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COLONY OF HONGKONG.

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XIV.-If a shipowner feels aggrieved:-

(a.) By a declaration of a Government Surveyor or Surveyors under sub- section 8 of section V. of this Ordinance, or by the refusal of a Surveyor to give the said declaration; or

(b.) By the refusal of a certificate of clearance for an emigrant ship under the "Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, or the Ordinances relating thereto"; or

(c.) By the refusal of a certificate of clearance under this Ordinance,-the charterer, master, or agent may appeal in the prescribed manner to the Court of Survey.

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XV. Examinations shall be instituted for persons who intend to become masters, engineers, or mates of foreign going ships.

3. Applicant to give notice to Harbour Msster.

6. Every applicant for a certificate of competency shall upon lodging his application, pay to the Harbour Master a fee, if for a master's or first-class engineer's certificate, of twenty dollars, and if for any other certificate, of ten dollars.

8. Any applicant who shall have passed a satisfactory examination, and shall have given satisfactory evidence of his sobriety, experience, and general good conduct on board ship shall be entitled to receive a certificate of competency.

XVI.—The name of a master, first, only or second mate, or first or second engineer shall not be attached to the register, or articles of agreement, of any British or Colonial ship unless such master, mate, or engineer shall possess a certificate of service or competency issued by the Board of Trade or by the proper authority in any British Possession.

2. No British or Colonial ship shall leave the waters of the Colony unless the master thereof, and the first and second or only mate have obtained and

possess valid certificates of competency or service appropriate to their several stations in such ship, or of a higher grade, and no such ship, if of one hundred tons burden or upwards, shall leave the waters as aforesaid, unless at least one officer, besides the master, has obtained, and possesses, a valid certificate appropriate to the grade of only mate therein, or to a higher grade.

3-Every British steamship, or steamship registered under section III. of part I, of this Ordinance, of one hundred nominal horse power or upwards, leaving the waters of the Colony shall have as its first and second engineers, two certificated engineers, the first possessing a "first class engineer's certificate," and the second possessing a "second class engineer's certificate" or a certificate of the higher grade, and every British steamship, er steamship registered as aforesaid, of less than one hundred nominal horse power, shall have as its only or first engineer, an engineer possessing a "second class engineer's certificate," or a certificate of the higher grade.

4. Every person who, having been engaged in any of the capacities mentioned in sub-sections 2 and 3 in any such ship as aforesaid, goes to sea in that capacity without being at the time entitled to and possessed of such certificate as is required by this section; and every person who employs any person in any of the above capacities in such ship without ascertaining that he is at the time entitled to or possessed of such certificate as is required by this section, shall, for each offence, incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

5. No seaman shall, except with the Harbour Master's sanction, be shipped to do duty on board any merchant ship whatever elsewhere than at the office of the Harbour Master, who shall charge for every seaman shipped a fee of one dollar, such fee to be paid, in the first instance, by the master of the ship shipping such seaman; and such master shall deduct the same from the wages of the seaman shipped; and the Harbour Master shall require such seaman to lodge with him his certificate of discharge from the last ship, and failing the production of such certificate, such seaman shall be bound to give satisfactory explanation to the Harbour Master of the cause of the non-production thereof. The above mentioned fee shall be accounted for by the Harbour Master to the Treasury.