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ORDINANCES Nos. 13 AND 14 OF 1858.
Nos. 13 AND 14
Chinese Passenger Ships.
Appropriation.
Certificate not to be granted unless sanitary regulations are complied with,
Suspension clauses
take place either on board the vessel, or, at the discretion of the said Emigration Officer, at such convenient place on shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint; and the master, owner, or charterer of the ship, shall pay to such medical practitioner a sum at the rate of twenty-five Mexican dollars, for every hundred persons so examined: Provided, that in case the Emigration Officer on any particular occasion shall be unable to obtain such certificate as aforesaid, or the attendance of a medical practitioner within a reasonable time, or without payment of an inspection fee at a higher rate than that hereby ordained, then it shall be lawful for the said Emigration Officer to dispense with such medical inspection as aforesaid, and to satisfy himself by his own personal examination, (for which he shall receive the fee hereinbefore ordained to be paid,) of the fit sanitary state of the crew and passengers: Provided also, that all fees received under this section by the Emigration Officer or Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong, shall be within three days after the receipt thereof paid over by the officer receiving them into the Treasury, to the use of the Crown.
5. No Emigration Officer shall give the certificate required by the "Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," in respect of any Chinese passenger ship, unless he be satisfied as aforesaid with the hospital accommodation therein provided, and with the sanitary state of the crew and passengers.
6. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in this Colony by His Excellency the Governor.
[Confirmation never proclaimed. Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887.]
Preamble.
Supplementary Estimates, 1858.
No. 14 of 1858.
An Ordinance to authorize the application of a Sum not exceeding Twenty-five Thousand Pounds, to defray the Supplementary contingent Charges of the Year 1858.
[1st November, 1858.]
WHEREAS it has become necessary to make further provision for the public service of the Colony, for the year 1858, in addition to the charge upon the revenue for the service of the said year already provided for in the Estimates submitted to the Legislative Council: Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. A sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand pounds shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue of this Colony for the services mentioned in the schedules A, B, and C, to this Ordinance annexed, in addition to all sums heretofore lawfully charged upon the said revenue on any account whatsoever.