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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH DECEMBER, 1868.
VIII-Pilot Boats:
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2. If guilty of any misconduct for which Consular punishment has been inflicted, or if proved to have committed any offence against Revenue Laws, the individual concerned may be suspended or dismissed by the Harbour Master, subject to an appeal to his Consul. If a Foreigner the appeal to be lodged within three days.
3. Any one piloting without a Licence, or making use of another's Licence, shall be subject to prosecu- tion before his own authorities, who will deal with the offender in accordance with the Laws of his country. Any Pilot lending his Licence to another will be proceeded against and dealt with in the same way in addition to forfeiting his Licence.
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4. Any Commanding Officer employing an unlicensed person to pilot his vessel will be liable to be fined in the sun of One Hundred Taels by the Authorities to whose jurisdiction he is amenable.
General Regulation.—-VIII.
1. Pilot Boats shall be registered with their crews at the Harbour Master's office, where each Boat regulations to be ob- will be given a certificate and number. The words, "Licensed Pilot Boat," shall, with the number, be legibly painted at the stern and on the head of the mainsail; and a flag, of which the upper horizontal half shall be yellow, and the lower green, shall be flown. Such registered Pilot Boats shall deposit their national papers with their Consul or the Customs; they shall be at liberty to move freely within the limits of the Port and Pilotage ground, and shall be exempt from Tonnage Dues. On the requisition of the Harbour Master or his deputies, it will be obligatory on registered Pilot Boats to convey, from place to place within the limits, employés belonging to either Customs or Harbour Master's Departments, with such stores as may be wanted for either Light-houses or Light-ships.
IX. Flags to be ex-
-hibited on arrival.
X.Harbour Pilots:
2. Every Licensed Pilot Boat shall pay a fee of Twenty Taels for renewal of Licence on the first of July each year.
3. In case of a Pilot going off in an unregistered Boat, he will be authorised to carry the Pilot Boat Flag during the time he is on board; but no Pilot is authorized to cruise-in an unregistered Boat, without special permission from the Harbour Master.
4. The owner or hirer of an unregistered Boat making use of a Pilot Flag, and not having a Licensed Pilot on board, shall be prosecuted before the authorities to whom he is amenable, or whose Flag or national Ensign he has the right to use.
5. A registered Pilot Boat is not permitted to fly the Pilot Flag, save when there is either a Licensed Pilot or certificated Apprentice on board.
Generel Regulation.—IX.
When nearing the anchorage, the Pilot shall cause to be exhibited-
A Red and White Flag (No. 3) if the vessel is from Hongkong, Japan, or any Chinese Port.
A Blue and White Flag (No, 2)-if from any Foreign Port.
A Yellow and Blue (No. 10) if the vessel is in ballast.
A Red Swallow Tail (No. 5) if the vessel has gunpowder or other combustibles on board.
General Regulation.-X.
1. The duties of the Harbour Pilots, where such exist, will be to take charge of vessels at the outer Vessels in Harbour: limit of the anchorage, berth them in accordance with the orders received from the Harbour Master's Berthing, &c. Department, take charge of vessels shifting berths, going in or out of dock, or to and from a wharf or out of the anchorage, and to assist and report to the Harbour Master's Office all matters concerning the shipping in Port, and the conservancy of the river or harbour.
2. In berthing vessels, the Harbour Master will, as far possible, meet the wishes of Commanding Officers and Consignees, and the entrance, working, or clearance of vessels taking berths not assigned to them shall be stopped by the Customs until the Harbour Master's orders are complied with.
3. Vessels are to moor in accordance with orders received from the Harbour Master, and are not to remove from the anchorage without his permission.
4. The Harbour Pilotage Fees payable to the Harbour Master are as follows:-
For berthing a vessel, or taking her out of port
Docking, undocking, mooring, &c.
Shifting a vessel's berth
Taking a vessel to or from a Wharf
The above Rules and Regulations are provisional and may be amended, or added to, according to circumstances.
Peking, 30th October, 1868.
Inclosure 4.
TO THE PRINCE OF KUNG.
November 2nd, 1868.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Imperial Highness' communication of the 1st November, with the Chinese version of the General Pilotage Regulations in their revised form. This revision having taken place in communication with the Foreign Representatives and the Inspector General of Customs, the principal objections made to the original rules have been fully weighed, and the wants of the shipping in reference to the Pilotage have been duly provided for, as far as this can be done without any certainty as to the number of Pilots whose service might be required by Shipmasters at the different ports, or the relative proportions the supply will bear to the demand, at each. This can only be determined by actual trial and experience.
If the supply should prove wholly inadequate, by the present system, which leaves the employment of Pilots wholly optional, and dispenses with all compulsory clauses, it may be necessary again to take the whole subject into consideration. In the meantime I have instructed H. M.'s Consuls to give-all due publicity to the revised regulations, and to co-operate with the respective Harbour Masters to carry them into effect.
Inclosure 5.
PEKING, November 3, 1868.
Copy.
SIR,-I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th ultimo with a translation of the amended Pilot Regulations. The Chinese text had already been communicated to me by the Tsungli Yamên, and have, in reply, informed His Imperial Highness the Prince of Kung that they appear to me well adapted to the purpose for which they have been framed, so far as existing circumstances admit, and will be transmitted to I. M.'s Consuls for circulation among British subjects, that they may be put in force.
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