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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22nd NOVEMBER, 1862.
"Owner of Goods."
Power to Shipowner
Person authorized to act as Agent for the Owner, or entitled to receive the Freight, Demurrage, or other Charges payable in respect of such Ship:
The Expression "Owner of Goods" shall include every Person who is for the Time being entitled, either as Owner or Agent for the Owner, to the Possession of the Goods, subject in the Case of a Lien, if any, to such Lien.
67. Where the Owner of any Goods imported in any Ship from Foreign Parts into to enter and land Goods the United Kingdom fails to make Entry thereof, or having made Entry thereof to land
in default of Entry
of Goods.
and lauding by Owner the same or take Delivery thereof and to proceed therewith with all convenient Speed, by the Times severally herein-after mentioned, the Shipowner may make Entry of and land or unship the said Goods at the Times, in the Manner, and subject to the Conditions following; (that is to say,)
If, when Goods are
give Notice for that.
Freight is to continue.
(1.) If a Time for the Delivery of the Goods is expressed in the Charter Party, Bill of Lading, or Agreement, then at any Time after the Time so expressed:
(2.) If no Time for the Delivery of the Goods is expressed in the Charter Party, Bill of Lading, or Agreement, then at any Time after ther Expiration of Seventy-two Hours, exclusive of a Sunday or Holiday, after the Report of the Ship:
(3.) If any Wharf or Warehouse is named in the Charter Party, Bill of Lading, or Agreement, as the Wharf or Warehouse where the Goods are to be placed, and if they can be conveniently there received, the Shipowner in landing them by virtue of this Enactinent shall cause them to be placed on such Wharf or in such Warehouse:
(4.) In other Cases the Shipowner in landing Goods by virtue of this Enactment shall place them in or on some Wharf or Warehouse on or in which Goods of a like Nature are usually placed; such Wharf or Warehouse being, if the Goods are dutiable, a Wharf or Warehouse duly approved by the Commissioners of Customs for the landing of dutiable Goods:
(5.) If at any Time before the Goods are landed or unshipped the Owner of the Goods is ready and offers to land or take Delivery of the same, he shall be allowed so to do, and his Entry shall in such Case be preferred to any Entry which may have been made by the Shipowner:
(6.) If any Goods are, for the Purpose of Convenience in assorting the same, landed at the Wharf where the Ship is discharged, and the Owner of the Goods at the Time of such landing has made Entry and is ready and offers to take Delivery thereof, and to convey the same to some other Wharf or Warehouse, such Goods shall be assorted at landing, and shall, if demand- ed, be delivered to the Owner thereof within Twenty-four Hours after Assortment; and the Expense of and consequent on such landing and Assortment shall be borne by the Shipowner:
(7.) If at any Time before the Goods are landed or unshipped the Owner thereof has made Entry for the landing and warehousing thereof at any particular Wharf or Warehouse other than that at which the Ship is discharging, and has offered and been ready to take Delivery thereof, and the Ship- owner has failed to make such Delivery and has also failed at the Time of such Offer to give the Owner of the Goods correct Information of the Time at which such Goods can be delivered, then the Shipowner shall, before landing or unshipping such Goods under the Power hereby given to him, give to the Owner of the Goods or of such Warf or Warehouse as last aforesaid Twenty-four Hours Notice in Writing of his Readiness to deliver the Goods, and shall, if he lands or unships the same without such Notice, do so at his own Risk and Expense.
68. If, at the Time when any Goods are landed from any Ship, and placed in the landed, the Shipowner Custody of any Person as a Wharf or Warehouse Owner, to Shipowner gives to the Purpose, the Lien for Wharf or Warehouse Owner Notice in Writing that the Goods are to remain subject to a Lien for Freight or other Charges payable to the Shipowner to an Amount to be mentioned in such Notice, the Goods so landed shall, in the Hands of the Wharf or Warehouse Owner, continue liable to the same Lien, if any, for such Charges as they were subject to before the landing thereof; and the Wharf or Warehouse Owner receiving such Goods shall retain them until the Lien is discharged as herein-after