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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH JULY, 1874.
No British ves- sel, without
an Imperial register, to use the waters of the Colony. [SeeOrdinance No. 4 of 1855, see. 1.]
Chinese
owned ships
to obtain
Colonial
registers. [Ibid, sec. 1.]
Chinese Crown
to hold Colonial
PART I.
MERCHANT SHIPPING AND SEAMEN.
CHAPTER I.
▼
REGULATION OF BRITISH AND COLONIAL SHIPS.
III. No ship owned by a British subject shall be at liberty to trade in or from the waters of this Colony, unless she is provided with a certificate of registry in conformity with the Imperial Acts of Parliament in that behalf.
2. No ship, owned by a Chinese resident of this Colony, shall be at liberty to trade in or from the waters of the Colony, unless she has obtained a Colonial register as hereinafter provided.
3. The Governor may, at his discretion, grant a Colonial register lessees entitled to any Chinese person resident within the Colony applying for the register. same, provided such applicant be a registered lessee of Crown [Ibid, sec. 6.] lands within this Colony, and that he tenders as securities for the due performance by him of all the requirements of this Chapter two other Crown lessees, and that he and such lessees be severally reported by the Registrar General to be each worth two thousand dollars in this Colony, and should such applicant be member of any shop or partnership, that the seal of such shop or partnership be also affixed to the security to be given by him.
Declarations
necessary for obtaining register. [Ibid, sec. 2.]
Documents ne- cessary pre- vious to grant of Colonial register.
[Ibid, sec. 3.]
Surveyor's certificate.
Name of Colo-
ship.
4. When any person shall be desirous of obtaining a Colonial register, such person shall forward to the Colonial Secretary a declaration in writing stating whether the ship for which such register is sought is intended to be employed solely in trade with China, or on more distant voyages: Provided always, that should such declaration be false, or the ship to which it relates not be employed in conformity with it, the regis- ter thereby obtained shall ipso facto become null and void.
5. A Colonial register shall be given under the hand of the Gov- ernor, on production of the following documents :-
(a.) The Surveyor's certificate as hereinafter provided by
paragraph 6.
(b.) A declaration of ownership with proof thereof to the satis-
faction of the Colonial Secretary.
(c.) A joint and several bond of the owner and two sureties binding each and every of the several obligees under a penal sum of five thousand dollars, to comply with all the provisions of this Ordinance and with all the laws binding on British subjects with regard to trade with China. 6. The certificate to be granted by the Surveyor shall specify the proper measurement of the ship requiring a Colonial [Ibid, sec. 7.] register, and that such ship has proper anchors and chains, canvas sails, if any, her bottom sheathed with metal, and that her master is a British subject, or a person conversant with the English language. 7. It shall not be lawful for the owner of any Colonial registered nial registered ship to give her any name other than that of her registry, and such owner shall, after registry, be required to paint or cause to [Ibid, sec. 4.] be painted in white or yellow letters not less than four inches long her name upon some conspicuous part of her stern and on each bow in a distinct and legible manner, both in Roman and Chinese characters, and shall so keep and preserve the same upon pain, on breach of the provisions of this paragraph, in addition to any other pains and penalties and forfeitures in Part I of this Ordinance contained, of paying a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars. Production of 8. The register of every Colonial registered ship shall be Colonial regis- produced once at least every six months to the Harbour Master, ter to Harbour who shall endorse the date of such production on such register, six months. upon pain, on failure of such production, of the forfeiture of such [Ibid, sec. 5.] register, unless satisfactory cause for such non-production be shown
to the Colonial Secretary.
Master every
Colonial regis- ters, &c. may be proved by
production of originals or copies. [Ordinance
No. 9 of 1856, sec. 2.]
9. Every register, certificate, endorsement, declaration, or bond authorized or required by this section, may be proved in any court of justice, or before any person having by law or by consent of parties authority to receive evidence, either by the production of the original, or by an examined copy thereof, or by a copy thereof purporting to be certified under the hand of the Colonial Secretary, or other person who, for the time being, shall happen to have charge of the original, which certified copy he is hereby required to furnish to every person applying at a reasonable time for the same, and paying therefor the sum of one dollar; and every document, when so proved as aforesaid, shall be received as prima facie evidence of all the matters therein recited, stated, or appearing.
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