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Authority of 38. No licensed passage broker shall, as agent for any person, whether a licensed broker or not, receive money broker to act for or on account of the passage of any passenger on board an emigrant ship or British emigrant ship, without having a written authority to act as such agent, or, on the demand of the Emigration Officer, refuse or fail to exhibit big licence and such written authority.
Power to land
emigrant who is un-
#willing to
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bcca procured by fraud.
Prohibition
of emigrant embarking otherwise than from licensed Loarding. house.
Licensing of boarding- Jouses.
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40.--(1-) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or the Emigration Officer, at any time whom he is satisfied that any emigrant who is unwilling to leave port has been obtained by any fraud, violence, or other improper means, to land such emigrant and procure him a passage back to his native place or that from which he was taken, and also to defray the cost of his maintenauce whilst await- ing a return passage.
(2.) All such expenses, with all legal costs incurred, shall be recoverable by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or Emigration Officer before any Magistrate from the emigra- tion passage broker of the vessel in which such emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped.
(c.)-Provisions as to Emigration Bourding-houses.
41. No assisted emigrant shall, without the sauction of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, be permitted to embark in this Colony in any emigrant ship on any voyage unless ho has been lodged in a hotel or boarding-house licensed under this Ordinance during a period of not less than forty-eight hours previons to the examination by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs,
42.—(1.) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to liceuse a sufficient mumber of fit and proper persons to keep hotels and boarding-houses for assistel emigrants,
(2.) Every such licence shall be granted for such period, not exceeding twelve months, and on payment of such fee, and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by any rules to be made under the next succeeding section.
(3.) Every hotel or boarding-house keeper licensed under this Ordinance shall enter into a boul in the sum of one thousand dollars, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, for the due observance of snel terins and conditions,
48 (1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to make rules for the licensing, regulation, and sanitary for boarding maintenance of such hotels or boarding-houses, and with regard to all emigrants residing therein, and by such rules to require auch register or other books to be kept as he may deem expedient, with regard to all visitors to such hotels and boarding-houses and to assisted emigrants.
Furnishing return of
(2.) All such rules, when made, shall be published in the Gazette and, when so pablished, shall be as valid and binding as if contained in this Ordinance.
44.—(1.) The keeper of every such hotel or boarding. house shall supply the Secretary for Chiness Affairs with a particulars of return of all emigrants who are inmates of the house, giving their umber, narues, descriptions and such other partienburs as the Sceretury for Chinese Affairs muy direct together with the name of the emigrant ship by which they intend to proceed.
emigrants before em- Lurkation.
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(2.) Such return must be supplied at least twenty-four hours before the examination by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and shall be in such form as he may direct.
Furnishing 45. 1.) The keeper of every licensed hotel or hoard- photographs ing-honse from which any assisted emigrant is to be shipped of certain
or in the case of every male emigrant under the age of six- emigranta.
teen years and of all female emigrants the passage broker who provides the passage ball atroud at the Office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or other pluco appointed for the examination to be held by tho Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and shall then farmh the Secretary for Chinese Affairs with two copies
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of the photograph of every such emigrant, with the names, ages and number of the said emigrants, mborel to cor- respond with a list containing the names, ages, sex, destina- tion, occupation and any other particulars which may be required by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs concerning each person entered thereon together with the name of the ship by which each person intends to sail and the date of departure.
(2.) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Employment Affairs to employ fit and respectable photographers to of photo- furnish the photographs required by this section.
graphers,
PART IV.
Penul Provisions.
46. Except where otherwise expressly prescribed under Penalty for the provisions of this Ordinance any person contravening contraven- any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed tion of
Orliuance. guilty of a misdemeanor,
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47. Any person contravening any of the provisions of Penalty for any regulation contained in the Schedules to this Ordinance contrafen- shall be deemed guilty of a mis lemeanor,
Regulations.
tion of
? Law.
48. The master of any ship failing or neglecting to Peralty for comply with the provisions of section 6 of this Ordinance contraven shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine uôt exceed- tion of ing one hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
section
49. Any person knowingly furnishing any untrue par- Penalty for ticular required to be furnished under the provisions of contraven- sectious 15, 16 or 17 of this Ordinance shall be liable tion of
sections 15, on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding oue hundred 16 and 17. dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
tion of
50. Any person who shall furnish upon outh or declara- Penalty for tion under the provisions of section 57 of this Ordinance contraven- any natrue particulars required to be furnished under the section 57. provisions of sections 15, 16 or 17 of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
51. Any person who-
Penalties
for :-
() makes or attempts to make any fraudulent use franculent of a certificate granted under the provisions of use of
certificate: this Ordinance; or (6.) forges, counterfeits, alters, or erases the whole counterfei
ting or any part thereof or
Certificate: (c) uses or attempts to use any spurious or fraudu- use of
lent certificate, and every person aiding and spurious
certificate; abetting in such offence; or
(d.) by any frand or false representation as to the fmdalent
size of a ship or otherwise or by any inducement
false
to cmigante pretence whatsoover induces any person to engage a passage in any cigrant ship or British emigrant ship; or
(e) falsely represents any assisted emigrant to be fake repre
sentation as a free emigrant ;
to emigrant.
shall be liable on indictment or on summitry conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year and
to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
52. Every person who-
Punishment for impro-
(a.) nulawfully, either by force or fraud, takes perly obtain- away or detains against his will any emigrant gémigrant. with intent to put him on board any emigrant
ship or British omigrant ship : or,
(6.) with any such intent, receives, or barbours, or euters into any contract for foreign service with any such emigrant,
shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisou- ment for any term not exceeding seven years,
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