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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH JULY, 1874.

(e.) Every steam ship employed to carry passengers by sea shelter for

shall be provided with such shelter for the protection of deck pas- deck passengers (if any) as the Governor, having regard sengers. to the nature of the passage, the number of deck passen- gers to be carried, the season of the year, the safety of the ship, and the circumstances of the case may require: And if any such steam ship as aforesaid goes to sea from any port in the Colony without being so provided as herein before required, then for each default in any of the above requisites, the owner shall (if he appears to be in fault) incur a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, and the master shall (if he appears to be in fault) incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

weight on

3. If any person places an undue weight on the safety valve Penalty for of any steam ship, or, in the case of steam ships surveyed as improper hereinafter mentioned, increases such weight beyond the limits safety valve. fixed by such engineer-surveyor as hereinafter mentioned, he shall, [Ibid, sec. in addition to any other liabilities he may incur by so doing, incur 302.] a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars.

their remu-

4. The Governor may, from time to time, appoint such number Governor to of fit and proper persons to be shipwright-surveyors and engineer- appoint sur- surveyors for the purposes of this Ordinance as he thinks yeyors, and fix proper, and may also appoint a Surveyor General for the Colony, neration. and may,

from time to time, remove such surveyors, or any of them, [Ibid, sec. and may, from time to time, fix and alter the rates of remuneration 305.] to be received by such surveyors.

5. It shall be lawful for the said surveyors in the execution of their Surveyors to duties to go on board any steam ship or vessel propelled by steam have power to

inspect. to which this section applies, at all reasonable times, and to [Ibid, sec. inspect the same, or any part thereof, or any of the machinery, 306.] boats, equipments, or articles on board thereof, or any cer- tificates of the master, mate, or engineer, to which the pro- visions of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854" and of the Acts amending the same, or this Ordinance, or any of the regulations made, or to be made thereunder apply, not unnecessarily detaining or delaying the ship from proceeding on any voyage, and, if in consequence of any accident to any such ship or for any other reason they consider it necessary so to do, to require the ship to be taken into dock for the purpose of surveying the hull thereof; and any person who hinders any such surveyor from going on board any such steam ship, or otherwise impedes him in the exe- cution of his duty under this Ordinance, shall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars.

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6. The said surveyors shall execute their duties under the Governor to direction of the Governor, and the Governor shall make regulations to regulate as to the manner in which the surveys hereinafter mentioned shall survey. be made, and as to the notice to be given to the surveyors when [Ibid, sec. surveys are required, and as to the amount and payment of any 307.] other expenses incurred by such surveyors in the execution of their duties, and may thereby determine the person by whom and the conditions under which such payment shall be made.

7. Every surveyor who demands or receives directly or indirectly Penalty on from the owner or master of any ship surveyed by him, under the surveyors re-

ceiving fees provisions of this Ordinance, any fee or remuneration whatsoever unlawfully. for or in respect of such survey, otherwise than as the officer and [Ibid, sec. by the direction of the Governor, shall incur a penalty not exceed- 308.] ing two hundred and fifty dollars.

have surveys

8. The owner, agent, or master of every steam ship or vessel Owners to propelled by steam being within the waters of the Colony shall, made by where such ship or vessel comes within the meaning of this section, shipwright cause the same to be surveyed by one of the shipwright-surveyors and engineer. and by one of the said engineer-surveyors so appointed as aforesaid; surveyors, and such shipwright-surveyor being, in the case of iron steamers, a surveyors

to give person who is, in the judgment of the Governor, properly qualified declarations. to survey such ship; and such surveyors shall thereupon, if [Ibid, sec. satisfied that they can with propriety do so, give to such owner 309.] declarations as follows:-

(a.) The declaration of the shipwright-surveyor shall contain statements of the following particulars with reference to

sea-going ships, that is to say:-

(1.) That the hull of the ship is sufficient for the service

intended and in good condition;

(2.) That the partitions, boats, rafts, life buoys, or other appliances for saving life, lights, signals, compasses,

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and shelter for deck passengers, and the certificates of the master and mate or mates, are such, and in such condition as required by this Ordinance; (3.) The time (if less than twelve months) for which the said hull and equipments will be sufficient; (4.) The limits (if any) beyond which, as regards the hull and equipments, the ship is, in the surveyor's judgment, not fit to ply;

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