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Fees on Licenses.
No License to be granted to Innkeepers, &c.
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Offices and Clerks of Shipping Agents.
Report of Arrivals
The Hongkong Government Gazette.
[No. 55.-JULY 19, 1856,
Dollars,
II. Every Licensed Shipping Agent shall, on receiving his License, pay the sum of and the same sum on every Renewal thereof at the end of the year during which he may have held the
same.
III. No License shall be granted under this Ordinance unto any Person keeping or being employed or interested in any Tavern, Inn, or Seamen's Lodging or Boarding House.
IV. Every Licensed Shipping Agent shall have and maintain an Office within a short distance from the Harbour Master's Office for the better despatch of the business thereof, and likewise a place for the Daily attendance or resort of Seamen desiring employment on Shipboard; and the said Agent shall also provide and engage a fit and sufficient Person as Clerk in his said Office, who shall be so far versed in the Indian and Malay Languages as to be able to transact the business of the said Office with Indian or Malay Seamcn resorting thither for information and employment.
and Departures.
V. A Marine Report shall be duly and regularly kept by every Licensed Shipping Agent of all Ne shipment to be Arrivals and Departures of Vessels at and from this Port.
lawful unless effected VI. All Shipments of Seamen for any Vessels in this Port through the Harbour Master's Office, are by a LicensedShipping hereby forbidden, unless effected by the means or under the authority of a Licensed Shipping Agent, or of Agent, or the Owner, the Owner, Master, or Mate for the voyage of the said Vessel.
&c.
and Fees therefor.
Shipping of Seamen VII. Any Licensed Shipping Agent, on receiving from a Seaman the legal Discharge of the said Seaman, payable (but not otherwise,) is authorised to hire and engage him for whatever voyage the said Agent and he may think fit, and to ship him accordingly through the Harbour Master's Office, and to charge the Owner or Master for the voyage of the Vessel on board of which he shall have so shipped him a Fee not exceeding Two Dollars for every such Seaman; which Fee shall be exclusive of the Fee of One Dollar payable at the Harbour Master's Office for every such Seaman to the use of the Crown.
Mode of signing and entering into Articles
Custom.
VIII. Every Scaman, hired or engaged under this Ordinance, shall, for the purpose of being shipped, be first taken by the Licensed Shipping Agent, Owner, Master, or Mate, so hiring or engaging him, or by some Person actually and bond fide being in the regular and ordinary employment of such Agent, Owner, Master, or Mate, to the Harbour Master's Office, and shall be then and there entered upon the Articles of the Vessel for which he is so hired or engaged as aforesaid. But in case the said Vessel shall be under the Flag, or be owned by the Subject of a Foreign State, represented at this Port by a Consular Officer, no such Entry on the Articles shall take place, unless the said Seaman shall have first produced a Certificate under the said Consular Officer's hand, and addressed to the Harbour Master, and stating, to the said Harbour Master's satisfaction, that the said Seaman is at liberty to sign the said Articles, and also for what Voyage, at what rate of Wages, and with what Advance thereof (if any) the said Seaman desires or intends to be so hired or engaged. Abrogation of the IX. The Rule Custom or Usage of paying unto Seamen engaged in the China Seas an advance of Three Months Wages' Three Months' Wages, is hereby abrogated; and from henceforward one Month's Wages and no more shall be advanced to every Seaman so engaged at the commencement of his said engagement. Shipping Agents to X. Every Licensed Shipping Agent shall be obedient to the Rules and Regulations of the Harbour obey the orders of the Master's Office, and to the Orders of the Harbor Master in and about the carrying into effect the Provisions Harbour Master. of this Ordinance.
Unlawful employ-
XI. It shall be unlawful for any Person to employ an unlicensed Person in or about the Procuring, ment of Agents and Supplying, Hiring, Engaging, or Shipping, of Seamen for employment on board of any Vessel whatever, or receiving of Seamen. knowingly to accept, receive, or harbour any Seaman procured, supplied, hired, engaged, or shipped,
in order to such employment or for the purposes thereof contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance.
XII. Persons convicted before a stipendiary Magistrate, or any Two Justices, of offences against this Ordinance, shall forfeit to the Crown the Penalties following, (which shall be enforced and levied in the same way as Money Penalties imposed under Ordinance No. Ten of 1844 are now enforced and levied) that is to say:--For every offence against Section Six or Section Eleven of this Ordinance, a Sum not exceed- ing
Dollars, nor less than
Dollars;
and for every offence against Section Ten of this Ordinance (being a First offence) a Sum not exceeding
Dollars nor less than
Dollars, or (being a Second offence) a Sum not exceeding
Dollars, nor less than
Dollars, or (being à Third offence) a Sum not exceeding
Dollars not less than
Dollars. Forfeiture of Li- XIII. In case of a Third offence against Section Ten of this Ordinance, the Offender shall also forfeit his License: And in such case, and also where, for any other cause, a License may have been forfeited, Repeal of provisions the party so forfeiting shall lose all right and title whatsoever to the Monies he shall have paid for the same. in Ordinance. No. 6 of
XIV. So much of Ordinance No. Six of 1852, as is inconsistent with this Ordinance is hereby repealed. 1852.
Extent of operation.
XV. This Ordinance extends to all Vessels, British or Foreign, not being Vessels belonging to Her Majesty or any foreign Government.
Scale of Penalties,
censes.
No. 76.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. Tenders will be received at this Office for the convey- ance of Fifteen Chinese Convicts to Singapore.
Monday, the 21st instant, is published for general inform- ation.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial_Secretary.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 19th July, 1856.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th July, 1856.
No. 48.
Amended Schedule of Lots of Land proposed to be sold, at West Point, &c.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Tenders will be received at this office for the convey- ance of Two Military convicts to England.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,
Hongkong, 10th April, 1856.
No. 79.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
With reference to Notification No. 77, the following amended Description of Lots to be offered for Sale on
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Inland. West Point
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Marine. West Point
Inland. Victoria Proper, site of Harbour- Master's Boat- house
£ s. d. 52 521 521| 521 2,756 8.15.0 52 52 52 521 2,756 8.15.0 52 52 521|| 52|| 2,756) 8.15.0
105 105 300 300 28,361| 52,10.0 105 105 300 NW
166 100 135
300 29,310 52.10.0
6,750 24.10.0
WILLIAM COWPER, Acting Surveyor General