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HARBOURS, DOCKS, AND PIERS CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 16

Life-boat, mortar, and rockets, to be provided by undertakers.

16. Unless it be provided by the special Act that the undertakers need not
provide life-boats, the undertakers, before they shall be entitled to take any
rates in respect of the harbour, dock, or pier, shall provide and always
thereafter maintain in good repair an efficient and well-appointed life-boat,
a Manby's mortar, and a sufficient supply of Carte's rockets, or such other
mortar and rockets as the Admiralty, by writing under the hand of the
Secretary of the Admiralty, shall approve of, with all necessary tackle, and a
competent crew and proper persons for the effectual working thereof, for the
assistance and succour of vessels in distress; and the undertakers shall cause
such life-boat, mortar, and rockets to be stationed at or upon the most
advanced works of the harbour, dock, or pier, or such other place as the
Admiralty shall approve of as aforesaid, and to be used on all necessary
occasions.

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