754 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH NOVEMBER, 1879.
Junk licences. [Ibid, sec. 26
Penalty for disobeying Harbour Master's orders. ¡Ibid, sec. 27.7
Governor in Council *mpowered
frame rules for carrying cut rovisions of this chapter 1814, sec. 28.)
Fishing boat licences.
[Ibid, soc. 29.]
Governor in Council to make
regulations for licensing, &c., boats, &c.
Punishment for drowning passengers in overcrowded boats.
17 & 8 Geo. 4., sec. 28.]
[Local and personal.]
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 or lorcha a licence authorising such junk or lorcha to ply between this Colony and other ports, during such period and subject to such conditions as the Harbour Master, with the approval of the Governor, may determine, and which con- ditions shall be endorsed on or contained in such licence, and such junk or lorcha having obtained a licence, the mas- ter 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 each bow and on the stern: Provided that no such licence shall 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, con- ditioned in any sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for the observance of the conditions of such licence.
22. Every master or other person in charge of any junk, vessel or boat, whether licensed or not, shall obey any lawful orders which the Harbour Master may see fit to give, under a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
23. The Governor in Council is hereby empowered to make such rules and regulations as to him shall seem fit for the proper carrying out 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.
24. 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, may 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 offending against the last clause of this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $100 or in default 6 months' imprisonment with or without hard labour in addition to any forfeitures thereby imposed.
CHAPTER II.
LICENSING, &c., oF BOATS, CARGO BOATMEN, &C. XXXIX. 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, plying for hire within the waters of the Colony, other than boats or vessels having British, Colonial, or foreign registers, not being Chinese registers; and also other than market boats or vessels or junks within the meaning of chapter I of part III of this Ordi-
nance.
(b.) For the licensing, registration and regulation of
cargo boatmen ;
(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 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.
2. In case any greater number of persons or passengers shall be taken or carried in any such licensed boat or vessel, within the waters of the Colony than are respectively allow- ed to be carried therein by any regulations made by the Gov- ernor 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 be guilty of a misdemeanour, and may be punished therefor without prejudice to any civil remedy that any person may have against such misdemeanant.