No. 46.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. In order to prevent unnecessary delay in the despatch of Chinese Passenger Ships reported ready for sea, notice is hereby given, that
1. It is not permitted to enter any of the passengers on the Ship's Articles as Cooks or Stewards (if their names be excluded from the Passenger List) notwithstanding that compensation is made, by a remission of money, for their services in these their respective capacities.
2. The Ship will be detained if passengers whose respective ages exceed 12 years be entered on the list as children.
3. To the Passenger List must be appended the names of the Cabin Passengers, if any, the description and number of the Crew, and all persons on the ship's articles (mentioning the number of Chinese); and a memorandum of the total number of souls on board the ship.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 9th April, 1856.