THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST AUGUST, 1891.
(2.) If any owner or person served with such notice, as aforesaid, neglects for a period of twenty-four hours to ex- tinguish or effectually screen, the light or fire therein men- tioned, it shall be lawful for the Harbour Master, by his servants or workmen, to enter into the place wherein the same may be, and forthwith to extinguish such fire or light doing no unnecessary damage; and all expenses in- curred by the Harbour Master in such extinction, may be recovered from such person or owner as aforesaid in the same way as penalties are hereby declared to be recover-
able.
CHAPTER III.
IMPORTATION AND STORAGE OF EXPLOSIVES.
37. (1.) The Governor is hereby empowered to pro- vide, at the expense of the Colony, all necessary vessels and buildings for the storage of gunpowder, or other explosives and no gunpowder or other explosives arriving in this Colony shall be stored in any other building or vessel except as provided by sub-section 10 and subject to the observance of the rules and regulations to be made under sub-section 12 of this section,
(2.) Such vessels or buildings shall, for the purposes of this chapter, be termed a Government Depôt or Govern- ment Depôts for the storage of gunpowder, and shall be under the control and management of the Harbour Master, subject to such orders as may, from time to time, be re- ceived from the Governor; and such vessels or buildings shall be fitted and manned in such manner as the Harbour Master, with the approval of the Governor, shall deem expedient.
(3.) The master of every vessel arriving in this Colony having on board thereof any quantity of gunpowder or other explosive exceeding two hundred Ibs, shall, immediately upon the arrival thereof, and before the discharge from the ship of any of such gunpowder, or other explosives furnish the Harbour Master with a copy of the manifest of the same the marks of all the packages and the names of the consignees if he shall know the same.
(4.) The master of every such vessel as in the last pre- ceding section mentioned shall, as soon as possible, take the same to the place which shall be pointed out to him by the Harbour Master, or his deputy, and the said vessel shall not be removed therefrom without the permission in writing of the Harbour Master.
(5.) When any quantity of gunpowder or other explosives exceeding two hundred lbs. is about to be conveyed out of the Colony, the master of the vessel about to convey the same shall, on producing the written authority of the owners thereof or their agents, receive from the Harbour Master a permit to take on board the packages mentioned in such authority, and the master of such vessel shall thereupon move the same into such auchorage as the Harbour Master may deem expedient, and from such anchorage the master of such vessel shall not remove the same except for the purpose.. of proceeding on his voyage or for some other sufficient cause to be approved by the Harbour Master.
(6.) The master of every vessel having on board more than two hundred tbs. of gunpowder, or other explosives or whilst engaged in the transhipment of the same shall exhibit a red flag at the highest masthead.
(7.) It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel to tranship any gunpowder or other explosives between the hours of 6 P.M. and 6 A.M., from October to March inclusive, nor between the hours of 7 P.M. and 5 A.M., from April to September inclusive, without the written permission of the Harbour Master.
(8.) It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel, without the written permission of the Harbour Master, to anchor such vessel within five hundred yards of any Gov- ernment Depôt for the storage of gunpowder.
(9.) It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel having on board gunpowder or other explosives exceeding in quantity two hundred lbs., to anchor nearer than five hundred yards of any other vessel.
If not obeyed, he may abata such lights.
Vessels and buildings
to be provided for storage of gunpowder.
To be termed Government depot for the storage of gunpowder. (Ibril, sec.-)
Master of vessel having upwards of two hundred lbs. of powder ou board to furnish Harbour Master with particulars Immediately. kind, deep-s, 3,
Master of such vessel to take same to speci- fied place and there remain until he have permission to leave. (Ibid, sec,-)
Mode of pro- ceeding when gunpowder in to be exported. (Ibid,)
Mastera baving morn than two hundred the of gunpowder on board to exhibit a flag, Also when transhipping the same. (Ibid, sec 9.)
No gunpowder to be tran- shipped at night. (Ibid, sec. 10.)
No vossel to anchor within five hundred yards of
i Government Depôt for storage of gunpowder. (Ibid, sec. 11.)
No master of a vessel having more than two hundred 5, of gunpowder on board to anchor within five hundred yards of any other vessel. (Ibid, sec. 12.)
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