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Schedule. (2), The Shipping Casualties, Wrecks and Salvage Ordinance
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FEES AND REMUNERATION OF RECEIVER.
For every examination on oath instituted by a Receiver with respect
to any vessel which may be or may have been in distress, a fee not exceeding
one pound. But so that in no case shall a larger fee than two pounds be
charged for examinations taken in respect of the same vessel and the same
occurrence, whatever may be the number of the deponents.
For every report required to be sent by the Receive~ to the secretary of
Lloyd's in London, the sum of ten shillings.
For wreck taken by the Receiver into his custody, a percentage of
5 per cent. upon the value thereof. But so that in no case shall the whole of
the percentage so payable exceed twenty P?unds.
In cases where any services are rendered by a Receiver in respect of
anY vessel in distress not being wreck, or in respect of the cargo or other
articles belonging thereto, the following fees, instead of percentage, that
is to say-
If such vessel with her cargo equals or exceeds in value six hundred
pounds, the sum of two pounds for the first, and the sum of one pound
for every subsequent day during which the Receiver is employed on
such service, but if such vessel with her cargo is less in value than six
hundred pounds, one moiety of the above mentioned sum.
Services to
vessel in
distress not a
wreck.
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