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Page xiii - The candidates will be allowed to work out the various problems according to the method and the tables they have been accustomed to use, and will be allowed five hours to perform the work, at the expiration of which, if they have not finished, they will be declared to have failed, unless the Local Marine Board see fit to extend the time.
Page viii - ... custody of the law, having been convicted of some felony, or for the space of six calendar months before the time of executing the indenture has deserted such child, or for such space of time has been in the service of Her Majesty, or of the East India Company, in foreign parts, such parent, if the father, shall be deemed to be disqualified "as hereinbefore stated, and if it be the mother, no such consent shall be required.
Page viii - Trade shall, subject as herein-after mentioned, deliver to every applicant who is duly reported by the examiners to have passed the examination satisfactorily, and to have given satisfactory evidence of his sobriety, experience, ability, and general good conduct on board ship, such a certificate of competency as the case requires.
Page xiv - ... or upwards, or as first or only engineer in any other steam ship, or who has attained or attains the rank of first-class assistant engineer in the service of Her Majesty, shall be entitled to a " Second-class Engineer's Certificate...
Page vii - For the purpose of such examinations the Board of Trade shall from time to time appoint and remove examiners, and award the remuneration to be paid to them ; lay down rules as to the qualification of applicants, and as to the times and places of examination ; and generally do all such acts as it thinks expedient in order to carry into effect the examination of such engineers as aforesaid.
Page vii - or a certificate of the higher grade : (3) Every foreign-going steam ship of less than one hundred nominal horse power shall have as its only or first engineer an engineer possessing a " Second-class Engineer's Certificate...
Page vii - ... goes to sea in that capacity without being at the time entitled to and possessed of such certificate as is required by...
Page vii - ... the local marine boards of such ports to act together as one board in providing for and regulating examinations and appointing and removing examiners for such ports.
Page ix - Every such certificate of service shall contain particulars of the name, place, and time of birth, and the length and nature of the previous service of the person to whom the same is delivered, and a certificate of service...
Page viii - Certificates of Service for Engineers, differing in form from Certificates of Competency, shall be granted as follows ; that is to say, (1.) Every person who, before the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and...