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(b) she is exempted under the provisions of this Part, from pay- 

 ment of such dues. R. S., c. 80, s. 58. 



476. If such ship is on her outward voyage and the owner or mas- 

 ter of such ship does not employ a pilot or give his ship into the 

 charge of a pilot, such dues shall be paid, if in the pilotage district 

 of Quebec, to the Quebec Pilots Corporation, and, if in any other 

 pilotage district to the pilotage authority of such district. R. S., c. 

 80, s. 58. 



477. The following ships shall be exempted ships : 

 (a) Ships belonging to His Majesty; 



(6) Ships wholly employed in His Majesty's service, while so 

 employed, the masters of which have been appointed by His 

 Majesty's Government, either in the United Kingdom or in 

 Canada ; 



(c) ships propelled wholly or in part by steam 



(i.) employed in trading from port to port in the same 



province, or 



(ii.) employed in trading between any one or more of the 

 provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia or 

 Prince Edward Island and any other or others of 

 them, or 



(iii.) employed in voyages between any port or ports in the 



said provinces or any of them and the port of New 



York or any port of the United States of America 



on the Atlantic, North of New York, or 



(iv.) employed in voyages between any port in any of the 



said provinces and any port in Newfoundland, or 

 (v.) having a draught when loaded not exceeding sixteen 

 677 feet, and employed exclusively in voyages between 



any port or ports on Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake 

 Huron, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan or on any of 

 the waters connecting those lakes and any port or 

 ports on the river St. Lawrence, or between any ports 

 on the river St. Lawrence; 



(d) Ships registered in Canada, of not more than one hundred 



and twenty tons registered tonnage; 



(e) Any ship of which the master or any mate has a certificate 



granted under the provisions of this Part and then in force, 

 authorizing him to pilot such ship within the limits within 

 which she is then navigating; 



(/) Ships of such description and size not exceeding two hundred 

 and fifty tons, registered tonnage, as the pilotage authority 

 of the district, with the approval of the Governor in Coun- 

 cil, from time to time determines to be exempt from the 

 compulsory payment of pilotage dues in such district. 

 2. In the river St. Lawrence, all ships registered in Canada of not 

 more than two hundred and fifty tons registered tonnage, shall be 

 exempt from the payment of pilotage dues. R. S., c. 80, s. 59 ; 55-56 

 V., c. 20, s. 1 ; 2 E. VII., c. 27, s. 1. 



478. The pilotage authorities of the pilotage districts of Halifax, 

 Sydney, Miramichi and Pictou may, as to each of such ports respec- 

 tively, notwithstanding anything contained in the last preceding 

 section, from time to time determine with the approval of the Gov- 

 ernor General, whether any, and which, if any, of the steamships em- 



