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By Se6lion 85 of the Merchant Shipping Aft of 1894, 

 the space occupied by deck cargo is liable to tonnage 

 dues, but this Section has never been applied in this 

 colony, This provision of the A61 however is carried out 

 in Barbados. 



By Se6lion 84 of the Merchant Shipping Aft, the 

 tonnage of ships of Foreign Countries adopting British 

 tonnage regulations, shall be deemed to be of the tonnage 

 denoted in their Certificates of Registry, or other national 

 papers. The provisions of this Seftion have been 

 applied to ships of sixteen Foreign Countries by Orders 

 in Council, and is known as the International Tonnage 

 System. The only European Maritime States which have 

 not adopted the British system of tonnage are Portugal and 

 Turkey. It should be observed however, that the British 

 system for the measurement of tonnage does not imply 

 that there is a uniform plan of measurement, by which a 

 ship would be computed as of the same registered tonnage 

 when ascertained in any of the Countries which have 

 accepted the system of British tonnage, as when mea- 

 sured thereby ; the main portion of the ship would not 

 vary, while the allowances for engine room, for crew 

 space, and for navigation space, would differ. But the 

 tonnage of the hull being accepted as shewn on the ship's 

 national papers, the measurements of the engine room 

 space and crew space, &c., &c., can be easily effefted. 



It is of importance to observe- that Part One of the 

 Merchant Shipping Aft, 1894, applies to the whole of 

 Her Majesty's dominions, and wherever Her Majesty 

 has jurisdiftion, (Seft. 91). VVe have hitherto dealt 

 entirely with legal or parliamentary tonnage ; we have 

 now to consider other applications of the term tonnage. 



