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[ 1 of 1889. ] CHINESE EMIGRATION CONSOLIDATION.
Licence to 13. Every licence, other than a general licence, granted under
specify time
of departure ; this ordinance in respect of any Chinese passenger ship shall
proviso for specify the period within which such ship shall clear out and
extension
thereof. proceed to sea : provided always that it shall be lawful for the
[Ibid.7. ]sec. 2 Governor in Council , or emigration officer who granted the
subs.
licence, from time to time, to extend such period .
The Governor 14. The Governor in Council may, in his discretion authorize
may authorize
labourers and any person to engage any specified number of Chinese artisans,
servants to be meclianics, labourers, or servants for any person resident in any
engaged for
persons in
British
British possession, and to make contracts in writing on behalf
possessions.
of such resident with the persons so engaged. Every such
pavid.fec. 2 incontract
subs. 8. ]
shallofbethemade
the office in triplicate,
emigration andand
officer; one part
such shall
part beshall
lodged
be
admissible in evidence without a stamp.
Any vessel provided with a general licence may carry any
persons so engaged without thereby affecting her licence .
This 15. Nothing in this ordinance, shall prevent passengers,
ordinance
to preventnot natives of Asia, from travelling in the first class cabin of any
Chinese
passengers
vessel which is provided with a general licence, on the same
from terms as passengers of other nationalities ; or in the first or
travelling in
first or second
second class cabin, if the vessel carries more than two classes
class cabins of passengers.
as other
nationalities. Such passengers are hereby exempted from the necessity of
9. ] . 2 obtaining contract passage tickets, or of submitting themselves
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to be mustered or inspected by any emigration officer, or medical
officer, or other person ,
Such passengers shall , however, be reckoned in calculating
the number of passengers, natives of Asia, who are carried by
the said vessel.
Power to
remove mas
16. In case it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the
ter or other
officer.
Governor in Council, at any time before the departure of a
[ Ibid. sec. 2
Chinese passenger ship proceeding on a voyage of more than
subs . 10.) seven days' duration that the master, mate, or any other officer
( No. 25 of of such ship is unfit for the proper discharge of his duties by
1889. ] reason of incompetency or misconduct, or for any other sufficient
cause , it shall be lawful for the Governor, by order under his
hand , to direct the dismissal and removal of such master, mate,
or other officer from the said ship, and thereupon the owners or
charterers thereof, or their agents, shall forthwith dismiss or
remove such master, or mate, or other officer, as the case may
be, and appoint another in his place to be approved by the
emigration officer, in the place of the one so discharged and
removed as aforesaid .