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ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1874.
Chinese Emigration.
Agents not to 9. No Licensed Passage Broker shall, as Agent for any Person, act without whether a Licensed Broker or not, receive Money for or on written Autho- account of the Passage of any Passenger on Board a Chinese rity, and to
Passenger Ship, without having a written Authority to act as such produce their Authority on Agent, or on the Demand of the Emigration Officer, refuse or fail to exhibit his License and such written Authority; and no [Ibid, Sec. 9.] Person whether as Principal or Agent shall, by any Fraud, or by false Representation as to the Size of the Ship or otherwise, or by any false Pretence whatsoever, induce any Person to engage any Passage as aforesaid.
demand.
Notice of every Contract with Emigrants to be given to Emigration Officer. 【Ord. 12 of 1868, Sec. 8.]
Penalties for Offences. [Ord, 11 of 1857, Sec, 10.7
Hospital Ac-
10. Every Emigration Passage Broker who shall contract with any intending Emigrant for a Passage in such Ship shall forthwith give Notice in Writing to the Emigration Officer of every such Contract specifying the Name, Age and Sex of such Emigrant and the Name of such Ship.
11. All Violations or Disobediences of, or Defaults in Compli- ance with, the Provisions of this Section shall be heard and determined summarily under Ordinance No. 10 of 1844; and on Conviction of such Offences, the respective Offenders shall be sentenced to pay the several Penalties, or in Default of the Payment thereof, to suffer the several Terms of Imprisonment respectively hereinafter specified :-
(a.) For every Offence against Paragraph 1, a Fine not exceeding Four hundred Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Six Months.
(b.) For every Offence against Paragraph 5, a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Six Weeks.
(c.) For Every Offence against Paragraph 6, a Fine not ex- ceeding One hundred Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Three Months. (d.) For Every Offence committed by a Passage Broker against Paragraph 7, a Fine not exceeding One hundred Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Three Months.
(e.) For Every Offence against Paragraph 8, a Fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Two Months.
Hospital and Medical Inspection.
VII. In every Chinese Passenger Ship, except Ships about to commodation proceed on a Voyage of not more than Thirty Days' Duration with- to be provided, in the Meaning of Section VIII of this Ordinance, there shall be a [Ord. 6 of
sufficient Space properly divided off to the Satisfaction of the Emi- / 1859, Sec. 1.3
gration Officer at the Port of Clearance, to be used exclusively as a Hospital or Sick Bay for the Passengers; this Space shall be either under the Poop, or in the Round-house, or in any Deck- house which shall be properly built and secured to the Satisfac- tion of such Emigration Officer, or on the upper Passenger Deck,
ORDINANCE No. 3 of 1874.
Chinese Emigration.
and not elsewhere, and shall in no Case be of less Dimensions than Eighteen clear Superficial Feet for every Fifty Passengers which the Ship shall carry. Every such Hospital shall be fitted and properly with Bed Places, and supplied with proper Beds, Bedding, and fitted up. Utensils, to the Satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, and shall throughout the Voyage be kept so fitted and supplied.
2. In the Measurement of the Passenger Decks, for the Pur- Space for Hos- pose of determining the Number of Passengers to be carried in pital to be any such Chinese Passenger Ship, the Space for the Hospital included in shall be included.
Measurement
of Capacity for Passengers. [Ibid, Sec. 2.]
Officer.
3. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint, at a Salary Governor au- not exceeding Two thousand Dollars per Annum, a Medical Officer thorized to ap- whose Duty it shall be to inspect intending Emigrants and to point a Medical supervise all Matters and Things in any way relating to the [Ord. 12 of Comfort and Well-being of such Emigrants before their Departure 1868, Sec. 9.] and on their Voyage, and such Salary shall be in lieu of all Fees.
4. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Medical Sea on any Voyage of more than Seven Days Duration, until Examination the proper Medical Officer as provided shall have certified to
before sailing. [Ord. 6 of the Emigration Officer, and the said Emigration Officer shall 1859, Sec. 3.] not grant his Certificate unless he is satisfied, that none of the Passengers or Crew appear, by reason of any bodily or mental Disease, unfit to proceed or likely to endanger the Health or Safety of other Persons about to proceed in such Vessel; and a Medical Inspection of the Passengers for the Pur- poses of giving such Certificate shall take place either on board the Vessel, or, at the Discretion of the said Emigration Officer, at such Time and Place on Shore, before Embarkation, as he may appoint; and the Master, Owner, or Charterer of the Ship, shall pay to the Emigration Officer a Sum at the Rate of Twenty-five current Dollars, for every Hundred Persons so ex- amined, and such Emigration Officer shall pay the same into the Treasury to the Use of the Crown.
underContract
5. The Medical Inspection of Emigrants under Contracts of Ser- Medical vice shall take place on Shore before Embarkation as well as on Inspection board the said Ship after Embarkation, and the Emigration Officer of Emigrants shall not grant the Certificate required by "The Chinese Passengers' of Service. Act, 1855" unless he shall be satisfied that such double Ins- [Ord. 12 of pection has been duly made, or has been dispensed with by the 1868, Sec. 10.] Sanction of the Governor.
be received on
6. It shall not be lawful for any Emigrant under Contract No Emigrant of Service to embark in any Chinese Passenger Ship or for to embark or the Master or other Person on board of a Chinese Passenger board without Ship to permit any such Emigrant to embark therein, unless such a Permit. Emigrant shall produce an Embarkation Permit from the Emi- [Ibid,Sec.11.} gration Officer, who shall not grant the same unless he shall be satisfied that such Emigrant has undergone on Shore the Medical Inspection required by Law to be made before Embarkation.