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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, Lärn JANUARY, 1880.

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[1244, seo. 3972]

Penalty en ESTETORS resime foca [Abid, sen. 304]

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surveyor, and survegur To give diéuerations [ibid, sec. 309.]

taken into dock for the purpose of surveying the bull thereof; and any person who hinders any such surveyor from going on board any such steam-ship, or otherwise impoles bim in the execution of his duty under this Ordinance, shall incur 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 re- gulations as to the manner in which the surveys hereinafter mentioned shall be madé, und as to the notice to be given to the surveyors when surveys are required, and as to the amount and payment of the fees dac and of any expensca incurred by such surveyors in the exceution of their duties, and may thereby deterinine the person by and to whom and the conditions under which such payment shall be made.

7. Every surveyor who demmids or receives directly or indirectly from the owner, ageut, or master of any ship surveyed by him under the provisions of this Ordinance, or from any other person any fee or remuneration whatsoever for or in respect of such survey, chall incur a penalty not execeding 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 bull 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, com- passes, and shelter for deck passengers, and the certificates of the master and mute er mates, are such and in such condition as requirol by law. (8.) The time (if hss than twelve months) for which the said hull and equipments will be suf- ficient;

(4.) The limits (if any) beyond which, as regards the hull and equipments, the ship is, in the sur- veyor's judgment, nor fit to ply;

(5.) With reference to all steam-ships not coming within the provisions of the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, or of any Ordinance made in pur- suance thereof, if plying or intended to "ply for hire, the number of passengers which such ship or vessel is, in the judgment of the sur- veyor, fit to carry, distinguishing, if neces- sary, between the respective numbers to be carried on the dock and in the cabins, and in the different parts of the deck and cabins; such numbers to be subject to such conditions and variations, according to the time of year, the nature of the voyage, the cargo carried, ar other circumstances, as the Governor in Conu- cil may, from time to time, direct by any regulations to be made by him for this pur- pose, and until such regulations are made and so far as the same shall not extend, according to the regulations contained in table E in the schedule hereunto annexed.

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(b.) And also a declaration of a Government surveyor containing statements of the following particulars, that is to say :--

(1.). That the boilers and machinery of the steam- ship are sufficient for the service intended, and in good condition;

(2.) The time (if less than twelve months) for which such boilers and machinery will be sufficient;

(3.) That the safety valves and fire hose, when requisite, are such and in such condition as are required by this Ordinance;

(4.) The limit of the weight to be placed on the

safety valves;

(5.) The limit (if any) beyond which, as regards the boilers and machinery, the steam-ship is, in the surveyor's judgment, not it to ply;