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other than those with Special Permit and Fishing Licenses, have obtained their "Anchorage Passes" or "Clearances;" to board any Junk under weigh and examine her papers, and if they are found to be incorrect she is to be detained.
Duties of the Civil Branch.
FIRST CLERK.-To have charge of Registry Books under Merchant Shipping Acts, all Correspondence with or from Public Departments, Colonial and Board of Trade Returns, and Accounts of Deceased Seamen, and issue Clearances to Ships under Ordinance No. 1 of 1862. All Seamen in receipt of relief from the Board of Trade are to sign the proper form CC 10, and at the time of their doing so the whole of the particulars required by the Board are to be entered. All Documents connected with the Registry of Shipping are to be signed by myself, if in the Colony, and the copies for the Registrar General are to be produced for signature at the same time. The Sheets for Annual Trade Returns are to be completed daily.
SECOND CLERK.-1. He will do the duty of Deputy Superintendent of Mercantile Marine Office, taking for his guidance the Merchant Shipping Acts, Local Ordinances and Board of Trade Instructions, &c.
2. No Seamen are to be discharged unless Provision is made for their support either by Boarding House or Hospital Guarantee.
3. The Wages of any Seaman who come on the charge of this Department (for the Board of Trade) are to be detained, to be expended for their relief.
4. He is personally answerable for all Public Monies received by him.
5. Form CC 21 for the Board of Trade is to be kept at his Office and brought to me by his Assistant in time to be despatched by the last Mail in each month. This Document is to bear his signature.
Duties of Third Clerk.
To be at the Office at 7 A.M. every morning, Sunday included, and remain until 8 A.M. for the purpose of receiving reports of arrivals of Junks and giving them Clearances if they desire to sail on the same day.
On week days to be at the Office again at 10 A.M. and remain until 6 P.M.
On the arrivals of Junks and the Masters reporting themselves, the particulars required by the Ordinance are to be entered at once in the Register Book of Arrivals and Departures and not until such entry is made shall the Master reporting receive an Anchorage Pass.”
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"Special Permits" may be granted to unlicensed Junks for certain purposes, such as going to wharfs to discharge or take in Cargo, to haul up for cleansing the Boat's bottoms, or undergoing repairs, or for any other good reason which the Master may give, rendering his removal from the "Anchorage for Junks" necessary.
When a "Day Clearance" is desired it is only to be given in exchange for the "Anchorage Pass," and should the Master of a Vessel be unable to produce one, she is immediately to be given into the Custody of the Police. The same rule is to apply with respect to "Night Clearances," but in addition, the Master is to be narrowly examined as to his reasons for desiring to leave the Port after dark and unless they are satisfactory the "Night Clearance" is to be withheld.
Should any Anchorage Pass issued at an Outstation be delivered up here, the Master of the Vessel and Junk are to be seized.
When a "Seagoing License" is applied for, the applicant is to be supplied with Form A which when completed will be the Harbor Master's authority for the security of the Sureties.
The Bond, Form B, will then be completed and a License made out and signed by myself, an entry to that effect being made in the proper Book.
The Licensee shall then be directed to paint the Number of his License in Black figures 20 inches in length on a White ground on each bow and on the production of a Certificate, Form C., from the Assistant Harbor Master that this has been satisfactorily done the License shall be issued.
On application being made for a Special Permit or Fishing License I am to be applied to as to the amount of Security (if any) required, the Numbers are to be painted on the Junk and certified to by the Assistant Harbor Master as above directed, except that the figures in the case of a Fishing License White on a Black ground, in the event of a Special Permit License being issued the letter S shall precede the Number.
Documents A, B and C properly docketed and secured together will be kept on record. As each of the Books of "Anchorage Passes," "Special Permits," "Day" and "Night Clearances" represent a certain money value they are to be kept carefully locked up when not in use, and during the day they are never to be out of your Custody; on the completion of each Book you will shew by our Receipt of Fees Book that none of the papers above mentioned have been misappropriated. If any deficiencies will be charged as an imprest against your pay. If they become soiled and unfit for issue they are to be preserved, marked "cancelled." Any
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Duties of Fourth Clerk.
In Marine Magistrate's Court, Emigration and Board of Examiners-Requisitions for payment and Monthly Cash Accounts, charge of Letter Book and assist in the preparation of Colonial and Board of Trade returns, to enter arrivals and departures in Shipping Book.
Duties of Fifth Clerk.
To assist the Second Clerk at the Mercantile Marine Office.
Chinese Interpreter.
To assist in the Chinese Office or elsewhere when required.
Indian Interpreter.
To assist in the Mercantile Marine Office or elsewhere when required.
Finally all Officers will bear in mind, that whilst the new Legislation affecting Chinese Craft of every description is difficult to inaugurate in the first instance by reason of the great number of native Vessels trading with this Colony, that difficulty is increased by the character of the Chinese, a people tenacious of old usages and specially sensitive to changes which affect their convenience or pecuniary interests in the smallest degree. His Excellency the Governor has therefore from the first felt the necessity of dealing gently, when possible, with the prejudices of the Chinese, and it is his desire that at the commencement of the new restrictions imposed by the Harbor and Coasts Ordinance, no Officer employed in the Harbor Department shall apply the rules of that Ordinance in an unnecessarily strict manner. Any severity or hardship, which can be avoided, will be visited with His Excellency's displeasure, as he is convinced that patient explanation of the different provisions of the new Law- and an indulgent allowance for all omissions and mistakes committed at the outset will be better Calculated to obtain exact obedience hereafter than a more peremptory and abrupt policy.
Each Officer will therefore consider it a primary duty to afford ample explanation to all Chinese, whom he may find erring through ignorance and will remember that the least restriction and inconvenience occasioned to even the humblest owner of the smallest boat has been reluctantly imposed by this Government in discharge of its higher obligation to suppress crime by obtaining as complete a knowledge as possible of the character and pursuits of every Vessel whether small or large visiting this harbor.
A considerable amount of tact and discrimination, combined with much patient and indulgent forbearance at the outset is therefore expected from the Officers of the Harbor Department, and His Excellency will not regard any person deficient in those points as qualified for office in that Department.
H. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master.
9th December, 1866.
Approved,
RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,
Governor.
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other than those with Special Permit and Fishing Licenses, have obtained their "Anchorage Passes" or "Clearances;" to board any Junk under weigh and examine her papers, and if they are found to be incorrect she is to be detained.
Duties of the Civil Branch.
FIRST CLERK.-To have charge of Registry Books under Merchant Shipping Acts, all Corres- pondence with or from Public Departments, Colonial and Board of Trade Returns, and Accounts of Deceased Seamen, and issue Clearances to Ships under Ordinance No. 1 of 1862. All Seamen in receipt of relief from the Board of Trade are to sign the proper form CC 10, and at the time of their doing so the whole of the particulars required by the Board are to be entered. All Documents connected with the Registry of Shipping are to be signed by myself, if in the Colony, and the copies for the Registrar General are to be produced for signature at the same time. The Sheets for Annual Trade Returns are to be completed daily.
SECOND CLERK.-1. He will do the duty of Deputy Superintendent of Mercantile Marine Office, taking for his guidance the Merchant Shipping Acts, Local Ordinances and Board of Trade Instructions, &c.
2. No Seamen are to be discharged unless Provision is made for their support either by Boarding House or Hospital Guarantee.
3. The Wages of any Seaman who come on the charge of this Department (for the Board of Trade) are to be detained, to be expended for their relief.
4. He is personally answerable for all Public Monies received by him.
5- Form CC 21 for the Board of Trade is to be kept at his Office and brought to me by his Assistant in time to be despatched by the last Mail in each month. This Document is to bear his signature.
Duties of Third Clerk.
To be at the Office at 7 A.M. every morning, Sunday included, and remain until 8 A.M. for the purpose of receiving reports of arrivals of Junks and giving them Clearances if they desire to sail on the same day.
On week days to be at the Office again at 10 A.M. and remain until 6 r.m.
On the arrivals of Junks and the Masters reporting themselves, the particulars required by the Ordinance are to be entered at once in the Register Book of Arrivals and Departures and not until such entry is made shall the Master reporting receive an Anchorage Pass.”
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"Special Permits" may be granted to unlicensed Junks for certain purposes, such as going to wharfs to discharge or take in Cargo, to haul up for cleansing the Boat's bottoms, or undergoing repairs, or for any other good reason which the Master may give, rendering his removal from the
Anchorage for Junks" necessary.
When a "Day Clearance" is desired it is only to be given in exchange for the "Anchorage Pass," and should the Master of a Vessel be unable to produce one, she is immediately to be given into the Custody of the Police. The same rule is to apply with respect to "Night Clearances," but in addition, the Master is to be narrowly examined as to his reasons for desiring to leave the Port after dark and unless they are satisfactory the "Night Clearance" is to be withheld.
Should any Anchorage Pass issued at an Outstation be delivered up here, the Master of the Vessel and Junk are to be scized.
When a
"Seagoing License" is applied for, the applicant is to be supplied with Form A which when completed will be the Harbor Master's authority for the security of the Sureties.
The Bond, Form B, will then be completed and a License made out and signed by myself, an entry to that effect being made in the proper Book.
The Licensee shall then be directed to paint the Number of his License in Black figures 20 inches in length on a White ground on each bow and on the production of a Certificate, Form C., from the Assistant Harbor Master that this has been satisfactorily done the License shall be issued.
On application being made for a Special Permit or Fishing License I am to be applied to as to the amount of Security (if any) required, the Numbers are to be painted on the Junk and certified to by
e Assistant Harbor Master as above directed, except that the figures in the case of a Fishing License White on a Black ground, in the event of a Special Permit License being issued the letter S shall precede be Number.
Documents A, B and C properly docketed and secured together will be kept on record. As each of the Books of "Anchorage Passes," "Special Permits," "Day" and " Night Clearances epresent a certain money value they are to be kept carefully locked up when not in use, and during he day they are never to be out of your Custody; on the completion of each Book you will shew by our Receipt of Fees Book that none of the papers above mentioned have been misappropriated. If any eficiencies will be charged as an imprest against your pay. f them become soiled and unfit for issue they are to be preserved, marked "cancelled." Any
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Duties of Fourth Clerk.
In Marine Magistrate's Court, Emigration and Board of Examiners-Requisitions for payment and Monthly Cash Accounts, charge of Letter Book and assist in the preparation of Colonial and Board of Trade returns, to enter arrivals and departures in Shipping Book.
Duties of Fifth Clerk.
To assist the Second Clerk at the Mercantile Marine Office.
Chinese Interpreter.
To assist in the Chinese Office or elsewhere when required.
Indian Interpreter.
To assist in the Mercantile Marine Office or elsewhere when required.
Finally all Officers will bear in mind, that whilst the new Legislation affecting Chinese Craft of very description is difficult to inaugurate in the first instance by reason of the great number of native Vessels trading with this Colony, that difficulty is increased by the character of the Chinese, a people enacious of old usages and specially sensitive to changes which affect their convenience or pecuniary nterests in the smallest degree. His Excellency the Governor has therefore from the first felt the ecessity of dealing gently, when possible, with the prejudices of the Chinese, and it is his desire that at the commencement of the new restrictions imposed by the Harbor and Coasts Ordinance, no Officer employed in the Harbor Department shall apply the rules of that Ordinance in an unnecessarily strict manner. Any severity or hardship, which can be avoided, will be visited with His Excellency's displeasure, as he is convinced that patient explanation of the different provisions of the new Law- and an indulgent allowance for all omissions and mistakes committed at the outset will be better Calculated to obtain exact obedience hereafter than a more peremptory and abrupt policy.
Each Officer will therefore consider it a primary duty to afford ample explanation to all Chinese, whom he may find erring through ignorance and will remember that the least restriction and inconve- aience occasioned to even the humblest owner of the smallest boat has been reluctantly imposed by this Government in discharge of its higher obligation to suppress crime by obtaining as complete a knowledge as possible of the character and pursuits of every Vessel whether small or large visiting this harbor.
A considerable amount of tact and discrimination, combined with much patient and indulgent forbearance at the outset is therefore expected from the Officers of the Harbor Department, and His Excellency will not regard any person deficient in those points as qualified for office in that Department.
H. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master.
9th December, 1866.
Approved,
RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,
Governor.
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