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ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1844.

Merchant Shipping.

such part thereof as shall not be actually expended, in consequence of the breach of the conditions of the said bond or other security, or as may not be required to liquidate any legal penalty which may have been incurred by the master or other person bound thereby, to be returned to the party or parties from whom the same may have been levied, at such time and on such conditions as the said Superintendent of Trade may think fit and reasonable.

The schedule to which this Ordinance refers.

KNOW all men by these presents that

master of the vessel the

of

and we

British merchants resident at

are held and

firmly bound unto Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, in the full sum of one thousand lawful current dollars of the currency of the Colony of Hongkong, to be paid to Her said Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, for which payment to be well and truly made we bind ourselves and each of us for himself in the whole our and every of our heirs executors and administrators firmly by these presents sealed with our seals, dated this

day of

WHEREAS the within bound

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have agreed to execute this obligation as sureties for the within bound

within named

now the condition of this obligation is such, that if the

master of the vessel the

aforesaid do not within one year from the date hereof

unlawfully discharge or leave behind any of the crew of the said vessel the

in Hongkong, and also within the space of one year aforesaid within the limits aforesaid do not refuse to receive on board the said vessel the

such distressed seamen as may be sent on board thereof for conveyance to Great Britain, according to the provisions of the statute made and passed in the first year of the reign of His late Majesty William the Fourth, intituled "An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the pay of the Royal Navy," and if no person formerly a seaman of the said vessel, or no subject of Her Majesty conveyed in the said vessel the

to Hongkong, shall within three calendar months from having been such seamen, or from having been so conveyed, be found destitute or requiring public relief in Hongkong aforesaid, and also if the within named obligors shall forthwith discharge all or any sums of money which shall be awarded by way of satisfaction, (in the manner provided by the ordinance in pursuance of which this bond is entered into) to any person or persons by any competent tribunal, for any injury sustained within one year from the date hereof from the crew of the said vessel the

or any one or more of them. Then this obligation

shall be void and of no effect, but otherwise shall remain in full force and virtue.

Signed sealed and delivered

at

L. S.

in the presence of

[Disallowed in C. O: D., No. 41, 29th April, 1846.]

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