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HONGKONG PORT REGULATIONS

master or owner of the vessel may cause such goods to be thrown overboar with any package or receptacle in which they are contained; and neither nor the owner of the vessel shall, in respect of such throwing overboard, to any liability, civil or criminal, in any Court.

5. Dangerous goods improperly sent may be forfeited.

6. The Court may proceed in absence of the owners.

7. Saving as to Dangerous Goods Ordinance.

XIII.-Constitution and powers of Marine Courts and Courts of Sur XIV.-If a shipowner feels aggrieved:-

(a.) By a declaration of a Government Surveyor or Surveyors section 8 of Section V. of this Ordinance, or by the refusal of to give the said declaration: or

(b.) By the refusal of a certificate of clearance for an emigrant

the "Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," or the Ordinar thereto; or

(c.) By the refusal of a certificate of clearance under this Ordit

owner, charterer, master, or agent may appeal in the prescri to a Court of Survey.

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

3. Applicant to give notice to Harbour Master.

6. Every applicant for a certificate of competency shall, upon lodg plication, pay to the Harbour Master a fee, if for a master's or first-clas certificate, of twenty dollars, and if for any other certificate, of fifteen dol

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

XVI.-2. The name of a master, first, only or second mate, or firs engineer shall not be attached to the register, or articles of agreement, of or Colonial ship unless such master, mate, or engineer shall possess a c service or competency issued by the Board of Trade or by the proper a any British Possession,

3. No British or Colonial ship shall leave the waters of the Colon master thereof, and the first and second or only mate have obtained and p certificates of competency or service appropriate to their several stations i or of a higher grade, and no such ship, if of one hundred tons burden shall leave the waters as aforesaid, unless at least one officer, besides the obtained, and possesses, a valid certificate appropriate to the grade of only in, or to a higher grade.

4. Every British steamship of one hundred nominal horse power · leaving the waters of the Colony, shall have as its first and second er certificated engineers, the first possessing a "first class engineer's certi the second possessing a "second class engineer's certificate" or a certif higher grade, and every British steamship of less than one hundred no power shall have as its only or first engineer an engineer possessing a engineer's certificate," or certificate of the higher grade.

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7. Every person who, having been engaged in any of the capacities n Sub-sections 2 and 3, in any such ship as aforesaid goes to sea in that capa being at the time entitled to and possessed of such certificate as is requ section; and every person who employs any person in any of the above o such ship without ascertaining that he is at the time entitled to or posse: certificate as is required by this section, shall, for each offence, incur a ; exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

8. No seaman shall, except with the Harbour Master's sanction, be do duty on board a British ship, or any foreign ship whose flag is not rep a consular officer resident in the Colony, elsewhere than at the Mercai Office. Fees to be charged.