THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH JANUARY, 1880.
PART IV.
Deck and Load Lines.
XL. All ships registered in the Colony shall be marked with deck and load lines as is provided in the "Merchant Shipping Act, 1876." When a ship registered in the Co- lony has been marked as by this section required, she shall be kept so marked until her next return to a port of dis- charge 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 Aet, 1876."
3. The owner, agent or master shall also, upon so clear- ing her, deliver to the Harbour Master a statement in writ- ing of the distance in feet and inches between the centre of the disc and the upper edge of each of the lines indi- cating 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.
Grain Cargoes.
XLI. No cargo of which more than one third consists of any kind of grain, corn, rice, paddy, pulse, seeds, nuts, or nut kernels, hereinafter referred to as grain cargo shall be carried on board any Colonial ship, unless such grain cargo be contained in bags, sacks or barrels or secured from shift- ing by boards, bulkheads or otherwise.
If the master or owner of any such Colonial ship or any agent of such, who is charged with the leading of the ship or the sending her to sea, knowingly allows any grain cargo or part of a grain cargo to be shipped therein for carriage, he shall, for every such offence, incur a penalty not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars to be recovered summarily before a Stipendiary Magistrate.
The penalty provided by section 22 of the "Merchant Shipping Act, 1876," for knowingly allowing any grain cargo or part of a grain cargo to be shipped on any British ship contrary to the provisions of the said section may likewise be recovered upon summary conviction before any Stipendiary Magistrate.
General.
XLII. So much of the various provisions of the third part of the "Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and other Act1 amending the same not being inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance and now in force in England, as relates to rights to wages and remedies for the recovery thereof; to leaving seamen abroad; to the provisions, health and accommodation of scamen; to the power of scamen to make complaints; to the protection of seamen from imposition; to discipline; and to crimes committed abroad, shall apply mutatis mutandis, and so far as the same can be extended, to all ships registered in this Colony when such ships are within the jurisdiction of this Government, and to the owners, masters and crews of such ships.
2. Every offence declared by the "Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1876," to be a misdemeanor where jurisdic- tion is given to the Court in this Colony shall be tried by the Supreme Court in the same manner as other misdemca- nors are tried, and every offence thereby made punishable by imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months with or without hard labour or by any penalty not exceed- ing £100, except as hereinbefore provided, shall be prose- cuted summarily before any Magistrate or any two Justices of the Peace in like manner as other offences of like cha- racter committed in the Colony may be punished summa- rily, and any person convicted summarily shall have the ike right of appeal as if the offence with which he is charged had been tried under any local Ordinance.
3. Where any order, notice, statement, or document re- quires, for the purpose of any provision of this Ordinance, to be served on the master of a ship, the same shall be served where there is no muster and the ship is in the Colony, on the owner or one of the owners of the ship, or if there is no owner, on the agent of the ship in the Colony, or where no such agent is known or can be found, by affix- ing a copy thereof to the mast of the ship,
4. Any such order, notice, statement, or document may be served by delivering a copy thereof personally to the person to be served or by leaving the same at his last place of abode, or in the case of a master by leaving it for him on board the ship with the person being or appearing to bo in command of such ship.
Ships to be marked with deck and load lines. [M.S.A. 1876, sections 25, 26.}
139 and 40 Vic, Cap. 60, sec. 29.)
(M. S. A. 1854 sec. 518.j
Service of order on master, &c.
(M. S. A. 1873 sec. 33.
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