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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH SEPTEMBER, 1874.
3. Every such depôt as aforesaid shall be under the su- Supervision of pervision of the Emigration Officer who may inspect the same at depôts, such times as he shall think fit, and there shall be at all times [Ibid, sec. 7.] free ingress and egress allowed to all persons to and from such depôts, from 6 A,м. to 6 P.M.
Orders in Council relating to quantity of water.
X. All Orders of Her Majesty the Queen in Council relating Orders in to the quantity of water to be carried by passenger ships Council to ap- having a certain description of condensing apparatus shall ply to Chinese apply to Chinese passenger ships.
No Chinese passenger ship unless propelled by steam to clear between April and September.
passenger ships. [Ibid, sec. 15.]
to clear be-
XI. No Chinese passenger ship, unless a vessel propelled No Chinese by steam, bound to any port westward of the Cape of Good passenger ship Hope or to any port in Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, or tween April Tasmania shall be permitted to clear from any port in the Colony and eptember. between the months of April and September inclusive.
[Ibid, sec. 16.]
Unwilling emigrants.
XII. It shall be lawful for the Emigration Officer at any Emigration Officer may time when he is satisfied that any emigrant who is unwilling to
land any emi- leave the port has been obtained by any fraud, violence, or other
grant who is improper means, to land such emigrant and procure him a passage unwilling to back to his native place or that from which he was taken, and also leave the port to defray the cost of his maintenance whilst awaiting a return and who has
been procured passage, and all such expenses with all legal costs incurred shall
by any fraud, be recoverable by the Emigration Officer before any Police Magis- &c. trate from the Emigration passage broker of the vessel in which [Ibid, sec. 18.] such emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped.
obtaining
2. Whosoever shall unlawfully either by force or fraud Punishment take away or detain against his will any man or boy with intent for improperly to put him on board a Chinese passenger ship and whosoever emigrants. shall with any such intent receive, harbor, or enter into any con- [Ibid, sec. 19.] tract for foreign service with any such man or boy knowing the same to have been by force or fraud taken and obtained as in this paragraph before mentioned, shall be guilty of felony and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
Penalties for breach of Ordinance.
mitting any
XIII. The owners or charterers of any Chinese passenger Punishment of ship and any emigration passage broker and any intending persons com- emigrant by a Chinese passenger ship and any master or other breach of this person in charge of a Chinese passenger ship who shall fail to Ordinance. comply with or commit any breach of the provisions of part I [Ibid, sec. 21.] of this Ordinance so far as they may respectively be bound there- by, and any person granting or knowingly uttering any forged certificate, permit, notice, or other document under this Or- dinance shall, without prejudice to any other proceeding, civil or criminal, be liable upon summary conviction before a Ma- gistrate to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months.
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PART II.
EMIGRATION FROM PORTS OUT OF THE COLONY,
Emigrant ship fittings.
XIV. Before beginning to fit out any ship intended to be used Notice to for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants to be embarked at any Emigration
Officer. port or place out of the Colony, a notice to that effect shall be
[Ord. 3 of given in writing to the Emigration Officer, and such notice shall 1873, sec. 4.] be signed by the owner and master of such ship, or in the event of the owner not being resident within the Colony, by the agent and master thereof, and in case such notice shall not have been given, the owner and master, or the agent and master of such ship, as the case may be, shall be guilty of an offence against this section, and shall be liable to the punishment hereinafter prescribed: Provided always that where there shall be no agent of an absent owner in the Colony, the notice may be signed by the master alone.
Officer. [Ibid, sec. 5.]
2. The master of every ship arriving within the waters of the Report to Colony and which shall be fitted out for the conveyance of Emigration Chinese emigrants shall, within twenty-four hours, report the same to the Emigration Officer, and in case he shall neglect so to do, he shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this section, and shall be liable to the punishment hereinafter prescribed.
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