STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 1145 



2. The decision of any officer to whom is so assigned the testing of 

 such articles, as to the duties to which they are subject under the 

 tariff, shall be final and conclusive, unless, upon appeal to the Com- 

 missioner of Customs, within thirty days from the rendering of such 

 decision, such decision is, with the approval of the Minister, changed ; 

 and the decision of the Commissioner with such approval shall be 

 final. 60-61 V., c. 16, s. 9 ; 3 E. VII., c. 14, s. 15. 



ANNUAL REPORT. 



305. The Minister shall annually make to the Governor General, to 

 be laid before Parliament within fifteen days after the meeting 

 thereof, a report and statement of the transactions and affairs of the 

 Department during the year then next preceding. R. S., c. 32, s. 254. 



No. 95. 1906: Extract from Statute of Canada; Revised Statutes, 



1906, Cap. 113." 



An Act respecting shipping iu Canada. 

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PART VI. PILOTAGE. 



Pilotage Districts and Authorities. 



430. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, make the 

 payment of pilotage dues compulsory or not compulsory, within the 

 limits of any pilotage district fixed by the Governor in Council under 

 this Part. R. S., c. 80, s. 13. 



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Pilotage Dues. 



468. The owner, the master and the recognised consignee or agent 

 of any ship, if such recognized consignee or agent has sufficient 



moneys in his hands received on account of such ship, shall 

 676 be liable to pay any pilotage dues made payable under this 

 Part by or in respect of such ship. R. S., c. 80, s. 50. 



469. Every recognized consignee or agent of a ship not being the 

 owner or master of such ship may, out of any money in his hands 

 received on account of such ship, retain the amount of pilotage dues 

 so paid by him. together with any reasonable expenses he has incurred 

 by reason of such payment and liability. R. S., c. 80, s. 51. 



470. All pilotage dues may be recovered as a debt due to the pilot, 

 or corporation of pilots, or pilotage of authority as the case may be, 

 to whom the same are payable: Provided that the mode of payment 



Act now questioned, in part, by the United States : see Appendix, pp. 4-5. 



