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(8.) The owner, agent, or master of every passenger Owner to ship being within the waters of the Colony, shall, where have survey such ship comes within the meaning of this section,, made by cause the same to be surveyed by one or more of the. Government surveyors; and such surveyor or surveyors to give shall thereupon, if satisfied that be or they can with declarations, propriety do so, give to such owner or agent declarations (id) as follows:--

(a.) A declaration of a Government surveyor shall contain statements of the following particulars, that is to say -

(1.) That the bull of the ship is sufficient for the

service intended and in good condition;

(i.) That the boats, rafts, life buoys, or other ap- pliances for saving life, lights, signals, compasses, and shelter for deck passengers, and the certifi- cates of the master and mate or nates are such and in such condition as required by law ; (iii) The time (if less than twelve months) for which the said ball and equipaments will be sufficient;

(iv) The limits (if any) beyond which, as regards the hull and equipments, the ship is, in the surveyor's judgment, not fit to ply;

(v.) With reference to all passenger ships not coming within the provisions of The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, or of any Ordinance made in parsn- ance thereof, if plying or intended to ply for hire, the umber of passengers which such ship is, in the judgment of the surveyor, fit to carry, dis- tinguishing, if necessary, between the respective unmbers to be carried on the deck and in the cabins, and in the different parts of the deck and cabins; such numbers to be subject to such con- ditions and variations, according to the time of year, the nature of the voyage, the

or other circumstances, as the Governor in Council cargo carried, may, from time to time, direct, by any regulations to be made by him for this purpose, and until such regalatious are made and so far as the same shall not extend, according to the regulations contained in table D in the schedule hereunto annexed, (b.) A declaration of a Government surveyor shall also contain statements of the following particulars, that is to say :-

(i) That the boilers and machinery of the ship are sufficient for the service intended, and in good condition:

(ii) The time (if less than twelve months) for which such boilers and machinery will be sufficient; (iii) That the safety valves and fire hose are such and in such coudition as are required by this Ordinance;

(iv.) The limit of the weight to be placed on the

safety valves;

(v.) The limit (if any) beyond which, as regards the boilers and machinery, the ship is, in the surveyor's judgment, not fit to ply:

(vi.) That the certificates of the engineer or engineers are such and in such form as required by law;

(vi) That the ship is duly marked with deck and load lines in accordance with section 14 of this Ordinance or in accordance with The Mor- chant Shipping Act, 1894.

And such declarations shall be in such form as the Governor directs.

(6) 10-8 (b) VII.

Owners have to have their ships surveyed by a Government surveyor.

Among other things he is to declare that the ship is duly marked with deck and

load lines.

The Solicitor to the Board of Trade asks- Can it be contended that foreign ships should be so marked? But the Clause begins (sub-clause 2) by saying that in the case of foreign ships a survey shall not be required if they have from their own country a certificate equivalent to that required in the case of British ships, and that if a question of sufficiency arises the matter should be referred to the Governor. Perhaps the Governor might be told to waive the requirement of deck and load lines.

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