THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 18, 1919.

3. No person shall carry on the trade or business of Licence for a dealer in marine stores, or shall be a marine stores dealing in collector, unless he is the holder of a licence for that marine

or collecting purpose, and no licence shall be granted to a marine stores. stores collector except through and on the application of a dealer in marine stores who shall give security in such sum as may be fixed by the Governor in Council by Regulation for every marine stores collector to whom a licence is granted on his application for the perform- ance and observance by such collector of the conditions of such licence and of the Regulations affecting the same, and of the provisions of this Ordinance.

4. Every such licence shall be granted by and held Conditions at the discretion of the Captain Superintendent of Police, of licence. who shall have power to cancel the same for a breach of this Ordinance or of any Regulation made thereunder, on such conditions as to fees and subject to such Regula-

tions as may be made by the Governor in Council.

dealer.

5. Every dealer in marine stores shall keep books Keeping of fairly written, and shall enter therein an account of all books by such marine stores as he may from time to time become possessed of, stating in respect of every article the time at which and the person from whom he purchased or received the same, adding, in the case of every such last-mentioned person, a description of his business and place of abode.

etc.

6.-(1) Every person to whom a licence is granted Power to under section 4 shall. whenever thereunto required by inspect any Superintendent or Inspector of Police, or by any con- goods, books, stable bearing a written order in that behalf under the hand of a Superintendent, produce for the inspection of the party so requiring him all or any marine stores in his possession or subject to his control and all books and papers relating to the same.

(2.) No dealer shall have in his possession any marine stores except at such premises as are registered by him with the Captain Superintendent of Police as places for storing his (the dealer's) marine stores.

any

of trafficking

7. No dealer in marine stores and no marine stores Prohibition collector shall deal in or buy or sell any provisions of kind, in the course of his business.

in provisions by dealer or collector.

8. No marine stores collector shall buy any marine Restriction stores except marine stores of the same kind or kinds on buying of as the dealer who applied for such collector's licence marine stores

by collector. deals in.

9. No marine stores collector shall sell any marine Prohibition stores of any kind.

of sale of marine stores by collector.

of marine

10.-(1.) Any person conveying or having in his pos- Penalty on session or keeping any manner of marine stores who does person found not give an account to the satisfaction of the magistrate in possession as to how he came by the same shall upon summary stores, and conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding 250 dollars not account- or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 3 months. ing for them.

(2.) For the purpose of this section, marine stores shall be deemed to be in the possession or keeping of any person if he knowingly has them in the actual possession of himself or of any other person on any wharf or in any launch or in any junk, lighter, cargo-boat, or sampan, or open boat of any description, or in any street, house, building, lodging, apartment, field, or place, open or enclosed, whether occupied by himself or not and whether the said stores are so possessed or kept either for his own use or benefit or for the use or benefit of another person.

11. It shall not be lawful for any person, without Unauthorised permission in writing from the Harbour Master, to person not dredge in the waters of the Colony between a line drawn to sweep from the Westernmost point of the Island of Hongkong within

or dredge to the Western side of Green Island and continued to the certain Western point of Stonecutters Island and from thence limits. to the Naval Torpedo Range at Laichikok, on the West, and the Lyemun Pass, on the East.

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