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ORDINANCES Nos. 10 AND 11 OF 1876.
Post Office.
River Steamers.
Regulations as to Soldiers and Sailors Letters, 18th February, 1880, (Gazette of same date.)
Order as to Rates of Postage &c., 27th November, 1880, (Gazette of same date,)
Order as to Rates of Postage &c., 9th July, 1881, (Gazette of same date.)
Order as to Rates of Postage &c., 13th December, 1881, (Gazette 17th of same month.)
Regulations as to Money Orders and Parcel Post, 24th December, 1881, (Gazette of same date.)
Order as to Rates of Postage to Borneo, 11th September, 1882, (Gazette 16th of same month.).
Regulations as to Money Orders, 30th December, 1882, (Gazette of same date.)
No. 11 of 1876.
Title.
Preamble.
Short title.
Steamers plying between Hongkong, Macao, or Canton only allowed to carry a limited number of passengers.
Steamers from Canton and Macao allowed to fetch only a limited number of passengers to Hongkong.
Penalties how levied.
An Ordinance to regulate the Number of Passengers carried by Steam-vessels plying between Hongkong and Macao, and between Hongkong and Places on the Canton River.
[18th December, 1876.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to regulate the number of passengers to be carried by steamers plying between Hongkong, Canton, and Macao, and to guard against accidents arising from overcrowding and other probable dangers: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The River Steamers' Ordinance, 1876."
2. Three days after the passing of this Ordinance, if any steam-ship shall leave the waters of the Colony of Hongkong for Canton, or for any place on the Canton river, or for Macao, having on board a greater number of passengers than in the proportion of two passengers for every three tons of the registered net tonnage of such steam-ship, the owner or master thereof, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, in addition to a penalty of five dollars for every passenger on board in excess of the proportion of two passengers for every registered three tons (net) of the said steam-ship.
3. Three days after the passing of this Ordinance, if any steam-ship shall enter the waters of the Colony of Hongkong, having passengers on board, from Canton or from places on the Canton river, or from Macao, in excess of the proportion of two passengers for every three tons of the registered net tonnage of such steam-ship, the owner or master thereof, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, in addition to a penalty of five dollars for every passenger on board, in excess of the proportion of two passengers for every registered three tons (net) of the said steam-ship.
4. All penalties for offences against this Ordinance, may be recovered in a summary way before a Stipendiary Magistrate.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 8 of 1879.]