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A BILL
INTITULED
[No. 30-1.12.30.-1.]
An Ordinance to amend the Merchant Ship-
ping Ordinance, 1899.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :----
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Short title. Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1931.
2. Table I in the Schedule to the Merchant Ship- Amendment ping Ordinance, 1899, is repealed and the following of Ordinance Table is substituted therefor :-
Table I.
ENGAGEMENT AND DISCHARGE FEES.
1.-Engagement and discharge of seamen at the Mercantile Marine Office.
Fee for engagement or discharge of a mate, purser, engineer, surgeon, car- penter, steward or wireless telegraph operator
Fee for engagement or discharge of every
other seaman
$ 1,00
$ 0.75
2.-Engagement and discharge of seamen on
board ship.
No. 10 of 1899.
Substitution
of new Table for Table I in Schedule.
Fee, where not more than 40 seamen are engaged or discharged, for each sea-
man
$ 0.75
Minimum fee in such case
$15.00
Fee, where more than 40 and not more
than 100 seamen are engaged or dis- charged, for each visit.
$30.00
Fee, where more, than 100 and not more
than 150 seamen are engaged or dis- charged, for each visit
.$37.50
Fee where more than 150 seamen are engaged or discharged, for the first
150
$37.50
for every additional 50 or less...$ 7.50 Where seamen are re-engaged on board the ship at the time of discharge the fee payable shall be the discharge fee plus half the engagement fee. In all the above cases the actual travelling expenses of the Officers of the Mercantile Marine Office, between that Office and the ship, shall be charged in addition.
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