thereto" in section 503, sub-section 2 (a) of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, is, in cases of limitation of liability, to limit the right to deduct crew space from the gross tonnage of the ship, whose owners are seeking to limit their liability, to cases where the certificate mentioned in the third paragraph of the Sixth Schedule to the Act has been given by a surveyor of ships under the Act to the Collector of Customs, at the time when the ship is registered or re-registered as a British ship. The Cathay, 89.

Wreck in Navigable River-Duty of Owner to Warn other Vessels.]-The owner of a vessel, sunk in the fairway of a navigable river, so as to be a danger to other vessels, who retains the possession, management, and control of the wreck, is under an obligation to take reasonable care to warn other vessels of its position, and is liable for damage to another vessel occasioned by the neglect to give proper warning, though such neglect was that of an independent contractor employed by him. The Snark, (C.A.)

41.

Independent Contractor Abandonment of Possession, Management, and Control.]-An owner does not abandon or properly transfer the possession, management, and control of a wreck by employing an independent contractor to raise it, although the person so employed be placed in the actual physical custody of the wreck. lb.

Action of Restraint-Bail Bond-Jurisdiction of Court to Enforce Bond-Ship not Lost.]— Where in an action of restraint a bond is given in the usual form for the safe return of the ship to the port to which she belongs, the Court has jurisdiction to order the amount secured by

the bond to be paid into Court, although the ship be not lost. The Cawdor, (C.A.) 23.

Practice Caveat Warrant-Præcipe for, Signed by Defendant's Solicitor-Subsequent Arrest of the Ship by Plaintiffs-Discharge of Warrant-Condemnation of Plaintiffs in Damages and Costs.]-A solicitor who, without any qualification, signs a præcipe for caveat warrant is personally liable to see that the undertaking to give bail therein given is complied with. The Crimdon, 103.

It is not a 66 'good and sufficient reason" for arresting a ship, notwithstanding the entry of a careat against the issue of a warrant, that the plaintiffs preferred the security of the ship to the undertaking of the defendants' solicitor to give bail. Ib.

SOLICITOR.

Liability-Præcipe for Caveat Warrant.]— See The Crimdon, supra.

SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

See DIVORCE.

WILL.

See ADMINISTRATION; INTERNATIONAL LAW;

PROBATE.

WORDS.

"At or near the stern."]-See The Gannet,

p. 49.

"In the forward part of the vessel."]-See The Philadelphian, p. 101.

2. Power to the Treasury to borrow.

3. Short title.

A.D. 1900.

An Act to apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand nine hundred. [23rd February 1900.]

Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sum herein-after mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

:

1. The Treasury may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of

sury to bor

2. The Treasury may borrow from any per- Power to son, and the Bank of England may advance to the Treathe Treasury on the credit of the said sum, row. any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole the sum of thirteen million pounds, and the Treasury shall repay the moneys so borrowed with interest not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum, out of the growing produce of the Consolidated Fund at any period not later than the next succeeding quarter to that in which the said moneys were borrowed.

Any moneys so borrowed shall be placed to the credit of the account of the Exchequer, and shall form part of the said Consolidated Fund, and be available in any manner in which such fund is available.

3. This Act may be cited as the Consolidated Short title. Fund (No. 1) Act, 1900.

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