1442 ORDINANCES Nos . 10 AND 11 OF 1876 .
Post Office. River Steamers.
Regulations as to Soldiers and Sailors Letters, 18th February, 1880, ( Gazette
of same date.)
Order us to Rates ofPostage &c., 27th November, 1880, ( Gazette ofsame date.)
Order as to Rates of Postage &c., 9th July, 1881 , ( Gazette of same date.)
Order as to Rates of Postage &c., 13th December, 1881, ( Gazette 17th
of same month.)
Regulators as to Money Orders and Parcel Post, 24th December, 1881,
(Gazette of same date. )
Order as to Rates of Postage to Borneo, 11th September, 1882, ( Gazette
16th of same month.)
Regulations as to Money Orders, 30th December, 1882, ( Gazette ofsame date.)
No. 11 of 1876 .
Title .
An Ordinance to regulate the Number of Passengers carried by Steam
vessels plying between Hongkong and Macao, and between Hong
kong and Places on the Canton River.
[ 18th December, 1876. ]
Preamble. HEREAS it is expedient to regulate the number of passengers to be carried by
W steamers plying between Hongkong, Canton , and Macao, and to guard against
accidents arising from overcrowding and other probable dangers : Be it enacted by the
Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as " The River Steamers' Ordinance, 1876."
Steamers leav 2. Three days after the passing of this Ordinance, if any steam-ship shall leave
ing Hongkong,
Macao, or Canton the waters of the Colony of Hongkong for Canton, or for any place on the Canton
only allowed to
carry a limited
number of river, or for Macao, having on board a greater number of passengers than in the pro
passengers.
portion of two passengers for every three tons of the registered net tonnage of such
steam-ship, the owner or master thereof, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two
hundred and fifty dollars, in addition to a penalty of five dollars for every passenger
on board in excess of the proportion of two passengers for every registered three tons
(net) of the said steam-ship.
Steamers from 3. Three days after the passing of this Ordinance, if any steam-ship shall enter
Canton and
Macao allowed the waters of the Colony of Hongkong, having passengers on board, from Canton or
to fetch only a
limited number
of passengers to from places on the Canton river, or from Macao, in excess of the proportion of two
Hongkong .
passengers for every three tons of the registered net tonnage of such steam-ship , the
owner or master thereof, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and
fifty dollars, in addition to a penalty of five dollars for every passenger on board , in
excess of the proportion of two passengers for every registered three tons (net) of the
said steam-ship.
Penalties how 4. All penalties for offences against this Ordinance, may be recovered in a sum
levied.
mary way before a Stipendiary Magistrate.
[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 8 of 1879.]