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(4.) Every vessel shali stop when called upon to do so by any examination officer or by any examination battery, and every vessel shall comply with any other direction given by an examination officer.

4-(1.) If the examination vessels are withdrawn on account of bad weather, river steamers arriving at the Western entrance and wishing to enter the Port shall hoist the international signal P.D., "Permission is urgently requester to enter harbour". This signal will be acknowledged by the examination battery at Stonecutters hoisting the international answering pendant. Upon the examin "Proceed ation battery at Stonecutters hoisting the international signal T.Ñ.A., into harbour", the incoming vessel shall proceed West of Stonecutters and shall anchor North of that island to the Eastward of a line joining the West point of Stonecutters and the Torpedo Pier at Lai Chi Kok.

(2.) While anchored in the above mentioned position no such vessel shall hold any communication whatsoever with the shore or with any other vessel,

(3.) Upon the weather moderating every such vessel which is so anchored shall proceed West of Stonecutters to the examination anchorage, and shall remain there until it has been examined and passed into Port in the usual

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5. (1.) These regulations may be cited as the Port Regulations (No. 2 construction and shall be read and construed as one with the Port Regulations, 1917, as amended by Notification No. 180 published in the Gazette of the 27th April, 1917.

(2.) These regulations and the said regulations may be cited together as the Port Regulations.

11th May, 1917.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Colonial Secretary.

Extract from the Hongkong Government Gazette No. 21 of the 11th May, 1917.)

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