True Copy
Colonial Secretary.
EMIGRATION OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE.
Sin Stercules Robinson
Hongkong: 9th October 1859.
This is to Certify
the Duke of Nowcastle.
17.
Inclosure.
Received
Replying to Despatch
No. 44
of
August
"General Windham"
Chinese Passenger Ship
last, relative to the
In Ellist: - 8 December 1857
Fr. Hall Hichwing & Dec.
resent
12660
Copy to Emigration Commissioners
for reporting
L7.
C. H
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L1207/17
438
I hereby authorize the Chinese Passenger Ship "General Wyndham" to proceed to Sea for the Port of Demerara, British Guiana, and I certify that the said Ship can legally carry 446 Adults, and that there are on board 446 Passengers, making in all 443 Adults, viz., 440 Men, Women, 6 Male Children, and no Female Children, such 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, 3,000 Superficial Feet, being for Exercise; and in the Between Deck, 5,359 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, Funnel Ventilators; that the Ship is furnished with a proper Quantity of good Provisions, Fuel, and Water for 120 Days' Issues 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 Doctor George W. Hobson and Ling A-.
The Master of the Ship is to put into The Cape of Good Hope or St Helena for Water and fresh Vegetables.
Signed / A. L. Inglis
Dated at Hongkong
this 14th Day of February 1859.
Emigration Officer.
Attached to this Certificate
1. Passenger List as supplied by the Master of the vessel.
2. Copy of Schedule A. of the Chinese Passenger Act of 1855.
3. Copy of Agreement in English & Chinese.