WHEREAS it is expedient to vest the port of Karáchi in a trust and to provide for the management of the affairs of the said port by trustees; It is enacted as follows:

Short title.

I.-PRELIMINARY.

1. This Act may be called "The Karáchi Port Trust Act, 1886."

2. In this Act, unless there be something repugnant in the subject

(1) "port" means the port of Karáchi as defined for the pur"port";

poses of this Act;

(2) "high-water mark" means a line drawn through the highest points reached by ordinary spring-tides at

"high-water mark";

any season of the year;

(3) "low-water mark" means a line drawn through the lowest points reached by ordinary spring-tides at any season of the year;

"low-water mark";

(4) "land" includes the bed of the sea below high-water mark, and also things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;

"land";

(5) master," when used in relation to any vessel, means any person having for the time being the charge or control of such vessel;

"master";

"goods";

"owner."

(6) the word "goods" includes wares and merchandise of every description;

(7) "owner," when used in relation to goods, includes any consignor, consignee, shipper or agent for the sale or custody of such goods; and when used in relation to any vessel, includes any part-owner, charterer, consignee, or mortgagee in possession thereof.

Power to define and alter limits of port.

3. Government may, with the approval of the Governor General in Council, by notification in the Bombay Government Gazette:

(a) define the limits of the port for the purpose of this Act, and

(b) from time to time alter such limits.

Such limit may extend to any part of the navigable approaches to the port, and may include any wharves, tramways, warehouses, sheds and other works made on behalf of the public for convenience of traffic, for safety of vessels, or for the improvement, maintenance, and good government of the port, whether within or without high-water mark, and, subject to any rights of private property therein, any portion of the shore within fifty yards of high-water mark.

trustees.

II. OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

Constitution of Board.

4. The duty of carrying out the provisions of this Act shall, subject to such conditions and limitations as are hereinAct to be carried out by after contained, be vested in a board to be called "The Trustees of the Port of Karáchi"; and such board, hereinafter referred to as "the board," shall be a body corporate and have perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall sue and be sued by the name first aforesaid.

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5. The board shall consist of nine members of whom not less than two Number of trustees. shall be natives of India residing in Karachi.

S. 3. See G. G. 1887, p. 244.

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6. Government shall from time to time appoint a person to be chair-
man of the board and may, if they think
fit, from time to time appoint a person to be
vice-chairman of the board. Any person so

Appointment of chairman and vice-chairman.

appointed may be a public officer or not.

The chairman and, if any be appointed, the vice-chairman of the board, shall be trustees.

appoint the chief affices

Manager

7! Of the rest of the trustees, one shall be the Manager, for the time being, of the North-Western Railway, or such Nomination of other trustees. may nominali in his stead officer of the said Railway as the sporer shall from time to time appoint to act for him in this behalf, we shall be elected by the members for the time being of the Karáchi Chamber of Commerce, and two shall be elected by the municipal geommissioners of Karachi from among their own number.

The remaining trustees shall be appointed by Government.

Any trustee elected or appointed under this section may be a public officer or not.

8. The election of trustees by the Karáchi Chamber of Commerce and by the municipal commissioners shall be Conduct of elections. conducted in such manner as shall from time to time be determined at a meeting of the members of the said chamber or of the said commissioners as the case may be, convened in accordance with the rules at the time in force in this behalf. The secretary to the said chamber and the President of the Municipality of Karáchi shall, respectively, make a return to the Commissioner of the name of every person so elected. In the event of default being made by the chamber or by the municipal commissioners in electing any trustee under the foregoing provisions within the period hereinafter prescribed in this behalf, it shall be lawful for Government to appoint a person, and the person so appointed shall be deemed to be a trustee as if he had been duly elected by the chamber, or municipal commissioners, as the case may be.

Nomination by Government in default of election.

9. The name of every person appointed by Government to be chairman or vice-chairman of the board, and the names of all trustees duly elected or appointed to the board shall be published in the Bombay Gov

Publication of names of trustees in the official gazettes.

ernment Gazette and in the Sind Official Gazette.

Term of office of first trustees when to commence.

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10 The term of office of the trustees shall commence on such date as shall be notified in this behalf by Government.

S. 10. The date notified is the 1st April, 1887. G. G. 1887, p. 159.

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