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of such sale and the amount of such fine as aforesaid, shall be paid to the owner or owners of the junk, if claimed within twelve ca- lendar months from the date of sale, and if not claimed within that period, shall be forfeited to the Crown: Provided that in case there shall be in the Colony any consignee or agent of such junk registered under paragraph no sale thereof shall be made in pursuance of this paragraph until three days' previous notice thereof shall have been given in writing to such consignee or agent. 20. Every junk forfeited or sold under the provisions of this chapter shall be transferred to the purchaser thereof, at his expense, by a bill of sale from the Harbour Master, and such bill of sale [Ibid, sec.25.] shall confer upon such purchaser, his executors, administrators and
assigns, an indefeasible title to such junk.
Transfer to purchaser
upon sale of junk.
Junk licences.
21. It shall be lawful for the Harbour Master, in such cases as [Ibid, sec. 26.] he shall think fit, to grant to any owner of any junk or lorcha a licence authorizing such junk or lorcha to ply between this Colony and other ports, during 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 on or contained in such licence, and such junk or lorcha having obtained a licence, the master thereof shall cause the number of said licence to be painted in black figures twenty inches in length (to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master) on a white ground on each bow: Provided that no such licence shall be granted unless the intended licensee shall enter into a bond together with one or more sureties resident in the Colony, and to be approved of by the Harbour Master, con- ditioned in any sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for the observance of the conditions of such licence.
Penalty for disobeying Harbour Mas- ter's orders.
[Ibid, sec. 27.]
Governor in Council em- powered to frame rules
for carrying
22. Every master or other person in charge of any junk, vessel or boat, whether licensed or not, shall obey any lawful orders which the Harbour Master may see fit to give, under a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.
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23. The Governor in Council is hereby empowered to make such rules and regulations as to him shall seem fit for the proper carrying out the provisions of this chapter, and also to vary, from time to time, the fees chargeable to each junk under this chapter, and 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.
[Ibid, sec. 29.]
Governor in Council to
make regula- tions for licensing, &c., boats, &.
Governor in Council to
&c.
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 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.
CHAPTER II.
LICENSING, &c., of Boats, Cargo Boatmen, &c. XXXVII. 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 regula- tion of all boats or vessels, including vessels propelled by steam, 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 boats, sampans, or other vessels, used as dwelling places within the waters of the Colony and not plying for hire; (f) For the registration or licensing of such last mentioned
vessels and of the people dwelling in the same.
2. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, by regulation, to fix the term of imprisonment or the amount of pecuniary for- fix penalties, feiture to which any person shall, upon conviction, be subject to for the breach of any of the regulations made under the preceding paragraph: Provided always that no such term of imprisonment shall exceed a period of three months, and no such pecuniary for- feiture shall exceed the sum of $ for any one offence: And provided also that any regulation imposing such punishment shall have the same force and effect as though it were contained in this Ordinance.
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