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IAL ANCES
54 COLON ORDIN .


Serang shall receive into any of said Houses, as a Boarder or Lodger,
any Lascar or other Seaman, he shall, within Twenty-four Hours
after the Period of Reception, cause the Name of such Lascar or
Seaman to be recorded in the Office of the Registrar-General, together
with the Fact of his having become such Boarder or Inmate of said
House, and whereupon the said Registrar shall issue a Certificate of
Ghaut Serang to fur- such Circumstances : Provided always, that previous to, or upon said
ofthe
Goverment in Coun- Serang obtaining such License, he shall submit, for the Inspection
cil, a Scale of Charges, and Approval of the said Governor and Legislative Council, a Table
and expose same for
public Inspection. or Scale of all the Charges which are to be made against every such
Lascar, for Boarding, Lodging, or Shipping ; and that no greater Sum
shall be received or demanded, on the Foot thereof, by such Serang ;
and that a true Copy or Translation, in Hindostanee, of such approved
Table, shall be hung up in some conspicuous Part of each of the
Boarding-Houses herein mentioned, as also in the Harbour-Master's
Office : And it is further provided, that in the Event of such Serang
not complying with any of the Directions or Provisions of this Section,
he shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding the Sum of Fifty Dollars
for each Offence.

Penalty on the Se- III. And be it further enacted and ordained, That the said Serang
rang for knowingly
Shipping an inefficient shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding the Sum of Twenty-five
Lascar. Dollars when and so often as he shall knowingly ship or supply an
Inefficient Lascar as a Seaman on board any Ship or Vessel .

No Lascar to be IV. And be it further enacted and ordained , That no Master or
Shipped until the
Harbour-Master shall Owner of any Vessel shall ship or receive on board his or their Vessel
have inspected him and any Lascar, until the Harbour-Master shall have inspected him, and
signed the Shipping attached his the Harbour-Master's Signature to the Shipping Agree-
Agreement.
ment of every such Lascar ; and that every such Master or Owner
so Shipping a Lascar Seaman without such Signature so attached,
shall for each Offence be liable to a Penalty not exceeding the Sum
of Fifty Dollars.

Penalties recoverable
in a Manner V. And it is hereby further enacted and ordained , That all
before the Marine Ma- Penalties imposed by this Ordinance shall be recoverable in a Sum-
gistrate. mary Manner before the Marine Magistrate of the said Colony, and
be applied to the Public Purposes thereof.

JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS,
Governor, &c. &c.


Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 25th Day of October, 1845 .
ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Clerk of Councils.