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ORDINANCES Nos. 10 AND 11 OF 1860.

Merchant Shipping-Fees.

Marine Court of Inquiry.

SCHEDULE.

Matter or Duty in Respect of which the Fee is to be taken.

Amount of Fee.

Effecting an Imperial Register and granting certificate thereof,.

Copy from Registry Book,

For every declaration made in any of the forms B, C, F, G, H or L in the schedule to the

Merchant Shipping Act, 1854,..

Endorsing a memorandum of change of master upon certificate of registry, Granting a provisional certificate of registry,

Recording a mortgage of a ship, or shares in a ship made under a certificate of mortgage,

Recording the transfer of a mortgage of a ship, or shares in a ship made under a certificate į

$10

5

of mortgage,

Recording the discharge of a mortgage of a ship or shares in a ship made under a certificate Į

of mortgage,

5

For every sale of a ship or shares in a ship under a certificate of sale,

For every alteration in agreements with seamen,

For certifying a desertion,

For attesting a seaman's will,................

For examining provisions or water (to be paid by the party failing to support his case),......

[Repealed by Ordinance No. 8 of 1879.]

No. 11 of 1860.

1

Preamble,

Constitution of Marine Court.

[See Ord. No. 6 01862.]

Cases in which inquiries are to be instituted by such Court.

An Ordinance to constitute a Marine Court of Inquiry in Hongkong.

WHE

[10th July, 1860.]

HEREAS it is expedient to constitute a tribunal within this Colony with author- ity to make inquiry into charges of incompetency or misconduct on the part of masters and mates of ships, and as to casualties affecting ships: Be it, therefore, enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. It shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, and whensoever occa- sion shall arise or require, by warrant under his hand and seal, to appoint five persons to form a Court, which shall be called "The Marine Court; " and such Court shall consist of the *Chief Magistrate, and Harbour Master, for the time being, an un-official Justice of the Peace, and two other persons, who shall be both, or either of them, Government Marine Surveyors, or master mariners.

2. In any of the cases following, (that is to say,) whensoever a charge of incompe-- tency or misconduct shall be brought by any person against any master or mate of a British ship;

Whenever any ship is lost, abandoned, or materially damaged, on or near the

coasts of the Colony of Hongkong;