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Steam launch, includes, on the Thames, 'any vessel propelled by steam, electricity, or other mechanical power, no tbeing used solely as a tug or for the carriage of goods and not being certified by the Board of Trade as a passenger steamer to carry 200 or more passengers,' and must be registered, display lights after sunset and before sunrise, etc., Thames Conservancy Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. clxxxvii.), ss. 3, 138, 147, 148; see now the consolidating Thames Conservancy Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. xxxvii.); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Thames.'