Colonial Certificates at the time possessed by the person in respect of whom the decision is made, as well as to all Certificates granted to him under any of the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping, and whether such Certificates be specified in such decision or not.

Certificates believed to be fraudulent may be demanded.

9. Any officer of the Board of Trade, or the Registrar-General of Seamen, or any of his officers, or a Superintendant of a Mercantile Marine Office, or a Consular Officer, or duly appointed shipping officer in a British Possession, may demand the delivery to him of any such Colonial Certificate of Competency which he has reason to believe has been improperly issued, or is forged, altered, cancelled or suspended, or to which the person using it is not justly entitled, and may detain such Certificate for a reasonable period for the purpose of making inquiries respecting such issue, forgery, alteration, cancellation, suspension, or possession and any person who without reasonable cause neglects or refuses to comply with such demand, shall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, which shall be recoverable in the same manner as penalties imposed by the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping are thereby made recoverable.

Suspended Certificates to be re-issued only by Colony by which
originally granted.

10. Any such Colonial Certificate of Competency which has from any cause been cancelled or suspended whether by a Tribunal in Canada, or elsewhere, shall be renewed or re-issued only by the Government of Canada.

This Order shall take effect in the said Possession of Canada from and after the date hereof.

Place of examination.

Testimonials of character, con

ty required.

NOTICE TO CANDIDATES FOR EXAMINATION AS MAS-
TERS AND MATES, AND REGULATIONS RELATING
THERETO.

The examinations will be held in the ports of Montreal, Quebec, St. John, and Halifax, at such times as may be decided upon by the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, of which due notice will be given.

Testimonials of character and of sobriety, expeduct and abili- rience, ability and good conduct on board ship, will be required of all applicants, and without producing them no person will be examined. As such testimonials will have to be closely examined by the examiners for verification before any certificates can be granted, it is desirable that candidates should. lodge them as early as possible. The testimonials of servitude of foreigners and British seamen serving in foreign vessels, must be confirmed either by the Consul of the country to which the ship in which the candidate served belonged, or by some other official authority of that country, or by the testimony of some credible person on the spot, having personal knowledge of the facts required to be established. Upon application to the Board of Examiners, candidates will be supplied with a form which they will be required to fill up and lodge with their testimonials in the hands of the Exami

Coasting Trade will count.

ners.

How time in Where the Board of Examiners are in every respect satisfied with the testimonials of a candidate, service in the coasting trade may be allowed to count as service, in order to qualify him for a certificate of competency for a sea-going ship," as a mate, and two years' service as mate in the coasting trade may be allowed to count as service for a Master's Certificate, provided the Candidate's name has been entered as mate in the Coasting Articles, or other proof satisfactory to the Examiners, and provided he has already passed an examination.

Qualifications

RULES.

The qualifications required for the ranks underof competency mentioned are as follow:

for certificates

as inate.

1. A Mate or only Mate must be nineteen years of age, and have been four years at sea. (Service in a superior capacity is in all cases to be equivalent to service in an inferior one.)

for certificates

2. In Navigation.-He must write a legible hand, and understand the first rules of arithmetic, and the use of logarithms. He must be able to work a day's work complete, including the bearings and distance of the Port he is bound to, by Mercator's methot; to correct the sun's declination for longitude, find Qualifications his latitude by the meridian altitude of the sun, and of competency by single altitude of the same body off the meridian. as mates. He must be able to observe and compute the variation of the compass from azimuths and amplitudes; be able to compare chronometers and keep their rates; and be able to find the longitude by them from an observation of the sun by the usual methods. He must be able to lay off the place of the ship on the chart, both by the bearings of known objects, and by latitude and longitude. He must be able to determine the error of a sextant and to adjust it; also to find the time of high water from the known time at full and change.

3. In Seamanship. He must give satisfactory answers as to the rigging and stripping of ships and stowing of holds; must understand the measurement of the logline, glass and lead-line; be conversant with the rule of the road, as regards both steamers and sailing vessels, and lights and fog-signals carried by them, and will also be examined as to his acquaintance with "the Commercial Code of Signals for the use of all nations." In addition to which he will be required to know how to moor and unmoor and keep a clear anchor; to carry out an anchor, and to make the requisite entries in the ship's log. He will also be questioned as to his knowledge of the use and management of the mortar and rocket lines in the case of the stranding of a vessel as explained in the official logbook. He will also be required to know to shift large spars and sails; to manage a ship in stormy weather, to take in and make sail, to shift yards and masts, &c., and to get heavy weights, anchors, &c., in and out; to cast a ship on a lee-shore; and to secure the masts in the event of accident to the bowsprit.

4. A Master must be twenty-one years of age, and Master. have been six years at sea, of which at least two years must have been as Mate or Only Mate.

5. In addition to the qualification for a Mate or Only Mate, he must be able to find the latitude by a star, &c. He will be asked questions as to the nature of the attraction of the ship's iron upon the compass, and as to the method of determining it. He will be

Service in foreand-aft rigged vessels.

examined in so much of the laws of the tides as is necessary to enable him to shape a course, and to compare his soundings with the depths marked on the charts. He will be examined as to his competency to construct jury rudders and rafts; and as to his resources for the preservation of the ship's crew in the event of wreck. He must possess a sufficient knowledge of what he is required to do by law as to entry and discharge, and the management of his crew, and as to penalties and entries to be made in the official log, and a knowledge of the measures for preventing and checking the outbreak of scurvy on board ship. He will be questioned as to his knowledge of invoices, charter-party, Lloyd's agent, and as to the nature of bottomry, and he must be acquainted with the leading lights of the channel he has been accustomed to navigate, or which he is going to use.

6. In cases where an applicant for a certificate as Master has only served on a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, and is ignorant of the management of a square-rigged vessel, he may obtain a certificate on which the words "Fore-and-aft-rigged vessel" will be written. This certificate does not entitle him to command a square-rigged ship. This is not, however, to apply to Mates, who, being younger men, expected for the future to learn their business completely.

lates

are

Punctuality of 7. Candidates are required to appear at the exacandidate's at mination room punctually at the time appointed.

tendance.

Candidates in

juring exami

8. Candidates are prohibited from bringing into the examination room books or paper of any kind whatever. The slightest infringement of this regulation will subject the offender to all the penalties of a failure.

9. In the event of any candidate being detected nation papers. in defacing, blotting, writting in, or otherwise injuring any book or books belonging to the Board, the papers of such candidate will be detained until the book or books so defaced be replaced by him. He will not, however, be at liberty to remove the damaged book, which will still remain the property of the Board.

Candidates dis-
covered
ing, etc.

10. In the event of any candidate being discopy-covered copying from another or affording any assistance or giving any information to another, or communicating in any way with another during the time of examination, he will subject himself to a failure and its consequences.

11. No candidate will be allowed to work out his problems on a slate or on waste paper.

work

out

12. No candidate will be permitted to leave the Time allowed room until he has given up the paper on which he to navigation pais engaged.

13. Candidates will be allowed to work out the various problems by the method and tables they have been accustomed to use, and will be allowed six hours to perform the work. At the expiration of six hours they will, if they have not finished, be declared to have failed, unless the Board of Examiners see fit to lengthen the period in any special case. If, however, the period is lengthened in any case the special circumstances of that case and the reasons for lengthening the period must be reported to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries by the Examiners at the time they send in the Report.

pers.

inspection not

14. The corrections by inspection from the tables Corrections by given in many works on navigation, will not be allowed. allowed (see Tables IX, XI and XXI, in Norie's Epitome, &c.); every correction must appear on the papers of the candidates. The first-class are referred to page 513 of the Nautical Almanac, 1867, for further information on this subject.

15. Candidates are expected to bring their answers to all problems within, or not exceed a margin of one mile of position from a correct result.

16. In finding the longitude by chronometer, the logarithms used in finding the hour-angle should be taken out for seconds of arc.

In all other problems the logarithms to the nearest minute will be sufficiently correct for all grades, except Master, from whom a degrees of precision will be required, both in the work and in the results, beyond what is demanded from the inferior grade.

17. In every case the examination for Master is to commence with the problems for Mate.

Examination
to commence
with that

mates.

failure.

of

18. In all cases of failure the candidate must be Re examinare-examined de novo. If the candidate fails in tion in case of Seamanship he will not be re-examined until after a lapse of six months, to give him time to gain experience. If he fail three times in Navigation he will not be re-examined until after a lapse of three months.

as toknowledge

19. The Examiners are to insert in the Report of Examination Examinations (under heading Remarks), the words of commercial "passed, (or "failed, ") in Commercial Code of code of signals Signals, as the case may be.