Page
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1882. 115
(C.S.O. No. 1690 of 1869.)
EMIGRATION RULES.
Where Emigrants are under Contract of Service.
EMIGRATION DEPÔTS.
1.It shall not be lawful to open any House for the reception of intending Emigrants without a Licence first obtained as hereinafter under a Penalty of $300.
2. Every Licence shall be for six months, but may at any time be withdrawn by order of the Governor.
3.-Applications for the opening of Houses for the reception of Emigrants must be addressed to the Emigration Officer of the Port.
4.-Each application shall specify the number of persons proposed to be accommodated and shall describe generally the measures which have been adopted for the accommodation, cleanliness, and general health and comfort of the Emigrants, as well as for the separation of the sexes.
5.-After due inspection and approval by the Emigration Officer, Licences for the opening of an Emigration House or Houses, stating the number to be from time to time accommodated in each house, may be issued by the Colonial Secretary, on a certificate of previous examination and approval signed by the Colonial Surgeon, the Emigration Officer and the Registrar General,
6.-Suitable Hospital accommodation shall be provided in each House, and suitable Offices for The performance of their duties by the Emigration and other Public Officers.
7.-The door of each House must be opened at Sunrise and closed again at Sunset, and free egress and ingress without any let or hindrance whatever must, within such hours, be allowed to all the Emigrants resident therein and their friends; and the Police must at all hours have free access to every Emigration House.
8. Each Emigration House must have, what the Emigration Officer may consider, a sufficient number of Servants and Watchunen to secure order and cleanliness by day and night throughout the premises, and each Servant so employed must be duly registered.
9.--Any applicant for permission to engage Chinese for Emigration under contract shall furnish to the Emigration Officer written particulars as to the Lensed House or Houses in which the Emigrants are to be lodged, the name of the vessel in which they are to he embarked, the country for which they are destined, and the conditions or terms under which they are to be engaged.
SUPERVISION OF NOTICES FOR COLLECTION OF EMIGRANTS.
10.-Copies of all notices sent to the country for the collection of Emigrants must, previous to issue, be submitted to the Emigration Officer, who will take care that due warning is given in them to the effect, that no person will be received at an Emigration Houre unless he is strong and healthy, and that, in event of rejection on such account, he incurs the risk of defraying the cost of his return.
APPLICANTS FOR EMIGRATION.
11.-The Emigration Officer having given permission as aforesaid, the Employer or his Agent may submit daily to the Emigration Officer, at such time as the said Emigration Officer may appoint, such applicants for admission as may be desirous of emigrating, but no Emigrant shall be lodged except in cases of emergency, nor in such cases more than 24 hours, in any such Emigration House before being produced before the Emigration Officer, under a Penalty of $50 for infraction of this
Provision.
MEDICAL INSPECTION OF EMIGRANTS.
12.-Previous to registration each applicant shall be carefully examined by the Medical Officer. and if approved shall have the proposed Contract fully explained to him, after which he shall be registered in a Book kept for such purpose by the Emigration Officer. A copy of the Contract shall also be then and there handed to him.
FROM MEDICAL INSPECTION TO EMBARCATION OF EMIGRANTS.
13. After Medical Inspection and Registration each Emigrant may go away and return at the end of 4 days for final engagement, or remain in the Emigration House where suitable food and lodging shall be supplied to him.
SHIPPING LIST OF EMIGRANTS TO BE KEPT.
14.-A Shipping List shall be kept at each Emigration House in which the name of each Emigrant shall be entered, and extracts from every such list shall as required be given by the Emigration Officer to the Employer or his Agent as Shipping Permits.
EMBARCATION OF EMIGRANTS.
15.-No Emigrant shall be called upon to embark unless at such times as the Emigration Officer shall appoint, nor until 4 days at the least shall have elapsed from the date of his registration; and