THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 31ST JULY, 1875.
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Sec. 5. That it shall be unlawful for aliens of the following classes to immigrate into the United States namely persons who are undergoing a sentence for conviction in their own country of felonious crimes other than political or growing out of or the result of such political offences or whose sentence has been remitted on condition of their emigration, and women "imported for the purposes of prostitu- tion. Every vessel arriving in the United States may be inspected under the direction of the Collec- tor of the port at which it arrives if he shall have reason to believe that any such obnoxious persons are on board; and the officer making such inspection shall certify the result thereof to the master or person in charge of such vessel, designating in such certificate the person or persons, if any there be, ascertained by him to be of either of the classes whose importation is hereby forbidden. When such inspection is required by the collector as aforesaid it shall be unlawful without his permission for any alien to leave any such vessel arriving in the United States from a foreign country until the inspection shall have been had and the result certified as herein provided and at no time thereafter shall any alien certified to by the inspecting officer as being of either of the classes whose immigration is forbidden by this section, be allowed to land in the United States except in obedience to a judicial process issued pursuant to law. If any person shall feel aggrieved by the certificate of such inspecting officer stating him or her to be within either of the classes whose immigration is forbidden by this section, and shall apply for release or other remedy to any proper Court or Judge, then it shall be the duty of the col- lector at said port of entry to detain said vessel until a hearing and determination of the matter are had, to the end that if the said inspector shall be found to be in accordance with this section and sustained the obnoxious person or persons shall be returned on board of said vessel, and shall not thereafter be permitted to land unless the master, owner, or consignee of the vessel shall give bond and security to be approved by the Court or Judge hearing the cause in the sum of five hundred dollars for each such person permitted to land conditioned for the return of such person, within six months from the date thereof, to the country whence his or her emigration shall have taken place, or unless the vessel bring- ing such obnoxious person or persons shall be forfeited in which event the proceeds of such forfeiture shall be paid over to the collector of the port of arrival and applied by him, as far as necessary, to the return of such person or persons to his or her own country within the said period of six months. And for all violations of this Act, the vessel by the acts, omissions or connivance of the owners, master, or other custodian, or the consignees of which the same are committed shall be liable to forfeiture and may be proceeded against as in cases of frauds against the revenue laws for which forfeiture is prescribed by existing law.
No. 137.
Approved March 3rd, 1875.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice to Mariners, received from the Admiralty, is published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th July, 1875.
The substance of this Notice, as soon as it is received on board, is to be inserted in red ink on the Charts affected by it; and introduced into the margin, or otherwise in the page, of the Sailing Directions to which it relates. See Instructions, Navigation and Pilotage, p. 172.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
[No. 62.]
JAPAN-YEDO BAY,
(1) Fixed Green Light off Haneda Point.
The Japanese Government has given Notice, that from the 15th March 1875 a light would be exhibited from a screw- pile lighthouse recently erected off Haneda point, south point of Yedo anchorage, Yedo bay.
The light is a fixed green light, visible over the bay between the bearings of N.E. by E. & E. and S.S.E. } E., elevated 40 feet above the level of high water, and in clear weather should be seen from a distance of 8 miles.
The illuminating apparatus is of the fourth order.
The lighthouse, 60 feet high, is built of iron, and painted white; it is situated about 500 yards inshore of the northern- most black buoy which marks the edge of the bank off Haneda point (Kawi Saki) and stands in 7 feet water at low water.
Approximate position, lat. 35° 31′ 35′′ N., long. 139° 47′ 20′′ E.
STRAIT OF TSUGAR.
(2) Alteration in Anomori Harbour Light.
Also, that from the same date, the following alteration would be made in Awomori harbour light :- The light would be changed from a fixed white light to a fixed red light.
[All Bearings are Magnetic. Variation 33° Westerly in 1875.] By Command of their Lordships,
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, 8th May 1875.
This Notice affects the following Admiralty Charts:---
FREDK J. EVANS,
Hydrographer.
(1) Nipon island, &c., No. 2347; Yedo bay, No. 2657; Kuril islands, &c., No. 2405; and Kii channels to Yedo, No. 996: Also, Admiralty List of Lights in South Africa, Japan, &c., 1875, page 28; and China Sea Directory, Vol. IV., page 187.
(2) Nipon island, &c., No. 2347; Tsugar strait, No. 2441; and Awomori bay, No. 101; Also, Admiralty List of Lights in South Africa, Japan, &c., 1875, page 28; and China Sea Directory, Vol. IV., page 327.