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By-laws under the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903. (No. 1 of 1908.)
PREVENTION OF THE DISSEMINATION OF PLAGUE BY RATS.
In these by-laws, the word “ ship" means any description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars, except Junks or Lorchas not propelled by steun, and except launches plying within the waters of the Colony,
To prevent rats on board ship coming on shore, and the shore rats from getting ou hoard ship:
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1. All cables, hawsers, and ropes used for mooring ships alongside any wharf, or passing between the ship and the shore, and all shores used for securing ships in dock, must (when such shore are within a distance of 12 inches from any open port or other opening in the ship's side, or within 12 inches of the gunwale or rail) have fastened on them a funnel-shaped appliance consisting of a tube of iron or other metal about 2 feet in length, with a trumpet-like flange. This trumpet-like flange must be double, in order to prevent the rats from passing either way along the cable, and each flange must extend at least 8 inches clear of the rope or cable. The rope or cable must be passed through the tube and the inter- vening space filled up.
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EXTRACTS FROM THE PROBATES ORDINANCE, 1897. (No. 2 of 1897.)
Estates of Persons dying on Voyages to the Colony,
65.—(1.) The following special provisions shall regulate the administration of the estates of passengers who die at sea in the course of a voyage to the Colony on board of any vessel which afterwards arrives in the Colony :-
(a.) where any passenger has died on board of any vessel in the course of a voyage to the Colony, the master of the vessel in which such passenger has died shall, immediately upon the arrival of the vessel in the Colony, hand over to the Harbour Master all the goods and effects of such passenger then on board of such vessel.
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2. All openings through which ropes pass from the ship to the wharf or shore must be stopped up, and all such ropes must be daily tarred to a distance of six feet from the ship and the shore respectively.
3. Brows or gangways for cargo are to be disconnected from the ship while cargo is not being worked over them; all other brows or gangways must also be kept discou- nerted between sunset and sunrise, except when required to be used by persons coming on board or leaving the ship.
4. From sunset to sunrise, a bright light must be kept burn- ing at each end of every brow or gangway, so long as it connects the ship with the shore or wharf.
EXTRACTS FROM THE VAGRANCY ÖRDINANCE, 1897. (No. 9 or 1897).
22. The master of any ship, British or foreign, which brings into the Colony any person, other than a Chinese and not having been shipwrecked, who within 2 months from the time of his arrival becomes chargeable to the Colony as a vagrant shall be liable to repay to the Government all costs and charges incurred on behalf of the said person, unless it be proved, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said person, at the time of his arrival, either was under an engagement as provided in the last preceding section, or was possessed of not less than 50 dollars: Provided that where the person so brought into the Colony came as a stowaway, the master shall incur no such liability if such stowaway, is promptly handed over to the police on the arrival of the ship and is duly prosecuted under any Ordinance relating to stowaways or any other enactment applying to the case, and no money or compensation in respect of such person's passage is paid or received.
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