THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH AUGUST, 1871.
7. For preventing Damage or Injury to any Vessel or Goods
lying at or alongside the Wharf and Pier.
8. For regulating the Duties of the Porters and Coolies em- ployed in the Wharf and Pier, and affixing the Rates to be paid to them for carrying any Goods, Articles, or Things from and to the same.
9. For preventing Sampans or Boats of any Description fas-
tening themselves on to the Pier.
10. For preventing Vessels anchoring within a Distance dangerous to the Pier, or so as to interfere with Vessels using or intending to use the same.
Provided always that no such Bye-Laws as aforesaid, nor any Kepeal or Variation thereof, shall come into Force until the same shall have been approved by the Governor in Council, and shall have been published in the Gazette,
X. Every Person who shall cominit a Breach of any Bye-Law Penalty for made in pursuance of this Ordinance, shall on Summary Conviction Breach of thereof before a Magistrate be liable to a Fine not exceeding Fifty
Bye-Laws.
Dollars.
XI. In all Proceedings before any Court, the Bye-Laws of the Proof of Company in Force for the Time being under this Ordinance, shall Bye-Laws. be sufficiently proved by the Production of a Copy of the Gazette
in which the same shall be published and contained.
XII. This Ordinance shall continue in Force for Thirty Years Duration of to be computed from the First Day of January, 1871: Provided Ordinance. always that the Governor in Council may from Time to Time, so often as he shall think it expedient, by an Order to be published in the Gazette, declare that the Duration of this Ordinance shall be extended for any further Term not exceeding Ten Years at a Time, and thereupon this Ordinance shall continue in Force for such extended Period.
XIII. In Case it shall become necessary or expedient for the Power to Purpose of any Extension or Alteration of the Public Praya or repeal for any Public Purpose whatsoever, that the Pier and Tramways Ordinance. shall be removed, it shall be lawful for the Governor, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of the Colony, at any Time during the Continuance of this Ordinance by another Ordinance to be passed for that Purpose to repeal this Ördinance upon such Terms as to Compensation or as to the Substitution of other Powers or Privileges in lieu of those hereby granted, as may be deemed reasonable.
XIV. This Ordinance shall come into Force on such Day as Commence- shall be hereafter fixed by Proclamation under the Hand of the ment of Governor.
Ordinance.
NOTICE.
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The Sheriff and Coroner will be found during business hours in Mr. SANGSTER'S Room at the Office of the Registrar General, Supreme Court Building.
ALFRED LISTER, Coroner and Sheriff.
No. 121.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Boundaries of the Man-of-War Anchorage in this Harbor, as revised by Ilis Excelleney the Lieutenant-Governor, are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th August, 1871.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
MEN-OF-WAR ANCHORAGE,
WESTERN BOUNDARY.
A line running from the West-end of the City Hall to the "Melville" Hospital Ship.
NORTHERN BOUNDARY.
A line running from the "Melville" Hospital Ship towards North Point till it meets the Eastern Hundary.
EASTERN BOUNDARY.
A line running from St. Francis Hospital throngh the centre of the Eastern Hillock on South Sowloon Point till it meets the Northern Boundary.
The position of the "Melville" is :-----
Centre of Kellet Island,.
West-end of Wellington Battery, Government Wharf...
..S. 78 E.
..S. 24 E.
.S. 16 W.
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