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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Amendment Act, 1853," the several funds then
belonging to the Cinque Ports pilots were merged
into the common fund called the Trinity House
Pilotage Fund, and by the same Act power was given
to the Trinity House of Deptford Strond, with the
approval of the Board of Trade, from time to time to
make regulations for altering and determining the
payments and contributions to be made to the said
pilotage fund by Cinque Ports pilots licensed before
the said Act came into operation: And whereas by
one of the regulations made under the authority of
the said Act it was provided that each of the said
Cinque Ports pilots should pay towards the said fund
eleven shillings for each turn: And whereas it has
proved that the turns have been more numerous than
was expected, and that the sums paid to the Trinity
House, and carried to the credit of the said fund, in
respect of the said turns have been larger than was
assumed in making the calculations upon which the
said regulation was based: And whereas it is expe-
dient that in lieu of the said sum of eleven shillings
per turn the fixed annual sum of thirteen pounds four
shillings should for the future be paid by or in respect
of each of the said pilots so long as he remains un-
superannuated, and that the excess of the sum hereto-
fore paid in each year by each pilot over the sum of
thirteen pounds four shillings should be returned:
And whereas doubts have been entertained whether
the purposes aforesaid can be effected without the au-
thority of Parliament: Be it enacted, that the Trinity
House of Deptford Strond shall, out of the Trinity
House Pilotage Fund, repay to each of the Cinque
Ports pilots licensed before "The Pilotage Law Amend-
ment Act, 1853," came into operation, or if he be
deceased, to his executors or administrators, the ag-
gregate sum by which the sum of eleven shillings per
turn heretofore paid by him exceeds the sum which
he would have paid if he had paid thirteen pounds
four shillings per annum; and that each of the said
pilots shall, while he continues to act as a pilot, pay
to the said Trinity House the sum of eleven shillings
per turn as heretofore, from the first day of January
in each year, until the sums contributed in the same
year amount to an aggregate sum equal to the pro-
duct of thirteen pounds four shillings multiplied by
the number of pilots licensed as above who are then
surviving and unsuperannuated, and that when such
aggregate sum is made up no further contributions
shall be required from the said pilots until after the
thirty-first day of December in the same year; and
if the said contributions during any one year fall
short of the said aggregate sum, the said pilots then
surviving and unsuperannuated shall, at such time
and in such manner as the Trinity House may direct,
make good such deficiency by payment of an addi-
tional contribution per man, to be calculated pro rata
upon the number of turns which each may have
carried during the said year, and any such pilot fail-
ing to pay such additional contribution shall, in
default of such payment, become liable to immediate
removal from active service and superannuation upon
such proportion of the full pension payable to such
pilot as the Trinity House may think fit.

11. Any pilotage authority may, if authorized in
    that behalf by Order in Council, grant special licenses
    qualifying the persons to whom they are granted to
    act as pilots for any part of the sea or channels be-
    yond the limits of any pilotage authority; so, however,
    that no pilot so licensed be entitled to supersede an
    unlicensed pilot outside the limits of the authority
    by which he is licensed.

Chain Cables.

12. In the event of a license for the testing of
    chain cables and anchors being granted to the Trinity
    House under "The Chain Cable and Anchor Act,
    1871," all fees and other sums, received by the Trinity
    House in respect of such testing shall be carried
    to the Mercantile Marine Fund, and all expenses in-
    curred by the Trinity House in respect of such
    testing shall be chargeable on the Mercantile Marine
    Fund.

General.

13. All duties in relation to the survey and
    measurement of ships under this Act or the Acts
    amended hereby shall be performed by the surveyors
    appointed under the Fourth Part of "The Merchant
    Shipping Act, 1854," in accordance with such regula-
    tions as may be from time to time made by the Board
    of Trade.

14. All fees payable in respect of the survey or
    measurement of ships under this Act or the Acts
    amended hereby, or in respect of any services per-
    formed by any person employed under the authority
    of "The Passengers Act, 1855," shall be paid to the
    superintendent of a mercantile marine office at such
    times and in such manner as the Board of Trade may
    from time to time direct, and shall be carried to the
    Mercantile Marine Fund; and the salaries of surveyors,
    and other expenses connected with the survey and
    measurement of ships under this Act or the Acts
    amended hereby, and also so much of the salaries and
    expenses of persons employed under the authority
    of "The Passengers Act, 1855," as has heretofore been
    paid by fees, shall be paid out of the Mercantile
    Marine Fund.

15. If any surveyor, or any person employed under
    the authority of "The Passengers Act, 1855," de-
    mands or receives directly or indirectly, otherwise
    than by the direction of the Board of Trade, any fee,
    remuneration, or gratuity whatever in respect of any
    of the duties performed by him under this Act or the
    Acts amended hereby, he shall for every such offence
    incur a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.

16. The owner of home-trade ships or his agent
    may enter into time agreements, in forms to be sanc-
    tioned by the Board of Trade, with individual seamen
    to serve in any one or more ships belonging to him,
    which agreements need not expire on either the
    thirtieth day of June or the thirty-first day of De-
    cember, anything in the Merchant Shipping Act to
    the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always that
    a duplicate of each agreement entered into under the
    provisions of the section be forwarded to the Regis-
    trar-General of Shipping within forty-eight hours
    after it has been entered into.

17. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to accept
    from time to time the offers of any person whom the
    Lord High Admiral or the Commissioners for execut-
    ing his office may recommend, to serve as officers of
    reserve in the Royal Navy, upon such terms and
    conditions as to Her Majesty may from time to time
    seem fit, and "The Officers of the Royal Naval Re-
    serve Act, 1863," shall be read and construed as if
    this clause formed part of the said Act.

London International Exhibition, 1873.

Colonial Secretary's Office.
Wellington, 16th November, 1872.

THE Third of the Series of Annual International
Exhibitions of selected Works of Fine Art
(including Music), Industrial Art, and recent
Scientific Inventions and Discoveries, under the
direction of H.M. Commissioners for the Exhibition
of 1851, will be opened at South Kensington,
London, in April, 1873.

The Exhibition will consist of three divisions—
Division I.—Fine Arts.
Division II.—Manufactures.
Division III.—Recent Scientific Inventions and
New Discoveries of all kinds.