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Breach of Condition of License.
Ordinance recoverable
ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1874.
Chinese Emigration.
other Officer to be approved as aforesaid, in the Place of any Master, Mate, or other Officer discharged under Paragraph 7;
It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to revoke the License granted under this Section in respect of such Chinese Passenger Ship, and to order that the said Ship be seized and detained until her Emigration Papers (if already granted) be delivered up to be cancelled.
9. The Breach of any Condition of a License granted under this Section shall be deemed a Breach of a Regulation respecting Chinese Passenger Ships within the Meaning of Section II of *The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855."
Application of
10. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to apply Penalty for Breach of this the Whole or any Part of the Penalty recoverable in Case of the non-Observance or non-Performance of the Regulations of this Section under the Provisions of Section IV of "The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," towards the Expenses of reconveying to their Homes intending Emigrants by any Vessel in respect of which the License granted under this Section shall have been [Ibid,Sec.10.] revoked in Manner hereinbefore provided.
under "The
Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855,"
Regulations of 11. Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to affect the Schedule A of Regulations contained in Schedule A of The Chinese Passengers'
Act, 1855."
"Chinese Pas-
sengers Act,
1855," not to
be affected by
this Section.
No Person to
having entered
License. [Ord, 11 of 1857, Sec. 1.1
Emigration Passage Brokers.
VI. No Person shall act as a Passenger Broker or in procuring act as a Passage Passengers for, or in the Sale or Letting of Passages in any Broker without Chinese Passenger Ship, unless he shall, with Two sufficient into a Bund Sureties, to be approved by the Emigration Officer, have entered and obtained a into a joint and several Bond in the Sum of Five Thousand cur- rent Dollars, to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, accord- ing to the Form contained in Schedule A hereunto annexed, which Bond shall be renewed on each Occasion of obtaining such License as hereinafter mentioned, and shall be deposited with the Emigration Officer; nor unless such Person shall have obtained a License to let or sell Passages, nor unless such License shall be then in Force; and where different Members of the same Firm act as Passage Brokers, each Person so acting shall comply with the Terms of this Section.
How Passage
Broker's Li censes may be obtained. [Ibid, Sec. 2.]
2. Any Person wishing to obtain a License to act as a Passage Broker, shall make Application for the same to the Emigration Officer, and the Emigration Officer is hereby authorized (if he shall think fit) to grant such License according to the Form in Schedule B hereunto annexed: Provided always, that no such License shall be granted unless such Bond as hereinbefore men- Power to Ma- tioned shall have been first entered into: Provided also, that any gistrates to Magistrate who shall adjudicate on any Offence against this Sec- order Licenses tion, is hereby authorized to order the Offender's License to be for- to be forfeited. feited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited accordingly;
ORDINANCE No. 3 of 1874.
Chinese Emigration.
and the said Magistrate making such Order shall forthwith cause Notice of such Forfeiture, in the Form contained in the Schedule Chereunto annexed, to be transmitted to the Emigration Officer, and such Forfeiture shall be exclusive and independent of any other Punishment which may be inflicted upon such Offender under the Provisions of this Section.
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3. Every Person obtaining such License as aforesaid, shall pay Fee to be paid to the Emigration Officer a Fee of Two hundred current Dollars, for Licenses. which Fee the Emigration Officer is hereby empowered and re- [Ibid, Sec. 3.] quired to demand and receive upon the Issuing of any such License; and the Emigration Officer shall pay all such Fees into the Colonial Treasury, to the Use of the Crown.
4. Such License shall continue in Force until the 31st How long Li- Day of December in the Year in which such License shall be censes are to granted, and for Fourteen Days afterwards, unless sooner forfeited continue in
Force. as hereinbefore mentioned.
[Ibid, Sec. 4.]
5. Every Passage Broker who shall or may receive Money Contract from any Person, for or in respect of a Passage in any Chinese Tickets for Passenger Ship, shall give to every such Person a Contract Passages. Ticket, under the Hand of such Passage Broker, and stamped [Ibid, Sec. 5.] with his Seal or Trade Mark,-each Ticket to be printed in a plain and legible Type, according to the Form in the Schedule D hereunto annexed, and to be accompanied with a Translation thereof in the Chinese Language, in plain and legible Cha-
racters.
the Ship for
6. Every such Passage Broker before he shall receive or take Passage Bro-
kers to produce any Money on account of any such Passage, or for the Sale or
to Emigration Letting of the Whole or any Part of the Accommodation of or in Officer Certifi- any Chinese Passenger Ship proceeding from Hongkong, shall cate that they produce to the Emigration Officer the Certificate of the Master or have chartered Owner of the Ship, in respect of which such Passage shall or may have been taken, or the Accommodation in which shall have been carrying Emi- so sold or let, to the Effect that such Ship has been chartered for Ibid, Sec. 6.] the Purpose of carrying Emigrants, and that he, such Passage Broker, is authorized to receive Payment for such Passage, or for the Sale or Letting of the Accommodation in such Ship; and such Certificate shall be filed in the Office of the Emigration Officer.
grants.
7. On every Occasion of the Delivery to any Passenger of Passage Bro- such Contract Ticket as aforesaid, the Passage Broker who shall ker to attend
before Emigra- have engaged to provide such Passenger with a Passage shall tion Officer for attend with him at the Office of the Emigration Officer, in whose the Purpose of Presence the Contract Ticket shall be delivered to such Passen- delivering the
Contract ger, and who shall explain to him the true Intent and Meaning of such Contract.
Tickets to Passengers. [Ibid, Sec. 7.]
8. No Person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be altered, Contract after it is once issued, or shall induce any Person to part with or Tickets not to render useless or destroy any such Contract Ticket, during the be altered.
[Ibid, Sec. 8.] Continuance of the Contract which it is intended to evidence.
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