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CHINESE EMIGRATION IN BRITISH SHIPS
(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to direct that any of the provisions of this section may be dispensed with in the case of emigrants travelling to any British possesion.
39. No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be altered, rendered useless, or destroyed, after it is once issued, or shall fraudulently induce any person to part with, or render useless, or destroy any such passage ticket, until the termination of the passage which it is intended to evidence.
40. No licenced passage broker shall, as agent for any person, whether a licensed broker or not, receive money for or on account of the passage of any emigrant on board an emigrant ship, without having a written authority to act as such agent, or, on the demand of the Emigration Officer, refuse or fail to exhibit his licence and such written authority.
41. (1)-It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or the Emigration Officer, at any time when he is satisfied that any emigrant who is unwilling to leave port has been obtained by any fraud, violence, or other improper means, to land such emigrant and procure him a passage back to his native place or that from which he was taken, and also to defray the cost of his maintenance whilst awaiting a return passage.
(2) All such expenses, with all legal costs, incurred, shall be recoverable by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or Emigration Officer before any magis- trate from the cmigration passage broker of the vessel in which such emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped.
(c)-PROVISIONS AS TO EMIGRATION BOARDING-HOUSES.
42. (1)-No assisted emigrant shall, without the sanction of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, be permitted to embark in this Colony in any emigrant ship on any voyage unless he has been lodged in a boarding-house licensed under this Ordinance during a period of not less than forty-eight hours pre- vious to the examination by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
(2) No person shall accomodate any assisted emigrant except in a boarding- house for assisted emigrants licensed under this Ordinance.
43. (1)-It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to license a sufficient number of fit and proper persons to keep boarding-houses for assisted emigrants.
(2) Every such license shall be granted for such period not exceeding twelve months, and on payment of such fee and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by any rules to be made under Section 44.
(3) Every boarding-house keeper licensed under this Ordinance shall enter into a bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the Secretary for Chinese affairs, for the duc observance of such terms and conditions.
44. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make rules for the licensing, regulation, and sanitary maintenance of such boarding-houses, and with regard to all persons residing therein, and by such rules to require such registers or other books to be kept as he may deem expedicnt.
(2) All such rules, when made, shall be published in the Gazette and, when so published, shall be as valid and binding as if contained in this Ordinance. 45. (1)—The keeper of every such boarding-house shall supply the Secretary for Chinese Affairs with a return of all emigrants who are inmates of the house, giving their number, names, descriptions and such other particulars as the Secretary for Chinese Affairs may direct together with the name of the emigrant ship by which they intend to proceed.
(2) Such return must be supplied at least twenty-four hours before the examination by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and shall be in such form as he may direct.
46. (1) The keeper of every licensed boarding-house from which any assisted emigrant is to be shipped or in the case of every male emigrant under the age of sixteen years and of all female emigrants the passage broker who provides the passage shall attend at the office of the Secretary for Chinese
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