Surveyors to
6. It shall be lawful for the said surveyors in the excention of their have power to duties to go on board any steam-ship or vessel propelled by steam Inspect. to which this section applies, at all reasonable times, and to [Thida 306.] inspect the same, or any part thereof, or any of the boilers, machinery, boats, equipments, or articles on board thereof, or any certificates of the moster, mate, or engineer, to which the pro- visions of "The Merchant Shipping Auts, 1834 to 1876," or say 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 unnecessarily detnining or delaying the ship from proceeding on any voyage, end, if in consequence of any accident to any such ship, or for any other reason they consider it necessary so to do, 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 steam-ship or vessel propelled by steam, or otherwise impedes him in the execution of his duty under this Ordinance, stall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty- five tillars.
Pensity on
ceiving fres
unlawfully.
7. Every surveyor who demands or receives directly or indirectly surveyors re- from the owner, agent, or master of any ship surveyed by him under the provisions of this Ordinance, or from any other person, [This. 8.] any fee of renueration whatsoever for or in respect of such survey, otherwise than as the officer and by the direction of the Governor, shall incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
Owners to
have surveys
maile by Government
8. The owner, agent, or master of every steat-ship or vessel propelled by steam being within the waters of the Colony shall, where such ship or vessel comes within the meaning of this section, Surveyors, and cause the same to be surveyed by one or more of the Government Surveyors so appointed as aforesaid; who shall be appointed for the special purpose by the Governor, and such surveyor or sur- [Ibid s. 319.] veyors shall thereupon, if satisfied that they can with propriety do
so, give to snot owner declarations as follows:-
surveyors
to giva declarations.
Lates
(a.) The declaration of the surveyor appointed for that
pur- pose shall contain statements of the following particulars,
that is to say :-
(1.) That the hull of the ship is sufficient for the service
intended and in good condition.
(2) That the partitions,) boats, rafts, life buoys, or other appliances for saving life, lights, signals, compasses, and shelter for deck passengers, and the certificates of the master and mute, or mates, are such, and in such condition as required by law.
(8.) The time (if less than six months) for which the
said hull and equipments will be sufficient. (9.) The limits (if any) beyond which, as regards the hull and equipments, the ship is, in the surveyor's judgment, not fit to ply.
(5.) With reference to all steato-ships or vessels pro- pelled by steam not coming within the provisions of "The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," or any Ordinance made in pursuance thereof, if plying or intended to ply for hire, the number of passengers which sneb ship or vessel is, in the judgminut of the surveyor, hit to carry, distinguishing, if necessary, between the respective numbers to be carried on the deck and in the cabins, and in the different parts of the deck and cabins; such numbers to be subject to such conditions and variations, according to the time of year, the nature of the voyage, the cargo carried, or other circumstances, as the Governor in Council may, from time to time, direct by any Regulation to be made by him for this purpose, and until such Regulations are made and so far as the same shall not extend, according to the Regn- lations contained in table A in the schedule here- unto annexed.
(b) And the declaration of the surveyor appointed for that
purpose shall contain statements of the following par ticulars, that is to say-
(1.) That the boilers and machinery of the ship or vessel is sufficient for the service intended, and in good condition.
(2) The time (if less than six months) for which such
boilers, and machinery will be sufficient.
(3.) That the safety valves and fire hose, when requisite, are such and in snob condition as are required by riris Ordinance.
(4.) The limit of the weight to be placed on the safety
valves.
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