CO129-403 - Governor Sir May Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [8-10] — Page 110

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REPORT

on an Ordinance entitled An Ordinance to amend

theerchant shipping Ordinance, 1899.

Under sub-section (14) of section 39 of the Merchant

Shipping Ordinance, 1899, which it will be observed now stands in

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re-enacted form by section 4 of the erchant shipping Amendment Ordinance 1911, it is provided that no junk except a licensed

fishing junk which has obtained a Special Permit from the Harbour

laster may leave her anchorage or attempt to 1:ave any port in

the Colony during certain hours of the night. These Special Per-

aits are issued to all such junke es a matter of course and are

seldom if ever réfused; they are issued mothly, twenty-five Cents

being charged for each such perit; of which some forty thousand

annually. are issued mentilly.

The object of the present amendment is to do away with

these monthly permits and to substitute a general Annual Feral t

which will be one of the conditions attached to the ordinary li-

cence of which every junk has to be in possession; the fee of

twenty-five cents per month will be compounded in one payment on

the issue of the ordinary licence. The conditions of the licence

will in the case of fishing junke enable them of course to get under

way at night.

The chief reason for the amendment, proposed to be made is

in order to do away with the creat labour and time occupied in the

issue of these monthly permits. The apparent loss of control over

these fishing junks occasioned by the change will however be more

than counter-balanced by the inauguration of a system of endorsement

on their licences of every entry of these fishing junks into the

waters of the Colony es is done now in the case of trading junks; in

this way a record of the movements of these fishing junks will be

obtained in a manner which is not at present possible. The necessary

alterations in the form of licence and the system to carry out the

necessary endorsements on there licences upon the entry of the junks into the waters of the Colony will be of course arranged for by regulations and departmental action,

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Section 1 of the Ordinance is formal.

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Section 2 of the Ordinance amends Section 39 of the

Principal Ordinance in a manner necessary to enable the proposal indicated in paragraph 1 of this report to be effected so far as

the erchant Shipping Ordinances are relative thereto.

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In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excel-

lency the Governor may properly arsent in the name of His Lajesty

and on a behalf.

John & Buchill

Attorney General,

8. 8. 13.