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made of any mechanical means other than oars and sails.
All Launches on arrival or departure from the Colony
shall enter and clear at such station in the Colony as the
proper Hong Kong authorities shall direct and shall there
pay the Chinese Customs dues.
ARTICLE X.
Lighter means any barge or other like vessel for
carrying cargo and intended to be towed, not being a junk.
All lighters on arrival at or departure from the
Colony shall enter and clear ct such station in the Colony
as the proper Hong Kong authorities shall direct and shall
there pay the Chinese Customs dues.
ARTICLE XI.
Junk means any sea-going sailing vessel of Chinese
or other Asiatic build, construction and rig.
For the better regulation of junks in the waters of
thb Colony the Hong Kong Government undertakes that:-
(a) All junks shall be licensed either as general
trading, local trading or as fishing junks,
and no junk shall be grated a licence in
more than one class at the same time. A fish-
ing junk shall not be employed for any purpose
other than fishing. A local trading junk
shall not be employed outside the waters of
the Colony of Hong Kong.
(b) The proper Hong Kong authorities shall supply
every junk with a certificate of registration
in the form of a licence book.
(c) Trading junks may not leave any port in the
Colony between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.
from /