810 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH SEPTEMBER, 1891.
License.
2. On the first of July each year, every Pilot shall pay the sum of Five Haikwan Taels for the renewal of his
3.---Every Licensed Pilot shall be given a printed copy of the General Regulations and Local Rules, and shall produce the same, as well as his License, when required.
GENERAL REGULATION VI.
Apprentice Pilots, how to be taken.
1.-It shall be allowable for each Licensed Pilot to take an Apprentice, for whom he shall be responsible. On the Application of Pilots, the Harbour Master will supply Apprentices with special Certificates.
2.--When the circumstances of the Pilot appear to demand it, the Harbour Master may authorise Apprentices to act temporarily, and within certain limits, as Pilots, provided they have received Certificates of competency from the Board of Appointment.
GENERAL REGULATION VII.
Licensed Pilots, to whom subordinated; unlicensed Pilotage, etc.
1.--Licensed Pilots may carry on their business either singly or in companies. They must pay due respect to the wishes and instructions of the Harbour Master, under whose orders and control they are placed, and who is invested with power to suspend or dismiss, subject to an appeal to the Consul concerned. When the Pilot is a Foreigner the appeal to be lodged within three days.
2.-If guilty of any misconduct for which Consular punishment has been inflicted, or if proved to have committed any offence against Revenue Laws, the individual concerned may be suspended or dismissed by the Harbour Master, subject to an appeal to his Consul. If a Foreigner, the appeal to be lodged within three days.
3.-Anyone piloting without a License, or making use of another's License, shall be subject to prosecution before his own authorities, who will deal with the offender in accordance with the laws of his own country. Any Pilot lending his License to another will be proceeded against and dealt with in the same way, in addition to forfeiting his License.
4.-Any commanding officer employing an unlicensed person to pilot his vessel will be liable to be fined in the sum of One Hundred Taels by the authorities to whose jurisdiction he is amenable.
GENERAL REGULATION VIII.
Pilot Boats: Regulations to be observed.
1.-Pilot Boats shall be registered, with their crews, at the Harbour Master's Office, where each Boat will be given a Certificate and number. The word "Licensed Pilot Boat" shall, with the number, be legibly painted at the stern and on the head of the mainsail, and a flag, of which the upper horizontal half shall be yellow and the lower green, shall be flown. Such Registered Pilot Boats shall deposit their national papers with their Consul or the Customs; they shall be at liberty to move freely within the limits of the Port and Pilotage Ground, and shall be exempt from Tonnage Dues. On the requisition of the Harbour Master on his deputies, it will be obligatory on Registered Pilot Boats to convey from place to place within the limits employés belonging to either Customs or Harbour Master's Department, with such stores as may be wanted for either Lighthouses or Lightships.
2.-Every Licensed Pilot Boat shall pay a fee of Twenty Taels for renewal of License on the first of July each year. 3.--In case of a Pilot going off in an unregistered Boat he will be authorised to carry the Pilot Boat Flag during the time he is on board, but no Pilot is authorised to eruise in an unregistered Boat without special permission from the Harbour Master.
4. The owner or hirer of an unregistered Boat making use of a Pilot Flag and not having a Licensed Pilot on board shall be prosecuted before the authorities to whom he is amenable or whose flag or national ensign he has the right to use.
5.-A Registered Pilot Boat is not permitted to fly the Pilot Flag save when there is either a Licensed Pilot or a certificated Apprentice on board.
GENERAL REGULATION IX.
Harbour Pilots; Vessels in Harbour; Berthing, etc.
1.-The duties of the Harbour Pilots, where such exist, will be to take charge of vessels at the Outer Limits of the Anchorage, berth them in accordance with the orders received from the Harbour Master's Department, take charge of vessels shifting berths, going in or out of dock or to or from a wharf or out of the Anchorage, and to assist in and report to the Harbour Master's office all matters concerning the shipping in port and the conservancy of the river or harbour.
2.--In berthing vessels the Harbour Master will as far as possible meet the wishes of commanding officers and con- signees, and the entrance, working, or clearance of vessels taking berths not assigned to them shall be stopped by the Customs until the Harbour Master's orders are complied with.
3.--Vessels are to moor in accordance with orders received from the Harbour Master, and are not to remove from the Anchorage without his permission.
The above Rules and Regulations are provisional, and may be amended or added to according to circumstances.
LOCAL RULES.
1.-The Board of Appointment for the Port of Canton shall be composed as follows, viz.:-
The Harbour Master, as president, a naval officer, or the captain of a merchant ship, the master of one of the steamers running regularly between Hongkong and this Port, and the Senior Pilot.
2.- The fee for a Pilot's License at this Port shall be Ten Taels.
3.-Every Pilot when receiving his License shall execute a bond for One Hundred Taels, conditioned for the due observance of the Regulations and Local Rulese
4.-No Apprentice Pilot shall be entitled to an examination as to his qualifications to act as Pilot until he has served an apprenticeship of at least three months.
5.-Any Pilot wishing leave of absence shall make application in writing to the Harbour Master.
for a period of more than three days, without sufficient cause, shall render the Pilot liable to suspension.
Absence from duty
6.-No Pilot shall quit the vessel of which he is in charge without the master's written consont before the service for which he was employed has been performed.
7.-Every Pilot will be provided by the Harbour Master with a book, in which the master of any vessel piloted shall state whether the Pilot concerned has conducted such vessel in safety, and otherwise performed his duty in a satisfactory
manner.
8.-Upon arrival of any Pilot in charge of a vessel, he should report to the Harbour Master as soon as possible after the vessel has anchored, stating when and where he took charge of her, and giving full particulars of the passage up the
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