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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST AUGUST, 1891.

any boat which shall be moored or at anchor at a distance of less than one hundred yards from low water mark of such part of the Colony as may be declared by regulation, between the hours of nine o'clock at night and gunfire in the morning, and no owner of any boat plying for hire shall be permitted to receive or land pas sengers after 8 P.M., except at such wharf or wharves as may be from time to time specified by the Governor in Council: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to any boat moored or at anchor along- side of any private wharf with the consent of the owner thereof.

Obstruction of

harbour by rubbish, &c.

Burdin:

ship without periuission.

Maklug fust

to ship under www.

Fire-arine not

to be used except lu certain cusES.

(Ord i of 18262, Sec. 14.)

Harbour

Master mar remove obstructions,

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(Sen Ord. 14 of 1846, sec, 7.)

Harbour Master may permit

Roorings to be laid dowit.

Superintend- ents and Inspectors may board vessels.

Ord. 8 of 1873, sec: 31.)

It is further provided that unless and until such regulations are made rescinded or varied the regulations in Table N of the schedule to this Ordinance shall apply.

(d.) Every person who shall cast or throw any dead body, ballast, rubbish, or other substance, either from shore or from any vessel, into the waters of the Colony, or shall neglect within a reason- able time to remove any sunken vessel or other obstruction in the said harbour belonging to him or in his charge or keeping.

(e.) Every person who not being in Her Majesty's service and not being duly authorised by law for the purpose, goes on board any ship within the waters of the Colony, without the permission of the master or officer in charge; and the master or person in charge of such ship may take any such person so going on board as afore- said into custody and deliver him up forthwith to any constable to be dealt with according to law.

() Every person not being in Her Majesty's service who shall make fast to or cause to be made fast to a ship under way within the waters of this Colony, any boat, junk or other vessel, without the sanction of the master or officer in charge of such ship.

(2.) Except as is hereinbefore directed by sub-sections 2 and 3 of section 27 or under the sanction of the Har- hour Master no cannon, gun, fire-arm, or firework of any description shall be discharged within such portions of the waters of the Colony as the Governor may, from time to time, by regulations prescribe, from any merchant vessel or boat, under a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars.

Provided that unless and until such regulations are made rescinded owvaried the regulations in Table O of the schedule to this Ordinance shall apply.

Removal of Obstructions.

29. The Harbour Master may, by written notice, require any person to remove within a reasonable time, to be speci- fied in such notice, any obstruction in the waters of the Colony, caused by such person or belonging to him or in his charge or keeping; and if such person fail to remove; the obstruction within the specified time, the Harbour- Master shall cause the obstruction to be removed, and may recover the expenses of removal from the person named in the notiec.

Moorings.

30. No person shall place moorings in the waters of the Colony except with the sanction of the Harbour Master, and such moorings shall be of such nature as the Harbour Master shall approve; and the Harbour Master may, upon giving such sanction, attach such conditions to the use and employment of such moorings as he shall think fit. No Hulks or Vessels of like description shall be moored or anchored in the waters of the Colony unless with the sane- tion of the Harbour Master and on the payment of such fee annual or otherwise us the Governor may direct.

Powers of Police.

31. (1.) The Captain Superintendent or other Superin- tendent, or any Inspector of the Police force shall have power, by virtue of his office, to enter at all times, with such constables as he shall think necessary, as well by night as by day, into and npou every ship, boat, or other vessel (not being a ship of war or vessel having the status of a ship of war) lying in the waters of the Colony, and into every part of such vessel, for the purpose of inspection and upon

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