The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-09-14

Be it Enacted byths King and the Legislative Assembly of the
Islands IN the Legislature Of the Kingdom assembled
SECTION 1. The officer, any person by whom the
upon application for registry at the
made shall for the Information of and
voucher the Collector, by whom the registry is to be
made grant certificate specifying the building of the
sell her number of decks and mas her length breadth and
DEPTH the number of she measures and such other
usually descriptive of the identity Of vessel
and that her and the place to which she belongs
painted her black ground with white letters
less than three inches long, which certificate shall be
tegned by owner the master of such vessel by
other person who shall attend her admeasurement
behalf of her owners in testimony of the truth of
the particulars therein contained without which the cert
shall not be valid.
2 The registry of every vessel shall express her
length and breadth, together with her depth and height
third spar deck which shall be ascertaned in the
following The deck vessels having three
decks the hull shall be the second deck from
below all other the upper deck of the hull to be
the tonnage deck The length from the fore part of the
paning the side of the the afterpa of
the sternpOst of steamers and to the afterart
of the rudderos of all other vessels measured the top
of the tonnage deck vessels length
The breadth of the broadcast part the outside of the
shall be accounted the vessels breadth of BEAM
the under side of the tonnage deckplank
amidships ceiling of the hold average thckne shall
the depth of hold If the vessel has third
deck then the height from the top of the tonnage decank
the under side of the upper decank shall be accounted
taken feet and fractions of feet and all fractions of feet
shall be expressed in decmals.
SECTION g. No part of any vessel shall required by
preceding be measured registered for tonnage
used for cabins saeoOms, and constructed entire
y above the first deck which is not deck to the hull
SECTION f. That from gross tonnage every Hawaiian
shall be deducted the tonnage of the spaces
compartments occupied by appropriated to the of
crew of the vessel deduction for the space shall
any exceed five (5 per cenum of the gross
mage And every such vessel propelled by steam other
power requiring engine there shall also be deducted
from gross tonnage Of the vessel the tonnage of the
space spaces actually occupied by required to be
closed for the proper working of the boilers and machinery
including shaft trunk alley in steamers, with
the addition in the of vessels propelled with paddle
wheels of fifty per and the of vessels pro-
PEELED by of seventy five per of the tonnage
space but shall the deductions from the
gross tonnage exceed fifty @ per centum of such tonnage
and the proper the gross tonnage having
made the remainder shall be deemed the register
tonnage of such vessels
SECTION s. The provisions foregoing relating the
urement shall be deemed apply vessel
not required by be registered enrolled licensed
unless otherwise specially provided
SECTION 6. The register tonnage of every vessel built
within the Hawaiian Islands, owned by citizen ct-
thereof shall be her entire internal cubic capacity in
hundred 900 cubic feet each to be ascertained
as follows:
Measure the length of vessel a straight line along
the upper of the tonnage deck from the inside of the
the inside the plank the mbers average thick
deductng from this length what due to the rake of
the thickness of the deck and what is due
the of the timber in Onehird of the round of the
beam length taken into the number of equal
parts required by the following table according the class
in such table to which the vessel belongs
Class Vessels of which the tonnage length, accord
ing to the above measurement fifty UNDER
equal parts.
Glass hco Vessels of which the tonnage length accord
ing to measurement above fifty feet and
exceeding hundred feet, into eight eqna parts.
three Vessels of which the tonnage length, accord
ing the above measurement is above hundred feet,
exceeding hundred and fifty feet into equal
parts.
Class FOUR Vessels of which the tonnage length, accord
ing the above measurement is above hundred and
fifty feet and exceeding hundred feet, into twelve
equal parts.
Glass fee Vessels of which the tonnage length accord