, to the Trinity-house; and every deputy vice-admiral who shall not make such report within two days after seizure, shall, on conviction before any justice of the peace, upon the oath of one witness, or on confession, forfeit £20, with double the value of the goods, one half to the informer, and the other half to the poor of the parish; and every deputy vice-admiral who shall make any seizure, without previous information, shall be entitled to one-third of the value. § 3.

If the owner and deputy vice-admiral cannot agree on the value, such value shall be ascertained as hereinafter directed with regard to salvage, or be referred to the decision of the high court of admiralty. § 4.

If any seizure be made in consequence of any information the deputy vice-admiral shall receive from the owner's agents, one-sixth of the value, and one other sixth shall be paid to the person giving the information. § 5.

Articles delivered into the warehouse, not claimed within a year and a day after report to the Trinity-house, shall be sold, in manner directed by the acts passed in 12 Anne; and the deputy vice-admiral or agent seizing, and the person who shall have given information, shall be equally entitled to the salvage. § 6.

If the salvors and owners cannot agree, the matter shall be determined by three justices; and if they cannot agree, then it shall be lawful for them to nominate any third person conversant in maritime affairs, who shall ascertain the amount of the salvage: and the justices, and such third person, shall have power to examine parties, or wit nesses, upon oath. § 7.

It shall be lawful for the said justices to decide, in like manner, on all claims made by persons for service of any description (except pilotage) rendered to any vessel in distress or not, and they shall have like power of examining the parties or witnesses upon oath, and the decision shall be final, except an appeal shall be interposed to the high court of admiralty, within thirty days after the award. § 8.

Either party dissatisfied with such award, may, within ten days after, declare their desire of obtaining the judgment of the high court of admiralty; but in such case the justices are to deliver to the owners, or their agents, any such articles, respecting which any claim for salvage shall be made, upon the owners or their agent giving good bail in the amount of the sum awarded for salvage or compensation. § 9.

The person named by the justices, who shall decide on the amount of salvage, or on the remuneration to be made to persons rendering assistance to ships or vessels, shall receive from the owners or their agent, £2. 2s. § 10.

If any person shall cut away or destroy, or shall commit any act with intent to cut away or destroy, or injure or conceal, any buoy, buoy-rope, or mark belonging to any vessel, or attached to any anchor or cable, belonging to any vessel, such person shall be guilty of felony. § 11..

If any person shall, with intent to defraud the owner, purchase or receive any anchors, cables, &c., which may have been taken up, such person shall, on conviction, be deemed guilty of receiving stolen goods. § 12.

The master of any ship bound to parts beyond the seas, shall make a true entry in the log-book, of all articles found or taken on board, and the time, and also shall transmit a report in writing to the Trinityhouse; and on return to any port in England or Wales, or Berwickupon-Tweed, he shall deliver the same articles into the possession of a deputy vice-admiral or his agent, in such port, and in default thereof he shall forfeit all claim to salvage, forfeit not exceeding £100, nor less than £30, and shall also forfeit and pay double value to the owners. § 13.

Every pilot, &c. who shall convey any anchor or cable, found as aforesaid, to any foreign port, and there sell the same, shall be guilty of felony. § 15.

All persons who trade in buying and selling marine stores of any kind, shall have their names, with the words “dealer in marine stores," painted distinctly, in letters of not less than six inches in length, upon the front of all their storehouses; and in default, shall forfeit not exceeding £20, nor less than £10 and it shall not be lawful for such dealers or traders to cut up any cable exceeding five fathoms in length, without first obtaining a permit from some justice, on pain of forfeiting for the first offence, not exceeding £20, nor less than £10; and for every second or further offence, not exceeding £50, nor less than £20. § 16.

All such dealers in marine stores, shall keep books, in which entries shall be made of all such old marine stores as shall be by them bought, containing a true account and description of the times when the same were bought, and of the names and places of abode of the sellers; and before any person who shall obtain a permit for the cutting up of any such cable shall proceed to cut up the same, there shall be published, one week before the cutting up the same, one or more advertisements in some public newspaper printed nearest to the storehouse where the articles shall be deposited, notifying that such party had obtained such permit, and specifying the place where such articles shall be deposited; whereupon every person who shall have verified upon oath the fact of his suspicion, may inspect and examine the cables described in such permit; and any dealer who shall neglect or refuse to permit such inspection or examination shall forfeit and pay for every first offence, not exceeding £20 nor less than £10; and for every second or further offence, not exceeding £50 nor less than £20. § 17.

All manufacturers shall place their names, a progressive number, and the weight of the anchor, in legible characters, upon the crown, and upon the shank under the stock of each anchor and kedge-anchor; or forfeit and pay not exceeding £5, nor less than 40s. § 18.

No certiorari, for the removal of such conviction, shall be allowed. $ 19.

But any person convicted may, within three calendar months, appeal to the general quarter sessions, giving ten days' notice of the matter thereof, and entering into a recognisance with two sureties, to try such appeal. § 20.

The inhabitants of any parish shall be deemed competent witnesses. § 21.

Nothing in this act shall extend to the limits specified in the 48th Geo. III. c. 130, for preventing frauds and depredations committed on merchants, within the jurisdiction of the cinque ports; nor to repeal any of the clauses contained in 48 Geo. III. c. 104, for the better

regulation of pilots, and of the pilotage of ships and vessels navigating the British seas.* § 23.

Nor to the taking away the jurisdiction of the high court of admiralty of England, or the jurisdiction of the admiralty court of the cinque ports, and other local jurisdictions. § 24.

Nor to prejudice the rights of his Majesty, or any patentee or grantee of the crown, or any lord of any manor. § 25.

But no lord of any manor, or other person entitled to wreck of the sea, shall appropriate such wreck, until a report thereof in writing be given to the deputy vice-admiral of that part of the coast; or if there shall be no such deputy vice-admiral within fifty miles, then to the corporation of the Trinity-house: provided that nothing herein shall extend to repeal the provisions of an act, 52 Geo. III. c. 159,† intituled “ An Act for charging Foreign Liquors and Tobacco, derelict, jetsam, flotsain, ligan, or wreck, brought or coming into Great Britain, with the Duties payable on importation of such Liquors and Tobacco." § 26.‡ Any goods taken possession of by any lord of any manor, or person entitled to wreck of the sea, or by any vice-admiral, or other person acting under this act, or of an act passed in the present session of parliament, c. 76, which shall be of a perishable nature, shall be sold by public auction or private contract; and the money raised by such sale shall be deposited in the hands of the lord of the manor, or other person, to abide the claims of all persons, as the goods would, if remaining unsold. § 27. The commissioners of customs and excise shall permit all goods, saved from vessels on their homeward voyage, to be forwarded to the port their original destination; and shall permit goods, saved from any vessels wrecked on their outward voyage, to be returned to the port at which the same were shipped; but commissioners are to take security for the protection of the revenue. § 28.

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Any deputy vice-admiral, officer, master, or owner, may pass and repass with their horses, carts, carriages, or servants, over any lands near to the part of the sea-coast where any vessel shall be so wrecked, without interruption by the owner or occupier, for the purpose of preserving any such vessel or goods, or for saving the crew, or any persons on board, or for the taking possession of any wreck or goods, provided there shall be no road by which the parties may pass and repass, making compensation to the occupier, which compensation shall be a charge upon the wreck or goods in like manner as salvage; and in case the parties cannot agree, then the same shall be settled by two justices, or by a third person named by them, as is directed by 49 Geo. III. § 29.

If any owner or occupier shall impede any person from passing over his premises, with horses, &c., for the purposes before mentioned, he shall forfeit to any person who will sue for the same, £100. § 30.

Any question in relation to salvage of any vessel or goods, performed between high and low water mark, shall be within the jurisdiction of the high court of admiralty, or of his Majesty's courts of record at Westminster. § 31.

In every case in which any damage shall be done by any foreign vessel to any British vessel or other craft, or any buoy, or beacon, in any harbour, and it shall appear on a summary application made to any judge of any court of record at Westminster, or to the judge of the high

This act is repealed and superseded by the general pilot act 6 Geo. IV. c. 125. See ante. + Since repealed by 6 Geo. IV. c. 105.

But see 6 Geo. IV. c. 107. § 48, page 455.

court of adiniralty, that such damage has probably arisen by the misconduct or negligence of the master or mariners, it shall be lawful for such judge to cause such foreign vessel to be arrested until the master, or owner or consignee, or some agent, shall undertake to appear in any action which may be brought for such damage, and give security, by bail, for all costs and damages, if it shall upon the trial appear that such damage shall have arisen from negligence or misconduct; and in such action the person giving security shall be defendant, and shall be stated to be the owner; and it shall not be necessary in such action to give any other evidence of the liability of such person, than the production of the order of the judge. § 32.

All penalties above £20 may be recovered in any court of record at Westminster. § 33.

This act shall not extend to the taking away any privileges heretofore vested in the corporation of the Trinity-house of Kingston-uponHull, relating to the Trinity-houses of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Scarborough. 34.

Nor to prejudice or take away any right of the mayor of the city of London, or of the mayor and commonalty and citizens of London, in the rivers of Thames and Medway. § 35.

Not to extend to Scotland and Ireland. § 36.

All the means which in virtue of the act 12 Ann. c. 18. subsist for the adjusting and recovering of the monies or gratuities to be paid to the persons acting in the salvage of any vessel, or the materials belonging thereto, or goods, in cases where application shall have been first made, pursuant to the said act, to officers of the customs, shall be applicable in cases where the salvors shall have acted under any magistrate, or officers, mariners, or owners of any vessel in distress, although no such application shall have been made to any officer of the customs, or other officers in the said statute mentioned; and thereupon upon payment or tender and refusal of the monies or gratuities to be paid to the persons who have acted in such salvage, or in case payment or tender cannot be made, on security being given for the payment thereof, to the satisfaction of the justices who shall have adjusted such gratuities, it shall not be lawful for any officer of customs, or other person having possession of such vessel, materials, or goods, any longer to retain the same, by reason of any claim to a compensation or gratuity of such salvage. § 37.

By the 6 Geo. IV. c. 105, so much of this act as relates to the sale of goods, duty free, to pay the expenses of salvage and other charges, is repealed, and provisions to that effect are reenacted by 6 Geo. IV. c. 107. (See CUSTOMS.)

The cinque ports are excluded from the operation of the last abstracted act. Their limits were defined by 48 Geo. III. c. 130, which was continued by 53 Geo. III. c. 87, and further continued and amended by 1 and 2 Geo. IV. c. 76, intituled, An act to continue and amend certain acts for preventing the various frauds and depredations committed on merchants, ship-owners, and underwriters, by boatmen and others, within the jurisdiction of the cinque ports; and also for remedying certain defects relative to the adjustment of salvage, under a statute made in the twelfth year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, which enacts, that it shall be lawful for the lord-warden of the cinque ports to appoint three or more substantial persons in each of the cinque

Deputy of the cinque ports and lieutenant of Dover Castle for the time being, 9 Geo. IV. c. 37.

ports, two ancient towns, and their members, to determine any difference relative to salvage between the master of any vessel and persons bringing cables and anchors ashore, and in case any vessel shall be either forced or cut from her cables and anchors by extremity of weather, or other accident, and leave the same in any roadstead, or other place within the jurisdiction of the cinque ports, two ancient towns, and their members, and the salvage cannot be adjusted between the persons concerned, then the same shall be determined by three or more of the said persons so to be appointed, within the space of twenty-four hours after such difference shall be referred to them for their determination provided that such commissioners shall, immediately after their nomination, proceed to elect some fit person as their secretary or register; and which secretary or register shall enter proceedings as therein mentioned. § 1.

And such commissioners shall have power to settle all differences which may arise within the limits therein mentioned. § 2.

The commissioners and their secretary or register, shall receive from the owners of such vessels, or the proprietors of goods, against whom any person shall make any claim or demand for services, such fee for deciding on every such claim as shall be adjudged by the lordwarden: provided that no commissioner shall have power to act in any other port than that in which he is resident, or from which his place of residence is not distant more than one mile; and commissioners shall severally take oath to decide according to the best of his judgment, on the evidence brought before him, without favour or affection to either party. § 3.

Either party, dissatisfied with such award, shall, within eight days after, but not afterwards, declare to the commissioners their desire of obtaining the judgment of some competent court of admiralty, and thereupon such parties shall be required to declare whether they will proceed in the court of admiralty of the cinque ports, or the high court of admiralty of England, and they shall so proceed within twenty days from the date of such award; but in such case the commissioners are empowered to permit the ship and cargo, notwithstanding such declaration, to depart on her voyage, or to deliver to the owners or agents, any goods respecting which any claims for salvage shall be made, giving bail in double the amount; and to transmit the same to the court of admiralty in which the intention of proceeding shall be so declared, together with a certificate in writing of the gross value of the whole ship and cargo, and also an official copy of such proceedings and awards, certified by the secretary or register; and the same shall be admitted by such court of admiralty as evidence. § 4. And on an appeal so made to the court of admiralty of the cinque ports, or to the high court of admiralty, the same shall be final, and no ulterior appeal shall lie to the King in chancery. § 5.

And for the more speedy administration of justice, as often as his Majesty shall direct a commission, according to the provisions of 28 Hen. VIII. c. 15, to the admiral or lieutenant-deputy, it shall be Jawful for his Majesty, on the application of the lord-warden, to direct such commission jointly to the admiral, or his lieutenant-deputy and deputies, and also to the lord-warden, of the cinque ports, and to his deputy; and the commissioners shall have full power to try all offences named in the said act, or in any other act relating to proceedings under such commission, by the oaths of twelve inhabitants in the shire limited in the said commission. § 16..