CO129-019 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [1-4] — Page 309

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Masters or owners Owner of every trading Junk, Lorcha, large Fast-boat, or other of vessels to have Vessel already registered and licensed as aforesaid (or hereafter to be the number, quality registered and licensed) is hereby required to cause the number, &c., of arms on quality, and description of the arms on board of such trading Junk, board, inserted in Lorcha, large Fast-boat, or other Vessel, to be inserted in or endorsed their Registers.

on the Register of the said Vessel, and every such master or owner is hereby required to produce such Register to the Registrar-General (who shall make such insertion or endorsement as aforesaid) under a penalty not exceeding Fifty Dollars.

Penalty,

Masters or Com-

Penalty.

VI. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the Master or manders of Junks, Commander of all trading Junks, Lorchas, large Fast-boats, and Lorchas, &c, to shew their flag.

other Vessels duly registered and licensed as before mentioned, and trading or plying between Hongkong and any part of the Dominions of the Emperor of China, shall, whenever they shall come in sight of any European ship or other vessel, hoist their flag in some conspicuous part of their said vessel, under a penalty not exceeding Fifty Dollars. And the Master and officers of every British or other Vessel who shall meet or fall in with any trading Junk, Lorcha, large Fast-boat, or other Vessel bearing or carrying the flag aforesaid, is or are hereby required to note the number of the said flag in their Log Book, and also the time and place when and where such meeting shall occur, and to report the same to the Harbour-Master or Consul at the port of their destination. to

Penalty how

be recovered.

VII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the penalties mentioned in the three preceding sections of this Ordinance shall be recoverable in the same manner as penalties are made recoverable by Ordinance No. 10 of 1844, entitled "An Ordinance to regulate sum- mary Proceedings before Justices of the Peace, and to protect "Justices in the execution of their duty."

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Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this Twenty-fifth Day of March, 1847.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,

Clerk of Councils.

J. F. DAVIS, Governor, &c. &c.

Littmara (actio Cark of Councild.

N41.

kypentive.

RECEIVED

JUNE 2:

My Lord,

1001.

303

Victoria, Honghong,

19th April. 1847.

The official report, which I have

made to Viscount Palmerston will place Her Majesty's Government in possession

of the

of

causes, and of t

and of the successful result,

of my visit to Canton to demand redress for grievances, which had long continued to

grow,

and in reference to which all milder remonstrance had failed. The poremptory communications of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs met with. reception from the Chinese minister jchick left

other alternative. With the limited garrison of

me

no other

which never

Hongkong, which

for

since my arrival.

The Right Honorable,

The Earl Grey,

de 4

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