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4. "Outfit and Equipment." — The term "outfit and equipment" is defined 

 as including portable articles necessary or appropriate for the navigation, operation, 

 or maintenance of a vessel, and not permanently incorporated in its hull or machin- 

 ery, and not constituting consumable supplies. The term includes, therefore, 

 anchors, chains, cable, tackle, boats, repair parts, life saving apparatus, wireless 

 telegraph apparatus (except the motor generator), nautical instruments, search- 

 lights, signal lights, lamps, furniture, carpets, table linen, tableware, bedding, arms 

 and munitions, and also articles to be used in renewal or replacement of articles of 

 original outfit and equipment. 



Materials and articles excluded from the benefits of this Act. 



5. Machinery, including all the propelling mechanism, and also auxiliary 

 machinery permanently incorporated in the hull of the vessel, such as pumps, 

 steering gear, lighting plants, refrigerating plants, steam winches, hoisting engines, 

 generators, motors, condensers, feed water heaters, evaporators, switchboards, etc. ; 

 provisions, wines, coal, medicines, and other similar consumable articles, and mate- 

 rials intended to be manufactured into articles of outfit or equipment, will not be 

 admitted free of duty under this Act. 



6. Neither materials for the construction or repair of vessels or of their machin- 

 ery nor articles for outfit and equipment will be admitted free of duty when imported 

 to be kept in stock for sale. 



The President: — Paper No. 5 is now in order, entitled, "Notes on Life- 

 Saving Appliances, " by W. D. Forbes, Member of Council. I will ask the author 

 to give us the meat of his paper as briefly as possible. 



Mr. Forbes presented the paper. 



