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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH SEPTEMBER, 1891. 809
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 386.
The following is published.
By Command,
W. M. GOODMAN,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th September, 1891.
CHINESE PILOTAGE SERVICE.
GENERAL REGULATIONS WITH LOCAL RULES
FOR THE PORT OF CANTON.
GENERAL REGULATION I.
Bye Laws and Local Rules.
1.-Bye Laws and Rules necessary for the better ordering of Pilotage matters at the Ports are to be drawn up by the Harbour Masters în consultation with the Consuls and Chambers of Commerce, with whom also it rests in the same way, to fix the number of Pilots, Tariff of Charges, and define the limits of the Pilotage Ground.
2.-The number of Pilots for the Port of Canton shall not exceed Fifteen.
3.-The Pilotage Ground for the Port of Canton shall be defined as follows, viz. :—
For the Inner Limit, a line drawn across the river immediately below Belcher Island; and for the Outer Limit a line drawn from Macao Light East to the island of Lantau for vessels using the Lantau Passage or Great West Channel, and for vessels using the Cap Sing Moon Passage a line East and West through Green Island or North from Victoria Peak to the mainland,
4.-The Pilotage Charges shall be as follows, viz. :—
For Sailing Vessels: Whampoa to or from Hongkong,
"
79
Macao,
..5 cents per ton.
.5
19
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プラ
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Sea, Canton,
.5
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.3
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For Steamers:
Whampoa to or from Hongkong, Macao or sea :---
Drawing
6 to 10 feet, over 10 to 18 29
$12.50
$25.00
18 to 20
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"
*
20 to 22
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22 to 23
""
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35
""
11
23 feet,
Whampoa to or from Canton :—
...$30.00
$40.00
$50.00
.$60.00
Drawing under 12 feet,
$10.00
95
12 feet and over,.
GENERAL REGULATION II. Pilots-Individuals Eligible.
.$15.00
The subjects, citizens or protégés of Treaty Powers, shall, equally with Natives of China, and without distinction of nationality, be eligible for appointment when vacancies occur, by the Board of Appointment, subject to the General Regulations now issued, and the Bye Laws to be under them enforced at the several Ports respectively,
GENERAL REGULATION III.
Board of Appointment, how to be constructed.
The board of Appointment shall consist of the Harbour Master, as President, the (or a) Senior Pilot, and two persons whose names shall be drawn by lot by the Harbour Master from a list prepared and published by the Harbour Master in consultation with the Consuls and Chambers of Commerce.
GENERAL REGULATION IV.
Vacancies, how to be filled up.
1. -Whenever there may be a vacancy among the Pilots, it shall be duly notified in the local prints; and eight days afterwards, the Board of Appointment shall proceed to fill it up by a competitive Examination.
2.-The Board may refuse to admit to the Examination any one who, having once been a Licensed Pilot, has had his License withdrawn, and also any candidate who is unable to produce Consular Certificates as to character, &c.
3. The examination shall be public and gratuitous, and the vacancies shall be given to the most competent of the candidates, without distinction of nationality, provided always the competency of the first on the list be not relative but absolute.
4. The Consul concerned may, in person or by deputy, be present and take part in the examination of candidates. 5. The majority of the votes of the members of the Board shall decide the admission of candidates for Pilot Licenses, each member having one vote in the ballot; but in the absence of the Consul concerned the Harbour Master shall have a casting vote.
GENERAL REGULATION V.
Pilot's License, by whom to be issued.
1.-Pilots' Licenses shall be issued by the Commissioner of Customs, in the name and on behalf of the Chinese Government. Licenses issued to Pilots not being Natives of China shall subsequently be viséd and registered at the Consulate concerned.
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