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No. 118.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND NOVEMBER, 1862.
(a.) Steam Ships under weigh shall use a Steam Whistle placed before the Funnel not less than Eight
Feet from the Deck.
(b.) Sailing Ships under weigh shall use a Fog Horn.
(c.) Steam Ships and Sailing Ships when not under weigh shall use a Bell.
Steering and Sailing Rules.
Art. 11. If Two Sailing Ships are meeting End on, or nearly End on, so as to involve Risk of Collision, the Helms of both shall be put to Port, so that each may pass on the Port Side of the other.
Art. 12. When Two Sailing Ships are crossing so as to involve Risk of Collision, then if they bave the Wind on different Sides, the Ship with the Wind on the Port Side shall keep out of the Way of the Ship with the Wind on the Starboard Side, except in the Case in which the Ship with the Wind on the Port Side is close hauled and the other Ship free, in which Case the latter Ship shall keep out of the Way; but if they have the Wind on the same Side, or if One of them has the Wind aft, the Ship which is to windward shall keep out of the Way of the Ship which is to leeward.
Art. 13. If Two Ships under Steam are meeting End on, or nearly End on, so as to involve Risk of Collision, the Helms of both shall be put to Port so that each may pass on the Port Side of the other.
Art. 14. If Two ships under Steam are crossing so as to involve Risk of Collision, the Ship which has the other on her own Starboard Side shall keep out of the Way of the other.
Art. 15. If Two Ships, one of which is a Sailing Ship and the other a Steam Ship, are proceeding in such Directions as to involve Risk of Collision, the Steam Ship shall keep out of the Way of the Sailing Ship.
Art. 16. Every Steam Ship, when approaching another Ship so as to involve Risk of Collision, shall slacken her Speed, or, if necessary, stop and reverse; and every Steam Ship shall, when in a Fog, go at a moderate Speed.
Art. 17. Every Vessel overtaking any other Vessel shall keep out of the Way of the said last-men- tioned Vessel.
Art. 18. Where by the above Rules One of Two Ships is to keep out of the Way, the other shall keep her Course, subject to the Qualifications contained in the following Article.
Art. 19. In obeying and construing these Rules due regard must be had to all Dangers of Navigation; and due regard must also be had at any special Circumstances which may exist in any particular Case ren- dering a Departure from the above Rules necessary in order to avoid immediate Danger.
Art. 20. Nothing in these Rules shall exonerate any Ship or the Owner or Master or Crew thereof from the Consequences of any Neglect to carry Lights or Signals, or of any Neglect to keep a proper Look- out, or of the Neglect of any Precaution which may be required by the ordinary Practice of Seamen or by the special Circumstances of the Case.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
At the request of M. BERTOLINI, the Agent in this Colony of the Services Maritimes des Messa- geries Imperiales, it is hereby notified that the first Mail Packet of that Company left Marseilles for Hongkong on the 19th ultimo, and the first Steamer hence to Marseilles will leave Hongkong on the 26th instant, thus commencing a line of public and postal communication between Europe and the extreme East, at the Service of the public and for the benefit of Commercial and international interests. By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th November, 1862.
No. 113.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
W. H. ALEXANDER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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It is hereby notified to this Community that under strict injunction from His Grace the Secretary of State for the Colonies no alteration of the departure of a Contract Mail Packet for Europe will be sanctioned in future without the gravest necessity; that it is intimated that the detention of such Packet can only take place under the positive order of the Governor to that effect; "and that such "order must only be given by the Governor acting on his own responsibility upon such urgent occasions
as will justify a step so much calculated to give rise to serious public inconvenience."
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By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 14th November, 1862.
W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.