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2. No ship, owned by a Chinese resident of this Colony, shall Chinese
liberty to trade in or from the waters of the Colony, unless owned ships sk has obtained a Colonial register as hereinafter provided. to obtain
be
Colonial
registers. (Ibid, sec. 1.).
register.
3. The Governor may, at his discretion, grant a Colonial register Chinese Crown to any Chinese person resident within the Colony applying for the leases entitled same, provided such applicant be a registered lesses of Crown to hold Colonial lands within this Colony, and that he tenders as securities for the (Ibid, sec. 6.) due performance by him of all the requirements of this Chapter two other Crown lessees, and that he and such lessees be severally reported by the Registrar General to be each worth two thousand dollars in this Colony, and should such applicant be member of any shop or partnership, that the seal of such shop or partnership be also affixed to the security to be given by him."
4. When any person shall be desirous of obtaining a Colonial Declarationa register, such person shall forward to the Colonial Secretary a necessary for declaration in writing stating whether the ship for which obtaining such register is sought is intended to be employed solely (bad, sec. 2.)
register. in trade with China, or on more distant voyages: Provided always, that should such declaration be false, or the ship to which it relates not he employed in conformity with it, the regis
tor thereby obtained shall ipso facto become null and void.
5. A Colonial registar shall be given under the hand of the Gov- Documents ne- ernor, on production of the following documents:-
cessary pre- vions to graut
(a) The Surveyor's certificate as hereinafter provided by of Colonist
paragraph 6.
register. (b.) 4 declaration of ownership with proof thereof to the satis. (Ibid, sec. 3.)
faction of the Colonial Secretary.
(e.) A joint and several bond of the owner and two sureties
binding each and every of the several obligees under a penal sum of five thousand dollars, to comply with all the provisions of this Ordinance and with all the laws binding
on British subjects with regard to trade with China.
6. The certificate to be granted by the Surveyor shall surveyor's specify the proper measurement of the ship requiring a Colonial certificate. register, and that such ship has proper anchors and chains, canvas (Ibid, sec. 7.) sails, if any, her bottom sheathed with metal, and that her master
is a person conversant with the English language.
7. It shall not be lawful for the owner of any Colonial registered Name of Colo- ship to give her any name other than that of her registry, and nial registered snch owner shall, after registry, cause to be painted in white or ship.
(Thid, sec. 4.) yellow letters not less than four inches long her name upon some conspicuous part of her stern and on each bow in a distinct and legilile manner, both in Roman and Chinese characters, and shall so keep and preserve the same upon pain, on breach of the provi- sions of this paragraph, of paying a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.
8. The register of every Colonial registered ship shall be Production of produced once at least every six months to the Harbour Master, Colonial regis who shall endorse the date of such production on such register, ter to Harbour
Master every upon pain, on failure of such production, of the forfeiture of such,
six months. register, unless satisfactory cause for such non-production be shown (Ibid, sec. 5.) to the Colonial Secretary.
9. Every register, certificate, endorsement, declaration, or bond Colonial regis- authorized or required by this section, may be proved in any court ters, &c. may of justice, or before any person having by law or by consent of he proved by parties authority to receive evidence, either by the production of Production of the original, or by an examined copy thereof, or by a copy thereof copies. purporting to be certified under the hand of the Colonial Secretary, (Ordinance or other person who, for the time being, shall happen to have charge No. 9 of 1856,
originals or
of the original, which certified copy he is hereby required to furnish **c. -)
to every person applying at a reasonable time for the same, and
paying therefor the sum of one dollar; and every document, when
so proved as aforesaid, shall be received as prima facie evidence of
all the matters therein recited, state, or appearing.
10. The British flag may be used on board of any ship lawfully Chinese resi possessing a Colonial register.
dents may use the British flag in colonial regis- tered ships. (Ibid, see. 1.)
11. Upon any change of ownership in any Colonial ship regis- Change of ow tered under this Ordinance, such change as aforesaid shall be ner or master. endorsed upon her register under the hand of the Governor : and any change of tusster shall be endorsed upon the register by sec..)
the Harbour Master.
(Ord. Auf 1855.
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