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Passage Brokers.
broker with-
29.-(1.) No person shall act as a passenger broker or Prohibition in procuring passengers for. or in the sale or letting of of person passages in, any emigrant ship proceeding on any short, acting as long or extended voyage unless he has, with two sufficient passage sureties, to be approved by the Registrar General, entered out having into a joint and several bond in the sum of five thousand entered into dollars to His Majesty, his heirs and successors, according bond and to the form in the Sixth Schedule to this Ordinance, which
obtained licence. bond shall be renewed on each occasion of obtaining such Sixth licence as hereinafter mentioned, and shall be deposited Schedule, with the Registrar General; nor unless such person has obtained a licence to let or sell passages; nor unless such licence is then in force,
(2.) Where different members of the same firm act as passage brokers, each person so acting shall comply with the terms of this section.
broker's
Schedule.
30. Any person wishing to obtain a licence to act as Mode of a passage broker shall make application for the same to the obtaining Registrar General who is hereby authorized, if he thinks fit, passage to grant such licence, according to the from in the Seventh licence, and Schedule to this Ordinance: Provided always that no such forfeiture licence shall be granted unless such bond as is mentioned thereof. in the last preceding section has been first entered into: Seventh Provided, also, that any Magistrate who adjudicates on any offence committed by such broker against this Ordinance is hereby authorized to order the offender's licence to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited ac- cordingly and the said Magistrate making such order shall forthwith cause notice of such forfeiture, in the form in the Eighth Schedule to this Ordinance, to be transmitted Eighth to the Registrar General, and such forfeiture shall be Schedule. exclusive and independent of any other punishment which may be inflicted upon such offender under the provisions of this Ordinance.
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31. Every person obtaining such licence as aforesaid Fee to be shall pay to the Registrar General a fee of two hundred paid for dollars, or where the duration of the licence is short such reduced fee as the Governor-in-Council may authorise.
licence.
32. Such licence shall continue in force until the thirty- Duration of first day of December in the year in which such licence is licence. granted, and for fourteen days afterwards, unless sooner forfeited as hereinbefore mentioned.
33.-(1.) Every passage broker who receives money Giving of from any person for or in respect of a passage in any contract emigrant ship proceeding on any short, long or extended ticket for voyage shall give to such person a contract passage ticket, Passage, 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 Ninth legible type, according to the form in the Ninth Schedule to Schedule, this Ordinance, and shall be accompanied with a translation thereof in the Chinese language, in plain and legible characters.
certificate of
34. Every passage broker, before he receives or takes Production any money on account of any passage or for the sale or to Emigra- letting of the whole or any part of the accommodation of tion Officer of or in any such ship proceeding from this Colony, shall chartering produce to the Registrar General the certificate of the ship for master or owner of the ship in respect of which a passage carrying has been taken or the accommodation in which has been so, emigrants. sold or let, to the effect that such ship has been chartered for the purpose of carrying emigrants, and that such pas- sage broker is authorized to receive payment for such passage or for the sale or letting of the accommodation in such ship; and such certificate shall be filed in the office of the Registrar General.
before
General or Officer for
35. On every occasion of the delivery to any passenger Attendance of such contract passage ticket as aforesaid, the passage
Registrar broker who has engaged to provide such passenger with a passage shall:
(1.) in the case of every male Asiatic passenger who is purpose of
a contract or assisted emigrant or under the age delivering
of sixteen years and of every female passenger, attend, passage either personally or by his duly authorised representa- tickets to tive, with him or her at the office of or other place passengers. appointed by the Registrar General, in whose presence the contract passage ticket shall be delivered to such
contract