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Circular.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH JANUARY, 1882.
NEW SOUTH WALES.
详
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
SYDNEY, 8th December, 1881.
SIR,-I have the honour to transmit for your information, two copies of the Influx of Chinese Restriction Act, passed by the Parliament of this Colony, and assented to on behalf of Her Majesty.
I have the honour to be,
The Honourable THE COLONIAL SECRETARY
of Hongkong.
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
HENRY PARKES.
Preamble.
Interpretation.
Master on arrival to
on board.
No. XI.
An Act to restrict the Influx of Chinese into New South Wales.
[Assented to, 6th December, 1881.]
HEREAS it is expedient to regulate and restrict the Immigration and Introduction of Chinese into New South Wales Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows:—
1. For the purposes of this Act the following words in inverted commas shall unless the context otherwise indicate bear the meanings set against them respectively ;-
"Chinese"-Any person of the Chinese race.
Vessel "-Any ship or vessel of whatsoever kind or description.
"
"Master -The person (other than a pilot) for the time being in actual
command or charge of any vessel.
2. The master of every vessel upon arrival at any port or place in this Colony give list of Chinese from parts beyond the Colony having Chinese on board shall before making any entry at the Customs deliver to the Collector or other principal officer of Customs a list of such Chinese specifying to the best of his knowledge the name the place of birth the apparent age the ordinary place of residence the place and date of shipment and the calling or occupation of each such Chinese under a penalty for not delivering such list not exceeding two hundred pounds.
Number of Chinese to be brought to Colony by vessel.
Penalty.
Ten pounds to be
arriving by vessel.
3. If any vessel having on board a greater number of Chinese than in the proportion of one Chinese to hundred tons of the tonnage of such vessel shall arrive at any
every time in any port in this Colony the owner master or charterer of such vessel shall be liable on conviction to a penalty of one hundred pounds for each Chinese carried in excess of the foregoing limitation unless the defendant shall show that the Chinese so carried is a British subject or one of the crew or has not been landed in the Colony and is not intended to be so landed For the purposes of this Act the tonnage of a vessel shall be ascertained (if she be a British ship) by her certificate of registry and if not or if the said certificate shall not be produced then according to the rules of measurement prescribed by the "Merchant Shipping Act 1854," being the Act of the Imperial Legislature seventeenth and eighteenth Victoria chapter one hundred and four.
4. Before any Chinese arriving from parts beyond this Colony shall be permitted paid for each Chinese to land from any vessel at any port or place in the said Colony and before making any entry at the Customs the master of the vessel by which such Chinese shall so arrive shall pay to the said Collector or other principal officer the sum of ten pounds for every such Chinese and no entry shall be deemed to have any legal effect until such payment shall have been made and such Chinese for whom such sum has been paid shall receive from the said Collector or other principal officer a certificate to that effect And if any master shall neglect to pay any such sum or shall land or permit to land or suffer to land or to escape from such vessel at any port or place in the said Colony any Chinese before such sum shall have been paid by such master or his agent or before such list shall have been delivered such master shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty of fifty pounds for each Chinese so landed or permitted or suffered to land or to escape and in addition to such penalty shall also pay the sum hereby required to be paid for each such Chinese.
Penalty.