Application
of penalty for breach of the Ordin-
ance
recoverable under the
Act.
Grant of spe- cial licence to mail or first class steamer, subject to certain regulations.
Fourth Schedule.
Power to
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22. It shall be lawful for the Governer-in-Council to apply the whole or any part of the penalties recoverable under section 5 of the Act for the non-observance or non- performance of the regulations made under this Ordinance or the Act towards the expenses of reconveying to their homes or transferring to another ship emigrants who were intending to proceed in any vessel whose licence has been revoked in manner hereinbefore provided.
23. (1.) The Governor may, in his discretion, and on payment of a fee of fifteen dollars, grant a special licence for any period not exceeding twelve months, or for any number of voyages to be performed within twelve months, to any steamer which is regularly employed in the conveyance of public mails under an existing contract with the Govern- ment of the State or Colony for which such mails are carried, or to any other steamer which is approved by the Governor as a first class steamer.
(2.) Such special licence shall authorize the steamer named therein to carry a limited number of free Asiatic emigrants on voyages of not more than thirty days dura- tion between ports to be specified in the licence, under and subject to the regulations contained in the Fourth Schedule to this Ordinance.
(3.) The number of passengers to be carried shall be inserted in the licence, and shall in no case exceed one passenger for every ten tons of the registered tonnage of such steamer.
24. The Governor may, if he thinks fit. annex any anues special special conditions to the granting of any special licence conditions to applied for under this Ordinance, and may cause such spe- cial conditious to be specified in the licence: Provided that the same shall not be contrary to or inconsistent with the Act or with this Ordinance.
grant of licence.
Cancellation
of special liecnce.
Specially licensed steamer
relieved from other
regulations. Fifth
Schedule.
Modified regulations
for voyages of not more than thirty
days
duration.
Fifth
Schedule.
Power to authorize labourers
and servants to be en- gaged for person in British possession.
25. A special licence granted under this Ordinance may at any time be cancelled by the Governor in his dis- cretion.
26. Every steamer to which a special licence is granted under this Ordinauce shall, during the continuance of such licence, be relieved from the regulations contained in the Fifth Schedule to this Ordinance, but nothing herein contained shall be deemed to relieve such steamer from the operation of any part of the Act, except the regulations contained in the said Schedule A thereto.
27. All emigrant ships and British emigrant ships clear- ing out or proceeding to sea on any short or long voyage shall be subject to the modified regulations contained in the Fifth Schedule to this Ordinance, which as regards such ship shall be substituted for those contained in Schedule 4 of the Act, but nothing in this section shall be deemed to relieve such ships from the operation of the Act, except so far as the same is by the said Schedule expressly modified.
PART III.
Provisions relating to Emigrants and their Passages.
28.-(1.) The Governor-in-Council may, subject to the approval of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, authorize any properly accredited agent of the Government of any British possession, or of any person resident in a British possession holding the authority and licence of the Governor thereof, to engage any speci- fied number of Asiatic artisans, mechanics, labourers, or servants for any person resident in any British possession and to make contracts in writing in a form to be approved by the Governor-in-Council on behalf of such resident with the persons so engaged,
(2.) Every such contract shall be made in triplicate and one part shall be lodged in the office of the Registrar General; and such part shall be admissible in evidence without a stamp.
(3.) Any vessel provided with a general licence may carry any persons so engaged without thereby affecting her licence.
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