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Emigration
ORDINANCE No. 3 of 1874.
Chinese Emigration.
7. The Medical Inspection of Emigrants required to be made Officer to ap- after their Embarkation in any Chinese Passenger Ship shall take point Time for place at such Time as the Emigration Officer shall appoint.
Medical Ins-
pection after Embarkation.
[Ibid,Sec. 12.]
Chinese Medi- 8. Any Chinese Medical Practitioner properly qualified to the cal Practi- Satisfaction of the Colonial Surgeon shall be eligible with Ap- tioners may be proval of the Governor for the Office of Surgeon of a Chinese Surgeons of Chinese Pas- Passenger Ship within the Terms of Schedule A of "The Chinese senger Ships. Passengers' Act, 1855." [Ibid,Sec.14.]
Modified
for Voyages of not more than
Regulations for Voyages of not more than Thirty Days' Duration.
VIII. All Ships clearing out or proceeding to Sea upon Regulations Voyages of not more than Thirty Days' Duration, shall be subject to the modified Regulations contained in Schedule E of this Thirty Days Ordinance which as regards such Ships shall be substituted for those contained in Schedule A of "The Chinese Passengers' Act, [See Ord. 8 of 1855," but nothing in this Section contained shall be deemed 1871.] to relieve Chinese Passenger Ships from the Operation of the said Act, except so far as the same is by the said Schedule expressly modified.
Duration.
Voyages de-
2. The Voyages specified in Schedule F to this Ordinance clared to be of annexed, are hereby declared to be Voyages of not more than not more than
Thirty Days' Duration, subject as regards Steamers to the Con- Thirty Days' Duration.
ditions as to their Rate of Speed and as regards Sailing Vessels [Ibid, Sec. 4.] to the Conditions as to the Periods of the Year during which the Voyage shall be performed, in the said Schedule respectively expressed and contained.
Not to affect 3. This Section shall not be construed as affecting any Ships not with- Chinese Passenger Ship which is about to proceed to Sea on a in the Chinese Voyage of not more than Seven Days' Duration.
Passengers' Act.
Depôts to be provided for the Lodging
[Ord. 12 of
Depôts for Emigrants under Contract of Service.
IX. The Owners or Charterers of every Chinese Passenger Ship which is about to convey Emigrants under Contracts of Service shall, as soon as such Ship is laid on for the Conveyance of Emigrants. of such Emigrants, provide a Depôt or Depôts to be approved 1868, Sec. 4.] of by the Emigration Officer wherein every intending Emigrant by such Ship may lodge as hereinafter provided, and every such Depôt shall be maintained and every Emigrant lodging therein shall be supported at the Expense of such Owners or Charterers. 2. Every intending Emigrant by such Chinese Passenger Ship lodge in Depôt shall lodge, at the least Three clear Days previously to his Em- barkation, in the Depôt provided by the Owners or Charterers of Days before such Ship.
Emigrants to
Three clear
Embarkation, [Ibid, Sec. 6.]
ORDINANCE No. 3 or 1874.
Chinese Emigration.
3. Every such Depôt as aforesaid shall be under the Su- Supervision of pervision of the Emigration Officer who may inspect the same at Depôts. such Times as he shall think fit, and there shall be at all Times [Ibid, Sec. 7.] free Ingress and Egress allowed to all Persons to and from such Depôts, from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M.
Orders in Council relating to Quantity of Water.
X. All Orders of Her Majesty the Queen in Council relating Orders in to the Quantity of Water to be carried by Passenger Ships Council to ap- having a certain Description of Condensing Apparatus shall ply to Chinese apply to Chinese Passenger Ships.
No Chinese Passenger Ship unless propelled by Steam to clear between April and September.
Passenger Ships. [Ibid,Sec.15.]
XI. No Chinese Passenger Ship, unless a Vessel propelled No Chinese by Steam, bound to any Port Westward of the Cape of Good Passenger Ship
to clear be- Hope or to any Port in Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, or Tasmania shall be permitted to clear from any Port in the Colony and September,
tween April between the Months of April and September inclusive.
[Ibid,See.16.]
Unwilling Emigrants.
XII. It shall be lawful for the Emigration Officer at any Emigration Time when he is satisfied that any Emigrant who is unwilling to Officer may leave the Port has been obtained by any Fraud, Violence, or other land any Emi- improper Means, to land such Emigrant and procure him a Passage unwilling to grant who is back to his native Place or that from which he was taken, and also leave the Port to defray the Cost of his Maintenance whilst awaiting a Return and who has Passage, and all such Expenses with all legal Costs incurred shall been procured be recoverable by the Emigration Officer before
by any Fraud, Police Magis- any
&c. trate from the Emigration Passage Broker of the Vessel in which [Ibid, Sec.18.] such Emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped.
take
2. Whosoever shall unlawfully either by Force or Fraud Punishment
away or detain against his Will any Man or Boy with Intent for improperly to put him on board a Chinese Passenger Ship and whosoever obtaining shall with any such Intent receive, harbor, or enter into any Con- Emigrants.
[Ibid,Sec.19.] tract for Foreign Service with any such Man or Boy knowing the same to have been by Force or Fraud taken and obtained as in this Paragraph before mentioned, shall be guilty of Felony and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Seven Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years with or without Hard Labor,
Penalties for Breach of Ordinance,
XIII. The Owners or Charterers of any Chinese Passenger Punishment of Ship and any Emigration Passage Broker and any intending Persons com- Emigrant by a Chinese Passenger Ship and any Master or other mitting any Person in Charge of a Chinese Passenger Ship who shall fail to Ordinance. comply with or commit any Breach of the Provisions of Part IIbid, Sec.21.]
Breach of this