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THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 9TH DEC., 1891:

Penalty for impreper

weight on safety valve. (Ibid. sub-s. 3.)

Governor to appoint

surveyors, and fix their remuneration. (Ibid. sub-s.4.)

Surveyors to have power to inspect. (Ibid. sub-8.5.)

Governor to regulate mode of survey. (Ibid, sub-s.6.)

Penalty on surveyors receiving fees, (Ibid. sub-». 7.)

Owner to have survey made by surveyor, and surveyor to give declarations. (Ibid, sub-s.8)

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(3.) If any person places an undue weight on the safety valve of any steam-ship coming within the meaning of sub-section (1) of this section, or increases such weight beyond the limits fixed for any British steam-ship by the Government surveyor as hereinafter mentioned, he shall, in addition to any other liabilities, be liable, by so doing, to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.

(4.) The Governor may, from time to time, appoint such number of fit and proper persons to be Government surveyors for the purposes of this Ordinance as he thinks proper, and appoint their duties, and may, from time to time, remove such surveyors, or any of them, and may, from time to time, fix and alter the remuneration to be received by such sur- veyors.

(5.) It shall be lawful for the said surveyors in the execu- tion of their duties to go on board any steam-ship to which this section applies, at all reasonable times, and to inspect the same, or any part thereof, or any of the machinery, boats, equipments, or articles on board thereof, or any certificates of the master, mate, or engineer, to which the provisions of "The Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1890," or any Ordinance, or any of the regulations made, or to be made under the said Merchant Shipping Acts, or such Ordinance for the time being in force in this Colony apply, not unnecessarily detaining or delaying the ship from proceeding on any voyage, and, if in consequence of any accident to any such ship or for any other reason they consider it necessary so to do, to require the ship to be taken into dock for the purpose of surveying the hull thereof; and any person who binders any such surveyor from going on board any such steam-ship, or otherwise impedes him in the execution of his duty under this Ordinance, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.

(6.) The said surveyors shall execute their duties under the direction of the Governor, and the Governor may make regulations as to the manner in which the surveys herein- after mentioned shall be made, and as to the notice to be given to the surveyors when surveys are required, and as to the amount and payment of the fees due (Table C) and of any expenses incurred by such surveyors in the execution of their duties, and may thereby determine the person by and to whom and the conditions under which such payment shall be made, and until such regulations are made by the Governor the said surveyors shall execute their duties in accordance with the "Instructions to Surveyors" issued from time to time by the Board of Trade.

Provided that, unless and until such scale of fees are made rescinded or varied the scale of fees in Table C of the schedule to this Ordinance shall apply.

(7.) Every surveyor who demands or receives directly or indirectly from the owner, agent, or master of any ship surveyed by him under the provisions of this Ordinance, or from any other person, and any such owner agent master or other person who offers or gives any fee or remuneration whatsoever for or in respect of such survey, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

(8.) The owner, agent, or master of every steam-ship being within the waters of the Colony, shall, where such steam-ship comes within the meaning of this section, cause the same to be surveyed by one or more of the Government surveyors; and such surveyor or surveyors shall thereupon, if satisfied that he or they can with propriety do so, give to such owner declarations as fol- lows:-

(a.) A declaration of a Government surveyor shall contain statements of the following particulars,

that is to say :-

(1.) That the hull of the ship is sufficient for the service intended and in good condition; (2.) That the boats, rafts, life buoys, or other appliances for saving life, lights, signals, compasses, and shelter for deck passengers, and the certificates of the master and mate or mates are such and in such condition as required by law;

(3.) The time (if less than twelve months) for which the said hull and equipments will be sufficient ;

(4.) The limits (if any) beyond which, as regards the hull and equipments, the ship s, in the surveyor's judgment, not fit to ply";