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Medical in- spection: where and when held.
Medical
assisted
emigrants.
his certificate unless he is satisfied, that none of the emigrants or other 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 persona about to proceed in such ship.
25. A medical inspection of the emigrants or pussen- gers for the purposes of giving such certificate shall take place either on board such ship, or, at the discretion of the Emigration Officer, at such time and on shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint.
26. A medical inspection of emigrants other than free inspection of emigrants shall take place on shore before embarkation as well as on board the ship after embarkation and the Emigration Officer shall not grant his certificate unless he is satisfied that such double inspection has been duly made or has been dispensed with by the sanction of the Governor.
Time for
medical inspection after em- barkation.
Fees
of medical
officer.
Right of Chinese
medical
practitioner
to be surgeon
of ship.
Prohibition of person scting us passage
broker with out having entered into
bond and obtained licence. Seventh Schedule.
Mode of obtaining
passage
broker's
forfeiture
thereof. Eighth
Schedule.
27. The medical inspection of emigrants required to he made after their embarkation in any emigrant ship or British emigrant ship shall take place at such time as the Emigration Officer may appoint.
28. Any medical officer appointed under the provisions of this section for the inspection of intending emigrante and the supervision of matters and things relating to the comfort and well-being of such emigrants before their departure and on their voyage, shall be entitled 10 charge and the master, owner or charterer of the ship carrying or about to carry emigrants in respect of which or whom Buch inspection or supervision is effected shall pay to such medical officer such fees as may from time to time bo prescribed by the Goveruor-in-Council.
29. Any Chinese medical practitioner shall be eligible, with the approval of the Governor, for the office of surgeon of any ship for the purposes of the Act or of this Ürdi-
nanice.
(b.)-Provisions relating to Passage Brokers.
30. (1) No person shall act as a passenger broker or in procuring passengers for, or in the sale or letting of passages in, any emigrant ship or British emigrant ship proceeding on any voyage unless he has, with two subicient sureties, to be approved by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, entered into a joint and several boud in the sum of five thousand dollars to Ilis Majesty, his heirs and successors, according to the form in the Seventh Schedule to this Ordinance, which bond shall be renewed on each occasion of obtaining such licence as hereinafter mentioned, and shall be deposited with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs; nor unless such person has obtained a licence to let or sell passages; nor unless such licence is then in force.
(2.) Where different members of the same firm act as passage brokers, each person so acting shall comply with the terms of this section.
31. Any person wishing to obtain a licence to act as a passage broker shali maka application for the same to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs who is hereby authorized, if licence, and be thinks fit, to grant such licence, according to the form in the Eighth Schedule to this Ordinance: Provided alwaYS that no such licence shall be granted unless such bond as is mentioned in the last preceding section has been first entered into: Provided, also, that any Magistrate who adjudicates on any offence eominitted by such broker against this Ordinance is hereby authorized to order the offender's licence to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited accordingly and the said Magistrate making such order shall forthwith canse notice of such forfeiture, in the foru in the Ninth Schedule to this Ordinance, to be transmitted to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and such forfeiture shall be exclusive and independent of any other punishment which may be inflicted upon such offender under the provisions of this Ordinance.
Ninth Schedule.
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32. Every person obtaining such licence as aforesaid Fee to be shall pay to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs a fee of two paid for ficence. hundred dollars, or where the duration of the licence is short such reduced fee as the Governor-in-Connell may authorise.
33. Such licence shall continue in force until the thirty- Duration of
licence. first day of December in the year in which such ficence is granted, and for fourteen days afterwards, unless sooner forfeited as hereinbefore mentionel.
Contract
34. Every passage broker who contracts with any in- Giving of tending emigrant for a passage in any ship shall forthwith notice of give notice in writing to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs with and to the Emigration Officer of every such contract, emigrant to specifying the Donie, age, and sex of such emigrant and Secretary the name of such ship.
for Chinese
Affairs and Emigration Officer.
ticket for
35.-(1.) Every passage broker who receives money Giving of from any person for or in respect of a passage in any contract emigrant ship or British emigrant ship proceeding on any passage. voyage shall giva to such person a passage ticket, under the hand of such passage broker and stumped with his seal or trade mark.
Schedule.
(2.) Every such ricket shall be printed in a plaio and Tenth legible type, according to the form in the Tanth Sebedule to this Ordinance, and shall be accompanied with a trauslation thereof in the Chinese language, in plain and legible characters.
to Secretary
currying
36. Every passage broker, before he receives or takes Production any money on account of any passage or for the sale for Chinese or letting of the whole or any part of the sccommoda- Affairs of tion of or in any such ship, shall produce to the e- certificate of cretary for Chinese Affairs the certificate of the master chartering or owner of the ship in respect of which a pa-sage has ship for been taken or the accommodation in which has been so emigrants. solù or let, to the effect that such ship has been chartered for the purpose of carrying emigrants, and that such pus- sage broker is authorized to receive payment for such passage or for the sale or letting of the accommodation in such ship and such certificate shall be filed in the office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
37. On every occasion of the delivery to any passenger Attendance of such passage ticket as aforesaid, the passage brokor before who has engaged to provide such passenger with a passage for Chinese
Secretary
Affairs for
gall
() in the case of every male Asiatic passenger who punse of delivering is an assisted emigrant or nuder the age of sixteen passage years and of every female passengór, attend, either tickets to personally or by his duly authorised representative, passengers. with him or her at the office of or other place appointed by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, in whose pre- sence the passage ticket shall be delivere! to such passenger, and who shall explain to such passenger the true intent and meaning of such passage ticket with the object of ascertaining that he or she under. stands whore he or she is going and that he or she is not acting under compulsion or being influence to emigrate by false representations; and,
(b.) in the case of every other Asiatic passenger attend. either personally or hy bis duly authorised representa- tive, with him at the medical inspection on board ship which inspection shall also be attended by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs in whose presence the true inreut and meaning of the passage ticket shall be explainel to such passenger with the object of ascertaining that he understands where he is going and that he is not acting ander compulsion or being influenced to emi- grate by false representations. Provided that when- ever it may appear desirable the Governor-in-Council may direct that any of the provisions of this sub- section may be dispensed with in the case of passen- gers travelling to any British possession.
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38. No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be Prohibition altered, rendered useless, or destroyed, after it is once issued, of alteration or shall fraudulently induce any person to part with, or ticket. render neeless, or destroy, any such passage ticket, autil the termination of the passage which it is intended to evidence.
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