Fee to be paid for licence.
Duration of licence.
Giving of notice of contract with
emigrant to Secretary for Chinese Affairs and Emigration Officer.
Giving of
contract ticket for
pussage,
10th Schedule.
Production
to Secretary for Chinese
Affairs of
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33. Every person obtaining such licence as aforesaid shall pay to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs a fee of 200 dollars, or where the duration of the licence is short snch reduced fee as the Governor-in-Council may authorise.
34. Such licence shall continuo in force until the 31st day of December in the year in which such licence is granted, and for 14 days afterwards, unless soouer for- feited as horeinbefore mentioned.
35. Every passage broker who contracts with any in tending 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 person for or in respect of a passage in any emigrant ship or British emigrant ship proceeding on any voyage shall give to such person a passage ticket, under the hand of such passage broker and stumped with his scul or trade mark.
(2.) Every such ticket shall be printed in a plain and legible type, according to the form in the 10th Sebedule to this Ordinance, and shall be accompanied with a translation 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 accommoda- certificate of tion of or in any such ship, shall produce to the Se- chartering
cretary for Chinese Affairs the certificate of the master ship for
or owner of the ship in respect of which a passage has carrying emigrants.
been taken or the accommodation in which has boen so 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 Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
Attendance before Secretary for Chines6 Affairs for purpose of delivering passage tickets to passengers.
Prohibition
broker
38. On every occasion of the delivery to nuy passenger of such
ticket as aforesaid, the passage
passage who has engaged to provide such passenger with a passage shall :-
(4.) in the case of every male Asiatic passenger who is an assisted emigrant or under the age of 16 years and of every female passenger, attend, either personally or by his duly authorised representative, with him or her at the office of or other place appointed by the Secretary for Chinesu Affairs, in whose pre- sence the passage ticket shall be delivered to such passenger, and who shall explain to such passenger the true intent and meaning of such pussago ticket with the object of ascertaining that he or she under- stands where he or she is going and that he or she is not acting under compulsion or being influenced to enigrato by false representations; and, (b.) in the case of every other Asiatic passenger attond, either personally or by his duly authorised representa- tive, with him at the medical inspection on board ship which inspection shall also be attended by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs in whoso presence the true intent and meaning of the passage ticket shall be explained to such passenger with the object of ascertaining that he understands where he is going and that he is not acting under compulsion or being influenced to emi- grate by false representations. Provided that when- ever it may appear desirable the Governor-in-Council may direct that any of the provisions of this sub- section may be dispensed with in the case of passen- gers travelling to any British possession.
39. No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be- of alteration altered, rendered useless, or destroyed, after it is onco issued, of passage
or shall fraudulently induce any person to part with, or ticket.
render useless, or destroy, any such passage ticket, until the termination of the passage which it is intounded to evidence.