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6. Every person to whom a licence is granted under Power to section 4 shall, whenever thereto required by any inspect Superintendent or Inspector of Police, or by any con- goods, books, stable bearing a written order in that behalf under the hand of a Superintendent, produce for the inspection of the party so requiring him all or any marine stores

in his possession or subject to his control and all books and papers relating to the same.

etc.

7. No dealer in marine stores and no marine stores Prohibition hawker shall deal in or buy or sell any provisions of any of trafficking kind, in the course of his business.

in provisions by dealer or hawker.

8. No marine stores hawker shall buy any marine Restriction stores except marine stores of the same kind or kinds on buying of as the dealer who applied for such hawker's licence marine stores

by hawker. deals in.

9. No marine stores hawker shall sell any marine Prohibition stores of any kind.

of sale of marine stores by hawker. Penalty on

of marine

10.—(1.) Any person conveying or having in his pos- session or keeping any manner of marine stores who does person found in possession not give an account to the satisfaction of the magistrate as to how he came by the same shall upon summary stores, and conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding 250 dollars not account- or to imprisonment for any term not excceding 3 months, ing for them.

(2.) For the purpose of this section, marine stores shall he deemed to be in the possession or keeping of any person if he knowingly has them in the actual possession of himself or of any other person on any wharf or in any launch or in any junk, lighter, cargo-boat, or sumpan, or open boat of any description, or in any street. house, building, lodging, apartment, field, or place, open or enclosed, whether occupied by himself or not and whether the said stores are so possessed or kept either for his own use or benefit or for the use or benefit of another person.

11. It shall not be lawful for any person, without per- Unauthorised mission in writing from the Harbour Master. to sweep or person not dredge, in the waters of the Colony between the western to sweep

or dredge boundary of the Harbour and the Lyeemun Pass, within within 100 yards from any wharf or dock, or any shipping or certain victualling, or engineering or repairing yard.

limits.

12. Every person who acts in contravention of the pro- Penalties. visions contained in sections 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. or 11, or of any Regulation made under section 4, shall, on summary conviction. be liable to a fine not exceeding 250 dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 3 months.

13.1.) The marks described in the Schedule to Appropria this Ordinance may be applied in or on stores therein tion of marks described to denote His Majesty's property in stores so Majesty's

marked.

for His

stores.

(2.) Every person who without lawful authority Penalty for applies any of the said marks in or on any such stores unlawful as are described in the said Schedule shall be guilty of application a misdemeanour, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 2 years.

of same.

marks on

14. Every person who, with intent to conceal His Penalty for Majesty's property in any stores, takes out, destroys, or obliterating obliterates wholly or in part, any such mark as aforesaid His Majesty's shall be guilty of a felony, and shall be liable to impri- Stores. soument for any term not exceeding 4 years.

offenders.

15. Any person to whom any marine stores are offered Powers to to be sold, pawned, or delivered, if he has reasonable apprehend cause to suspect that any offence under this Ordinance suspected has been committed on or with respect to such property, is hereby authorised, and, if in his power, is required to apprehend and forthwith to take before a magistrate the person offering the same, together with such property, to be dealt with according to law.