This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...reducing the expense of those works and services, shall be paid out of the Mercantile Marine Fund. This section is repeated in sect. 677 ('.). See sects. 648 ( 1 ), 654 (2). 659.--(1.) Her Majesty may by Order in Council fix the establishments to be maintained by each of the general lighthouse authorities on account of the services of lighthouses, buoys, and beacons, or the annual or other sums to be paid out of the Mercantile Marine Fund in respect of those establishments. (2.) If it appears that any part of the establishments of the general lighthouse authorities is maintained for other purposes as well as for the purposes of their duties as general lighthouse authorities, Her Majesty may by Order in Council fix the portion of the expense of those establishments to be paid out of the Mercantile Marine Fund. (3.) An increase of any establishment or part of an establishment fixed under this section shall not be made without the consent of the Board of Trade. The General Lighthouse Establishments have been fixed and regulated under the 1854 Act and this Act by numerous Orders in Council, the following being those now in operation. The dates in parenthesis are Expenses of those of the London Gazette in which the Orders were published: --General Trinity House, 16th Aug. (L.G. 20th Aug.) 1886; 20th Mar. (L.G. Lighthouse 24th Mar.) 1891; 28th Oct. (L.G. 4th Nov.) 1892 (partly super-Authorities. seded by Order of 18th July, 1898); 15th Mar. (L.G. 17th Mar.) 1893; 13th May (L.G. 15th May) 1896 (superseded by subsequent Order); 18th July (L.G. 19th July) 1898; 14th July (L.G. 18th July) 1899. Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, 16th Mar. (L.G. 18th Mar.) 1892; 18th May (L.G. 21st May) 1897; 19th May (L.G. 26th May) 1899; 26th Nov. (L.G....