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- THE HONGKONG GOVTM GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 9TH DEC., 1891.
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 confusion 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 Colony disobey any lawful orders which the Harbour Master may see fit to give, shall be liable to 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, 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 be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or in default to six months' imprisonment with or without hard labour in addition to 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.
(28.) Nothing in this chapter contained shall prevent the Harbour Master from grauting 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., OF 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 hulks and vessels of similar description 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 ;
(c.) For fixing the scale of fees payable for such
licences;
(d) For fixing the scale of fares to be charged by
such boat or ressel;
Anchorages to
be subject to orders of Harbour Master.
Discipline of Harbour.
Penalty for disobeying Harbour Master's orders.
(Ibid. sub-s. 22.)
Governor iu Council empowered
to trane rules for carrying out provisions of this chapter. (Ibid, subs.
23.)
(See Table D in the Schedule to this
Ordinance.)
Fishing bont liconees.
(Ibid. sub-s.
24.)
Governor in Council to make regulations for licensing, &o., boats, &c. (No. 8 of 1879 sec. 39 No. 24
of ISS9.)
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