ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES.

Preamble.

Short Title of Act; Sect. 1.

Interpretation of Terms; 2.

Division of Act; 3.
Commencement of Act; 4.

PART I.

PASSING TOLLS.

Abolition of Passing Tolls; 5.

Debts on Passing Tolls to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund; 6. Abolition of special Duties at Dublin and Cork; 7.

PART II.

TAXES APPLIED TO OTHER THAN SHIPPING PURPOSES.

Description of Taxes to which the Second Part of this Act applies; 8. Taxes to which Part II. applies to be collected by Commissioners of Customs; 9.

Taxes when collected to be paid over to Paymaster General; 10.
Separate Accounts to be kept for each Place; 11.

Saving of Rights of Mortgagees; 12.

Rules as to the Discharge of Mortgages; 13.

Mode of enforcing Performance of Duty by Local Authority; 14. Estimate to be given to Board of Trade of Taxes hitherto applied to Shipping or Charitable Purposes; 15.

Board of Trade may apportion between Taxes and other Sums; 16. Board of Trade may allow Application of Taxes to Purposes stated in Estimate; 17.

Account to be rendered to the Board of Trade of Expenditure; 18.

Power to pay Taxes to Harbour Authority; 19.

Taxes so vested to be applied to Shipping Purposes only; 20.

Case of Taxes comprised in subsisting Leases; 21.

Apportionment of Rent under Leases, including Taxes not subject to Act; 22.

Case of Taxes levied by Harbour Authorities, Part only of which is applied for Shipping Purposes; 23.

Manner of supplying Deficiency where Taxes taken away were applicable to other than Shipping Purposes; 24.

Power for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, to reduce or abolish
Taxes; 25.

PART III.

DIFFERENTIAL DUES AND EXEMPTIONS.

Abolition of Differential Dues on Foreign Vessels, and of Compensation out of Consolidated Fund; 26.

Indemnity to Trading Companies and private Persons; 27.

Indemnity to public Authorities rendering Service to Ships; 28.
Sanction of Board of Trade to Increase to be obtained; 29.
Power to recover increased Dues; 30.
Exemptions abolished; 31.

PART IV.

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

Transfer of Dover Harbour to the Admiralty; 32.

Transfer of Powers of Warden and Assistants to Admiralty; 33.
Transfer of Ramsgate Harbour to the Crown; 34.

Ramsgate Harbour to be under the Management of the Board of

Trade; 35.

Repeal of Acts relating to Ramsgate Harbour; 36.

Board of Trade may levy Tolls in Ramsgate Harbour; 37.
Board of Trade to receive Per-centage on Salvage; 38.

Incorporation of Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act; 39.
Property transferred to be held on trust for the Purposes of the
Harbour; 40.

Harbour to be free from Rates; 41.

Transfer of certain Lights, &c. to Trinity House; 42.

Transfer of certain other Lights, &c. to Commissioners of Northern
Lighthouses; 43.

Transfer of Cumray Lighthouses to Northern Lights Commissioners;

44.

Taxes on transferred Lights; 45.

Ballastage Rates not applied to Shipping Purposes; 46.

Power to reduce Ballastage Rates when Receipts exceed Expenditure; 47.

Power to Harbour Authorities to purchase private Rights of levying Dues; 48.

Power to borrow in order to effect such Purchase; 49.
Incorporation of Lands Clauses Act in respect of such Purchases;

50.

The Board of Trade may allow Compensation to Persons deprived of Offices; 51.

Rules as to Arbitration; 52.

SCHEDULE.