THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH DECEMBER, 1885. 1101
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 494.
The following Regulations made by the Hawaiian Government in connexion with immigration into that Kingdom are published for general information.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th December, 1885.
HONOLULU, HAWAII,
September 15th, 1885.
No. 1. From this date no vessel coming from a foreign country will be allowed to land more than twenty-five (25) Chinese passengers at any port in the Hawaiian Kingdom, unless the passengers in excess of that number are provided with passports entitling them to enter the Kingdom.
No. 2. Passports entitling the holders to return to the Kingdom will be granted at the Foreign Office, Honolulu, to all persons of Chinese nationality now resident, or who may hereafter become resident on these Islands, who may desire to visit any foreign country, provided always that such persons have been engaged in trade, or have conducted some industrial enterprise during at least one year of their residence here. No return passports will be given to Chinese labourers leaving the country.
No. 3. Passports will be granted at the Foreign Office, Honolulu, also by His Majesty's Consul at Shanghai, and His Majesty's Consul-General at San Francisco to any Chinese women desiring to come to the Islands and to Chinese children whose parents are residing in the Kingdom, or who may not be more than ten years of age.
No. 4. Passports entitling the holder to enter the Kingdom will also be granted at the Foreign Office to such persons of Chinese nationality as the Minister of Foreign Affairs may claim it proper to admit to the Kingdom.
No. 5. The fee for any passport issued under this regulation shall be two dollars ($2).
No. 6. The holders of passports issued under these regulations must have the same indorsed with the visa of the Consular representative of this Kingdom at any port at which he may embark on his return journey, and also, at any port at which he may stay more than twenty-four hours during such return journey.
No. 7. The fee for the Consul's visa of each passport shall be one dollar.
No. 8. All orders and instructions regulating the incoming of Chinese into this Kingdom heretofore made and proclaimed are hereby rescinded, but nothing herein contained shall affect the validity of any passport issued at Hongkong before the proclamation there of these Regulations.
for:
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 495.
Separate tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Tuesday, the 29th December, instant,
1. Preparing 10,000, more or less, large Tree Pits in Hongkong.
2. Planting and manuring 10,000, more or less, Camphor Trees in Hongkong, and supply-
ing case baskets for the same.
For form of tender, apply at this Office.
For specifications and further particulars apply at the Office of the Botanical and Afforestation Department.
No tender will be received unless the person tendering produces a receipt to the effect that he has deposited in the Colonial Treasury the sum of $100, as a pledge of the bona fides of his offer for preparing Tree Pits, and $100 for Planting Trees and supplying Baskets, which sums shall be forfeited to the Crown if such person shall refuse to carry out his tender, should the tender be accepted.
The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th December, 1885.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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