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CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
demand of the emigration officer, refuse or fail to exhibit his license and such written authority: and no person whether as principal or agent shall by any fraud, or by false representation as to the size of the ship or otherwise, or by any false pretence whatsoever,- induce any person to engage any passage as aforesaid.
Teuth-All violations or disobediences of, or defaults in compliance with, the provisions of this ordinance, shall be heard and determined summarily under ordinance No. 10 of 1844; and on conviction of such offences, the respective offenders shall be sentenced to pay the several penalties, or in default of the payment thereof to suffer the several fines or imprisonment respectively hereinafter specified:
1st. For every offence against section one, a fine not exceeding four hundred current dollars, or Imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.
2nd. For every offence against section five a fine not exceeding four hundred current dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.
3rd.-For every offence committed by a passage broker against sections six or nine a fine not exceeding one hundred current dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
4th. For every offence committed by a passage broker against section seven, a fine not exceeding one hundred current dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months,
5th. For every offence against section eight, a fine not exceeding fifty current dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months.
Eleventh. For the purposes of this ordinance the term emigrant ship shall mean every ship carrying more than twenty passengers being natives of China, and clearing out for a port or ports not in Chinese empire; the term emigration officer shall include every person lawfully acting as emigration agent, or protector of emigrants in Hong- kong; and the term passenger shall include all passengers being natives of China.
An Ordinance for providing Hospital accommodation on board Chinese passenger
ships, and for the Medical Inspection of the passengers
about to proceed to sea in such ships.
(26th December, 1859,)
No. VI of 1859.
and crews
Whereas it is desirable to provide for the allocation of a space on board Chinese passenger ships, for the purposes of a hospital or sick bay, and also for the medical inspection of the passengers and crews on board such ships, with a view to the better securing the health of passengers therein. Be it enacted and ordained by His Excel- lency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof as follows:-
I. In every Chinese passenger ship there shall be a sufficient space properly divided off to the satisfaction of the emigration officer at the port of clearance, to be used exclusively as a hospital or sick bay for the passengers; this space shall be either under the poop or in the round-house or in any deck-kouse which shall be properly built and secured to the satisfaction of such emigration officer, or on the upper passenger deck, and not elsewhere, and shall in no case be of less dimensions than eighteen clear superficial feet for every fifty passengers which the ship shall carry. Such hospital shall be fitted with bed places, and supplied with proper beds, bedding and utensils to the satisfaction of such emigration officer, on the upper passenger deck, at the port of clearance, and shall throughout the voyage be kept so fitted and supplied.
II. In the measurement of the passenger ship, the space for the hospital shall be included.
III.-No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on any voyage of more than seven days' duration until some medical practitioner shall have certified to the emigration officer, and the said emigration officer shall be satisfied, that none of the
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