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in a position of considerable disadvantage, more especially
in respect of the requirements of the Chinese Likin and
Customs officials, as compared with similar vessels of
other European Nationalities, and the Chamber of Commerce
urged upon this Government the advisability in the interests
of British trade of relaxing the stringent rules as to
registration.
6.
The amendments contained in
Sections 6 and 7 are designed to enable the Police to deal
with certain infringements of the law which they have
hitherto been powerless to check owing to the disinclina-
-tion of Ships' Officers and others to prosecute in the
Police Courts.
7.
With regard to Section 9 it has
been found that under the proviso at the end of Section 37
(2) of the principal Ordinance it is possible for a steam-
-launch to ply without a bond at all. This proviso first
appeared in the former Ordinance No. 26 of 1891 in order to
preclude the necessity of two bonds in the case of a steam-
-ship under 60 tons which was also a "Colonial Ship", but
its inclusion in Ordinance No. 10 of 1899 was an oversight
as under that Ordinance the security called for in Section
3(2)
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