ORDINANCE No. 11 OF 1857. 387
Emigration Passage Brokers.
No. 11 of 1857.
An Ordinance for Licensing and Regulating Emigration Passage Brokers. Title.
[ 3rd November, 1857. ]
HEREAS it is expedient to amend existing legislation with reference to Preamb e.
W e.nigrants : Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of
Hongkong, by and with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
1. From and after the passing of this Ordinance, no person shall act as a passage No person to act
as a passage
broker without
broker or in procuring passengers, for or in the sale or letting of passages in any having entered
into a bond and
emigrant ship, unless he shall, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the obtained a
licence.
Emigration Officer, have entered into a joint and several bond in the sum of five
thousand current dollars to Her Majesty Her Heirs and Successors, according to the
form contained in schedule A hereunto annexed , which bond shall be renewed on each
occasion of obtaining such licence as hereinafter mentioned, and shall be deposited
with the Emigration Officer ; nor unless such person shall have obtained a licence to
let or sell passages, nor unless such licence shall be then in force ; and where different
members of the same firm act as passage brokers, each person so acting shall comply
with the terms of this section.
2. Any person wishing to obtain a licence to act as a passage broker, shall make How passage
broker's licences
application for the same to the Emigration Officer, and the Emigration Officer is may be obtained.
hereby anthorized (if he shall think fit) to grant such licence according to the form in
schedule B hereunto annexed : Provided always, that no such licence shall be granted
unless such bond as hereinbefore mentioned shall have been first entered into : Provided
Powerto Justices
also, that any Justice or Justices of the Peace who shall adjudicate on any offence to order licences
to be forfeited.
against this Ordinance, are hereby authorized to order the offender's licence to be
forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited accordingly ; and the said Justice
or Justices making such order shall forthwith cause notice of such forfeiture, in the
form contained in the schedule C, hereunto annexed, to be transmitted to the
Emigration Officer, 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.
3. Every person obtaining such licence as aforesaid , shall pay to the Emigration Fee to be paid for
licences.
Officer a fee of two hundred current dollars, which fee the Emigration Officer is
hereby empowered and required to demand and receive upon the issuing of any such
licence ; and the said Emigration Officer shall pay over all such fees to the Colonial
Treasurer, to be applied to the Colonial revenue.
4. All such licences shall continue in force until the 31st day of December in the Howlong
licences are to
contin e in force.
year in which such licence shall be granted, and for fourteen days afterwards, unless
sooner forfeited as hereinbefore mentioned : Provided, that any licence granted before
the 31st day of December in the present year, shall continue in force till the 31st day
of December 1858, and for fourteen days afterwards.