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THE HONGKONG

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No. 35.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 29TH AUGUST, 1896.

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VOL. XLII.

簿二十四第

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 336.

The following Rules and Regulations are published.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th August, 1896.

RULES AND REGULATIONS

Made by the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company; Limited, as Assignees of Francis Bulkeley Bulkeley-Johnson (formerly Francis Bulkeley Johnson) pursuant to Section 9 of Ordinance 18 of 1884 and as Assignees of Catchick Paul Chater, pursuant to Section 13 of Ordinance 19 of 1884.

The Rules and Regulations published in Government Notification No. 369 in the Government Gazette of the 26th September, 1885, page 819, are hereby repealed, and the following Rules and Regulations are substituted therefor, that is to say:-

1. Vessels will be allotted berths at piers of the Company in the order in which application therefor shall be made to the Company.

2. The Company undertake no responsibility nor shall they be liable for any damage that may be sustained by a vessel while coming alongside or while lying at or while leaving any of the Com- pany's piers. The Company, however, will provide every reasonable assistance in their power to the master, such as by having men and a boat in attendance to run out, attach, or let go lines, to place and remove gangways

and to do such other acts of a similar nature as may suggest themselves.

3. The owners of any vessel which shall injure any of the Company's piers whether by collision or from any other cause of whatsoever nature shall be responsible to the Company for the cost and expenses of re-instating such injury, and shall on demand made to the Master or other officer commanding such vessel pay such cost and expenses.

4. Masters or Commanding Officers shall rig in the jib and spanker booms of their vessels, while alongside any of the Company's piers on being required to do so by the Wharfinger or other official acting for the Company.

5. No sails may be left loose at night on board any vessel while she is alongside any of the Company's piers, and if any should be loose during daylight the Master or Commanding Officer shall ~stow them on being required to do so by the Wharfinger or other official acting for the Company.

6. Every Master and Commanding Officer of any vessel alongside any of the Company's piers shall immediately shift his berth on being requested to do so by the Wharfinger or other Official acting for the Company.