1036 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH NOVEMBER, 1888.
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passengers; this space shall be either under the poop, or in the round-house, or in any deck-house which shall be properly built and secured to the satisfaction of such Emigra- tion Officer, or on the upper passenger deck, and not elsewhere, and shall in no case be of less dimensions than eighteen clear superficial feet for every fifty passengers which the ship shall carry. Every such hospital shall be fitted with bed places, and supplied with proper beds, bedding, and utensils, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the port of clearance, and shall throughout the voyage be kept so fitted and supplied.
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(2.) In the measurement of the passenger decks, for the purpose of determining the number of passengers to be carried in any such Chinese passenger ship, the space for the hospital shall be included.
[41.] No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on any voyage of more than seven days' duration, until the proper medical officer as provided shall have certified to the Emigration Officer, and the said Emigration Officer shall not grant his certificate unless he is satisfied, that none of the passengers or crew appear by reason of any bodily or mental disease, unfit to proceed or likely to endanger the health or safety of other persons about to proceed in such vessel; and a medical inspection of the passengers for the purposes of giving such certificate shall take place either on board the vessel, or, at the discretion of the said Emigration Officer, at such time and on shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint; and the master, owner, or charterer of the ship, shall pay to the Emigration Officer a sum at the rate of twenty-five current dollars, for every hundred persons so examined, and such Emigration Officer shall pay the same into the treasury to the use of the Crown.
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[42.] The medical inspection of emigrants under contracts of service shall take place on shore before embarkation as well as on board the said ship after embarkation and the Emigra- tion Officer shall not grant the certificate required by Chinese Passengers Act 1855," unless he shall be satisfied that such double inspection has been duly made, or has been dispensed with by the sanction of the Governor.
[43.] It shall not be lawful for any emigrant under contract of service to embark in any Chinese passenger ship, or for the master or other person on board of a Chinese passenger ship to permit any such emigrant to embark therein, unless such emigrant shall produce an embarkation permit from the Emigration Officer, who shall not grant the same unless he : shall be satisfied that such emigrant has undergone our shore the medical inspection required by law to be made before embarkation.
[44.] The medical inspection of emigrants required to be made after their embarkation in any Chinese passenger ship shall take place at such time as the Emigration Officer shall appoint.
[45.] Any Chinese medical practitioner properly qualified to the satisfaction of the Colonial Surgeon shall be eligible, with approval of the Governor, for the office of surgeon of a Chinese passenger ship for the purposes of "The Chinese Passengers Act 1855" or of this Ordinance.
Regulations for voyages of not more than thirty days' duration.
and properly fitted up.
Space for hospital to be included in
neasurement of capacity for passengers. [Ibid. subs. 2.J
Medical. examination before sailing. [Ibid. subs. 4]
Medical
inspection of emigrants under contract of service. [Ibil. subs. 5.]
No emigrant to embark or be received on board without a permit. [Ibid. subs. 6.]
Emigration Officer to. appoint time for medical inspection after embark- ation.
[Ibid. subs. 7.] Chinese
medical practitioner may be surgeon of
Chinese passenger ship.
Ibid. subs. 8.]
Modified regulations for voyages of not more than thirty days' duration.
1374 s. 8.]
[46.] All ships clearing out or proceeding to sea ́upou voyages of not more than thirty days' duration, shall be F subject to the modified regulations contained in schedule [I]
of this Ordinance which as regards such ships shall be. (See Ord. 5 of substituted for those contained in schedule A of "The Chinese Passengers Act 1855,” but nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to relieve Chinese passenger ships from the operation of the said Act, except so far as the same is by the said schedule expressly modified.
words "Special licences"
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[47.] The voyages specified in schedule [Z] to this Ordi- nance arc hereby declared to be voyages of not more than thirty days' duration, subject as regards steamers to the conditions as to their rate of speed and as regards sailing vessels to the conditions as to the periods of the year during which the voyage shall be performed, in the said schedule respectively expressed and contained.
50. [48.] Sections [46 and 47] shall not be construed as affect- ing any Chinese passenger ship which is about to proceed to sea on a voyage of not more than seven days' duration.
and Sec. 51 to 57 40. entered here.
Depôts for emigrants under contract of service. [49.] The owners or charterers of every Chinese passen- ger ship which is about to convey emigrants under contracts of service shall, as soon as such ship is laid on for the con- veyance of such emigrants, provide depôts, to be approved
Voyages declared to be
of not more than thirty days' duration. Lid. subs. 2.}
Not to affect ships not
within The Chinese Passengers Act."
Ibid. subs. 3.]
Depits to be provided for The lodging of unigrants. [Ibid, suc. 9.]