400 to 700 tons.
700 to 1,000 tons
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15.00
20.00
and so on for ships of larger ton- nage adding for every 300 tons or part of 300 tons, 5 dollars.
2.- Engagement or discharge of seamen. Separately 80 cents each.
Orertime fee, when engagement or discharge takes place on board ships.
From 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., and 5
p.. to 6
p.m.
From 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., and 6
p.m. to 8 p.m.
..
$ 5 per hour.
10 per hour.
20 per hour.
Before 6 a.m., and after 8
p...
Any portion of an hour shall count as one hour.
2. Section 5 (5) of the said Ordinance provides for the payment upon all engagements and discharges of 'such fees, not exceeding the sums specified in Table I in the Schedule, as may be fixed by the Governor in Council".
3. The unprecedented fall in the sterling exchange value of the local dollar and the necessity for revising and adjusting the sources of revenue to meet current needs has brought this Table of fees under review with the result that the new Table 1 set out in section 2 has been approved by the Government of the Colony.
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4. Section 3 includes wireless telegraph operators in Table J so as to bring it into line with the new Table I. Such persons were not contemplated at the time of the passing of Ordinance No. 10 of 1899. Table J is also revised by the substitution of the word seamen for the word crew as being a word the precise meaning of which is ascertainable from the provisions of the principal Ordinance, under section 2 of which seaman includes every person (except masters, pilots, and apprentices duly indentured and registered) employed or engaged in any capacity on board any ship.
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5. Clause 4 repeats the suspending clause which was included in the principal Ordinance (section 47 of Ordinance No. 36 of 1899, as numbered before the renumbering as Ordinance No. 10 of 1899 in Sir John Carrington's Revised Edition of the Ordinances from 1844-1901) is consequence of section 735 of the Mer- chant Shipping Act, 1894. The principal Ordinance of 1899 and the amending Ordinances of 1901 and 1903 were confirmed by His Majesty's Order in Council of the 10th August, 1903 (No. 674 on p. 313 of Vol. 8 of the Statutory Rules and Orders Revised to 31st Decem- ber, 1903) and was proclaimed in the Colony on the 18th September, 1903 (Proclamation No. 6 in Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 18th September, 1903, p. 1071).
December, 1930.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
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