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CHINESE PASSENGERS ACT.
gration Officer, or before a Magistrate, who shall fill in the Contract with a description of the intending Emigrant, and certify in the form following that its purport has been fully and intelligibly explained. At present no Fee will be charged for such attestation:
FORM
Name and Surname of the Laborer contracting (to be written in the Chinese as well as in the English character.)
Age
Native Province District, and place Descriptive Marks,
I certify, that on this
day of
185, in my presence, the within Con- tract was fully, distinctly, and intelligibly (as I believe) explained to the above named Laborer in a Dialect which he understood, that he expressed himself willing to be bound by its Terms; and that he received into his own hands, in my presence, the sum of Ďollars, as advance Wages.
(Signed)
A. B. Justice of the Peace of Hongkong.
The attention of Merchants and others interested in the Emigration Business is especially called to the above intimation.
By Order.
W. T. MERCER. Colonial Secretary.
Hongkong, 14th March, 1856.
No. 51
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified for the information of Masters of ships carrying Chinese Pas- sengers, and unprovided with the improved appliances usually found in vessels of mo- dern construction, and generally for the information of all interested, that in addition to a Windsail for every Hatchway, it is required that a constant supply of fresh air be ensured to the between decks in bad weather, by fitting at each end of space set apart for passengers, two Funnels of wood or metal, four in all, with moveable heads in man- ner following, that is to say,-the body of the air Funnel to reach from underneath the lowermost deck over-head to a height of 3 or 4 feet above the uppermost deck, and to pass through holes cut for the purpose in either side of the deck, and made water-tight by a canvas coat or other suitable means. The attention of the Emigra- tion Officer has been called to the regulation.
By order.
(Signed) W. T. MERCER.
Colonial Secretary.
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Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong 22nd April, 1856.
An Ordinance to explain certain Enactments relating to Shipping (29th May 1856.) No. 9 of 1856.
Whereas by "The Merchant Shipping Act 1854," and the Chinese Passengers' Act 1855," the Power to amend the said acts in their application to this colony is, ¡under certain condi- tions, reserved to this Legislature, and it is desirable to exercise the aforesaid Power in manner hereinafter appearing.
Preamble Recites. “The Shipping Act 1854" and Chinese Passengers'
Be it Act 1855."
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