entry, fails to take delivery of the goods and to proceed in doing so with all convenient speed, the master or owner may enter, and then discharge the goods from the ship on to any wharf or into any dock or warehouse, [barge, lighter or floatingstore ?] if he observe the following conditions: 1. If the cargo-owner fails to do his part at a time for delivery expressed in the charter-party, bill-of-lading, or agreement-then at any time after the time expressed. 2. Or if no particular time is expressed, he may enter and discharge at any time after the expiration of seventy-two hours after the report of the ship; in which time, however, must not be reckoned a Sunday or holiday.1 3. If any wharf or warehouse is named in the charter-party, &c., then the goods are to be placed on such wharf or in such warehouse. 4. But if no special place be named, then the goods are to be landed and placed in some place where similar goods are usually deposited: and if the goods landed are dutiable, then at a wharf or warehouse duly approved by the Commissioners of Customs [a bonded wharf or warehouse]. 5. Nevertheless, if after the shipowner has made 1 Holiday is not defined. The only two universal holiday's effective in law are Christmas Day and Good Friday. The Act establishing the four Bank holidays does not seem an entry, but before he has discharged and landed the goods, the cargo-owner becomes ready and offers to land or take delivery of his merchandize, he shall be allowed to do so, and his entry shall have preference of the shipowner's. 6. If for the shipowner's convenience the goods are landed at a wharf where the ship or steamer is being discharged for the purpose of sorting out the cargo, and the proprietor of goods, having made his entry, demands delivery of them to convey them to some other wharf or warehouse, they are to be delivered to him within twenty-four hours after such assortment; and the expense of such landing and assortment, or consequent upon it, shall be borne by the shipowner. 7. If the proprietor of goods has, before they are discharged, made an entry for landing and warehousing them at some particular place other than that where the vessel is being discharged, and has offered to take delivery, and the shipowner has failed to deliver them or give correct information as to the time at which the owner of the goods can receive them, the shipowner is to give twenty-four hours' notice in writing to the proprietor of the goods or of the wharf or warehouse desired by the receiver, of his readiness to deliver; and if he unships and lands them without giving such notice, he does so at his own risk and expense. entry, fails to take delivery of the goods and to proceed in doing so with all convenient speed, the master or owner may enter, and then discharge the goods from the ship on to any wharf or into any dock or warehouse, [barge, lighter or floatingstore ?] if he observe the following conditions: 1. If the cargo-owner fails to do his part at a time for delivery expressed in the charter-party, bill-of-lading, or agreement—then at any time after the time expressed. 2. Or if no particular time is expressed, he may enter and discharge at any time after the expiration of seventy-two hours after the report of the ship; in which time, however, must not be reckoned a Sunday or holiday.' 3. If any wharf or warehouse is named in the charter-party, &c., then the goods are to be placed on such wharf or in such warehouse. 4. But if no special place be named, then the goods are to be landed and placed in some place where similar goods are usually deposited: and if the goods landed are dutiable, then at a wharf or warehouse duly approved by the Commissioners of Customs [a bonded wharf or warehouse]. 5. Nevertheless, if after the shipowner has made 1 Holiday is not defined. The only two universal holiday's effective in law are Christmas Day and Good Friday. The Act establishing the four Bank holidays does not seem an entry, but before he has discharged and landed the goods, the cargo-owner becomes ready and offers to land or take delivery of his merchandize, he shall be allowed to do so, and his entry shall have preference of the shipowner's. 6. If for the shipowner's convenience the goods are landed at a wharf where the ship or steamer is being discharged for the purpose of sorting out the cargo, and the proprietor of goods, having made his entry, demands delivery of them to convey them to some other wharf or warehouse, they are to be delivered to him within twenty-four hours after such assortment; and the expense of such landing and assortment, or consequent upon it, shall be borne by the shipowner. 7. If the proprietor of goods has, before they are discharged, made an entry for landing and warehousing them at some particular place other than that where the vessel is being discharged, and has offered to take delivery, and the shipowner has failed to deliver them or give correct information as to the time at which the owner of the goods can receive them, the shipowner is to give twenty-four hours' notice in writing to the proprietor of the goods or of the wharf or warehouse desired by the receiver, of his readiness to deliver; and if he unships and lands them without giving such notice, he does so at his own risk and expense. CHAPTER VI. STOPPAGE IN TRANSITU; SHIPOWNER'S AND WHARFINGER'S LIEN. HERE is, perhaps, no situation more difficult and embarrassing in which a shipmaster can be placed than that arising out of the disputed ownership of, or rights in, his cargo; as, for example, where two claimants present bills-of-lading in respect of the same merchandize; or when the master receives notice not to deliver goods to a consignee, whose name may be inserted in the bill-of-lading which the master has signed, and a copy of which he has in his own possession. The situation is so full of danger that when it arises it will generally be best for the master, if at a distance from his owner, to advise with a careful and experienced shipping-agent, whose knowledge of business has taught him the best steps to be followed in such cases; or who will, |