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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH MAY, 1878.
Penalty for 22. Every master or other person in charge of any junk, vessel disobeying or boat, whether licensed or not, shall obey any lawful orders Harbour Mas which the Harbour Master may see fit to give, under a penalty not (Ibid, sec. 27.) exceeding one hundred dollars.
ter's orders.
Governor in
23. The Governor in Council is hereby empowered to make Council em-
such rules and regulations as to him shall seem fit for the proper powered to carrying out the provisions of this chapter, and also to vary, from frame rules
time to time, the fees chargeable to each junk under this chapter, and for carrying out provisions
to prescribe, from time to time, the forms of all licences, passes, per- of this chapter. mits, and clearances under this chapter, and to provide adequate (Ibid, sec. 28.) means for preventing by force when necessary any junk from leav- ing the waters of the Colony, or any anchorage for junks, in violation of any provision of this chapter.
Fishing boat licences.
24. It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master, in such cases as he shall think fit, to grant to any person a licence for any boat or (Ibid, sec. 29.) vessel to be used solely as a fishing boat or vessel for such period and subject to such conditions as the Harbour Master, with the approval of the Governor, may determine and which conditions shall be endorsed upon or contained in such licence. And such boat or vessel having obtained a licence, the master thereof shall cause the number of the said licence to be painted in white figures (to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master,) twenty inches in length on a black ground on each bow.
Governor in Council to
make regula-
tions for licensing, &c., boats, &c.
Punishment
CHAPTER II.
LICENSING, &c., OF BOATS, CARGO BOATMEN, &c. XXXIX. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make and publish regulations and, from time to time, to vary the same: (a.) For the licensing, due management, control and 'egula- tion of all boats or vessels, plying for hire within the waters of the Colony, other than boats or vessels having British, Colonial, or foreign registers, not being Chinese registers; and also other than market boats or vessels or junks within the meaning of chapter I of part III
of this Ordinance.
(b.) For the licensing registration and regulation of cargo
boatmen ;
(c.) For fixing the scale of fees payable for such licenses; (d.) For fixing the scale of fares to be charged by such
boat or vessel;
(e.) For the regulation and management of all be
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the waters of the y anu not plying for hire; (f) For the registration or licensing of such last mentioned
vessels and of the people dwelling in the same.
2. In case any greater number of persons or passengers shall for drowning be taken or carried in any such licensed boat or vessel, within the passengers in overcrowded
waters of the Colony than are respectively allowed to be carried boats. therein by any regulations made by the Governor in Council, and 4., any one or more of such persons or passengers shall be drowned, every person who shall be in charge of such boat, or vessel, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and may be punished therefor without prejudice to any civil remedy that any person may have against such misdemeanant.
[7 & 8 Geo. sec. 28.] [Local and personal.]
Ships to be
XL. A marked with deck and deck and load lines.
Act, 18" marked
Deck and Load Lines.
hips registered in the Colony shall be marked with d lines as is provided in the "Merchant Shipping When a ship registered in the Colony has been this section required, she shall be kept so marked until he next return to a port of discharge in the Colony.
2. The owner, or agent, or master of every British ship shall, before entering his ship outwards from any port in the Colony, Emark the load line required by section 26 of the "Merchant Ship- ping Act, 1876.”
3. He shall also, upon so entering her, insert in the form of entry delivered to the Harbour Master the statement in writing required by sub-section 3 of the said last mentioned section. If default is made in delivering this statement in the case of any such ship, the Harbour Master may refuse to enter the ship outwards.
Grain Cargoes.
XLI. The penalty provided by section 22 of the "Merchant Shipping Act, 1876," for knowingly allowing any grain cargo or part of a grain cargo to be shipped on any British ship may be recovered upon summary conviction before any Stipendiary Magistrate.
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