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44.--(1.) It shall be lawful for the Registrar General Power to or the Emigration Officer, at any time when he is satisfied land that any emigrant who is unwilling to leave the port has emigrant been obtained by any fraud, violence, or other improper willing to means, to land such emigrant and procure him a passage leave port back to his native place or that from which he was taken, and who has and also to defray the cost of his maintenance whilst await- been ing a return passage.
(2.) All such expenses, with all legal costs incurred, shall be recoverable by the Registrar General or Emigration Officer before any Magistrate from the emigration passage broker of the vessel in which such emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped,
Emigration Bourding-houses.
procured by fraud, etc
embarking
45. No contract or assisted emigrant shall, without the Prohibition sanction of the Registrar General, be permitted to embark of Chinese in this Colony in any emigrant ship on any short, long or emigrant extended voyage unless he has been lodged in a hotel or otherwise boarding-house licensed under this Ordinance during a than from period of not less than forty-eight hours previous to the licensed examination by the Registrar General.
boarding- house.
46.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Registrar General to Licensing of license a sufficient number of fit and proper persons to boarding- keep hotels and boarding-hoases for contract and assisted emigrants.
(2.) Every such licence 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 the next succeeding section.
(3.) Every hotel or 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 Registrar General, for the due observance of such terms and conditions.
houses.
houses.
47-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council Power to to make rules for the licensing, regulation, and sanitary make rules maintenance of such hotels or boarding-houses, and with for boarding- regard to all emigrants residing therein, and by such rules to require such register or other books to be kept as he may deem expedient, with regard to all visitors to such hotels and boarding-houses and to contract or assisted emigrants.
(2.) Every person who commits a breach of any rule made under this section shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars,
48.-(1.) The keeper of every such hotel or boarding- Furnishing house shall supply the Registrar General with a return of return of all emigrants who are inmates of the house, giving their particulars of
emigrants number, names, descriptions and such other particulars as before em- the Registrar General may direct together with the name of barkation. 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 Registrar General and shall be in such form as he may direct.
Photographs.
49. The keeper of every licensed hotel or boarding- Furnishing house from which any contract or assisted emigrant is to photographs be shipped or in the case of every male emigrant under the of certain
Chinese age of sixteen years and of all female emigrants the
pas- emigrants. sage broker who provides the passage shall attend at the Registrar General's Office or other place appointed for the examination to be held by the Registrar General, and shall then furnish the Registrar General with two copies of the photograph of every such emigrant, with the names, ages and number of the said emigrants, numbered to cor- respond with a list containing the names, ages, sex, destina- tion, occupation and any other particulars which may be required by the Registrar General concerning each person entered thereon tegether with the name of the ship by which each person intends to sail and the date of departure.
(2.) It shall be lawful for the Registrar General to Employment employ a certain number of fit and respectable photograph- of photo- ers to furnish the photographs required by this section. graphers.
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