“Boats registered every year would be easily kept in view. The annual registration would bring both the boatowner and captain to the front.
“Owing to the children living in the boats being under the school authorities at which place the boats are registered as belonging to, it might be desirable, for many reasons, that the place of registration should be changed. I will take a case to explain my meaning. Suppose a boat is registered at Liverpool for three years; the children living in the boat, according to the Act of 1877, belong to Liverpool the length of time for which the boat is registered. But suppose in the course of a few months after the boat has been registered for three years the captain or master comes to work his boat near London. Naturally the captain would like to have his home and family near London and his children going to school near him. If the boat was registered at Liverpool for three years he could not remove his family till the time of registration was expired.
“The yearly registration would simplify the whole thing, and to a great extent overcomes cases of the above kind. With a change of the registration authority, a change of the school authority to which the boat children belong takes place as an outcome of the registration of the boats.
“GEORGE SMITH, of Coalville.
“December 31, 1882.”
UNWIN BROTHERS, THE GRESHAM PRESS, CHILWORTH AND LONDON.
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1884.