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the Lord's Supper guests - this number actually only reflects the inner attitude towards the Christian faith - so the numbers shrink to even greater extent. On the other hand, we do not want to overlook that some people also drove the church tax into the ranks of the faithful. In the "German Justice" of 16.2.1940, the Reichsjustiz-ministerium made fundamental statements on the question of the Church's departure from front soldiers. 1, § 1, para.2 of the Act on Voluntary Jurisdiction in the Military makes signatures of the persons in mobile relationship are also certified by the military disciplinary officers or the superior officials. After that, it is no longer necessary for the local court to confirm church leave for soldiers in the mobile relationship, by the registry office; this can now also be issued (as an example) by the company chief. 7. What is a gross register ton ? Daily we almost read and hear about the sinking of shif- fen with sound so much gross register tons (BRT.). Everyone knows that the ton is a measure of the size of a ship, but can hardly begin with this knowledge if he hears that a freighter of 10 000 GRT. e.g. transported a cargo of 14 000 tonnes. Basically it is clear first of all that a warship is measured by weight tons, a merchant ship by space tons. We know that a weight tonne is 1 Ooo kg. A warship of 35 O00 tons weighs 35 million kg. By the way, this weight is determined by measuring the amount of water that the ship is displacing by cubic meters. The weight of this water quantity is equal to the weight of the ship. In the water of the vessel a cbm water is equal 1 O00 kg (it). Since sea water is not distilled, the cbm must of course multiply with the specific weight of the sea water. In commercial ships the unit of measurement for the space barrel is the re-gistertonne. It is 100 English cubic feet or, according to the decimal system, 2,83 cubic meters. The entire cavity of the schif-fes will be complex mathematically and the number of existing register tons (gross register tons) is determined. Register ton is called this measure, because all merchant ships are listed in a register. The net register ton (NRT.) results as follows. Those ship rooms which cannot be used for the accommodation of cargoes (food, fuel, water ballast and crew rooms) are deducted from the gross tonnage resulting in the net register tonnage, the pure space of a ship. The load capacity of a vessel shall be the weight of cargo, expressed in tonnes of 1 O00 kg, which a ship has on board on a normal water line.