THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH MAY, 1867.
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XII. The Fees heretofore payable to the Medical Practitioner effecting such Fees how payable. Inspection shall be paid in the first instance by the Charterer of such Ship to the Emigration Officer and by him paid into the Treasury.
XIII. Any one or more Chinese Medical Practitioner or Practitioners properly Chinese Medical qualified to the satisfaction of the Colonial Surgeon shall be eligible with approval of Practitioners approv- the Governor for the office of Surgeon of a Chinese Passenger Ship within the terms of may be Surgeons of Schedule A of the "Chinese Passenger's Act 1855."
ed by Colonial Surgeon
Chinese Passenger Ships.
XIV. In all cases where a Chinese Medical Practitioner shall be appointed Surgeon Chinese Medicines of a Chinese Passenger Ship the whole or any portion of the Medicines and Medical and Medical Comforts. Comforts required to be placed on board by the said Schedule may be dispensed with provided that in lieu thereof suitable and sufficient Medicines and Medical Comforts adapted to the method of treatment pursued by the Chinese shall be placed on board according to a scale to be approved of by the Colonial Surgeon.
the 5th Day of
XV. The Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council dated the 5th Day of Order in Council of December 1865 relating to the quantity of Water to be carried by Passenger Ships December 1865 to having a certain description of Condensing Apparatus shall apply to Chinese Passenger apply to Chinese Ships.
Passenger Ships.
committing any
XVI. The Owners or Charterers of every Chinese Passenger Ship and Emigration Punishment of Persons Passage Broker and every intending Emigrant by a Chinese Passenger Ship and every form of this Master or other Person in charge of a Chinese Passenger Ship who shall fail to comply with Ordinance. or commit any Breach of the Provisions of this Ordinance or any Regulations and Bye-Laws to be framed under this Ordinance in pursuance of Section VII so far as they may respectively be bound thereby and every Person granting or know- ingly uttering any forged Certificate, Permit, Notice, or other Document under this Ordinance shall without prejudice to any other Proceeding Civil or Criminal be liable upon summary conviction before a Magistrate to a Fine not exceeding $500 or to Imprisonment with or without Hard Labor for any Term not exceeding Six Months.
XVII. No Chinese Passenger Ship bound to any Port Westward of the Cape of No Chinese Passenger Good Hope shall be permitted to clear from any Port in the Colony between the Months Ship to clear between of May and September inclusive.
May and September.
XVIII. The Governor in Council may from time to time make alter and revoke The Governor in any Bye-Laws for Regulating the Fees payable on account of Medical Inspection and Council may make Supervision under the "Chinese Passenger's Act 1855" and may also make alter and By-Laws. revoke any Bye-Laws and Regulations for giving effect to this or any other Ordinance of the Colony in force for the time being relating to Chinese Passenger Ships, and generally for better carrying into effect the Provisions and objects of the said Act and Ordinances respectively.
Act 1855"
may be
XIX. For the purpose of this Ordinance the Forms prescribed by Section IV of Forms in Schedules of the "Chinese Passenger Act 1855" and contained in Schedules B and C of the said "Chinese Passenger Act may be varied by the Emigration Officer with the approval of the Governor in varied. Council and the said Forms so varied as aforesaid may be substituted in lieu thereof.
"Chinese Passenger
XX. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea without strictly Regulations of conforming with the Regulations contained in Schedule 4 of the "Chinese Passenger's Schedule 4 of Act 1855" except so far as the said Regulations are modified or altered by any of the Act 1855" to be in Provisions of this Ordinance or may be inconsistent therewith; and except as aforesaid force except as altered the said Regulations shall be and continue in full force and effect.
by this Ordinance.
XXI. This Ordinance shall not extend to any Steam Vessel regularly employed Ordinance not to in the Conveyance of the Public Mails under an existing Contract with the Government extend to Mail of the State or Colony to which such Steam Vessel may belong.
Steamers.
XXII. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirma- Suspending Clause. tion thereof shall have been proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for checking the Spread of certain Contagious Diseases within the Colony.
Title.
Whereas it is expedient to make further Provision for checking the spread of certain Contagious Diseases within this Colony: Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
Preamble.