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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

you will move the Duke of Buckingham to cause
copies of this Act to be forwarded to the various
Colonial authorities in order that steps may be
taken for making the necessary regulations under
the sections above referred to.
I am to add that this Board are ready to supply
for this purpose as many copies of the Act as may
be required.

[CIRCULAR NO. 271]
INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFICERS IN BRITISH
POSSESSIONS ABROAD.

MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT, 1867.

This Act will come into operation on the first day
of January, 1868. A copy is appended for the infor-
mation and guidance of Officers in British possessions
abroad.
Further copies will be forwarded on application.
THOMAS GRAY,
Assistant Secretary, Marine Department.
Board, of Trade, October, 1867.

CAP. CXXIV.
An Act to amend "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854."
[20th August, 1867.]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same as follows:-

Short Title.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Merchant Ship-
   ping Act, 1867," and shall be construed with and as
   part of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," herein-
   after termed the principal Act.

Commencement of Act.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the first
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight, but shall not apply to any ship which
belongs to the United Kingdom and is absent there-
from at the time when this Act comes into operation
until such ship has returned to the United Kingdom.

Sections 224, 227, and 231 of 17 and 18 Vict. c. 104 repealed.
3. The two hundred and twenty-fourth, two hun-
dred and twenty-seventh, and two hundred and
thirty-first sections of the principal Act are hereby
repealed.

Lime or lemon juice and other anti-scorbutics to be provided
and kept on board certain ships.
4. The following rules shall be observed with
respect to medicines, medical stores, and anti-
scorbutics (that is to say) :-
(1.) The Board of Trade shall from time to
time issue and cause to be published scales of
medicines and medical stores suitable for
different ships and voyages, and shall also
prepare or sanction a book or books contain-
ing instructions for dispensing the same.
(2.) The owners of every ship navigating
between the United Kingdom and any place
out of the same shall provide and cause to be
kept on board such ship a supply of medicines
and medical stores in accordance with the scale
appropriate to the said ship, and also a copy
of the said book or of one of the said books
containing instructions:
(3.) No lime or lemon juice shall be deemed fit
and proper to be taken on board any such ship
for the use of the crew or passengers thereof,
unless the same has been obtained from a
bonded warehouse for and to be shipped as
stores; and no lime or lemon juice shall be
so obtained or delivered from any warehouse
as aforesaid unless the same is shown by a
certificate under the hand of an inspector
appointed by the Board of Trade, to be proper
for use on board ship, such certificate to be
given upon inspection of a sample after
deposit of the said lime or lemon juice in the
warehouse; nor unless the same contains
fifteen per centum of proper and palatable
proof spirits, to be approved by such inspector
or by the proper officer of Customs, and to be
added before or immediately after the inspec-
tion thereof; nor unless the same is packed in
such bottles, at such time and in such manner,
and is labelled in such manner as the Com-
missioners of Customs may direct: Provided
that when any such lime or lemon juice is
deposited in any bonded warehouse, and has
been approved as aforesaid by the said
inspector, the said spirits or so much of the
said spirits as is necessary to make up fifteen
per centum, may be added in such warehouse
without payment of any duty thereon; and
when any spirit has been added to any
lime or lemon juice, and the same has been
labelled as aforesaid, it shall be deposited in
the warehouse for delivery as ship's stores
only, upon such terms and subject to such
regulations of the Commissioners of Customs
as are applicable to the delivery of ship's
stores from the warehouse.
(4.) The master or owner of every such Foreign
going ship (except those bound to European
ports or to ports in the Mediterranean Sea,
and also except such ships or classes of ships
bound to ports on the Eastern Coast of
America North of the thirty-fifth degree of
North latitude, and to any islands or places in
the Atlantic Ocean north of the same limit, as
the Board of Trade may from time to time
exempt from this enactment,) shall provide
and cause to be kept on board such ship a
sufficient quantity of lime or lemon juice from
the warehouse duly labelled as aforesaid, such
labels to remain intact until twenty-four hours
at least after such ship shall have left her port
of departure on her foreign voyage, or a
sufficient quantity of such other anti-scorbutics,
if any, of such quality, and composed of such
materials, and packed and kept in such man-
ner, as Her Majesty by Order in Council may
from time to time direct.
(5.) The master of every such ship as last afore-
said shall serve or cause to be served out the
lime or lemon juice with sugar (such sugar to
be in addition to any sugar required by the
articles) or other such anti-scorbutics as
aforesaid to the crew so soon as they have
been at sea for ten days, and during the
remainder of the voyage, except during such
time as they are in harbour and are there
supplied with fresh provisions; the lime or
lemon juice and sugar to be served out daily
at the rate of an ounce each per day to each
member of the crew, and to be mixed with a
due proportion of water before being served
out, or the other anti-scorbutics, if any, at
such times and in such quantities as Her
Majesty by Order in Council may from time
to time direct.
(6.) If at any time when such lime or lemon
juice or anti-scorbutics is or are so served out
as aforesaid any seaman or apprentice refuses
or neglects to take the same, such neglect or
refusal shall be entered in the official logbook
in the manner provided by the two hundred