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1534 ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1879 .


Merchant Shipping.


other than boats or vessels having British, Colonial , or
foreign registers , not being Chinese registers ; and also

other than market boats or vessels or junks within the
meaning of Chapter I of part III of this Ordinance.


( b. ) For the licensing, registration and regulation of cargo
boatmen ;


( c. ) For fixing the scale of fees payable for such licences ;


(d. ) For fixing the scale of fares to be charged by such boat or
vessel ;


(e.) For the regulation and management of all boats , sampans ,
or other vessels, used as dwelling places within the
waters of the Colony and not plying for hire ;

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(f.) For the registration or licensing of such last mentioned
vessels and of the people dwelling in the same.

Punishment
2. In case any greater number of persons or passengers shall be
for drowning
passengers in taken or carried in any such licensed boat or vessel, within the waters of
overcrowded
boats. the Colony than are respectively allowed to be carried therein by any
7 and 8 Geo.
4. sec. 28. ] regulations made by the Governor in Council , and any one or more of
[Local and
personal. ] such persons or passengers shall be drowned in consequence thereof, every

person who shall be in charge of such boat, or vessel , shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and may be punished therefor without prejudice to any
civil remedy that any person may have against such misdemeanant .




PART IV .


Deck and load lines.


Ships to be 40. All ships registered in the Colony shall be marked with deck
marked with
deck and load and load lines as is provided in the " Merchant Shipping Act, 1876. ”
lines.
[M. S. A. When a ship registered in the Colony has been marked as by this section
1876. sections
25. 26.] required , she shall be kept so marked until her next return to a port of
discharge in the Colony.