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emigrants before embarkation.
Penalty for furnishing
false return fraudulent shipment,
etc.
Furnishing photographs of certain Chinese emigrants.
No. 1.]
THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1889.
female inmate of a boarding-house who has declared to the keeper of such boarding-house his or her intention of emigrating, such keeper shall supply the Registrar General with a return giving the number, names, and descriptions of all such intending emigrants, the name of the Chinese passenger ship by which they intend to proceed, and such further particulars concerning the said intending emigrants as the Registrar General may from time to time direct.
(2.) Such return must be supplied at least twenty-four hours before the examination by the Registrar General and shall be in such form as he may direct.
(3.) A similar return shall be supplied by such keeper to the Emigration Officer, at the time of their examination before him, of all emigrants other than males under the age of sixteen years and females.
62.- (1.) The keeper of any boarding-house who knowingly furnishes any false or incorrect return or other particulars required by the last preceding section or by any by-law made under that section, or who obtains or attempts to obtain by fraud, intimidation, or force, the shipment of any Chinese emigrant or intending emigrant, and every person who aids or abets such keeper in so doing, shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding one year.
(2.) Any such keeper and his sureties shall also be liable to the enforcement of his and their bond, and the licence of such keeper may be suspended by the Registrar General.
Photographs.
63. The keeper of every licensed boarding-house from which any intending Chinese male emigrant under the age of sixteen years or any intending Chinese female emigrant is to be shipped shall attend at the Registrar General's Office or other place appointed for that purpose at the examination to be held by the Registrar General, and shall then furnish the Registrar General with two copies of the photograph of every such emigrant, with the names, ages and number of the said emigrants, the name of the ship by which they are going, and the date, entered on the back, as well as a list of such intending emigrants, setting forth the names, sex, ages, destination, occupation, and such other particulars as may from time to time be required by the Registrar General.
64. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General to employ a certain number of fit and respectable photographers to furnish photographs of intending Chinese male emigrants under the age of sixteen years and of intending Chinese female emigrants.
Employment
graphers.