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CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
tained 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.
Second.-Any person wishing to obtain a licence to act as a passage broker, shall make application for the same to the emigration officer who is hereby authorized (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 also, that any justice or justices of the peace who shall adjudicate on any offence against the Ordi- nance, 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 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.
Third.-Every person obtaining such licence as aforesaid, shall pay to the emigra- tion 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 licence; and the said emigration officer shall pay over all such fees to the Colonial Treasurer, to be applied to the Colonial Revenue.
Fourth.-All such licences shall continue in force until the 31st day of December in the present year, in which such licence shall be granted, and for fourteen days afterwards, unless sooner forfeited as herein before mentioned. Provided that any licence granted before the first day of December in the present year, shall continue in force till the 31st day of December, 1858, and fourteen days afterwards.
Fifth.-Every passage broker who shall or may receive money from any person, for or in respect of a passage in any emigrant ship, shall give every such person a con- tract 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., hereunto annexed, and to be accompanied with a translation thereof in the Chinese language, in plain and legible characters.
Sixth.-Every such passage broker before he shall receive or take any money on account of any such passage or for the sale or letting of the whole or any part of the accommodation of any emigrant ship proceeding from Hongkong, shall produce 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 emigrants, and that he, such passage broker, is authorised to received 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 contents 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 passenger of such contract ticket as aforesaid, the passage broker who 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.
Eighth.-No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be altered, after it is once issued, or shall induce any person to part with or render useless or destroy any such contract tickets during the continuance of the contract which it is intended to evidence.
Ninth. No licensed passage broker shall, as agent for any person, whether a licensed broker or not, receive money for or on account of the passage of any passenger on board an emigrant ship, without having written authority to act as such agent, or on