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CHINESE EMIGRATION IN BRITISH SHIPS
55. (1)—Every person who commits any contravention of any rule made under the provisions of section 44 shall be guilty of an offence and shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars in respect of such contravention.
(2) The keeper of any hotel or boarding house who knowingly furnishes any false or incorrect return or other particulars required by him, or who obtains or attempts to obtain by fraud, intimidation, or force, the shipment of any emigrant or intending emigrant, and every person who aids and abets such keeper in so doing, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding. one year.
(3) Any such keeper and his sureties shall also be liable to the enforcement of his and their bond, and the licence of such keeper may be suspended or cancelled by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
56. The owners or charterers of any emigrant ship and any emigration passage broker, and any intending emigrant by any such ship, and any master or other person in charge of any such ship who fails to comply with or commits any breach of the provisions of this Ordinance so far as they may respectively be bound thereby, and any person granting and knowingly uttering any forged certificate permit, notice, or other document under this Ordinance shall, with- out prejudice to any other proceeding, civil or criminal, be liable upon sum- mary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprison- ment for any term not exceeding six months.
GENERAL PORT REGULATIONS FOR BRITISH
CONSULATES IN CHINA
The undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, acting under the authority conferred upon him by the 85th Section of the China and Japan Order in Council, 1865, hereby declares the following Regulations, made, in pursuance of the above Order in Council, to secure the observance of Treaties and the maintenance of friendly relations between British subjects and Chinese subjects and authorities. to be applicable to all ports which are, or may hereafter become, open to British trade:-
I.-The British Consulate offices at the several open ports shall be opened for public business from 10 o'clock A.M. to 4 o'clock P.M. daily, excepting Sundays, Christmas Day, Good Friday, King's Birthday, Easter Monday, those holidays. upon which public offices in England are closed, and Chinese New Year's day, and such Chinese holidays as the Chinese Customs authorities may observe.
II.-On the arrival of any British vessel at the anchorage of any of the open ports, the master shall, within 24 hours, deposit his ship's papers, together with a summary of the manifest of her cargo, at the Consulate office, unless a Sunday or holiday shall intervene.
III.-Every British vessel must show her national colours on entering the port or anchorage, and keep them hoisted until she shall have been reported at the Consulate and her papers deposited there.
IV.-No British vessel or any vessel the property of a British subject, unless, provided with a certificate of registry, or provisional or other pass from the Super- intendent of Trade at Peking, or from the Colonial Government at Hongkong, shall hoist the British ensign within any port or anchorage, or any flag similar to the