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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1882.
(See Ordinance 5 of 1874, Sec. VII, Sub-sec. 8.)
"CHINESE EMIGRATION CONSOLIDATION ORDINANCE, 1874."
Know all men by these Presents, That we are held and firmly bound unto Our Sovereign Lady QUEEN VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, QUEEN, Defender of the Faith, in the Sum of One Thousand Dollars, to be paid to Our said Sovereign Lady The Queen, Her Heirs and Successors, for which Payment, well and truly to be made, we jointly and severally bind ourselves and each and every of us, and our respective Heirs, Executors, and Adminis- trators, firmly by these Presents,
Dated at Hongkong, this
Day of
Sealed with our Seals.
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Now the conditions of this Bond are as follows:-
1. That the Chinese Doctors certificated by the appointed Examiners will actually and bona fide sail in the
on a voyage to and will not quit the ship before the end of the said Voyage
ship
and will give proper attention to the health of the Chinese Passengers.
2. That the Medicines named by the Examiners in a List certified for the ship in question will actually be put on board, and be of good quality and of the quantities named in the List, and that they shall not be discharged from the Vessel before the end of the Voyage.
Certificate No.
I hereby certify that
Age
years; Height
feet and
is duly qualified for the post of Surgeon of a Chinese Emigrant Ship.
Title.
Preamble.
Emigration Officer.
HARBOUR DEPARTMENT, HONGKONG,
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inches; Native of
Emigration Officer, &c.
No. 5 OF 1876.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of
the Legislative Council thereof, to amend the Law relating to Chinese Passenger Ships and the Conveyance of Chinese Emigrants.
[26th April, 1876.]
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WHEREAS by section of The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874,"
it is enacted "that no Chinese passenger ship, except ships about to proceed on a voyage
of not more than thirty days' duration within the meaning of section VIII "of this Ordinance, shall clear out or proceed to sea, and the Emigration Officer shall "not grant the certificate prescribed by section IV of 'The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855,' unless the master of such ship shall be provided with a licence under the hand "of the Governor and the public seal of the Colony to be obtained in manner hereinafter "mentioned"; and (paragraph 2) "that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, "from time to time, to exempt from the operation of this section, any mail steamers or "other vessels which are subject to the provisions of The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855,' "provided that the Chinese passengers proceeding in such vessels be free emigrants and "under no contract of service whatever"; and whereas it is expedient that every Chinese passenger ship should be provided with a licence, and that the fee chargeable upon such licence should be reduced, and that the law should be amended as hereinafter provided: