PROCLAMATIONS, 1937 DEDUCTIONS FROM GROSS TONNAGE ALLOWED VESSELS IN DETERMINING NET TONNAGE 43. SECTION 1. The tonnage of the spaces or compartments occu- Spaces for use of pied by, or appropriated to the use of, the officers and crew of the w. s offi ce rs and vessel shall be deducted. The term "officers and crew" shall include d"Oficrsandew"" the personnel inscribed on the ship's rolls, i. e., the ship's officers, engineers, doctors, apothecary, sick attendants, sailors, apprentices, firemen, mechanics, and wireless operators including clerks, pursers, stewards and other members of the personnel provided by the ship for the care of the passengers as well as armed guards on vessels of com- merce. The spaces or compartments occupied by the officers and crew shall include their berthing accommodations, spaces provided for medical attention, including the medicine locker and dispensary, mess rooms, ward and dressing rooms, bath and washrooms, water closets, latrines, lavatories, or privies for their exclusive use, and passageways designed primarily for serving these spaces. Room provided for a pilot and so designated, shall be deducted, but spare rooms and linen lockers are not to be deducted. 44. SEC. 2. On hospital ships the spaces or compartments occupied Hospital ships. by doctors, apothecary, and sick attendants duly inscribed on the ship's rolls, shall form part of the deduction under section 1 of this article. Spaces provided for the medical attention of the officers and crew of a hospital ship shall likewise be deducted; but spaces fitted for the transportation, or for the medical attention, of other persons than those duly listed in the ship's rolls shall not be deducted. 45. SEC. 3. The spaces appropriated to the use of the master shall Spaces or master. be deducted. 46. SEC. 4 . Cook houses, galleys, bakeries, laundries, and rooms Cookhouses galleys, for ice machines, when used exclusively to serve the officers and etc. crew, and the condenser space, and distilling rooms, when used exclusively for condensing and distilling the water for the officers and crew, shall be deducted. 47. SEC. 5. Spaces used for anchor gear, including the chain locker; spa for anchor steering gear; capstan; the wheel house; the dynamo; the chart room used exclusively for keeping charts, signals, and other instruments of navigation; offices for the master, chief officer, and chief engineer; lookout houses; spaces for keeping electric searchlights, radio appli- ances, and wireless telephone apparatus; carpenter shop; fumigating and ire-fighting machinery; and other spaces actually used in the navigation of the ship, shall be deducted. Such spaces upon vessels of commerce as may be devoted to the mounting of guns and to the stowage of ammunition for the guns thus mounted shall be deducted. The deduction of all spaces, enumerated in this section, must be reasonable in extent and be subject to the limitations stipulated below in Article XI. hp rl4. 48. SEC. 6. In case of a ship propelled wholly by sails, any space, Ship propelled not exceeding 2% percent of the gross tonnage, used exclusively for wolybysals. storage of sails shall be deducted. 49. SEC. 7. Spaces used exclusively for boatswain's stores, includ- spaces used for ing paint and lamp rooms, shall be deducted. The deduction is not, however, to exceed 1 percent of the gross tonnage in ships of 1,000 tons gross and upwards, nor more than 75 tons in any ship however large. In vessels from 500 to 1,000 tons gross the limit is fixed at 10 tons and in vessels from 150 to 500 tons at not more than 2 percent of the gross tonnage. In vessels under 150 tons at not more than 3 tons. 383
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