L96 LEGISLATIVE ACTS, WtOCLAMATlONS, Bit!., 



Act while such vessels are not engaged otherwise than in the said 

 fisheries or trade. Should any such vessel proceed on any other 

 than a fishing voyage to any place outside tins colony such vessel 

 shall be liable to pay once in each calendar year (but not oftencr 

 than once in three months) the rate or duty of six cents per registered 

 ton. 



4. Sub-Collectors and Preventive Officers employed in the Cus- 

 toms' service of the country, and such other persons as the Minister 

 of Finance and Customs may appoint, shall be entitled to demand, 

 recover and receive the said rates and duties imposed by this Act, 

 and the monies raised and levied under the provision hereof shall be 

 paid to the Minister of Finance and Customs, and there shall be 

 allowed to the persons so collecting, such commission, not exceeding 

 five dollars per centum upon the amounts collected, as the Minister 

 of Finance and Customs may direct. 



5. On the non-payment by the master, or any person having 

 charge of, or any owner of, any ship or vessel, of any rate or duty 

 payable or incurred under this Act, such rate or duty shall and may 

 be sued for and recovered in a summary manner, in the name of the 

 Minister of Finance and Customs or other person authorized to 

 receive the same, before a Stipendiary Magistrate or two Justices of 

 the Peace within the district where the Customs' officer or other 

 person so authorized may reside, together with all costs incurred, 

 and shall be levied by warrant and distress of such Magistrate or 

 Justice on the goods and chattels of the owner, or of the master or 

 other person in charge of the respective ship or vessel, on account of 

 which the said rate or duties shall respectively be payable. 



6. Neither the Minister of Finance and Customs nor any officer of 

 Customs shall admit to entry or clearance any ship or vessel subject 

 and liable to the payment of any rates or duties, until the said rates 

 and duties shall be paid to the persons authorized to receive the same. 



7. All tonnage clues upon foreign vessels shall be assimilated to 

 and in conformity with the tonnage dues of British vessels; and such 

 foreign vessels shall be measured according to rules specified in an 

 Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the fifty-seventh and 

 fifty-eighth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, known as the 

 "Merchant Shipping Act, 1894". 



8. When there is an increase of tonnage dues arising from such 

 measurement, the expense of the measuring surveyor shall be borne 

 by the Government of the colony, but when otherwise, by the owner 

 or master of such vessel. 



9. Any officer duly authorized by law to collect rates or dues under 

 this Act may go on board any vessel, being within three miles of any 

 part of the coasts of this colony, and stay on board while she remains 

 in port or within such distance, and may, in addition to the powers 

 and procedure prescribed in section 5 of this Act, bring into port and 

 detain such vessel until payment or satisfaction of all light dues by law 

 recoverable. 



10. No building or erection shall be built or placed in such position 

 as to obstruct or interfere in any manner whatever with the light 

 exhibited in any lighthouse or beacon, or with the leading lights ex- 

 hibited as guides to vessels entering the harbour of St. John's. 



11. Any person acting in contravention of the provisions of the 



f>receding section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty dol- 

 ars, to be recovered in a summary manner by the order and adjudi- 



