THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH AUGUST, 1866.
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Licenses, Passes, Permits, and Clearances under this Ordinance, and to provide ade- ate means for preventing by force when necessary any Junk from leaving the Waters the Colony, or any Anchorage for Junks in violation of any provision of this Ordinance.
XXIX. It shall be lawful for the Harbor Master in such cases as he shall think Fishing Boat Licenses. it to grant to any person a License 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 Harbor Master with the approval of the Governor may determine and which conditions shall e endorsed upon or contained in such License. And such Boat or Vessel having btained a License the Master thereof shall cause the Number of the said License to be painted in White Figures, (to the satisfaction of the Harbor Master,) 20 inches in Ength on a Black Ground on each bow.
any
ment under this
XXX. Until the Expiration of Twelve Months after the commencement of this DuringTwelve months Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Court imposing any Fine or Imprisonment under Fines and Imprison-
Section of this Ordinance to impose such Fine or Imprisonment as it shall in its Ordinance may be iscretion think proper without regard to the Minimum amount of Fine or Imprison-regard to minimum nent specified by such Section, but not exceeding the Maximum amount so specified as amount specified. foresaid.
inflicted without
XXXI. The several Fees hereinafter specified shall be payable under this Scale of Feer. Ordinance until altered by the Governor and Executive Council:-
Do.,
Anchorage Pass, Special Permit,
Seagoing License, a year, ☀
a month and fraction
$20.00 2.00
of a month, Fishing License, a year,
Day Clearance,.
5.00
Night do.,
Do
a month and fraction of)
0.50
a month,
$00.50
00.25
00.25
1.00
XXXII. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such Day as shall Commencement of ereafter be fixed by Proclamation under the Hand of the Governor.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 14th Day of August, 1866.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.
Ordinance.
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PROCLAMATION,
L.S.] RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL
By His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, Knight, and Companion of the Most lonorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its ependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.
Whereas The Right Honorable Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies has mmunicated to the Government of this Colony Her Majesty's determination to observe the duties Neutrality during the existing hostilities between the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, the ing of Italy, and the German Confederation in a Circular Despatch, of which the following is a copy :—
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET, 29th June, 1866.
SIR,-Her Majesty being fully determined to observe the duties of neutrality during the existing hostilities between the peror of Austria, the King of Prussia, the King of Italy, and the German Confederation, and being moreover resolved to event, as far as possible, the use of Her Majesty's harbours, ports, and coasts, and the waters within Her Majesty's itorial jurisdiction, in aid of the warlike purposes of either belligerent, has commanded me to communicate to you, for
guidance, the following rules, which are to be treated and enforced as Her Majesty's orders and directions. Her Majesty is pleased further to command that these rules shall be put in force in the United Kingdom and in the annel Islands on and after the fourth day of July, and in Her Majesty's territories and possessions beyond the seas six days er the day when the Governor or other chief authority of each of such territories or possessions respectively shall have fied and published the same; stating in such notification that the said rules are to be obeyed by all persons within the za territories and possessions.
✓ During the continuance of the present hostilities all ships of war of either belligerent are prohibited from making use of port or roadstead in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in the Channel Islands, or in any of Her Lesty's Colonies or foreign possessions or dependencies, or of any waters subject to the territorial jurisdiction of the British n, as a station or place of resort for any warlike purpose, or for the purpose of obtaining any facilities of warlike equip- ; and no ship of war of either belligerent shall hereafter be permitted to sail out of or leave any port, roadstead, or waters get to British jurisdiction, from which any vessol of the other belligerent (whether the same shall be a ship of war or a chout ship) shall have previously departed, until after the expiration of at least twenty-four hours from the departure of
inst-mentioned vessel beyond the territorial jurisdiction of Her Majesty.
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