Parliamentary Papers, Volume 51

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Page 39 - An extraordinary number of water casks or of other vessels for holding liquid, unless the master shall produce a certificate from the custom house at the place from which he cleared...
Page 39 - A boiler, or other cooking apparatus, of an unusual size, and larger, or capable of being made larger, than requisite for the use of the crew of the vessel as a merchant vessel ; or more than one boiler, or other cooking apparatus, of the ordinary size.
Page 1 - ... born to any such persons, and the offspring of such children, shall, in like manner, be free from their birth ; and that from and after the 1st August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies, plantations, and possessions abroad.
Page 2 - An Act for the abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies ; for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves ; and for compensating the Persons hitherto entitled to the services of such Slaves...
Page 1 - One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four shall be actually within any such Colony, and who shall by such Registries appear to be on the said First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four of the full Age of Six Years or upwards, shall by force and virtue of this Act, and without the previous Execution of any Indenture of Apprenticeship, or other Deed or Instrument for that Purpose, become and be apprenticed Labourers...
Page 5 - XXIV. And whereas, towards compensating the Persons at present entitled to the Services of the Slaves to be manumitted and set free by virtue of this Act for the Loss of such Services, His Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled have resolved to give and grant to His Majesty the Sum of Twenty Millions Pounds Sterling...
Page 40 - ... of arbitration, that the captor has been led into error by a voluntary and reprehensible fault, on the part of the captain of the detained ship ; in that case only, the detained ship shall not have the right of receiving, during the days of her detention, the demurrage stipulated by the present Article. per diem. Schedule of demurrage or daily allowance for a vessel of 100 tons to 120 inclusive, £5...
Page 3 - Authorities whom it may concern, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.

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