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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 1, 1911.
Junks and other craft
to orders of
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licences in such cases as it shall appear to him that the vessel referred to is to be employed in the same or similar wanner as a "Junk and sucli vessel being so licensed shall, so long as the said licence is in force, be considered for all purposes of this Ordinance to be a junk.
For any such licence the same fee shall be paid as for a junk.
(17.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to order all junks, lighters, boats, and other vessels of any descrip- to be subject in whatever to anchor or secure in such place as he may direct or to prohibit their anchoring, or securing in any particular place, or to order them to remove to any other place.
Harbour Master.
Discipline of harbour.
Penalty for disobeying Harbour
Muster's orders.
Penalty for bringing mendicants,
&c., into the Colony.
Power to
board any junk and demand
documents.
(18.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to give such orders to all or any junks, or other vessels, for the proper discipline of the harbour and for the prevention of disorder or confusion, or otherwise as he may, in his discretion, think fit.
(18) Every master of any junk or other vessel licensed under this section who shall, when within the waters of the Colony, disobey any lawful orders which the Harbour Master may see fit to give, shall be liable to a penalty not czceeding one hundred dollars.
(29.) Every master of a junk, who brings into the Colony any person who, in the opinion of the Magistrate before whom the charge is tried, has come to the Colony for the purpose of mendicancy, or any person suffering from leprosy or any infections or contagious disease, or who removes such person from one part of the Colony to another, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten dollars for each offence, unless in the case of any person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease, such master can show to the satisfaction of the Magistrate that he had no reasonable ments of knowing that such person was so suffering.
(21.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master or any person deputed thereto by him, or for any officer or constable of the Police Force, or any Revenue Officer, at any time to inspection of stop and board any junk within the waters of the Colony and demand the production of any licence or special permit, and in case by reason of the non-production of any of such documents, or for any other reason, there shall be ground to believe or suspect that any provision of the law has been violated by the master of such junk, or in case the document produced shall appear from the date thereof, or from any other cause, to have been unlawfully obtained, or to be unlawfully used, to arrest such junk and her cargo and the master of such juuk, and deliver them into the custody of the Police.
In case of
(99) Every junk, the master of which shall be charged non-payment with having violated the provisions of this section, may be of penalty
forthwith arrested and detained, unless bail to the satis- by master, the same may faction of a Magistrate is given, until the said master shall be levied by either have been acquitted of the offence charged or, if sale of junk. found guilty, shall have paid the penalty inflicted upon him, and in case ho shall fail to pay, within ten days, any penalty which may be inflicted upon him, the same may be recovered by the sale of such junk, and the balance, if any, of the net proceeds thereof, after deducting therefrom the expenses of such sale and the amount of such penalty as aforesaid, shall be paid to the owner or owners of the junk, if claimed within twelve months from the date of the sale, and if not claimed within that period, shall be for- feited to the Crown: Provided that in case it shall be brought to the knowledge of the Magistrate that there is in the Colony any consignee or agent of such junk no sale thereof shall be made in pursuance of this sub-section until three days' previous notice thereof shall have been given in writing to such consiguee or agent.
Transfer to purchaser
(23.) Every junk forfeited or sold under the provisions of this section shall be transferred to the purchaser there- upon sale of of, at his expense, by a bill of sale from the Harbour Muster, and such bill of sale shall confer upon such purchaser, his executors, administrators and assigns an absolute title to such junk.
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