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Ordered:—
Return showing in detail the calculation by which the net register of the s.s. Anglesey was brought down to the figure of only 45 tons, by deductions and allowances from her gross measurement of 827 tons; similar figures for the s.s. Duchess of Sutherland, showing how, with an original gross measurement of 908 tons, and net register of 446 tons when she was a paddle steamer, her net register is now brought down to only 111 tons since her conversion into a screw steamer."—(Mr. T. W. Russell)