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Fees on Licenses.
The Hongkong Government Gazette.
[No. 57.-AUGUSt 2, 1856,
Hiring, and Engaging of Scamen for Merchant Vessels-which said Persons shall be called Licensed Shipping Agents and all such Conditions and Regulations shall, so soon as the same shall be approved by His said Excellency in Council, take effect according to the tenor thereof; and the same shall from Time to Time, when approved, be notified by insertion in the Hongkong Government Gazette.
II. Every Licensed Shipping Agent shall, on receiving his License, pay the sum of Two hundred Dollars. and the same sum on every Renewal thereof at the end of the year during which he may have held the No License to be same. granted to Innkeepers,
&C.
Offices and Clerks of Shipping Agents.
Report of Arrivals and Departures.
Shipments to be
III. No License shall be granted under this Ordinance unto any Person keeping or being employed or interested in any Tavern, Inn, or Seamen's Lodging or Boarding House.
IV. Every Licensed Shipping Agent shall have and maintain an Office within a convenient distance from the Harbour Master's Office for the better despatch of the business thereof, and likewise a place for the Daily attendance or resort of Seamen desiring employment on Shipboard; and the said Agent shall also provide and engage a fit and sufficient Person as Clerk in his said Office, who shall be qualified to transact the business of the said Office with Indian or Malay Seamen resorting thither for information and employment. V. A Marine Report shall be duly and regularly kept by every Licensed Shipping Agent of all Arrivals and Departures of Vessels at and from this Port.
VI. All Shipments of Seamen for any Vessels in this Port shall be effected by the means or under effected by a Licensed the authority of a Licensed Shipping Agent, or of the Owner, Master, or Mate for the voyage of the said Shipping Agent, or the Owner, &c.
Vessel, and passed through the Harbour Master's Office.
Shipping of Seamen
and Fees therefor.
VII. Any Licensed Shipping Agent, on receiving from a Seaman the legal Discharge of the said Seaman, payable (but not otherwise,) is authorised to hire and engage him for whatever voyage the said Agent and he may think fit, and to ship him accordingly through the Harbour Master's Office, and to charge the Owner or Master for the voyage of the Vessel on board of which he shall have so shipped him a Fee not exceeding one Dollar for every such Seaman; which Fee shall be exclusive of the Fee of One Dollar payable at the Harbour Master's Office for every such Seaman to the use of [
] Mode of signing and
VIII. Every Seaman, hired or engaged under this Ordinance, shall, for the purpose of being shipped, be entering into Articles, first taken by the Licensed Shipping Agent, Owner, Master, or Mate, so hiring or engaging him, or by some Person actually and bond fide being in the regular and ordinary employment of such Agent, Owner, Master, or Mate, to the Harbour Master's Office, and shall, except in the case next hereinafter specified, be then and there entered upon
the Articles of the Vessel for which he is so hired or engaged as aforesaid. But, in case the said Vessel shall be under the Flag, or be owned by the Subject of a Foreign State, represented at this Port by a Consular Officer, the said Harbour Master shall, instead of so entering the said Seaman, make out and deliver unto him a Certificate under the said Harbour Master's hand, addressed to the said Con- sular Officer, and stating that the said Seaman is at liberty to sign the said Articles, and also for what Voyage, at what rate of Wages, and with what Advance thereof (if any) the said Seaman 'desires or intends to be so hired or engaged. And, upon production of the said Certifiate by the said Seaman unto the said Consular Officer, it shall be lawful for the said Consular Officer to enter him accordingly upon the Articles of the said Vessel.
Abrogation of the
IX. The Rule Custom or Usage of paying unto Seamen engaged to serve in the China Seas an advance Three Months Wages' of Three Months' Wages, is hereby abrogated; and from henceforward one Month's Wages and no more
shall be advanced to every Seaman so engaged at the commencement of his said engagement.
Custom.
Shipping Agents to
X. Every Licensed Shipping Agent shall be obedient to the aforesaid Conditions and Regulations, obey the orders of the Harbour Master. and also to the Rules and Regulations of the Harbour Master's Office, and to the Orders of the Harbor
Master in and about the carrying into effect the Provisions of this Ordinance. Unlawful employ- XI. It shall be unlawful for any Person to employ an unlicensed Person in or about the Procuring, ment of Agents and receiving of Seamen. Supplying, Hiring, Engaging, or Shipping, of Seamen for employment on board of any Vessel whatever, or knowingly to accept, receive, or harbour any Seaman procured, supplied, hired, engaged, or shipped, in order to such employment or for the purposes thereof contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance.
Scale of Penalties.
Forfeiture of Li-
censes,
XII. Persons convicted before a stipendiary Magistrate, or any Two Justices, of offences against this Ordinance, shall forfeit to the Crown the Penalties following, (which shall be enforced and levied in the same way as Money Penalties imposed under Ordinance No. Ten of 1844 are now enforced and levied) that is to say-For every offence against. Section Six or Section Eleven of this Ordinance, a Sum not exceed- ing one hundred Dollars, nor less than twenty Dollars; and for every offence against Section Ten of this Ordinance (being a First offence) a Sum not exceeding five Dollars, nor less than one Dollar, or (being a Second offence) a Sum not exceeding ten Dollars, nor less than two Dollars, or (being a Third offence) a Sum not exceeding twenty Dollars, no less than five Dollars.
XIII. In case of a Third offence against Section Ten of this Ordinance, the Offender shall also forfeit his License: And in such case, and also where, for any breach of Condition to that effect, a License may have been forfeited, the party so forfeiting shall lose all tight and title whatsoever to the Monies he shall Repeal of provisions have paid for the same. in Ordinance No. 6 of 1852.
Extent of operation.
XIV. So much of Ordinance No. Six of 1852, as is inconsistent with this Ordinance is hereby repealed. XV. This Ordinance extends to all Vessels, British or Foreign, not being Vessels belonging to Her Majesty or any foreign Government.
No. 83.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Return of Notes in Circulation and Specie in Reserve at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, is published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 30th July, 1856.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month ending
30th June 1856, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.
NOTES ISSUED,...................................$183,699, exclusive of the Notes of the Oriental Bank still outstanding.
Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st July, 1856.
WM, LAMOND, Acting Sub-Manager.
I inspected this day the Books and Treasure of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify that I found the necessary Amount of
Specie as required by the Charter.
H. REINHARD,
A Member of the Colonial Treasury Commission,
Victoria, Hongkong, 30th July, 1856.
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