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inspection shall be paid in the first instance by the emigration passage broker of such ship to the Emigration Officer and by him be paid into the treasury.
XIV. Any Chinese medical practioner properly qualified to the satisfaction of the Colonial Surgeon shall be eligible, with approval of the Governor, for the office of surgeon of a Chinese passenger ship within the terms of Schedule 4 of the "Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855."
XV.—All orders of Her Majesty the Queen in Council relating to the quantity of water to be carried by passenger ships having a certain description of condensing apparatus shall apply to the Chinese passenger ships.
XVI-No Chinese passenger ship, unless a vessel propelled by steam, bound to any port Westward of the Cape of Good Hope shall be permitted to clear from any port in the Colony between the months of May and September inclusive.
XVII.-No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea without strictly conforming to the Regulations contained in Schedule A of the "Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," except so far as the said Regulations are modified or altered by any of the Provisions of this Ordinance, or may be inconsistent therewith; and except as aforesaid the said Regulations shall be and continue in full force and effect XVIII.—It shall be lawful for the Emigration Officer at any time when he is satisfied that any emigrant who is unwilling to leave the port has been obtained by any fraud, violence, or other improper means, to land such emigrant and a passage back to his native place, or that from which he was taken, and also to defray the cost of his maintenance whilst awaiting a return passage, and all such expenses with all legal costs incurred shall be recoverable by the Emigration Officer before any Police Magistrate from the emigration passage broker of the vessel in which such emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped.
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XIX.-Whosoever shall unlawfully either by force or fraud take away or detain against his will any man or boy with intent to put him on board a Chinese passenger ship, and whosoever shall with any such intent receive, harbor, or enter into any con- tract for foreign service with any such man or boy knowing the same to have been by force or fraud taken and obtained as in this section before mentioned, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with
or without hard labor.
XX.-Every passage broker shall be liable to make good all penalties and ex- penses chargeable to him under this Ordinance, as fully and in the same manner as he is now liable to make good penalties under Ordinance No. 11 of 1857.
XXI.-The owners or charterers of any Chinese passenger ship and any emigra- tion passage broker and any intending emigrant by a Chinese passenger ship and any master or other person in charge of a Chinese passenger ship who shall fail to comply with or commit any breach of the I'rovisions of the Ordinance so far as they may respectively be bound thereby, and any person granting or knowingly uttering any forged certificate, permit, notice, or other document under this Ordinance, shall without prejudice to any other proceeding civil or criminal be liable upon summary conviction before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to in- prisomeut with or without hard labor for any term not exceeding six months.
XXII.-This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's con- firmation thereof shall have been proclaimed to the Colony by the Governor.
An Ordinance onacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to make further Regulations respecting Chincse Passenger Ships.
No. 1V. of 1870.
[30th March, 1870.] Whereas by Section II. of "The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Legislature of Hongkong, by any Ordinance to be by them enacted for that purpose, to make regulations respecting Chinese passenger hips subject to the proviso therein contained as to Her Majesty's confirmation of
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