Captain Superintendent of Police. I here deem there to be no sufficient reason why any person should be permitted to have up to 20 lbs. of gunpowder and up to 2,000 safety cartridges, in this Colony. The exception, therefore, as to gunpowder and safety cartridges has, by this amendment, been confined to any person keeping gunpowder and safety cartridges for his private use only, the number of exempted safety cartridges being raised from 2,000 to 5,000 because such a stock as the latter is sometimes kept for sporting purposes.
Section 30.--The amendment effected by this section was intended to meet difficulties which have been caused by crews of launches running to Mirs Bay or Deep Bay behaving in a disorderly manner towards the crews or passengers of other competing launches.
Section 38.--The object of the amendment in Table E., which is effected by this section, is to incorporate in Table E. certain Regulations which were made under Ordinance 26 of 1891.
Section 39.--This corresponds generally with the provisions recently sanctioned by the Secretary of State with the following exceptions, namely;-
(i.) Paragraph 16 is wider in its terms as to costs and expenses, and
(ii) Paragraph 19 has been added so as to exempt vessels carrying a Medical Practitioner from the necessity of going into the Quarantine Anchorage, if certain certificates are given.
Section 40 (i.)--This amendment is due to the shifting westwards of the Buoys.
(ii) This amendment is owing to a defect in the former definition of the Northern Fairway.
Section 41.--This puts right a previous clerical error.
Section 42.--Pedder's Wharf has been taken over by the Ferry Company, and Blake Pier has been erected since the passing of Ordinance 36 of 1899.
Section 43 (i.)--The object of this amendment is to prevent a vessel, employed on business, from being exempted from the provisions of Table U by obtaining a tow from a pleasure-boat.
(ii.)--The words "if required" are added, in order to obviate the necessity for a photograph in every case.
(iii)--"43" was a clerical error for “40".
Having now dealt with the reasons for the amendments suggested locally I pass on to consider those which were recommended by the Secretary of State and by the Board of Trade.
Section 3--It was suggested by the Board of Trade that the words in question should be inserted so as to render the master of a foreign ship liable to the same penalty as the master of a British ship.
Section 4.--This transposition was suggested by the Board of Trade as being a more logical order of sequence.
Section 5.--The practice always has been to treat the corresponding expression in the corresponding provisions of Ordinance 26 of 1891 as applying to the British mercantile marine, but, in deference to the views of the Board of Trade the word "British" has been inserted for the sake of greater clearness.
Section 6.--It was pointed out by the Board of Trade that the provisions of sub-section (a.) of section 18 clashed with the provisions of sub-section (10.) of section 41.
Section 7.--This amendment makes sub-section (1.) of section 5 correspond with sub-section (2.) of the same section.
Section 8.--This amendment was made so as to make the penalty of two hundred dollars correspond with the penalty of £20 in the English Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.
Section 9.--These amendments were suggested by the Board of Trade so as to bring our local law altogether into line with section 202 of the English Act of 1894.
Section 10.--The word "foreign" is inserted so as to make sub-section (7.) of section 6 correspond with section 5.
Section 11.--Is a new section and is inserted because cases have occurred in which Chinese ships carrying coolies on their way up from Singapore to the Coast Ports have arrived at this port in a very bad sanitary condition. It is framed on the same lines as 36 of the Straits Settlements Ordinance.
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Captain Superintendent of Police. I here dooms cu be no sufficient reason why any person should be permitted to have up to 20 lbs. of gunpowder and up to 2,000 safety cartridges, in this Colony. The exception, therefore, as to gunpowder and safety cartridges has, by this amendment, been confined to any person keeping gunpowder and safety cartridges for his private use only, the number of exempted safety cartridges being raised from 2,000 to 5,000 because such a stock as the latter is sometimes kept for sport- ing purposes.
Section 30.--The amendment effected by this section was intended to meet difficulties which have been caused by crews of launchos running to Mirs Bay or Deep Bay behaving in a disorderly manner to- wards the crews or passengers of other competing
launches.
Section 88.---The object of the amendment in Table E., which is effected by this section, is to incorporate in Tablo E. certain Regulations which were made under Ordinance 26 of 1891.
Section 89.-This corresponds generally with the pro- visions recently sanctioned by the Secretary of State with the following exceptions, namely ;-
(1.) Paragraph 16 is wider in its terms as to coste
and expenses, and
(ii) Paragraph 19 has been added so as to exempt vessels carrying a Medical Practitioner from the necessity of going into the Quarantine Anchorage, if certain certificates are given. Section 40 (i.)-This amendment is due to the shifting
westwards of the Buoys.
(ii) This amendment is owing to a defect in the
former definition of the Northern Fairway. Section 41.--This puts right a previons clerical error. Section 42.-Pedder's Wharf has been taken over by the Ferry Company, and Blake Pier has been erected since the passing of Ordinance 36 of 1899. Section 43 (i.)--The object of this amendment is to prevent a vessel, employed on business, from being exempted from the provisions of Table U by obtain- ing a tow from a pleasure-boat.
(i.)-The words "if required" are added, in order to obviate the necessity for a photograph in every
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Case,
(iii)~" 43" was a clerical error for “40".
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Having now dealt with the reasons for the amendments raggested locally I pass on to consider those which were recommended by the Secretary of State and by the Board of Trade.
Section 3-It was suggested by the Board of Trade that the words in question should be inserted so as to render the master of a foreign ship liable to the Bane penalty as the master of a British ship. Section 4.-This transposition was suggested by the Board of Trade as being a more logical order of sequence.
Section 5.-The practice always has been to treat the corresponding expression in the corresponding pro- visions of Ordinance 26 of 1891 as applying to the British mercantile marine, but, in deference to the views of the Board of Trade the word "British" has been inserted for the sake of greater clearness. Section 6.-It was pointed out by the Board of Trade that the provisions of sub-section (a.) of section 18 clashed with the provisions of sub-section (10.) of section 41.
Section 7.-This amendment makes sub-section (1.) of section 5 correspond with sub-section (2.) of the same section.
Section 8.-This amendment was made so as to make the penalty of two hundred dollars correspond with the penalty of £20 in the English Merchant Ship- ping Act, 1894,
Section 9.-These amendments were suggested by the Board of Trade so as to bring our local law altoge- ther into line with section 202 of the English Act of 1894.
Section 10.--The word "foreign" is inserted so as to make sub-section (7.) of section & correspond with section 5.
Section 11.-Is a new section and is inserted because cases have occurred in which Chinese ships carrying coolies on their way up from Singapore to the Coast Ports have arrived at this port in a very bad sani- tary condition. It is framed on the same lines as 36 of the Straita Settlements Ordinance,
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