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No. 30 of 1915.
ASIATIC EMIGRATION.
Whereas by the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, it is amongst other things enacted that no person shall carry on the business of a passage broker in Hongkong, in respect of any emigrant ship, or shall be in anywise concerned in the sale or letting of passages in any such ship, unless such person has, with two good and sufficient sureties to be approved of by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, previously entered into a joint and several bond to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in the sum of five thousand dollars; and whereas the said C.D. and E.F. have been approved of by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs as sureties for the said A.B.:
Now the condition of this obligation is that if the above-bounden A.B. shall well and truly observe and comply with all the requirements of the said recited Ordinance, so far as the same relate to passage brokers, and further, shall well and truly pay all fines, forfeitures, and penalties, and also all sums of money, by way of subsistence money, or of return passage money, and compensation to any passenger, or on his account, and also all costs which the above-bounden A.B. may at any time be adjudged to pay under or by virtue of any of the provisions of the said recited Ordinance or of the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, of the Imperial Parliament, then and in such case this obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force.
Signed, sealed, and delivered,
by the above-bounden A.B., C.D.,
and E.F., in the presence of *
EIGHTH SCHEDULE.
FORM OF EMIGRATION PASSAGE BROKER'S LICENCE.
[s. 32.]
A.B.,† of having shown, to the satisfaction of me, the undersigned, that he has given bond to His Majesty, as by the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, is required: I, the undersigned, do hereby license and authorise the said A.B. to carry on the business of a passage broker in Hongkong, in respect of emigrants on board emigrant ships proceeding from Hongkong, until the end of the present year and fourteen days afterwards, unless this licence is sooner determined by forfeiture for misconduct on the part of the said A.B. as in the aforesaid Ordinance is provided.
Given under my hand and seal this
19
[L.S.]
day of
(Signed.)
Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
* Insert the names and addresses in full of the witnesses.
†The personal and family names in full of the person applying for the licence with his address and trade or occupation, must be correctly inserted.