LVI
CHINESE PASSENGERS ACT.
How Passage Bor- ker's Licenses may be obtained. Power to Justices to order Li-
censes to be forfeited
Second-Any Person wishing to obtain a Licence to act as a Passage Broker, shall make application for the same to the Emi- gration Officer who is hereby authorized (if he shall think fit) to grant such License according to the Form in Schedule B, here- unto annexed: Provided always that no such License shall be granted unless such Bond as hereinbefore mentioned shall have been first entered into: Provided also, that any Justice or Justices of the Peace who shall adjudicate on any Offence against the Ordinance are hereby authorized to Order the Offender's License to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited accordingly; and the said Justice or Justices making such order forthwith to 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 the Ordinance.
Fee to be paid for Licenser.
Third.-Every Person obtaining such License as aforesaid, shall pay to the Emigration Officer a Fee of Two Hundred current Dollars, which the Emigration Officer is hereby empowered and required to demand and receive upon the issuing of any such License; and the said Emigration Officer shall pay over all such Fees to the Colonial Treasurer, to be applied to the Colonial Revenue.
How long Licenses
Fourth-All such Licenses shall continue in force until the 31st Day of December in the present year in which such Li-
are to continue in cense shall be granted and for fourteen Days afterwards, unless | force. sooner forfeited as hereinbefore mentioned. Provided that any License granted before the first Day of December in the present year, shall continue in force till the 31st Day of December 1858 and for fourteen Days afterwards.
Fifth.-Every Passage Broker who shall or may receive Contract Tickets money from any Person, for or in respect of a Passage
for Passages. Emigrant ship, shall give to every such Person a Contract Ticket, under the hand of such Passage Broker, and stamped with his Seal or Trade Mark, each Ticket to be printed in a plain and legible Type, according to the Form in the Schedule D, here- unto annexed, and to be accompanied with a Translation thereof in the Chinese Language, in plain and legible Characters.
Passage Brokers to produce to Emigra- tion Officer Certificate that they have char- tered the Ship for car- rying Emigrants.
Sixth.-Every such Passage Broker before he shall re- ceive or take any money on account of any such Passage or for the sale or letting of the whole or any part of the Accommoda- tion of any Emigrant ship proceeding from Hongkong shall pro- duce to the Emigration Officer the Certificate of the Master or Owner of the ship, in respect of which such Passage shall or may have been taken, or the Accommodation which shall have been so sold or let, to the effect that such Ship has been chartered for the purpose of carrying Emi- grants, and that he, such Passage 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 Emigration Officer, and the Con- tents thereof entered in a Book to be kept by the Emigration Officer, for recording therein the Contents of such Certificates.
Seventh. On every occasion of the delivery to any Passen- ger of such Contract Ticket as aforesaid, the Passage Broker shall have engaged to provide each Passenger with a passage shall attend with him at the office of the Emigration officer in whose presence the contract ticket shall be delivered to such Passenger and who shall explain to him the true. Intent and meaning of such Contract.
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Passage Broker to attend before Emi- gration Officer for the purpose of delivering
the Contract Tickets to Passengers,
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