Excerpt from Orders in Council of the Imperial Government, Together With Treaties Negotiated Between His Majesty the King and Foreign PowersFor the purpose of this section the tonnage of ships shall be ascertained as provided by section five hundred and three, subsection two, of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, and the register of any ship shall be sufficient evidence that the gross tonnage and the deductions therefrom and the registered ton nage are as therein stated.Section five hundred and four of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, shall apply to this section as if the words owner of a British or foreign ship included a harbour authority, and a conservancy authority, and the owner of a canal or of a dock.For the purpose of this section the term dock shall include wet docks and basins, tidal docks and basins, locks, cuts, entrances, dry docks, graving docks, gridirons, slips, quays, wharfs, piers, stages, landing-places, and jetties.For the purposes of this section the term owners of a dock or canal shall include any person or authority having the control and management of any dock or canal, as the case may be.Nothing in this section shall impose any liability in respect of any such loss or damage on any such owners or authority in any case where no such liability would have existed if this Act had not passed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.