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the issuing of every such License, and that every person acting as Ghaut Serang, or lodging, or shipping, or contracting for the shipping, of any Lascar, without such License, shall be liable, for each offence, to a penalty not exceeding One Hundred Dollars.
II. And be it further enacted and ordained, That every houses, and cause such Licensed Serang shall establish, for the use of said registry of their in- Lascars, one or more Boarding-Houses, for each of which mates to be made. houses he shall take out and procure a separate License from the said Colonial Secretary, which, however, shall be granted on payment of a Fee of Twenty-five Dollars; and that when and so often as any person acting as such Serang shall receive into any of said houses, as a Boarder or Lodger, any Lascar or other Seaman, he shall, within Twenty-four Hours after the period of reception, cause the name of such Lascar or Seaman to be recorded in the Office of the Registrar-General, together with the fact of his having become such Boarder or inmate of said house, and whereupon the said Registrar shall Ghaut Serang to issue a Certificate of such circumstances: Provided always, furnish, for approval that previous to, or upon said Serang obtaining such License, in Council, a Scale he shall submit, for the Inspection and Approval of the said of charges, and ex- Governor and Legislative Council, a Table or Scale of all the pose same for pub. lic inspection. Charges which are to be made against every such Lascar, for Boarding, Lodging, or Shipping; and that no greater sum shall be received or demanded, on the foot thereof, by such Serang; and that a true Copy or Translation, in Hindostanee, of such approved Table, shall be hung up in some conspicuous part of each of the Boarding-Houses herein mentioned, as also in the Harbour-Master's Office: And it is further provided, that in the event of such Serang not complying with any of the directions or provisions of this Section, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding the sum of Fifty Dollars for each offence.
of the Government
Penalty on the Serang for know-
III. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the said ingly shipping an Serang shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding the sum of inefficient Lascar. Twenty-five Dollars when and so often as he shall knowingly ship or supply an inefficient Lascar as a Seaman on board any ship or vessel.
No Lascar to be shipped until the Harbour-Master
IV. And be it further enacted and ordained, That no Master or Owner of any vessel shall ship or receive on board his or shall have inspect their vessel any Lascar, until the Harbour-Master shall have ed him and signed inspected him, and attached his the Harbour-Master's Sig the shipping agree-
nature to the Shipping Agreement of every such Lascar; and that every such Master or Owner so shipping a Lascar Sea- man without such Signature so attached, shall for each offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding the sum of Fifty Dollars.
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V. And it is hereby further enacted and ordained, That all Penalties imposed by this Ordinance shall be recoverable in a summary manner before the Marine Magistrate of the said Colony, and be applied to the public purposes thereof.
JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Governor, &c., &c.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 25th day of October, 1845.
ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Clerk of Councils,
HONGKONG:
PRINTED BY AUTHORITY, AT THE OFFICE OF THE CHINA MAIL.
Penalties reco- verable in a sum-
fore the Marine Magistrate.
mary manner be-
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