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CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
information that in consequence of an alteration made in the House of Lords, the "note" to Schedule 4 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 foreiture 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., Governer and Com- mander-in-chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its dependencies, and Vice-Admira! 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 thereof it is enacted, that "it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong to declare by proclamation, 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 proclamation issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the rule of computation by which the length of the voyage of any ship carrying Chinese passengers from Shanghai, Ningpo, Foochow, and Amoy, to the several places hereinafter mentioned, 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.
Manila....
Singapore..
,, Ceylon.....
To California or West Coast of America, North of
the Equator.........
.. West Coast of America, South of the Equator..
Sandwich Islands........................
"
,, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fejee Islands, Ta-
hiti, Friendly Islands......
**
Sydney, Melbourne, or South America..
Western Australia....
"
Van Dieman's Land..
JJ
New Zealand...........
"
"
";
"
Batavia..
Oct. to Ap. to Oct. to Apr. to Oct. to Apr. to Mar. Sept. Mar. Sept. Mar. Sept.
Both inclusive. Both inclusive. Both inclusive.
៩ នួន ឬ ន
3348 8 25
90
70
95
73
97 74
100
1.00 115 115
117 117
70
52
73
54
74
55
105
125
103
113
102
107
65
100
62
50
80
100
80 110
100
15
40
12
25
65
22
35
80
32
50
90
47
ARREARS
90
61
85
70 46
65
70
66
85
76
95
30 11
25
55
21
50
70
31
65
46
75
Madras or Calcutta..
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55│
95
52
85
51
80
**
Bombay.
65
100
63
90
62 85
Mauritius or Bourbon....
65 100
63
90
62
85
Cape of Good Hope......
70 105
67
95
66
90
West Indies or East Coast of America..
"
152
"Great Britain or Europe.....
Siam...
188 167 204 163 194 168
25 65
55
150
178
148 173
190
22
50