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No. 10 of 1899.
Table K.
Furnishing of accounts to boarder.
Exclusion of prostitutes.
Closing.
Prohibition of gambling and preven tion of
disorder.
Illness of boarder.
Furnishing of weekly list of stam ņ boarders.
Restriction
ou discharge of boarder.
Tospection of boarding-
house.
Posting up of rules.
Penalty for infraction of rules.
Fees payable
by boarder.
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with a memorandum of the amount in which he is indebted to the boarding master or of the amount belonging to him still in the hands of the boarding master.
11. Before a boarder is discharged, he shall, if he so requires, receive from the boarding master a full and true statement of his account for board, lodging, and other expenses, and the boarder, if satisfied as to the correctness of the said statement, shall sign his name thereon in proof thereof. The boarding master shall take his book to the Harbour Master or his deputy for inspection every Monday at noon.
[Rule 12, rep. No. 16 of 1912.]
13. The boarding master shall not allow any prostitute on the premises.
14. Boarding-houses shall be closed every night at 11 o'clock.
15. No gambling shall be allowed in any boarding-house, and every master shall do his utmost to prevent noisy conduct on the part of the boarders or others frequenting the house; in the event of bis not being able to preserve order, he shall give intination thereof to the nearest constable or at a police station.
16. In the event of any boarder being sick, the master is immediate- ly to procure the assistance of a duly qualified medical practitioner and report the case immediately to the Principal Civil Medical Officer, and the names of sick men are to be inserted in the column of remarks in the weekly list.
17. The master of every boarding-house shall, every Monday morn- ing, send to the Government Shipping Office a list copied from his book of all the seamen boarding in his house on that day and of those boarders who have left during the previous week, showing how the litter have been disposed of.
18. No boarding master shall discharge a boarder from his house without the sanction of the Harbour Master, unless such boarder is provided with suitable employment
19. Every boarding-house shall be open at all times for the inspec- tion of sny Justice of the Peace or the Harbour Master or his deputy or of any Inspector of Police, or any member of the Sanitary Board, as well as for the visits of the Principal Civil Medical Officer.
20. A copy of these rules shall be kept posted in a conspicuous place in the general sitting room.
21. Any infraction of any of these rules shall render the offender hable to a fine of 25 dollars, and for a second offence to deprivation of his licence in addition.
22. Boarders are hereby informed that the only fees for which they are liable are a Government fee of 40 cents for discharge and 40 centa for shipping, and one dollar for boarding-house fee which is to include the commission for cashing an advance note.
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23. When seamen have signed fresh articles of agreement no deduc. Daductions tions other than those for debts legally due are to be made from their trom advances.
advance.
24. Seamen's clothing or bedding is not to be detained by way of No detention security for debt.
of clothing.
25. Any boarder dissatisfied with his account shall be at liberty to Appeal of lay the same before the Harbour Master who will decide if the charges boarder are reasonable or otherwise.
against account.
housa.
26. A boarding-house keeper shall ship only the men belonging to Shipment of his house. If, on any occasion, he has not enough boarders to meo from complete the number required to ship, he may apply to any other boarding- boarding-house to supply the deficiency, but the men so supplied are to be shipped by the house in which they are boarding and not by the keeper who has the order for the crew, and only one shipping fee shall be charged.
27. The weekly charge for board and lodging shall be:— in boarding-bouses for Europeans and Americans,.
in other boarding-houses, such amount as may be
approved by the Harbour Master.
Table K (A).
INFORMATION TO BE SUPPLIED ON ARRIVAL IN PORT.
Name of vessel and flag
Port of registry
Commanded by
Registered Tonnage
Nature and Tonnage of Cargo on board
Number of Crew
Rig and Horse Power
Number of Guns
Nume of Owners
Port of departure and day of leaving original and last Fort Consigness or Agents, Messrs.
(Cabin Passengers,- Chinese:
38.00
Weekly charge for board and lodging.
(6. 22 (2).]
E. Deck Men, Women, Boys,
Girls, =
Any Infectious or Contagious Disease on board
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at any Port of departure Any Births, Deaths, or Accidents on the voyage
Any Explosives on board
Any Mails on board
Any Casualty on the voyage Weather
Any derelicts, Sunken Wrecks, Ice, etc., passed during the voyage Port Regulations supplied
• As amended by G. N. 189 of 1908.
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