A.D. 1889.]
CHINESE EMIGRATION.
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34. No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be altered, after it is once issued, or shall induce any person to part with, or render useless, or destroy, any such contract ticket, during the continuance of the contract which it is intended to evidence,
Prohibition of contract ticket.
passage broker to act as agent, etc.
35. No licensed passage broker shall, as agent for any person, whether a licensed broker or not, receive money for or on account of the passage of any passenger on board a Chinese passenger ship, without having written authority to act as such agent, or, on the demand of the Emigration Officer, refuse or fail to exhibit his licence and such written authority.
Misrepresentation as to size of ship.
36. No person shall, by any fraud, or by false representation as to the size of the ship or otherwise, or by any false pretence whatsoever, induce any person to engage any passage as aforesaid.
Giving notice of emigrant to Emigration Officer.
37. Every emigration passage broker who contracts with any intending emigrant for a passage in any ship shall forthwith give notice in writing to the Emigration Officer of every such contract, specifying the name, age, and sex of such emigrant and the name of such ship.
Penalties for offences.
38. All violations or disobediences of, or defaults in compliance with, the provisions of any of sections 27, 31, 32, 33, and 34 shall be heard and determined in a summary way; and, on summary conviction before a Magistrate of such offences, the respective offenders shall be sentenced to pay the several penalties hereinafter specified:
(1.) for every offence against section 27, a penalty not exceeding four hundred dollars;
(2.) for every offence against section 31, a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars;
(3.) for every offence against section 32, a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars;
(4.) for every offence committed by a passage broker against section 33, a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars; and
(5.) for every offence against section 34, a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.
Exclusion of ss. 27-38 where special licence granted to steamer.
39. Sections 27 to 38, both inclusive, shall not apply where a special licence has been granted under section 21 to any steamer mentioned in that section.
Hospital Accommodation and Medical Inspection.
Appointment of medical officer.
40. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint, at a salary not exceeding two thousand dollars per annum, a medical officer whose duty it shall be to inspect intending emigrants and to supervise all matters and things in any way relating to the comfort and well-being of such