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COLONY OF HONGKONG.
V.-Such vessel or vessels shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be termed a government depôt or government depôts for the storage of gunpowder, and shall be under the control and management of the Harbour Master, subject to such orders as may from time to time be received from the Governor; and such vessel or vessels shall be fitted and manned in such manuer as the Harbour Master with the approval of the Governor shall deem expedient.
VI. The master of every vessel arriving in this Colony, and having on board thereof any quantity of gunpowder exceeding two hundred lbs. shall immediately upon the arrival thereof, furnish the Harbour Master with a copy of the manifest of such gunpowder, the marks of all the packages wherein such gunpowder shall be contained, and the names of the consignees of such gunpowder if he shall know the same.
VII. The master of every such vessel as in the last preceding Section mentioned shall as soon as possible take the same to the place which shall be pointed out to him by the Harbour Master, and the said vessel shall not be removed therefrom without the permission in writing of the Harbour Master.
VIII.-When any quantity of gunpowder exceeding two hundred lbs. is about to be conveyed out of the Colony, the master of the vessel about to convey the same shall, on producing the written authority of the owners thereof, receive from the Harbour Master a permit to take on board the packages mentioned in such authority. and the master of such vessel shall thereupon move the same into such anchorage as the Harbour Master may deem expedient, and from such anchorage the master of such vessel shall not remove the same except for the purpose of proceeding on his voyage or for some other sufficient cause to be approved by the Harbour Master.
IX.The master of every vessel having on board more than two hundred lbs. of gunpowder or whilst engaged in the transhipment of any quantity shall exhibit at the highest masthead, a red flag.
X-It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel to tranship any gunpowder between the hours of 6 P.M. and 6 A.M. from October to March inclusive nor between the hours of 7 P.M. and 5 A.M. from April to September inclusive, without the written permission of the Harbour Master.
XI.It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel without the written permission of the Harbour Master to anchor such vessel within five hundred yards of any government depôt for the storage of gunpowder.
XII.—It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel having on board gun- powder exceeding in quantity two hundred lbs. to anchor nearer than five hundred yards of any other vessel.
XIII.—It shall not be lawful for any person without the permission in writing of the Governor to keep for any time however short within any house, store, godown. or other place on land a larger quantity of gunpowder than fifteen lbs.
XIV. It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace or constable duly authorized by warrant of any justice of the peace to enter, and if necessary to break into any house, store, godown, vessel, or place either on land or water within which such justice of the peace shall be credibly informed on oath or shall have reasonable grounds of his own knowledge to suspect and believe that gunpowder is kept or carried or is on board of any vessel contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance.
XV.-A copy of this Ordinance shall be delivered to the master of each vessel entering the harbour, and on neglect to return such copy on obtaining clearance a fee of one dollar shall be payable by the master.
XVI.—The Governor in Council is hereby empowered to make rules and regula- tions for the proper carrying out the provisions of this Ordinance including the stora of gunpowder on land, and to fix and vary from time to time the sums chargeable for the storage of gunpowder as herein before prescribed and every violation or neglect of any such rules or regulations shall render the party so offending liable to the penalties imposed by Section XVIII. of this Ordinance for offences against any provisions
thereof.
XVII. The sums charged in respect of such storage shall be paid monthly by the party claiming to be entitled to such gunpowder, and in the event of the same
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