966 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



Shipping Act, 1854, are collected, and shall in each British Posses- 

 sion Abroad be collected by such persons as the Governor of such 

 Possession Abroad may appoint for the purpose, and shall be col- 

 lected by the same means, in the same manner, and subject to the 

 same conditions, so far as circumstances permit, by, in, and subject 

 to which the Light Dues leviable under the Merchant Shipping Act, 

 1854, are paid and collected, or by such other means, in such other 

 manner, and subject to such other conditions as the Legislative au- 

 thority in such Possession may direct. 



V. All dues levied under this Act shall be paid over to Her Majesty's 

 Paymaster General at such times and in such manner as the Board of 

 Trade may direct, and shall be applied, paid, and dealt with by him, 

 for the purposes herein-after mentioned, in such manner as such 

 Board may direct. 



VI. The dues levied under the authority of this Act in respect of 

 any such light house, buoy, or beacon as aforesaid shall, after deduct- 

 ing any expenses incurred in collecting the same, be applied for the 

 purpose of paying the expenses incurred in erecting and maintaining 

 such light house, buoy, or beacon, and for no other purpose whatever. 



VII. For the purpose of constructing or repairing any such light 

 house, buoy, or beacon as aforesaid, the Board of Trade may raise, 

 upon the security of the dues to be levied in respect thereof, such sums 

 or money as they may deem fit; and the Commissioners of Her 

 Majesty's Treasury, out of any monies which may be provided by 

 Parliament, the Public Works Loan Commissioners, or any other 

 person or body of persons, may advance the same accordingly, such 

 advances to be made in the same manner, with the same powers, and 

 subject to the same provisions, so far as circumstances permit, in, 

 with, and subject to which, under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, 

 advances may be made upon the security of the Mercantile Marine 

 fund for the construction and repair of light houses in the United 

 Kingdom. 



VIII. Accounts shall be kept of all sums expended in the construc- 

 tion, repair, or maintenance of every light house, buoy, or beacon in 

 the British Possessions Abroad for which dues are levied under the 

 authority of this Act, and of the dues received in respect thereof, in 

 such manner as the Board of Trade may direct, and shall be laid 

 before Parliament annually; and the said accounts shall be audited 

 in such manner as Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct. 



574 No. 35. 1878, August 16: British Statute, 41 and 42 Viet., 



Cap. 73. 



An Act to regulate the Law relating to the Trial of Offences committed on the 

 Sea within a certain distance of the Coasts of Her Majesty's Dominions. 



[16th AiH/*t 1878.'] 



Whereas the righful jurisdiction of Her Majesty, her heir* nnd 

 successors, extends and has always extended over the open seas adja- 

 cent to the coasts of the United Kingdom and of all other parts of 



