CHINESE EMIGRATION, IN BRITISH SHIPS
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(2) Where different members of the same firm act as passage brokers, each person so, acting shall comply with the terms of this section.
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32. Any person wishing to obtain a licence to act as passage broker shall make application for the same to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs who is hereby authorised, if he thinks fit, to grant such licence, according to the form in the Eighth Schedule: Provided always that no such licence shall be
no such granted unless such bond as is mentioned in section 31 has been first entered into Provided, also, that any magistrate who adjudicates on any offence committed by such broker against this Ordinance is hereby authorised to order the offender's licence to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be for- feited accordingly and the said magistrate making such order shall forthwith cause notice of such forfeitue, in the form of the Ninth Schedule, to be trans- mitted to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and such forfeiture shall be ex- clusive and independent of any other punishment which may be inflicted upon such offender under the provisions of this Ordinance.
33. Every person obtaining such licence as aforesaid shall pay to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs a fee of two hundred dollars, or where the duration of the licence is short such reduced fee as the Governor in Council may authorise.
34. Such licence shall continue in force until the 31st day of December ih the year in which such licence is granted, and for fourteen days afterwards, unless sooner forfeited as hereinbefore mentioned.
35. Every passage broke who contracts with any intending emigrant for a passage in any ship shall forthwith give notice in writing to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and to the Emigration Officer of every such contract, specifying the name, age, and, sex of such emigrant and the name of such ship.
36. (1) Every passage broker who receives money from any emigrant for or in respect of a passage in any emigrant ship proceeding on any voyage shall give to such emigrant a passage ticker, under the hand of such passage broker and stamped with his seal or trade mark.
(2) Every such ticket shall be printed in a plain and legible type, accord- ing to the form in the Tenth Schedule, and shall be accompanied with a trans- lation thereof in the Chinese language, in plain and legible characters.
37. Every passage broker, before he receives or takes any money on account of any passage or for the, sale, or letting of the whole or any part of the accomodation of or in any such ship, shall produce to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs the certificate of the master or owner of the ship in respect of which a passage has been taken or the accomodation in which has been so sold or let, to the effect that such ship has been chartered for the purpose of carrying emigrants, and that such passage broker is authorised to received payment for such passage or for the sale or letting of the accomoda- tion in such ship; and such certificate shall be filed in the office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
38. (1) Every passage broker who has engaged to provide an emigrant with a passage shall, either, personally or by his duly authorised representa- tive, attend with such passenger at such place and time as may be appointed by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and in the presence of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or of such officer as the Secretary for Chinese Affairs may appoint the true intent and meaning of such passage ticket shall be explained to such emigrant with the object of ascertaining that such emigrant under- stands where he is going and that such emigrant is not acting under compulsion and is not being influenced to emigrate by false representations.
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(2) In the absence of any appointment by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the said attendance, in the case of all female emigrants, and in the case of all male emigrants who either are assisted emigrants or appear to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to be under the age of sixteen, shall take place at the office of the Secretary for Chinese affairs, and in the case of all other emigrants shall take place on board the emigrant ship.
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