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useless.
The requirements for safety are so loose as to be practically useless.
The penalty for breaches is $20 - ridiculously inadequate.
As there has been no emigration from Canton for the last 15 years, it is perhaps natural that their existence should have been forgotten.
As in Kingchow there is no one to enforce them, it is conceivable that they are not very strictly acted upon, or if known, disregarded.
The Chinese Passenger Ship Act 1855, 18 and 19 Vic. C. 104, by section 1 "defines 'Chinese Passenger Ship' as every British ship carrying more than twenty passengers being natives of Asia from any port in Hong Kong and every ship carrying more than twenty passengers being natives of Asia from any port in China.
The local Ordinance 1 of 1889, amended by Ordinance 25 of 1889, re-emphasizes this.
The XV paragraph of the Committee's Report does not therefore apply.
So.14.0.H. Attachings, 31st August, 1896.
Section 268 of the Imperial Act of 1894 defines 'Emigrant ship' as "every sea-going vessel, whether British or Foreign, conveying fifty steerage passengers.
It is plain, therefore, that the Chinese Passenger Ship Act 1855 does not apply to the Straits Settlements, but it is equally clear that sections 267, 268, 270...