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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST AUGUST, 1874.
Fee to be paid by applicant.
Fees to members of board.
Certificate to be given to successful candidates.
Report of result of examination
to be made to
Board of Trade.
4. Every applicant for a certificate of competency shall, upon lodging his application, pay to the Harbour Master a fee of ten dollars who shall pay the same into the Colonial Treasury.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. The result of every such examination shall be reported to the Board of Trade by the Harbour Master.
Masters, mates
to possess eer-
CHAPTER V.
SHIPPING AND DISCHARGE OF SEAMEN,
XIII. The name of a master, first, 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 1 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 authority of the Governor of any British Possession.
to sea without certificate of
mate.
No British 2. No British or Colonial registered ship shall leave the waters ship to proceed of the Colony unless the master thereof, and the first and second or 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 [See M. S. A. burden or upwards, shall leave the waters as aforesaid, unless at 1854, sec.136.] least one officer, besides the master, has obtained, and possesses a valid certificate appropriate to the grade of only mate therein, or to a higher grade.
Steam-ships to to carry certificated engineers. [See M. S. A. 1862, sec. 5.]
Shipping of
seamen,
3. Every British or Colonial registered steam-ship of one hun- dred 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.
4. No seaman shall, except with the Harbour Master's sanction, be shipped to do duty on board any merchant ship whatever else- [Ibid, sec. 5.] 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.
Master shall
give to seaman discharged in Colony certifi- cate of dis-
5. 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 discharge, specifying the time and nature of service, and the time charge, and, if of discharge of such seaman, sigued by himself; and if such required, an ac seaman require it, shall further give him, within twenty-four count of wages. hours after demand, a true account in writing of the wages of [Ordinance 6 of 1852, sec. 2.] such seaman, and of all deductions therefrom.
As to the dis- charge of
seamen.
6. No seaman shall be discharged from an English ship, or any foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a Consular officer resident in the Colony, elsewhere than at the Harbour [Ibid, sec. 5.] Master's office, and every seaman discharged from a foreign ship so represented, shall, within twenty-four hours of being discharged at the office of his Consul or Vice-Consul, produce to the Harbour Master, or some person deputed by him, a certificate of his discharge, signed by such Consul or Vice-Consul.
Seamen to be 7. No master of any ship shall discharge or force there- discharged
from, or wilfully or negligently leave behind him, in this Colony, only by per- mission of Har- any seaman shipped on board thereof, unless on a certificate from bour Master. the Harbour Master, or other person appointed to grant the same, [Ordinance (and who shall have power to withhold, or grant the same, as he No. 1 of 1862, shall see fit), under a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars; and if any seaman shall wilfully or negligently remain in the Colony, after the departure of the vessel in which he shall have shipped, such seaman shall, on conviction before any Magistrate, be subject to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one month.
sec. 8.]