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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DEC. 28, 1906.

as a

«Junk

and such 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 licensed junk. For any such licences the Same fee shall be paid as for a junk.

(17.) Any jonk or vessel employed for fishing purposes Unlicenscâ and being within the waters of the Colony shall, unless fishing licensed as aforesaid, be subject to the provisions in this vessels. section contained as to unlicensed junks.

(18.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to order Junks and all junks, lighters, boats, and other vessels of any descrip- other craft tion whatever to anchor or secure in such place as he may to be subject direct, or to prohibit their auchoring or seenring in any Harbour particular place, or to order them to remove to any other Master. place.

to orders of

(19.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master to give Discipline of such orders to all or any junks, or other vessels, for the harbour. proper discipline of the harbour and for the prevention of disorder or confusion, or otherwise as he may, in his dis- cretion, think fit.

(20.) Every master of any junk or other vessel, whether licensed or not, who shall, when within the waters of the disobeying

Penalty for Colony, disobey any lawful orders which the Harbour Harbour Master may see fit to give, shall be liable to a penalty not Master's exceeding one hundred dollars,

orders,

(21) Every master of a junk, who brings into the Colony Penalty for any person who, in the opinion of the Magistrate before bringing whom the charge is tried, has come to the Colony for the mendicants purposes of mendicaucy, or any person suffering from &c. into the leprosy or any infections or contagious disease, or who

Colony. removes any 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 infections or contagious disease, such master can show to the satisfaction of the Magistrate that he had no reasonable means of knowing that such persou was so suffering,

(22.) It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master or any Power to person deputed thereto by him, or for any Officer or con- board any stable of the Police force, at any time to stop and board junk and any junk within the waters of the Colony and demand the demand in- production of any licence, certificate, receipt or special documents. spection of 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 junk, and deliver them into the custody of the Police.

same may

(23.) Every junk, the master of which shall be charged In case of with having violated the provisions of this section, may be non-payment forthwith arrested and detained unless bail to the satis- of penalty by faction of a Magistrate is given, until the said master master, the shall either have been acquitted of the offence charged, or, be levied by if found guilty, shall have paid the penalty inflicted upon sale of junk. him, and in case he 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 forfeited 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 consignee or agent.

(24.) Every junk forfeited or sold under the provisions Transfer to of this section shall be transferred to the purchaser thereof, purchaser at bis expense, by a bill of sale from the Harbour Master, upon sale of and such bill of sale shall confer upon such purchaser, his junk. exccutors, administrators and assigns au absolute title to such junk.

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