1158 THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 9TH DEC., 1891.
TABLE (K).
Rules for the government of Licensed Boarding'
Houses for Seamen, (s. 17.)
1. Over the principal door of each house shall be affixed a board containing in letters, at least 3 inches in length, painted white in a black ground "Licensed Boarding House" for (number of Seamen, Manila men or Lascars) kept by (name of master), and at the foot thereof shall be inserted the name, in full, of the keeper of the house, and no other writing, sign, painting or mark shall be posted on the premises.
2. The house shall be substantially built and kept in good repair, well ventilated and have a proper system of drainage, the drains not to be in direct communication with the public sewers, but effectively disconnected and trapped.
3. There shall be adequate kitchen accommodation with proper means for the removal of smoke.
4. The space allotted to each boarder shall be in the bed rooms not less than 400 cubic feet of space, and a notice shall be put up in each sleeping room showing the number of persons the room is capable of accommodating, there shall also be provided a general room of sufficient size in which the boarders may sit and mess.
5. A separate room is to be appropriated for the chests, hammocks, &c., of the boarders.
6. Proper washing rooms, and adequate privy, urinal, and ash-bin accommodation, are to be provided, the floors of the house and out- houses are to be swept clean frequently during the day and thoroughly washed every Saturday; all inside walls and partitions are to be colour-washed once in every six months, viz., on or about the 1st of January and the 1st of July.
7. All filth and refuse matter shall be regularly removed daily.
8. There shall be no communication between a Boarding House and the adjoining houses.
9. No Master shall receive into his Boarding House any seaman who does not first produce his discharge from his last ship, duly countersigned or stamped by the Harbour Master or some person deputed by him, or who does not produce the Harbour Master's written sanction for his admission into a Boarding House, and no more boarders are to be lodged in the house than the number allowed by the licence.
10. Every Boarding Master shall keep a book in which he shall enter the names of all boarders in his house on the day of their reception therein, and he shall also enter in the same book an account of all monies received from boarders and all charges incur- red by them, and if a boarder shall so require be shall be furnished, every Saturday night, with a Memorandum of the amount in which he is indebted to the Boarding Master or of the amount belonging to him still in the hands of the said Master.
11. Before a boarder is discharged, he shall, if he so requires, receive from the Master of the Boarding House a full and true statement of his account for board, lodging and other expenses, and the boarder, if satisfied as to the correctness of the said statement, shall sign his name thereon in proof thereof. The Boarding Master shall take this book to the Harbour Master or his deputy for inspec tion every Monday at noon.
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12. No intoxicating liquor shall be supplied or procured by the Master or his servants to or for any person on the premises; boarders requiring such liquor must purchase it themselves from a public house.
13. The Master shall not allow any prostitute on the premises. 14. Boarding Houses shall be closed every night at 11 o'clock. 15. No gambling shall be allowed in any Boarding House, and every Master shall do his utmost to prevent noisy conduct on the part of the boarders or others frequenting the house; in the event of his not being able to preserve order, he shall give intimation thereof to the nearest Constable or at a Police Station.
16. In the event of any boarder being sick, the Master is im- mediately to procure the assistance of a duly qualified medical practitioner and report the case immediately to the Colonial Surgeon, and the names of sickmen are to be inserted in the column of remarks in the weekly list.
17. The Master of a Boarding House shall, every Monday morning, send to the Government Shipping Office a list copied from his book of all the seamen boarling in his house on that day and of those boarders who have left during the previous week, showing how these have been disposed of.
18. No Boarding Master shall discharge a boarder from his house without the sanction of the Harbour Master, unless such boarder is provided with suitable employment.
19. Every Boarding House shall be open at all times for the inspection of any Justice of the Peace or the Harbour Master or his deputy or of any Inspector of Police, or by any Member of the Sanitary Board as well as to the visits of the Colonial Surgeon.
20. A copy of these rules shall be kept posted in a conspicuous place in the general sitting room.
21. Any infraction of any of these rules shall render the offender liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars and for a second offence to deprivation of his Licence in addition,
22. Boarders are hereby informed that the only fees for which they are liable on leaving a Boarding House are One dollar (Govern- ment fee), on Shipping which will be charged against each seaman on board the vessel which he joins, and one dollar Boarding House fee which is to include the commission for cashing an advance note.
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