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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH MAY, 1878.
board and
notify applicant,
Harbour Mas- 5. Upon such appointment being notified to the Harbour ter to summon Master, he shall summon the other members of the said board
to attend at the Harbour Master's office for the purpose of examining the said applicant, at a day and at an hour to be named in such summons, (such day not to be more than seven days after the date of such sninmons); and shall also notify the applicant to attend accordingly.
Fee to be paid
6. Every applicant for a certificate of competency shall, upon. by applicant. lodging his application, pay to the Harbour Master a fee, if for a master's or first class engineer's certificate, of twenty dollars, and if for any other certificate, of ten dollars.
Fees to members of board.
Certificate to be given to successful candidates.
Report of result of examination
to be made to
Board of Trade. [M.S.A. para. 140.]
Masters, mates
to possess cer-
7. Every member of the board, except the Harbour Master, shall be entitled to receive from the funds of the Colony a fee of five dollars for the examination of each applicant.
8. Any applicant who shall have passed a satisfactory ex- amination, and shall have given satisfactory evidence of his sobriety, experience and general good conduct on board ship, shall be entitled to receive a certificate of competency signed by the members of the board to the effect that he is competent to act as master, as first, second or only mate, or as first or second engineer.
9. The result of every such examination shall be reported to the Board of Trade by the Harbour Master,
CHAPTER V.
SHIPPING AND DISCHARGE OF SEAMEN.
XVI. The name of a master, fiist, only or second mate, or first and engineers or second engineer shall not be attached to the register, or articles tificates. of agreement, of any British ship, or to any ship registered under [Ordinance I of section III of part I of this Ordinance, unless such master, mate, 1862, sec. 5.] or engineer shall possess a certificate of service or competency issued by the Board of Trade or by the proper authority in any British Possession.
to sea without
No British 2. No British or Colonial ship shall leave the waters of the ship to proceed Colony unless the master thereof, and the first and second or certificate of only mate have obtained and possess valid certificates of com- the master and petency or service appropriate to their several stations in such ship, or of a higher grade, and no such ship if of one hundred tons burden or upwards, shall leave the waters as aforesaid, unless at least one officer, besides the master, has obtained, and possesses a
mate.
[See M. S. A. 1854, sec. 136.]
Steam-ships
to carry certificated engineers. [See M. S. A. 1862, sec. 5.]
[M.S.A. 1854, para. 136. M.S.A. 1862, para. 50 s. 5.]
Shipping of
seamen.
(Ord.6 of 1852, sec. 5.)
Master shall
give to seaman discharged in Colony certifi-
1. Cautif
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to a higher grade.
ride of or
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3. Every British or Colonial steam-ship of one hundred nominal horse power or upwards, leaving the waters of the Colony shall have as its first and second engineers, two certificated engineers, the first possessing a "first class engineer's certificate," and the second possessing a "second class engineer's certificate," or a certificate of the higher grade, and every British or Colonial steam-ship of less than one hundred nominal horse power shall have as its only or first engineer, an engineer possessing a "second class engineer's certificate" or a certificate of the higher grade.
4. Every person who having been engaged in any of the capaci- ties mentioned in sub-sections 2 and 3 in any such ship as afore- said goes to sea in that capacity without being at the time entitled to and possessed of such certificate as is required by this section, and every person who employs any person in any of the above capacities in such ship without ascertaining that he is at the time entitled to or possessed of such certificate as is required by this section, shall, for each such offence incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
5. No seaman shall, except with the Harbour Master's sanction, be shipped to do duty on board any merchant ship whatever else- where than at the office of the Harbour Master, who shall charge for every seaman shipped, a fee of one dollar, such fee to be paid, in the first instance, by the master of the ship shipping such seaman; and such master shall deduct the same from the wages of the seaman shipped; and the Harbour Master shall require such seaman to lodge with him his certificate of discharge from the last ship, and failing the production of such certificate, such seaman shall be bound to give satisfactory explanation to the Harbour Master of the cause of the non-production thereof.
6. Whenever any seaman shall be discharged from any ship within the Colony, the master of such ship shall give, at the time of such discharge, to such seaman a written certificate of ate of dis- discharge, specifying the time and nature of service, and the time arge, and, if of discharge of such seaman, signed by himself; and if such quired, an ac- seaman require it, shall further give him, within twenty-four nt of wages, hours after demand, a true account in writing of the wages of
inance 6 of
2.) such seaman, and of all deductions therefrom.