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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH JANUARY, 1889.
Governor's licence,
condition and
fees.
{Ibid. sec. 2
subs, 6.]
.
Emigration officer'alicenas, conditions and fees.
Licence to specify time of departure; proviso for extension thereof. [Ibid. sec. 2 subs. 7.]
The Governor may authorise labourers and nervants to be engaged for persons in British possessions, Ibid. sec. 2 Bubb. 8.]
This
Ordinance not
to prevent Chinese
passengers from travelling in first or second class
cabins as other nationalities. [Ibid. sec. X subs. 9.]
Power to remove master or other officer, [Ibid. sec. 2. inba, 10.]
Power to
revoke and cancel licence. [Ibid, sec. ? subs. 11.1
11. The granting of any licence shall be in the discretion of the Governor in Council, and shall be subject to the payment of a fee of five dollars, and to such conditions as may, from time to time, be prescribed under instructions from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Governor in Council may impose such conditions on the granting of any licence as he shall think expedient in each particular case, provided the same shall not be contrary to or inconsistent with such instructions.
12. The granting of any licence under section 8 shall be in the discretion of the Emigration Officer and shall be subject to a payment of a fee of five dollars and to such conditions as may from time to time be prescribed, and the Emigration Officer may impose such conditions on the grant- ing of the application as he shall think expedient in each particular case, provided the same shall not be contrary to or inconsistent with such instructions.
13. Every licence, other than a general licence, granted under this Ordinance in respect of any Chinese passenger ship shall specify the period within which such ship shall clear out and proceed to sea: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, or Emigration Officer who granted the licence, from time to time, to extend such period.
14. The Governor in Council may, in his discretion autho- rize any person to engage any specified number of Chinese artisans, mechanics, labourers, or servants for any person resident in any British possession, and to make contracts in writing on behalf of such resident with the persons so engaged. Every such contract shall be made in triplicate, and one part shall be lodged in the office of the Emigration Officer; and such part shall be admissible in evidence without a stamp.
Any vessel provided with a general licence may carry any persons so engaged. without thereby affecting her licence.
15. Nothing in this Ordinance, shall prevent passengers, natives of Asia, from travelling in the first class cabin of any vessel which is provided with a general licence, on the same terms as passengers of other nationalities; or in the first or second class cabin, if the vessel carries more than two classes of passengers.
Such passengers are hereby exempted from the necessity of obtaining contract passage tickets, or of submitting themselves to be mustered or inspected by any Emigration Officer, or medical officer, or other person.
Such passengers shall, however, be reckoned in calcu- lating the number of passengers, natives of Asia, who are carried by the said vessel.
16. In case it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, at any time before the departure of a Chinese passenger ship, that the master, mate, or any other. officer of such ship is unfit for the proper discharge of his duties by reason of incompetency or misconduct, or for any other sufficient cause, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by order under his hand, to direct the dismissal and removal of such master, mate, or other officer from the said ship, and thereupon the owners or charterers thereof, or their agents, shall forthwith dismiss or remove such master, or mate, or other officer, as the case may be, and appoint another in his place to be approved by the Emigration Officer, in the place of the one so discharged and removed as aforesaid.
17. In any of the following cases, namely:-
(a.) If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Gover- nor in Council, or of the Emigration Officer granting the licence at any time before the de- parture of a Chinese passenger ship, that the particulars furnished to him in relation thereto under the 7th section are untrue, or that any condition of the said licence has been violated; (b.) If any Chinese passenger ship shall fail to clear out and proceed to sea, within the period specified in the licence, or within such extended period as aforesaid; (c.) If the owners or charterers of a Chinese-passenger ship shall fail forthwith to dismiss or remove any master, mate, or other officer ordered to be dis missed or removed and to appoint a master, mate or other officer to be approved as aforesaid.