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COLONY OF HONGKONG

in table oa of the schedule (reutal $5 half-yearly), and such moorings shall be of such nature as the Harbour Master shall approve.

3. No person shall moor or anchor hulks or vessels of like descript the waters of the Colony without the sanction of the Harbour Master upon such conditions and subject to the payment of such fees as the G Council may direct.

4. Moorings and buoys sanctioned by the Harbour Master under Su shall not be made use of by any vessel other than the vessels of the persc such sanction has been granted except with the consent of such person. of any vessel using any such moorings and buoys without such consei liable to a penalty of twenty dollars per day for every day or part of a which he shall so use such moorings and buoys after he has been re remove therefrom.

LIGHTHOUSES, BUOYS, OR BEACONS

Light Dues

XXXIII.—The owner or master of every ship which enters the wa Colony shall pay such dues in respect of the said lighthouses, buoys, beac and other apparatus as may from time to time be fixed by order of th pursuant to resolution of the Legislative Council, to such officers as the shall from time to time appoint to collect the same, and the same shall such officers into the Colonial Treasury.

IMPORTATION AND STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES

[See also "The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873,” and Regulation XXXVII.—The Governor is hereby empowered to provide, at the exp Colony, all necessary vessels and buildings for the storage of gunpowde explosives, and no gunpowder or other explosives arriving in this Colo stored in any other building or vessel except as provided by Sub-secti subject to the observance of the rules and regulations to be made under § 12 of this Ordinance.

2. Such vessels or buildings shall for the purposes of this chapter b government depôt or government depôts for the storage of gunpowder, a under the control and management of the Harbour Master subject to suel may from time to time be received from the Governor; and such vesse shall be fitted and manned in such manner as the Harbour Master with th of the Governor shall deem expedient.

3. The master of every vessel arriving in this Colony having on bo any quantity of gunpowder or other explosives exceeding 200 immediately, upon the arrival thereof, and before the discharge from the such gunpowder or other explosives, furnish the Harbour Master with a manifest of the same, the marks of all the packages, and the names of the if he shall know the same.

4. The master of every such vessel as in the last preceding section shall as soon as possible take the same to the place which shall be pointed by the Harbour Master, and the said vessel shall not be removed therefr the permission in writing of the Harbour Master.

5. When any quantity of gunpowder or other explosives exceedin is about to be conveyed out of the Colony, the master of the vesse convey the same shall, on producing the written authority of the owners their agents, receive from the Harbour Master a permit to take on board th mentioned in such authority, and the master of such vessel shall thereupon same into such anchorage as the Harbour Master may deem expedient, such anchorage the master of such vessel shall not remove the same exce purpose of proceeding on his voyage or for some other sufficient cause to be by the Harbour Master.