"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21st AUGUST, 1880.
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10. The following Table indicates the scale of boat hire that shall apply in the absence of special greement, but shall not prevent special agreements.
For Boats not being Cargo Boats.
Per day, up to 6 p.M.,
. $1.00.
For one hour,
$0.20.
For half an hour or less,
.$0.10.
After 6 P.M., 10 cents extra.
For Cargo Boats.
Less than 600 piculs capacity, per day,
per load,
Less than 800 piculs capacity, per day,
per load,
$1.50.
.$1.00..
$2.50.
..$1.75.
$3.00.
$2.00.
800 piculs capacity and upward, per day,
per load,
11. Every boatman or person employed in any capacity on board any cargo boat, must be duly censed as a cargo boatman as required by these Regulations.
12. Every person desiring a licence as a cargo boatman must apply for it to the Registrar General, and must give him such particulars of his name and abode as he may require, and must pay a licence fee of 25 cents, and thereupon the Registrar General will grant him a numbered cargo boatinan's licence ticket in such form as he may think fit.
13. If the holder of a cargo boatman's licence ticket changes his abode, he must forthwith notify the same to the Registrar General.
14. A cargo boatman's licence shall be good for one year only from the date of granting.
15. The person to whom a cargo boatman's licence is granted by the Registrar General, shall not part with it to any one else, and no one else shall have or use the saine.
16. Every person required by these Regulations to have a cargo boatman's licence, must shew his licence ticket wlien required to do so by any Police Constable.
17. No person shall employ, or allow to be employed, any but duly licensed cargo boatmen on board any cargo boat.
18. Any person who contravenes any of these Regulations, and any owner or person in charge of any boat kept or used or being in a condition contrary to these Regulations, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 20 dollars.
19. Boats and persons which were duly licensed, and licences certificates and tickets which were July granted under Section 16 of Ordinance 8 of 1858, or under Ordinance 15 of 1860, shall be deemed to be respectively persons duly licensed and licences certificates and tickets duly granted under these Regulations, until the expiration of the time for which the licences certificates or tickets were granted.
20. These Regulations shall come into force on the 24th day of August, 1880.
J. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Acting Clerk of Councils,
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