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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH JULY, 1874.
4. Every applicant for a certificate of competency shall, upon Fee to be paid lodging his application, pay to the Harbour Master a fee of ten by applicant. dollars who shall the same into the Colonial Treasury.
pay
5. Every member of the board, except the Harbour Master, Fees to shall be entitled to receive from the funds of the Colony a fee of members of five dollars for the examination of each applicant.
board.
6. Any applicant who shall have passed a satisfactory ex- Certificate to amination, and shall have given satisfactory evidence of his be given to sobriety, experience and general good conduct on board ship, shall be entitled to receive a certificate of competency signed by candidates.
the members of the board to the effect that he is competent to act as master, as first, second or only mate, or as first or second
engineer.
successful
7. The result of every such examination shall be reported to Report of the Board of Trade by the Harbour Master.
result of examination to be made to Board of Trade.
CHAPTER V.
SHIPPING AND DISCHARGE OF SEAMEN.
XIII. The name of a master, first, only or second mate, or first Masters, mates or second engineer shall not be attached to the register, or articles and engineers to possess cer- of agreement, of any British ship, or to any ship registered under. tificates.' section III of part I of this Ordinance, unless such master, mate, [Ordinance 1 of or engineer shall possess a certificate of service or competency 1862, sec. 5.] issued by the Board of Trade or by the authority of the Governor of any British Possession.
2. No British or Colonial registered ship shall leave the waters No British of the Colony unless the master, thereof, and the first and second ship to proceed
to sea without or only mate have obtained and possess valid certificates of com- certificate of petency or service appropriate to their several stations in such ship, the master and or of a higher grade, and no such ship if of one hundred tons mate. burden or upwards, shall leave the waters as aforesaid, unless at [See M. S. A. least one officer, besides the master, has obtained, and possesses a 1854, sec.136.] valid certificate appropriate to the grade of only mate therein, or to a higher grade.
3. Every British or Colonial registered steam-ship of one hun- Steam-ships to dred nominal horse power or upwards, leaving the waters of the to carry Colony shall have as its first and second engineers, two certificated certificated engineers, the first possessing a "first class engineer's certificate," [Ste M. S. A.
,, engineers. and the second possessing a "second class engineer's certificate," 1862, sec. 5]. or a certificate of the higher grade.
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4. No seaman shall, except with the Harbour Master's sanction, Shipping of be shipped to do duty on board any merchant ship whatever else scamen. where than at the office of the Harbour Master, who shall charge [Ibid, sec. 5.] for every seaman shipped, a fee of one dollar, such fee to be paid, in the first instance, by the master of the ship shipping such seaman; and such master shall deduct the same from the wages of the seaman shipped; and the Harbour Master shall require such seaman to lodge with him his certificate of discharge from the, last ship, and failing the production of such certificate, such seaman shall be bound to give satisfactory explanation to the Harbour Master of the cause of the non-production thereof.
5. Whenever any seaman shall be discharged from any Master shall ship within the Colony, the master of such ship shall give, at the give to seaman time of such discharge, to such seaman a written certificate of discharged in
Colony certifi- discharge, specifying the time and nature of service, and the time
cate of dis- of discharge of such seaman, signed by himself; and if such charge, and, if seaman require it, shall further give him, within twenty-four required, an ac- hours after demand, a true account in writing of the wages of count of wages, [Ordinance 6 of such seaman, and of all deductions therefrom.
1852, sec. 2.]
6. No seaman shall be discharged from an English ship, As to the dis- or any foreign ship whose flag is not represented by a Consular charge of officer resident in the Colony, elsewhere than at the Harbour seamen. Master's office, and every seaman discharged from a foreign [Ibid, sec. 5.] ship so represented, shall, within twenty-four hours of being discharged at the office of his Consul or Vice-Consul, produce to the Harbour Master, or some person deputed by him, a certificate of his discharge, signed by such Consul or Vice-Consul.
mission of Har-
7. No master of any ship shall discharge or force there- Seamen to be from, or wilfully or negligently leave behind him, in this Colony, discharged any seaman shipped on board thereof, unless on certificate from only by per- the Harbour Master, or other person appointed to grant the same, bour Master. (and who shall have power to withhold, or grant the same, as he [Ordinance shall see fit), under a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars; No. 1 of 1862, and if any seaman shall wilfully or negligently remain in the sec. 8.] Colony, after the departure of the vessel in which he shall have shipped, such seaman shall, on conviction before any Magistrate, be subject to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one month.
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