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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST AUGUST, 1891.
Governor in
Connell to
wake
regulations for
licensing, &c..
boats, Mo.
Punishment for drowning passengers in overcrowded boats. (7 and 6
Geo, 4., sce. 98.)
[Local and Torcunal.]
(28.) Nothing in this chapter contained shall prevent the Harbour Master from granting to any Chinese vessel other than a junk a licence under the provisions of sub- section 21 in such cases as it shall appear to him that the vessel referred to is to be employed in the same or similar manner as a “ Junk” and such vessel being so licensed shall so long as the said licence is in force be considered for all purposes of this Ordinance to be a licence junk.
CHAPTER II.
Licensing &c., or Boats, Cargo BOATMEN, &C. 39. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make and publish regulations and, from time to time to vary the same :——
(a.) For the licensing, due management control and regulation of all boats or vessels, including cargo boats and lighters within the waters of the Colony, other than boats or vessels having British, Colonial, or foreign registers; and also other than market boats, junks, or vessels licensed under sections 7 and 38.
(b.) For the licensing, registration and regulation of
cargo-boatmen and lightermen ;
(e.) For fixing the scale of fees payable for such
licences;
(d.) For fixing the scale of fares to be charged by
such boat or vessel;
(e.) For the regulation and management of all boats, sampans, or other vessels, used as dwelling places within the waters of the Colony and not plying for hire:
(f) For the registration or licensing of such last mentioned vessels and of the people dwelling in the same.
Provided that unless and until such regulations are made, rescinded or varied the regulations in table U of the schedule to this Ordinance and the forms therein contained shall apply and be used.
2. In case any greater number of persons or passen- gers shall be taken or carried in any boat or vessel within the waters of the Colony, thau are respectively allowed to be carried therein by any regulations made by the Governor in Council, and any one or more of such persons or passengers shall be drowned in consequence thereof, every person who shall be in charge of such boat, or vessel, shall bo guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished therefore without prejudice to any civil remedy that any person may have against such misdemeanant.*
Ships to be
marked with deck and lonil luce.
(M. S. A. 1876, #ec.25, 26)
Penalty in PARE OF British el t arglerting to work,
PART IV.
Deck and Load Lines.
40. (1.) All ships registered in the Colony shall be marked with deck and load lines as is provided in the.. Merchant Shipping Acts, 1876 and 1890. When a ship registered in the Colony has been marked as by this section required, she shall be kept so marked until her next return to a port of discharge in the Colony.
(2.) The owner, or agent, or master of every British ship shall, before clearing his ship outwards from any port in the Colony, mark the load line required by section 26 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1876, as amended by section 1 of Merchant Shipping Act, 1890.
(3.) The owner, agent or master shall also, upon so clearing her, deliver to the Harbour Master a statement in writing of the distance in feet and inches between tho centre of the disc and the upper edge of each of the lines indicating the position of the ship's decks which is above that centre. If default is made in delivering this statement in the case of any such ship, the Harbour Master may refuse to clear the ship.
4. Any owner or master of a British ship being within the waters of this Colony who neglects to cause such ship to be marked as required by this section or to keep her so marked or who allows such ship to be so loaded as to submerge in salt water the centre of the disc and any person who conceals removes alters defaces or obliterates or suffers any person under his control to conceal remove alter deface