The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-06-05 00:00:00

LOCAL COMMITTEES.

That in every case in which a Local Committee may be esta-
blished at an out-port, every endeavour should be made by the f,en-
toil Committee to maintaitewith such Local Committee& cordial on.
tlerstanding ; and that it be obligatory on the surveyor at such out..
port to deliver to the Local Committee, if requital, a copy of any
report transmitted by him to the General Committee in London.
SURVEYORS; THEIR NU3I REA. STATIONS, DUTIES,
AUTHORITY AND E3IOLU3IENTS.
That for the purpose of carrying Into effect the recommendations
hereafter submitted, and of ensuring that practical efficiency which'
a well-regulated and vigilant system of survey can alone afford,
surveyors should be appointed according to the following scale as
to locality, number, and salary ; to superintend, under the sanction
and corerol of the General Committee in London, the future etas-
sifiratiou of mercantile shipping in the United Kingdom. [Here
toiloitts the list of surveyors and assistant surveyors at the dif-
ferent ports.)
The salaries to be in full for travelling expenses, and all other
ensign whatever, except when the surveyors shall be employed by
direction of the Committee out of their own districts ; in which case,
sea allowance to be made as may appear to the presiding Com.
inittee to be fair and equitable.
In every ease in which the salary amounts to 15111. per annum,
the surveyor to be positively interdicted from holding an interest in
any business or occupation, directly or indirectly connected with
ahiping, and to be required to devote his time exclusively to the
olitects of his appointment.
No lemma, to receive, for his own private use or benefit, any
fee, emolument. or reward, for any act or service performed by him
connected with his character as surveyor.
The surveyors to he required to attend vigilantly to the general
instructions, and to obey all particular orders which they may from
ume to time receive from the presiding Committee.
Tiro of the London surveyors to be occasionally selected by the
Cordialttee to visit the several out-ports of the Kingdom, to survey
andreport the state and condition of ships building. repairing, and
Ottani at them respectively ; to monies the records of the local
surveyors, comparing the same with their own observations and the
result of their inquiries ; and generally, to insure the rigid and im.
partial observance at the out-ports, of the rules and regulations
prescribed by the system.
'file surveyors to be directed to survey and inspect 'all ships
building within their respective districts. at least, at the three
periods recommended in a subsequent part of this Report; to keep
a correct record of the materials of which such ships are composed,
and 'Otiose citeumstatioes by which quality is affected, and to
transmit regular reports to the presiding Committee: to survey
minutely and carefully all new colonial-built ships arriving at the
preetterithin their districts, reporting all such facts as may enable
the committee to class them according to their intrinsic merit t
to examine, as carefully as circumstances may permit, the hulls
of ail ships annually, or on their return from every foreign voy-
age; and particularly, to avail themselves of every opportunity
lot inseeettoe. which may occur while ships are ander repair t to
exercise the utmost vigilance in enforcing the rules prescribed by
the lkoirmittee, with respect to anchors and cables, and the length,
descroption, and quality of the latter. the periodical caulking of the
bottoms of second-class ships, and the renewal of fastenings; and
generally to tate care that the directions of the Committee ate
strkkle carried into effect.
In ;II cases in which repairs are neglected, or inefficiently per-
forinti, ambers and cables arc deficient in quantity or qUality, or
in 'With the butte of ships sit found, on survey, to be in such a
state as to render them unfit to continue in the class they occupy,
especial care to be taken that written notice of the complaint be
let veq ky the surveyor, to the owner, agent, or captain, in sufficient
time no enable the party to remedy (if he shell choose to do so)
such defect or deficiency ; and the surveyor is be required, in every
such case, immediately to acquaint the Committee therewith ;
withqut whose previous sanction the character of nu ship to be al-
tered. gn any account or pretence whatever.
In the event of refusal on the part of owners or others, to camply
with the requisitions or recommendations of the Surveyor, a report
to heiMinediately made therein' to the Coi iiiii lute, accompanied by
the fullest statement of facts and observations that the chem•
stenceignay permit.
The Surveyors at out-ports to transmit, at least once in every
intint, to the presiding Committee, regular reports, according to
tomtit/4 be furnished, of all facts connected with the state sod
condition of the ships within their respective disuicta, anti to keep
$ record thereof such record to be sceessible at ell reasonable
times. to the Local Shipping Committees, and, to the visiting
Survegers; who are also to be supplied with copies thereof, If
required.
Thefiumeyors to attend, free of charge, all special surveys hell
foe the purposes prescribed by the regulations of the Committee;
and also all surveys, inspections, end examinations made by the
Surveyors from London, when visiting their shatricts respectively;
advising and &twisting, to the best of their ithlgmcnt end ability,
such sward or visiting Surveyors, in the dist:Mugs of their Moist
they lle also, when required by the Cornittee, to proceed out
of thfii districts on any service connected with their official
duties, immediately to. attend to the directions they may receive;
for which a Lodz remuneration to be allowed, at.the discretion of the
Gesannisee.
(To be coutinuedel •

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