510 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 1, 1911.
Fishing Junk Licence.
Licence for Lighters and Cargo Boats.
Making of regulations for licensing of junks, etc.
Penalty
where over- crowding results in drowning of passengers.
Report of arrival and particulars to be furn- ishe l.
(6.) Fishing Junk Licences shall be issued by the Iar- bour Master upon payment of the prescribed fee for such periods and subject to such conditions as the Harbour Master with the approval of the Governor may determine. Such conditions shall be endorsed on or contained in such licence and such junk having obtained a fishing licence the master thereof shall cause the number of the said junk to be painted in figures, which shall not at any time be concealed, twenty inches in length in such colours as the Harbour Master shall direct on each bow and on the stern and on or about the centre of the main sail in black figures not less than twenty-four inches in length and also branded on the hull in figures two inches in length. Every person guilty of a breach of any such conditions or of the provisions of this sub-section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or in default, to imprisonment not exceeding three months with or with- out hard labour in addition to any other penalty he may thereby incur.
(7.) Lighters, Cargo Boats, Fish Drying Hulks and other Hulks, Sampans and other vessels of any description whatever shall be licensed by the Harbour Master upon the payment of the prescribed fees for such periods and subject to such conditions as the Harbour Master with the approval of the Governor may determine, which conditions. shall be endorsed on or contained in such licence and, after such licence shall have been obtained the master thereof shall cause the number of the vessel to be painted in figures, which shall not at any time be concealed, of such size and of such colours and in such position as the Har- bour Master shall direct. Every person guilty of a breach of any such conditions or of the provisions of this sub- section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or in default to imprisonment not exceed- ing three months with or without hard labour in addition to any other penalty he may thereby incur.
(8.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to make and publish regulations :-
(a.) for the licensing, registration, and regulation
of cargo-boat-men and lightermen ;
(b.) for fixing the scale of fares to be charged in
respect of such boats or vessels ;
(c.) for the regulation and management of all boats, sampans, or other vessels used as dwelling places within the waters of the Colony and not plying for hire;
(d) for the registration or licensing of such last mentioned vessels and of the people dwelling in the same; and
(c.) for providing adequate menus for preventing by force when necessary any junk leaving the waters of the Colony or any port in viola tion of this section.
Provided that unless and until other regulations are made the regulations contained in Table U of the Schedule shall apply.
(9.). In case any greater number of persons or passengers shall be taken or carried in any junk, boat or other vessel aforesaid within the waters of the Colony than is respect- ively allowed to be carried therein by the regulations in the said Table U or by any regulation heroniter made by the Governor-in-Council, and any one or more of such persons or passengers is or are drowned in consequence thereof, every person who is in charge of such junk, boat or other vessel shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished therefor, without prejudice to any civil remedy and in addition to any penalty provided for ander the aforesaid regulations.
(10.) The master of every junk shall immediately ou arrival in the waters of the Colony, report such arrival at the Harbour Master's Office or at the nearest Harbour Master's Station, or, if the said Office or Station is closed, as soon as possible after it shall again be opened for business, and shall doposit the licence and furnish the
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