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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 28.-The following bill is published for general information :-

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CSO 2497/12

[No. 30:-1.12.30.—1.]

Short title.

Amendment

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Merchant Ship-

ping Ordinance, 1899.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1931.

2. Table I in the Schedule to the Merchant Ship- of Ordinance ping Ordinance, 1899, is repealed and the following

Table is substituted therefor :-

No. 10 of

1899.

Substitution

of new Table

Table I.

for Table I

in Schedule.

ENGAGEMENT AND DISCHARGE FEES,

1.-Engagement and discharge of seamen at the Mercantile Marine Office.

Fee for engagement or discharge of a mate, purser, engineer, surgeon, car- penter, steward or wireless telegraph operator

Fee for engagement or discharge of every

other seaman

$ 1.00

$ 0.75

2.—Engagement and discharge of seamen on

board ship.

Fee, where not more than 40 seamen are engaged or discharged, for each sea-

man..

$ 0.75

Minimum fee in such case

.$15.00

Fee, where more than 40 and not more

than 100 seamen are engaged or dis- charged, for each visit.

.$30.00

Fee, where more than 100 and not more

than 150 seamen are engaged or dis- charged, for each visit

..$37.50

Fee where more than 150 seamen are engaged or discharged, for the first 150

.$37.50

for every additional 50 or less...$ 7.50 Where seamen are re-engaged on board the ship at the time of discharge the fee payable shall be the discharge fee plus half the engagement fee. In all the above cases the actual travelling expenses of the Officers of the Mercantile Marine Office, between

+1. akin shall ha

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