CLOS VRE
803
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.
December 31 1901.
4082
Act 3 FEB 2
Report on Ordinance 37 of 1901.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled
An Ordinance to further amend the Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1889,
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.
This Ordinance deals with four matters of some importance with regard to Chinese emigration. In order to further check abuses-
(a.) It provides for the examination of intending male emigrants under the age of sixteen and of intending female emigrants before the Registrar General. (See section (1).)
(b.) It provides for the licensing of boarding-houses for Chinese emigrants, and requires all such intending emigrants (except those who travel first or second class) to embark from such licensed boarding houses, and it requires proper returns to be furnished by the keepers. It also provides against fraudulent shipment of emigrants by such keepers. (See sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6).
(c.) It requires that the Registrar General should be furnished with photographs of certain intending Chinese emigrants, namely, females and boys under sixteen years of age, and makes provisions for the appointment of respectable photographers for the purpose. (See sections 7 and 8).
(d.) It makes fraudulent personation of intending emigrants a misdemeanor, and provides a punishment for this offence. (See section 9).
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