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THE HONGKong GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25тH MAY, 1867.

HONGKONG.

ANNO TRICESIMO

VICTORIE REGINE.

SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

No. 4 or 1867.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative

Council thereof, to regulate the Importation and Storage of Gunpowder.

[22nd May, 1867.]

Whereas it is expedient to regulate the Importation and Storage of Gunpowder: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Gunpowder Storage Ordinance 1867."

Title.

Preamble.

177

Short Title.

II. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such Day as shall hereafter Commencement of be fixed by Proclamation under the Hand of the Governor.

Ordinance.

III. Section IV of Ordinance No. 1 of 1848 and Section XII of Ordinance No. 1 Repeal of Section XII

of 1862, shall be and the same hereby are repealed, and the provisions of the other 1862, and plication Sections of Ordinance No. 1 of 1848 shall be held to extend to Gunpowder of every kind of other Sections. and description whatsoever anything in the said Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding.

for Storage of

IV. The Governor is hereby empowered to provide at the expense of the Vessels to be provided

· Colony, one or more Vessel or Vessels for the Storage of Gunpowder, and no Gunpowder; Gunpowder arriving in this Colony shall be Stored in any other Place than such Vessel or Vessels except as provided by Section XIII and subject to the observance of the Rules and Regulations to be made under Section XVI of this Ordinance.

Government Depôt

V. Such Vessel or Vessels shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be termed a To be termed Government Depôt or Government Depôts for the Storage of Gunpowder and shall be for the Storage of under the Control and Management of the Harbor Master, subject to such orders as may Gunpowder. from time to time be received from the Governor; and such Vessel or Vessels shall be fitted and manned in such manner as the Harbor Master with the approval of the Governor shall deem expedient.

VI. The Master of every Vessel arriving in this Colony and having on board Master of Vessel thereof any quantity of Gunpowder exceeding Two hundred lbs. shall immediately having upwards of upon the arrival thereof, furnish the Harbor Master with a Copy of the Manifest of of Powder on board such Gunpowder, the Marks of all the Packages wherein such Gunpowder shall be Master with Parti- contained, and the names of the Consignees of such Gunpowder if he shall know the culars immediately.

same.

to furnish Harbor

to take same to

VII. The Master of every such Vessel as in the last preceding Section mentioned Master of such Vessel shall as soon as possible take the same to the place which shall be pointed out to him by specified Place and the Harbor Master and the said Vessel shall not be removed therefrom without the there remain until he

have permission to Permission in writing of the Harbor Master.

leave.

when Gunpowder is

VIII. When any quantity of Gunpowder exceeding Two hundred bs. is about Mode of proceeding to be conveyed out of the Colony the Master of the Vessel about to convey the same to be exported. shall, on producing the written Authority of the Owners thereof, receive from the Harbor Master a permit to take on board the packages mentioned in such Authority and the Master of such Vessel shall thereupon move the same into such Anchorage as the Harbor Master may deem expedient and from such Anchorage the Master of such Vessel shall not remove the same except for the purpose of proceeding on his Voyage or for some other sufficient cause to be approved by the Harbor Master.

than Two hundred this.

IX. The Master of every Vessel having on board more than Two hundred tbs. Masters having more of Gunpowder or whilst engaged in the transhipment of any quantity shall exhibit at the of Gunpowder on hoard highest Masthead, a Red Flag,

to exhibit a Flag, also when transhipping

the same.