APPENDIX B
MIGRATION OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE.
I hereby authorize the Chinese Passenger Ship "Alberta" to proceed to Sea for the Port of Honolulu and I certify that the said Ship can legally carry Emigrants.
Male Children, and Female Children being between the Ages of One and Twelve Years; that the Space set apart and to be kept clear for the Use of such Emigrants is as follows:-On the Upper Deck, 212-04 Superficial Feet, being for exercise and in the Between Decks 265-2 Superficial Feet, being for berths; that the Ship is properly manned and fitted, and that the Means of Ventilating the part of the Between Decks appropriated to Passengers are as follows, Windsaills Kreuzhatchs; that the Ship is furnished with a proper Quantity of good Provisions, Fuel, and Water for 5 Days' Rations to the Passengers according to the annexed Dietary Scale, and with a proper Quantity of Medicines, Instruments, and Medical Comforts according to the annexed Scale of Medical Necessaries; that I have inspected the Contracts between the Emigrants and their intended Employers (the Terms of which are annexed to this Certificate), and consider them reasonable; that no Fraud appears to have been practised in collecting the Emigrants; and that there are on board a Surgeon and Interpreter approved by me, and designated respectively.
There are on board 246 Passengers, making in all 246 Adults, viz., 197 Men, 43 Women, and 6 Children.
The Master of the Ship is to put into Vegemite(?) for Water and fresh Vegetables.
Emigration Officer.
Passed at Thangkung this 22nd Day of July, 1865.
Attached to Plate 17. Emigration Officer's certificate issued to the "Alberta". July 22, 1865. Hawaiian State Archives copy. Reproduced in the Hawaiian Journal of History, Vol. VI, 1972, p. 15. This Plate is Appendix B to Mr. Char's article "A Hawaiian King visits Hong Kong, 1881".