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SPECIFICATION OF TAXES, DUTIES, &c.

Act of Colonial Legislature or other Authority under which levied.

FEES OF OFFICE,-Continued.

The fee paid in accordance with the foregoing scale covers any number of visits that a Surveyor may require to make before he is able to grant his declaration, as well as the inspection of the lights and fog signals, and of the marking of the vessel, which inspection must be made by the Surveyor before he can grant his declaration. The fee does not, however, apply to or include any inspection of lights, fog signals, or marking, made subsequently to the granting of the declaration. The above fee does not cover any service under the Chinese Passengers' Acts, or measurement for tonnage.

(2.)-Survey of Ship under Chinese Passengers' Acts.

Surveys made within Office Hours.

Ordinary Survey of the Ship and of her Equipments, Accommodation, Dis- tilling Apparatus (if any), Stores, Light, Ventilation, and Sanitary Arrangements,

Special Survey,

Do. entailing unusual Attention,

Fee.

20

25

28

30

A special survey is to be deemed to be a survey requiring more than two visits by a Government Surveyor or Surveyors, or a survoy in cases in which from ago or any other circumstances thero aro reasonablo grounds for doubting tho sea- worthiness of the vessel. Whero the case requires unusual attention and occupies an unusual amount of the surveyor's time, the higher feo of $30 and upwards will be charged, according to the special circumstances of the case and the number of visits made.

D

Where a declaration has been granted for a Steam-ship under this Ordinance, the survey under the Chinese Passengers' Acta will be made on payment of half the usual fee mentioned above. The fee paid in accordance with the abovo scale covers the inspection of the lights and fog signals, and the marking of the vessel, made at the time of survey under the Chineso Passengers Acts.

It does not, however, apply to, or include, any inspection of lights, fog signals, or marking, made subsequently to such survey.

The fee for survey under the Chinese Passengers' Acts does not cover any survey of a Steam-ship for a Passenger Cortificato under this Ordinanco, or mea- surement for tonnage, or inspection of crew spaces.

Travelling exponses (if any) and subsistence expenses (if any) duo according to the scale authorised by the Governor, will be charged in addition to the fees.

(3.)-Measurement of Tonnage.

Ordinanco No. 8 of 1879,

Tons (Gross Register).

Feo.

Tons (Gross Register).

Fee.

$

$

Undor

50,......

7

1,200 to 2,000,

50 to

100,........................................................... 10

2,000 to 3,000,

100 to 200,.

15

3,000 to 4,000,

200 to 500 to 800 to 1,200,.

500,

20

4,000 to 5,000,

800,................................................***********

5,000 and upwards,

39483

35

40

45

50

55

30

SURVEY FAKS (OVERTIME).

The following Scale of Overtimo Fees, to be levied by the Harbour Master for tho services of the Government Marine Surveyor, have been approved by His Excel. lency the Officer Administering the Government, under the provisions of sub-sec, 6 of sec. 6 of Ordinanco 8 of 1879 ———

On week days, from 8 A.M., to 10 A.M.,

$1

17

ท

H

19

and

4 P.M., to 6 г.M., " 6 A.M., to 8 am,

and

© P.M., to 8 P.X,,

$5 per hour.

$10 per

hour.

..$20

Before 6 A.M., and after 8 F.M.....................................§20 per hour.

On Sundays and Public holidays

▲ service occupying less than an hour will be charged as one hour. For servien execoding an hour, a quarter of the fee will be charged for each quarter of an hour, and any expenses incurred will be charged in addition to the fees.

When an incomplete Declaration is required one-half of the Survey for in Table ( of Ordinance 8 of 1579 will be charged.