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Surveyor to have power to etc.
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Ordinance as he may think proper, and appoint their duties, and from time to time remove such surveyors or any of them, and may from time to time fix and alter the remuneration to be received by surveyors.
(5.) It shall be lawful for the said surveyors, in the execution of their duties, to go on board any ship to which this section applies, at all reasonable times, and to inspect the same or any part thereof, or any of the machinery, boats, equipments, or articles on board thereof, or any certificates of the master, mate, or engineer, to which the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts, or any Ordinance, or any of the regulations made or to be made under the said Merchant Shipping Acts or such Ordinance for the time being in force in this Colony, apply, not necessarily detaining or delaying the ship from proceeding on her voyage, and if, in consequence of any accident to any such ship or any other reason, they consider it necessary to do so, to require the ship to be taken into dock for the purpose of surveying the hull thereof; and any person who hinders any such surveyor from going on board any such steamship, or otherwise impedes him in the execution of his duty under this Ordinance, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
Governor to regulate mode of survey.
Schedule: Table C.
Penalty for wrongfully receiving or offering fees.
(6.) The said surveyors shall execute their duties under the direction of the Governor, and the Governor may make regulations as to the manner in which the surveys hereinafter mentioned shall be made, as to the notice to be given to the surveyors when surveys are required, and as to the amount and payment of the fees due and of any expenses incurred by such surveyors in the execution of their duties, and may thereby determine the person by and to whom and the conditions under which such payment shall be made; and, until such regulations are made by the Governor, the said surveyors shall execute their duties in accordance with the "Instructions to Surveyors" issued from time to time by the Board of Trade: Provided that, unless and until such scale of fees is made, rescinded, or varied, the scale of fees in Table C of the Schedule to this Ordinance shall apply.
(7.) Every surveyor who demands or receives, directly or indirectly, from the owner, agent, or master of any ship surveyed by him under the provisions of this Ordinance or from any other person, and any such owner, agent, master, or other person who offers or gives, any fee or remuneration whatsoever (otherwise than is permitted by this Ordinance) to any such surveyor for or in respect of such survey shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
Owner to have survey made by surveyor.
(8.) The owner, agent, or master of every passenger ship being within the waters of the Colony shall, where such ship comes within the meaning of this section, cause the same to be surveyed by one or more of
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