DIEU
DROIT
THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
No. 8.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 22ND FEBRUARY, 1862.
VOL. VIII.
No. 19.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Copy of an Act recently passed by the Legislature of New South Wales, to regulate and restrict the Immigration of Chinese into that Colony, is published for general information.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th February, 1862.
NEW SOUTH WALES.
ANNO VICESIMO QUINTO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
No. III.
W. H. ALEXANDER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
An Act to regulate and restrict the Immigration of Chinese [Assented to, 22nd
November, 1861.]
Whereas it is expedient to regulate and restrict the Immigration of Chinese into this Colony Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority
of the same as follows :--
1. For the purposes of this Act the following words in inverted commas shall unless the context other- wise indicate bear the meanings set against them respectively-
"Chinese "--Any malé native of China or its dependencies or of any Island in the Chinese Seas not
born of British parents or any male person born of Chinese parents.
"Vessel "Any ship or other sea-going vessel of whatsoever kind or description. "Master "The person for the time being in actual command of any such vessel.
2. The master of every vessel having passengers on board shall immediately on his arrival in any Port
Preamble
Interpretation,
Master on arrival to
of the Colony deliver to the Collector or other Chief Officer of Customs a list of such passengers and shall give list of Chinese therein distinctly specify which if any of them are Chinese And for any default herein such master shall aboard. be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred pounds.
3. If any vessel shall arrive in any port in New South Wales having on board a greater number of Chi-
Number of Chinese
nese passengers than in the proportion of one to every ten tons of the tonnage of such vessel according to ships may carry. the registry thereof if British and if not then according to the measurement fixed by the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854 the owner charterer or master of such vessel shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not ex- Penalty. ceeding ten pounds for each Chinese passenger so carried in excess.
4. Before any of such Chinese shall be permitted to land and before making any entry the master shall £10 to be paid for pay to such Collector or other proper officer ten pounds for every such Chinese and no entry shall be deem- each Chinese arriving ed to have been legally made or to have any legal effect until such payment shall have been made
And if by vessel. any master shall neglect to pay any such sum or shall land or permit to land any Chinese at any place in the Colony before such sun shall have been paid for or by him with the intent in any of the above cases of evading the payment thereof such master shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding Penalty. twenty pounds for each Chinese so lan ted or permitted to land in addition to the amount of such sum in every such case in addition to any such penalty the vessel shall be forfeited and may be seized condemu- ed and disposed of in like manner as ships forfeited for a breach of any law relating to the Customs of this Colony.
And
Vessel forfeited.
Like sum for Chi-
5. Every Chinese arriving in the Colony after the passing of this Act otherwise than by any vessel shall pay or have paid for him to some officer when the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council nese arriving other- may appoint at any places on or near the borders of the Colony or otherwise conveniently situate for that wise. purpose a like sum of ter pounds.
and to be
6. The Collector or other officer as aforesaid receiving such sum from or for any Chinese shall without Certificate of sum demand forthwith supply him with a certificate in writing under his hand of the payment of such sum such paid to be given to certificate to be in a form to be settled by the regulations hereinafter mentioned And such certificate Chinese whensoever and wheresoever produced by such Chinese shall be conclusive evidence on behalf of himself and evidence.
any other person who may have paid such sum for him that such sum has been duly paid.
of
7. All sums as aforesaid so paid by or on behalf of any Chinese shall be paid over to the Colonial Trea- Payments aforesai surer and be by him carried to the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Colony.
to be paid into con as lidated Final.
Certificate of ex-
ment.
8. All Chinese within the Colony of New South Wales shall on or before the twenty-eighth day of Fe- bruary one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two apply to the nearest Clerk of Petty Sessions or Gold emption froma Commissioner for a certificate and such Clerk of Petty Session or Gold Commissioner shall deliver to any Chinese so
applying a parchment certificate which shall bear on the face of it the name of the Chinamani applying and the signature of the Clerk of Petty Sessions or Cold Commissioner granting such certificate and all other matters which the Government may deem necessary and the holder of such certificate shall be exempted from payments under this Act.
4. The certificate mentioned in the sixth section of the Act of Council eleventh Victoria number thir-
pay
Chinese not to be unturliverk,