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[Sixth Schedule coutd.]
Mustering of emigrants by Emigra-tion Officer.
Life-saving and fire
appliances.
Ordinance
No. 10 of 1899.
Small stores..
No. 30 of 1915.
ASIATIC EMIGRATION,
call at such ports as may be mentioned in the Emigration Officer's clearing certificate for fresh water and other necessaries; and shall carry the emigrants without unnecessary delay to the destination to which they are bound.
7. The Emigration Officer shall not give his certificate until he shall have mustered the emigrants and have ascertained to the best of his power that they understand whither they are going. If any of the emigrants are in bad health or insufficiently provided with clothing, or if there is reason to suspect that fraud or violence has been practised in their collection or embarkation, he may detain the ship and, if he shall think fit, may order all or any of the emigrants to be relanded.
8. All emigrant ships must be provided with boats and life-saving appliances in accordance with the provisions of Table A of the Regulations under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, as if they were seagoing ships having passenger certificates under section 10 of the said Ordinance, and every emigrant ship shall carry a fire engine or force pump with sufficient hose to reach fore and aft and at least three dozen fire buckets.
9. Each emigrant ship shall carry the following small stores—
SMALL STORES.
Brooms 24
Lanterns with locks 2
Cooking spades 3
Meat choppers 3
Chopping boards 3
for every 100 emigrants.
Wood choppers 1
Rice baskets 10
Iron dishes, 18 inches 10
Rubbish tubs 4
List of emigrants.
A bed, blanket and pillow for each person the hospital can accommodate.
12 Blue lights and 12 rockets.
10. Before the Emigration Officer can muster the emigrants he must be furnished with an emigration list in the form following-
List of emigrants on board the ship of the burden of voyage
....tons, of which is master for the present which belongs to the port of
is to sail from Hong Kong on the .....day of
and is bound to the final port of
consisting of ....ten.
...male adults,
...male children and
...female adults,
children under twelve years of age, making a total of
19 .female
emigrants, said steamer being entitled, under the Chinese Passengers
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