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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH AUGUST, 1887. 985

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 346.

The following Regulations, in lieu of those which came into force on the 24th August, 1880 are published under the provisions of Section 42 of Ordinance 8 of 1879.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 27th August, 1887. .

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Regulations for the licensing, management, and control of Boats and Boatmen, made by the Governor in Council, this 26th day of August, 1887, under the provisions of Section 39 of Ordinance 8 of 1879,

These Regulations apply in respect of all boats or vessels and their crews plying for hire within the waters of this Colony, except:

(a.) Boats or vessels having British, Colonial, or Foreign registers (not being Chinese registers). (b.) Market Boats, or vessels or junks within the meaning of Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Ordinance

8 of 1879.

Carge boats and Cargo boatmen.

1. Every cargo boat must be duly licensed as required by these Regulations.

2. Cargo boat licences shall be issued by the Registrar General on production of a Certificate from the Harbour Master or his Deputy, stating the particulars required by Form A. hereto annexed.

A fee of one dollar shall be payable to the Harbour Master for this Certificate. The applicant must See Regula furnish such security for his appearance when required as the Registrar General may demand. Each 4th March, licence shall be numbered, and shall not be transferable.

3. Each licence shall state the length, breadth, depth, and deadweight capacity of the boat, together with the scale of fares, and shall be valid for one year only, from the 1st April.

4. Every boat for which a licence has been granted shall carry on each bow and on her stern, legibly painted upon wood, the number of her licence in figures 24 inches in height, and no other number. Such number shall not be concealed, and such boat shall, between sunset and sunrise, exhibit a light, visible all round, two feet above the gunwale.

5. No boat shall have a false bottom.

6. Every person in charge of a licensed cargo boat must show his licence when required to do so by any officer of the Police, Registrar General's, or Harbour Department, or by the employer of such boat, each of whom is hereby empowered to board and examine such boat.

See Ordinan of 1862. § 2

See Ordinan of 1862. §

7. No

shall person engage or let out for hire an unlicensed boat or unlicensed cargo boatinan carrying cargo.

8. The following licence fees shall be charged:-

1st Class Boat..........800 piculs capacity and upwards,

2nd

Do., 3rd Do.. 4th Do.,

under 800 and not less than 450 piculs capacity, under 450 and not less than 100 piculs capacity, under 100 piculs capacity,

.$20.00

$10.00

.$ 5.00

.$ 3.00

§ XVII.

9. No licensee shall refuse to let his boat, cxcept for some reasonable cause. Each hirer shall see No. 8 of enter his name, with the date and duration (as far as is known) of the job for which the boat is hired, in a book to be supplied by the Registrar General, free of cost, to the Licensee. Such book shall be stamped with the Registrar General's seal or stamp. The Licensee shall allow such book to be inspected by any Officer of Police or intending hirer, when so required.

10. The following table indicates the maximum scale of hire for cargo boats :-

Per day or night of 12 hours.

First Class Boat,........... Second, Third Fourth,,

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.$10.00

5.00

3.00

1.50

Per loud,

$5.00

3.00

2.00

1.00

11. Every boatman, or person employed on board any cargo boat, must be duly licensed as a cargo boatman, as required by these Regulations.

12 Licences for cargo boatmen shall be issued by the Registrar General in his discretion, on payment of a fee of 25 cents for each. The applicant shall furnish such particulars as the Registrar General may require, and two copies of his photograph, one to be affixed to the licence.

1 Licences for cargo boatmen shall be numbered, shall be valid for one year only, and shall not be tramble. The licensee shall forthwith notify the Registrar General every time he changes his abode.