#
HONGKONG.
May 7th, 1902.
358
which we shall hold an examination on the officers.
We enclose copies of landing certificates of
stowaways. The Bond for $70,000 gold is therefore
now fulfilled and cancelled.
"Kwelyang". We enclose press reports of the
trial of three Chinese stowaways and three quarter-
masters.
Sir:
We beg to call the attention of the Committee of
the Chamber of Commerce to the inadequacy of the
present Colonial Ordinance dealing with Stowaways,
which has been brought to our notice in connection
with the recent case of our Steamer "Kaifong".
(No.22 of 1890,-) reads as fol-
The Ordinance,
-
Yours faithfully,
lows:
(Signed)
Butterfield and Swire.
'If any person
shall be found on board any
*passenger ship with intent to obtain a passage
"therein without the consent of the owner, ohar-
*terer, or master thereof, such person,
and
every person aiding and abetting him in such
'fraudulent intent, shall respectively be liable
"to penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars
"and in default of payment to imprisonment, with
or without hard labour, for a period not ex-
*ceeding six calendar months; and such person
*so found on board may be taken before any Jus-
*tice
he Secretary,
Hongkong Chamber of Commerce.