1406
No. 30 of 1915.
ASIATIC EMIGRATION.
SEVENTH SCHEDULE.
[s. 31 (1).]
* Insert personal and Family names in full, with the occupation and address of each of the parties.
FORM OF EMIGRATION PASSAGE BROKER'S ANNUAL BOND,
WITH TWO SURETIES TO BE APPROVED BY THE SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS.
Know all men by these presents, that we, A.B.,* of and C.D., of and E.F., of are held and firmly bound unto Our Sovereign Lord King George VI in the sum of five thousand dollars, to be paid to Our said Sovereign Lord the King, His Heirs and Successors; to which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves, and every of us jointly and severally, our heirs, executors and administrators, and the heirs, executors and administrators of each of us, and each and every of them, firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals.
Dated this day of 19 } * on the
WHEREAS by the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, it is amongst other things enacted that no person shall carry on business of a passage broker in Hong Kong, 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.
Insert the Signed, sealed and delivered, by names and addresses in full of the witnesses. the above-bounden A.B., C.D., and E.F., in the presence of*