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Canal boats. The registration and inspection of canal boats used as dwellings, and the education of children living therein, provided for by the (English) Canal Boats Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 60), partly repealed by the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, made more stringent by the (English) Canal Boats Act, 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. C. 75), repealed and replaced by the (English) P. H. Act, 1936. See ss. 249 and 258 ibid. For the purposes of this Act; canal' includes any river, inland navigation or lake or any other waters wholly or in part within a county or borough. Canal boat means any vessel used for the conveyance of goods except registered Thames barges, registered seagoing ships and pleasure vessels.The (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 10, deals with education of children....
Boats
Boats. By s. 94 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, local authorities may license pleasure boats; see also (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 267. See Chitty's Statutes; and FISHING BOATS.As to the provision of boats on ships, with a view to the prevention of accidents and the saving of life at sea, see Order of the (English) Board of Trade, Merchant Shipping (Life-saving Appliances) Rules, May 8, 1914.-S. R. and O. 1914, No. 1006, and (English) Merchant Shipping (Safety and Local Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9)....
Boat bug
An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta so called from swimming on its back which gives it the appearance of a little boat Called also boat fly boat insect boatman and water boatman...
Boat
To transport in a boat as to boat goods...
Fishing boats
Fishing boats.-See the special provisions as to fishing boats in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, Part IV.); Chit. Stat., tit. 'Shipping.' If profit-sharing, they may be excluded from the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925: see s. 35(2)....
Boatful
The quantity or amount that fills a boat...
Boating
The act or practice of rowing or sailing esp as an amusement carriage in boats...
Jolly boat
A boat of medium size belonging to a ship...
Masoola boat
A kind of boat used on the coast of Madras India The planks are sewed together with strands of coir which cross over a wadding of the same material so that the shock on taking the beach through surf is much reduced...
Massoola boat
See Masoola boat...
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