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COLONY OF HONGKONG.

PORT REGULATIONS, &c.

ABSTRACT OF ORDINANCE 8 OF 1879.

III. No British owned vessel without an Imperial Register to use the waters of the Colony.

IV.-British ships to be provided with boats and life-buoys.

2 & 3. Penalties for non-compliance: not exceeding five hundred dollars. V.—British and Foreign steam-ships of 50 tons and upwards carrying more than 12 passengers to possess Survey Certificates.

VI. Harbour Master may refuse clearances to ships carrying more passengers than allowed by certificate.

2.-Penalty for taking excess of passengers: not exceeding two hundred dollars, in addition to a penalty not exceeding five dollars for every passenger in excess of the number permitted to be carried by port clearance. Penalty for proceeding to sea with a port clearance: five hundred dollars.

3. Government may prohibit conveyance of deck passengers.

5. Section VI. does not apply to vessels which come under the Chinese Passengers' Act.

VIII. Licences may be granted to River steamers, limiting number of passengers to be carried.

IX.-Power to detain unsafe ships, and procedure for such detention. X.-Application to foreign ships of provisions of Ordinance as to detention. XI.-Sending or taking unseaworthy ships to sea a misdemeanour.

3. Prosecution under this section not to be instituted without consent of the Governor.

XII.-If any person sends or attempts to send by, or, not being owner or master of the vessel, carries or attempts to carry in any vessel, British or foreign, any dangerous goods, that is to say: aquafortis, vitriol, naphtha, benzine, gunpowder, lucifer matches, nitro-glycerine, petroleum, or any other goods of a dangerous nature without distinctly marking their nature on the outside of the package containing the same, and giving written notice of the nature of such goods and of the name and address of the sender or carrier thereof. to the master or owner of the vessel at or before the time of sending same to be shipped, or taking the same on board the vessel, he shall for every such offence incur a penalty not excceding five hundred dollars: Provided that if such person show that he was merely an agent in the shipment of such goods and had no reason to suspect that the goods shipped by him were of a dangerous natnre, the penalty which he incurs shall not exceed fifty dollars. 2. Penalty for misdescription of dangerous goods: not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars.

3. The master or owner of any vessel, British or foreign, may refuse to take on board any package or parcel which he suspects to contain goods of a dangerous nature, and may require it to be opened to ascertain the fact.

4. Where any dangerous goods, as defined in paragraph I. of this section, or any goods which, in the judgment of the master or owner of the vessel, are of a dangerous