THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST AUGUST, 1891.
expenses of such sale and the amount of such penalty as aforesaid, shall be paid to the owner or owners of the junk, if claimed within twelve calendar months from the date of sale, and if not claimed within that period, shall be forfeited to the Crown: Provided that in case there shall be in the Colouy any consignec or agent of such junk registered under sub-section 6 no sale thereof shall be made in pursuance of this sub-section until three days' previous notice thereof shall have been given in writing to such consiguee or agent.
(20.) Every junk forfeited or sold under the provisions of this Chapter shall be transferred to the purchaser thereof, at kis expense, by a bill of sale from the Harbour Master, and such bill of sale shall confer upon such purchaser, his exe- cutors, administrators and assigns, un absolute title to such junk.
(21.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master, in such cases as he shall think fit to grant to any owner of any junk boat or other vessel a liecuce authorising such junk boat or other vessel to ply between this Colony and other ports or places out of the Colony, during such period and subject to such conditions as the Harbour Master, with the approval of the Governor, may determine, and which conditions shall be endorsed on or contained in such licence, and such junk boat or other vessel having obtained a licence, the master thereof shall cause the number of said licence to be painted in black figures twenty inches in length (to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master) on a white ground on cach bow and on the stern: Provided that no such licence sliall be granted unless the intended licensee shall enter into a bond together with one or more sureties resident in the Colony, and to be approved of by the Harbour Master, conditioned in any sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for the observance of the conditions of such licence. The fees set forth in Table T in the schedule hereto shall be payable for the licence and the other matters therein mentioned.
(22.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to require all junks, vessels, steam-launches, lighters, and boats of any description whatever to anchor in such place as he may direct or to prohibit their anchoring in any par- ticular place or to order them to remove to any other place.
(23.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to give such orders to all or any such junks, vessels, steam-launches, lighters and boats as aforesaid for the proper discipline of the Harbour and for the prevention of disorder or con- fusion or otherwise as he may in his discretion think fit.
(24.) Every master or other person in charge of any junk, vessel, or boat, whether licensed or not who shall when within the waters of the Colany disobey any lawful orders which the Harbour Master may see fit to give, shall incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
(25.) The Governor in Council is hereby empowered to make such rules and regulations as to him shall seem fit for the proper carrying out of the provisions of this chapter, and also to vary, from time to time, the fees chargeable to each junk under this chapter, (see Table D in the Schedule to this Ordinance) and to prescribe, from time to time, the forms of all licences, passes, permits. and clearances under this chapter, and to provide adequate means for pre- venting by force when necessary any junk from leaving the waters of the Colony, or any anchorage for junks, in viola- tion of any provision of this chapter.
(26.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master, in such cases as he shall think fit, to grant to any person a licence for any boat or vessel to be used solely as a fishing boat or vessel for such period and subject to such conditions as the Harbour Master, with the approval of the Governor, way determine and which conditions shall be endorsed upon or contained in such licence. And such boat or vessel having obtained a licence, the master thereof shall cause the number of the said licence to be painted in white figures (to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master,) twenty inches in length on a black ground on each bow, and on the stern. and every person guilty of a breach of any such conditions or of the provisions of the sub-section shall incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or in default six months imprisonment with or without hard labour in addition tổ any forfeitures thereby imposed.
(27.) Any boat or other vessel employed for fishing purposes and being within the waters of the Colony shall unless licensed as aforesaid be subject to the provisions in this chapter contained as to the Entry and Clearance of Junks.
Transfer to purchaser upon sale of junk. (Thid, sec. 25.)
Junk ficouces { Zbil, sec, 26.)
Achoroyra t he subject to writers of Harbour Master.
Discip!me of Harbour.
Penalty for disobeying Harbour Master's
orders.
(Thid,
see. 27.1
Governor in Council empowered to frame rules for carrying out provisions of this chapter. (Ibid. sec. 28.)
Fishing boat Heeneer.
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