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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST AUGUST, 1874.
TABLE (C.)
Table of Maximum Fees to be paid to Shipwright Surveyors and Engineer Surveyors for the measurement, survey, and inspection of Merchant Ships under Sections V, VI, and VIII of this Ordinance.
For a ship under
from
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200
77
50 tons register tonnage,. 50 to 100 to
.$ 5.00
100 tons register tonnage.
7.50
10.00
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200 to
500
15.00
19
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22
500 to 800
20.00
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32
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800 to 1,200
25.00
22
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1,200 to 2,000
30.00
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2,000 to 3,000
35.00
75
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3,000 to 4,000
40.00
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4,000 to 5,000
45,00
33
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5,000 and upwards
50.00
29
TABLE (D.)
Table of Fees payable under Chapter I of Part III of this Ordinance.
Licence for 1st Class Junk,
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2nd 3rd
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39
"
33
"
1st
39
Fishing Junk,
2nd
35
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3rd
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Anchorage Pass,
Special Permit, Day Clearance,
Night Clearance,..
.$20.00
15.00
10.00
5.00
3.00
1.00
0.25
0.25
0.25
1.00
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Statement of Objects and Reasons.
This Ordinance has been framed with the twofold object of bringing into operation within the Colony certain provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts and Amendment Acts, (which do not of their own force apply here), and of consolidating and amending the local Ordinances which relate to merchant shipping, seamen, and the regulation of the Colonial waters.
With reference to the former object, the fact that the local carrying trade has now passed, in so great a measure, from sailing vessels to steam ships, has necessitated the introduction here of those clauses of the Imperial Acts which pertain specially to safety and the prevention of accidents in the employment of steamers. And as to the latter, the collection together and re-arrangement of the many and frequently intricate provisions with reference to shipping which from time to time have become law since 1845, have become advisable as a matter of convenience; the more especially as certain actual changes in the law are required, which a consolidating Ordinance affords a favourable opportunity of introducing.
Attention is now specially directed to all those alterations in the law which this Ordinance purposes to effect, but before they are enumerated, it should be mentioned, that a considerable amount of redrafting has been found necessary in making this compilation, which however is not of a nature to vary the meaning of the clauses as they originally stood. The marginal reference appended to every section affords a ready means of discovering where such verbal alterations have been made.
PART I.
Chapter I of the first part of the Ordinance contains very material and important modifications of Ordinance No. 4 of 1855, upon which it is founded. Some of the chief reasons for the introduction of that Ordinance do not exist at the present day. The class of vessels to which it mainly applied, viz., junks and lorehas trading between this Colony and the open ports on the Canton river, either no longer exists, or does not seek registration under the Ordinance; and its provisions are now only, or nearly only, taken advantage of by Chinese residents within the Colony, not being British subjects, who register steamers under it; a class of ship to which its pro- visions were obviously never intended originally to apply. As British subjects can, and all but invariably do, register their ships here under the Imperial Acts, there is no necessity fo preserving the provisions of section I of Ordinance No. 4 of 1855, as they now stand; and indeed the only reason for not repealing the Ordinance altogether, is that so doing would deprive Chinese residents, not being British subjects, of the privilege of using the British flag, which they have hitherto enjoyed. For these reasons, paragraphs 1 and 2 of chapter I, propose to restrict the operation of the chapter to Chinese residents, not being British subjects, only. Hitherto, all ships colonially registered have