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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1882.
NOTICE.
EMIGRATION,
HARBOUR DEPARTMENT, HONGKONG, 14th September, 1875.
The following information is supplied to Masters of Vessels about to carry Chinese Passengers under The Chinese- Passengers' Act, 1855, and Local Ordinances:—
1. Imperial Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855.—Any vessels clearing with more than twenty (20) Asiaties on a voyage of more than seven (7) days' duration is a Chinese Passenger ship.
2. Proclamations of 26th January, 1856, and 17th November, 1858.-Declare the length of certain voyages.
3. Ordinance No. 5 of 1874.-Section III. gives the legal definition of a short voyage.
Ordinance No. 5 of 1876, No. 1 of 1878, and No. 6 of 1879 have since been added.
PART I.
4. Section IV.-Notice of ship being laid on as a Chinese Passenger ship to be given to Emigration Officer.
5. Section V.-No Chinese Passenger ship, except ships about to proceed on a voyage of not more than thirty (30) days' duration within the meaning of Section VIII, shall clear out, unless the Master of such ship shall be provided with a Licence, or shall have been specially exempted under Para. 2 of this Section.
6. This Section describes the mode of application for a Licence, and it also empowers the Governor in Council to remove any Officer from an Emigrant ship who is unfit for the proper discharge of his duties.
7. Section VI. prohibits any persons from the sale or letting of passages in any Chinese Passenger ship, unless suc person shall have procured a Licence.
8. Section VII.-Every Chinese Passenger ship, except ships clearing under the provisions of Section VIII., shall be provided with a Hospital, properly fitted with Beds, Bedding, and Utensils.
9. Par. 4.-All the Passengers and Crew shall be medically examined before the departure of the ship.
10. Par. 8.-Chinese Medical Practitioners may be Surgeons of Chinese Passenger ships.
11. Section VIII. contains modified regulations for ships clearing out on voyages of not more than thirty (30) days' duration.
12. Section IX. treats of vessels about to convey Emigrants under contract of service.
13. Par. 2.-Emigrants under contract of service shall lodge at least three (3) clear days in a Depôt, approved of and under the supervision of the Emigration Officer.
14. Section X.-Orders of Her Majesty the Queen in Council relating to the quantity of water to be carried by Pas- senger ships having a certain description of Condensing Apparatus shall apply to Chinese Passenger ships.
15. Section XI-No sailing Chinese Passenger ship bound to any port westward of the Cape of Good Hope, or to any Port in Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, or Tasmania, is permitted to clear between the months of April and September inclusive.
PART II.
16. Section XIV.-Notice is to be given to the Emigration Officer of intention to fit any vessel for the conveyance of Chinese Emigrants to be embarked at any port or place out of the Colony.
17. Par. 2.-The Master of any ship arriving within the waters of the Colony, and which is fitted for the conveyance of Chinese Emigrants, is to report the same to the Emigration Officer.
18. Par. 3.-All Fittings are subject to the approval of the Emigration Officer.
19. Par. 4.-No ship fitting or fitted under this Section shall proceed to sea without the Emigration Officer's Certificate. 20. Pur. 5.—Barricades and Gratings are prohibited.
21. Section XV.-No Chinese Emigrant ship within the provisions of this Section shall be fitted, manned, or equipped, unless the Master thereof shall have procured a Licence from the Governor.
RULES.
1. The Master of a Chinese Passenger Ship enters into a Bond of One Thousand Pounds that every and all of the Requirements of the Chinese Passengers' Act, and of the Regulations issued under the Act, or by the Legislature of Hong- kong, shall be well and truly observed.
2. These Regulations apply more especially to the accommodation, medical attendance, and regular daily issue of pro- visions, fuel, and water. It is, therefore, the Master's interest, and he should make it his especial care, to see that the fittings are strong, and that the full quantity of provisions, medicine, dieal comforts, fuel and water, are on board; and, that after these articles are on board and have been passed by the or Officer from this Office, they are carefully and securely stowed away.
3. When the articles above-mentioned are stowed away, the Emigration Officer will, if necessary, cause the hatches, &c., to be sealed down. These seals must not be broke until the ship is beyond the waters of the Colony.
4. Emigration under contract of service is prohibir unless the ship shall be proceeding to a British Colony. 5. When a ship is about to convey Chinese Pas
, the Master is to notify the Emigration Officer, in writing, to that effect, naming the Licensed Passage Broker authorised to issue Passage Tickets, and forwarding, at the same time, a copy of the Government Surveyor's Certificate of Measurement.
6. The vessel will then be inspected by the Emigration Officer, who will pass or reject her as he shall see fit.
7. When the vessel is passed, the Agent or Charterer will make the usual application for a Licence, on a form to be obtained at this Office, and, if granted, the Master, with two approved Sureties, must attend at the Emigration Office and In the case of a vessel proceeding on a execute the Bond required under Section IV of The Chinese Passengers' Act. voyage under the provisions of Section VIII, a Licence is not required.
8. When the ship's voyage is approved, she is to be fitted with such berths, booby hatches, ladders, hospital, privies, &c., as may be directed by the Emigration Officer.
9. If the vessel is to carry Female Passengers, a place separated from the Male Passengers must be appropriated to their use, conveniences for them being placed aft.
10. Between the bunks of married couples there must be a division board not less than 22 inches high.
11. When the provisions are taken in, they must not be stowed away without the sanction of the Emigration Officer, who will not pass (in vessels about to proceed on voyages of over thirty (30) days' duration) any Chinese preserved Beef or Pork; nor Fish cured with their entrails remaining in them.
12. The water should be taken on board at an early period to admit of the casks taking up.