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CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
this Government, and His Excellency the Governor desires to point out for general information that in consequence of an alteration made in the House of Lords, the "note" to Schedule A has become inconsistent with the body of the Act, and that the penalty for breach of the Act of the regulations has been reduced from forfeiture of the ship and a fine, to a misdemeanor.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,
Hongkong, 4th February, 1856.
JOHN BOWRING.
PROCLAMATION.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
By His Excellency Sir JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Com- mander-in-chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the trade of British subjects in China.
Whereas, by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, passed in the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Her Majesty's reign, entitled An Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passengers' Ships, under the third clause therecf it is enacted, that "it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong to declare by pro- clamation, for the purposes of this Act, what shall be deemed to be the duration of the voyage of any Chinese passengers:-
Now therefore, I, Sir JOHN BOWRING, Governor as aforesaid, by this my proclama- tion issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the rule of com- putation by which the length of the voyage of any ship carrying Chinese passengers from Shanghai, Ningpo, Foochow, and Amoy, to the several places hereinafter men. tioned, shall be computed for the purposes of the act above referred to; that is to say:- COMPUTATION OF LENGTH OF VOYAGE IN ANY CHINESE PASSENGER SHIP FROM THE NORTHERN PORTS OF CHINA TO THE UNDERMENTIONED PLACES.
From Shanghai and Ningpo.
From Foochow.
From
Amoy.
Oct. to Apr. to Oct. to Apr. to Oct. to Apr. to Mar. Sept. Mar. | Sept. | Mar. | Sept. Both inclusive. Both inclusive. Both inclusive.
To California or West Coast of America, North of
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90
70
the Equator........
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Sydney, Melbourne, or South America
New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fejee Islands, Ta-
hiti, Friendly Islands..........
West Coast of America, South of the Equator........... Sandwich Islands.......................
100
100 115
70 52
105 125
103
65 100
50
Western Australia
70
Van Dieman's Land
>
80
New Zealand....
ខ្លួនខុ
80 47
100
110
15
40
"
"
"
*
**
Manila.......
,, Singapore...
Batavia..
Ceylon.....
Madras or Calcutta.
Bombay.........................
25
65
35
80
2 22 2 256R222
95
73
97
74
115 117
117
73
54
74
55
113
102
107
90
61
85
70
46
65
67
70
66
85
77
100
76
95
12
30
11
25
55
21
50
32
70
31
50 90
65
47
80
46
75
55
95
85
51
80
65
100
63
90
62
85
65
100
63
90
Mauritius or Bourbon
62
85
70
105
67
95
D
,, Cape of Good Hope
66
90
West Indies or East Coast of America..
152
188 150
178
148
173
167
204
163
194
**
Great Britain or Europe.......
163
190
25
65
23
55
JJ
22
50
Siam
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