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ORDINANCE No. 8 or 1879. 1491


Merchant Shipping.


16. The said surveyor or surveyors shall, from time to time, make Surveyors to
make returns
such returns to the Governor as he requires with respect to the build, of the build
and other
dimensions , draught, burden, rate of sailing, room for fuel , and the nature particulars of
steam ships.
and particulars of machinery and equipments of the steam- ship surveyed and owners
and masters
by him or them ; and every owner, master, and engineer of any such ship to give
information
shall , on demand, give to such surveyor or surveyors all such information for that
purpose.
and assistance within his power as he or they require for the purpose of [Ibid, sec.
321. ]
such returns ; and every such owner, master, or engineer who, on being
applied to for that purpose , wilfully refuses or neglects to give such
information or assistance, shall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty -five
dollars .


Penalties for carrying passengers in excess ofthe numbers allowed by
certificate, or in a certain proportion to tonnage.

6. The master of any steam- ship carrying more than twelve Harbour
Master may
passengers shall , upon application to the Harbour Master for a port refuse clear
ances to ship
clearance, state the number of passengers he purposes to carry in the then carrying more
passengers
projected voyage ; and if such number shall be in excess of the number than allowed
by certificate.
mentioned in the certificate, the Harbour Master may refuse a port
clearance to such ship. Any master wilfully misrepresenting the number
of passengers so about to be carried shall incur a penalty not exceeding
two hundred and fifty dollars .

2. Any master of any such ship who shall, after having obtained Penalty for
taking more
such port clearance, wilfully take or receive on board such vessel any passengers
than allowed
number of passengers greater than that allowed by the said port clearance, by
andcertificate
also for ,
shall, on conviction, incur a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars leaving with
out a port
in addition to a penalty not exceeding five dollars for every such clearance.

passenger in excess of the number permitted to be carried by the said
port clearance ; and the master of any such ship proceeding to sea without
a port clearance shall incur a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars .

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to prohibit the Governor
may prohibit
conveyance of deck passengers by any steam- ship . conveyance of
deck
passengers.
4. This section shall not apply to ships or vessels which come within This section
not to apply
the operation of the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855 , or of any Ordinance to ships or
vessels which
made or hereafter to be made in pursuance of the provisions thereof. come under
the Chinese
Passengers'
Act, 1855, &c.