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EMIGRATION ORDINANCES.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notice from the Emigration Officer is published for general information.
By Command,
CECIL C. SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th November, 1872.
NOTICE.
HARBOUR DEPARTMENT,
Hongkong, November 11th, 1872.
EMIGRATION.
The following information is supplied to Masters of vessels about to carry Chinese Passengers under the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, and Local Ordinances :----
Imperial Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855,-Declares that any vessel clearing with more than twenty (20) Asiatic Passengers on any voyage of more than seven (7) days' duration is a Chinese Passenger Ship.
Proclamations of January 26th, 1856, and of November 17th, 1858,-Declare the length of certain voyages.
Ordinance No. 11 of 1857,-Provides that no Chinese Passenger proceeding by a Chinese Passenger Ship shall be provided with a Passage Ticket except through the medium of a Licensed Passage Broker.
Ordinance No. 6 of 1859,-Provides for the Hospital accommodation of Chinese Passenger Ships, and permits the space appropriated for the Hospital to be included in the measurement of the capacity for Passengers.
The Hospital is to be provided with bed places, proper beds, bedding and utensils.
The Passengers and Crew are to be examined by a Medical Practitioner (changed to Medical Officer by Ordinance No. 12 of 1868), a fee at the rate of twenty-five (25) dollars being paid for every hundred persons so examined.
Ordinance No. 12 of 1868,-Makes provision for Depôts in which Chinese Passengers shall, unless exempted therefrom by the Emigration Officer, lodge three days.
It appoints a Medical Officer to inspect Emigrants.
It makes any Chinese Medical Practitioner, who is properly qualified to the satisfaction of the Colonial Surgeon, eligible, with the approval of the Governor, for the Office of Surgeon of a Chinese Passenger Ship within the terms of Schedule A of the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855.
It prohibits Sailing Passenger Ships bound to any Port westward of the Cape of Good Hope leaving any Port in the Colony between the months of May and September inclusive.
Government Notification No. 52 of 6th May, 1869,-Directs that no Chinese Doctor shall take charge of a Chinese Passenger Ship, unless he has previously procured an approved Certificate; first as to his personal competency, and secondly as to the sufficiency of the Chinese Medicines he proposes to supply for the voyage.
Ordinance No. 4 of 1870,-Provides that no Chinese Passenger Ship shall proceed to sea without a licence from the Governor, but it also permits His Excellency to grant exemption from the operation of this Ordinance, provided the Passengers proceeding shall be Free Emigrants and under no Contract of Service whatever.
Ordinance No. 8 of 1871,-Was introduced in order to give vessels, bound on voyages likely to occupy a less time than thirty (30) days, the privilege of conveying more Passengers than they can carry under the Imperial Act. The space appropriated to each Emigrant under this Ordinance is reduced from 12 to 9 superficial feet.
The Emigration Officer may allow such ships to carry Deck Passengers if he shall think proper.
• This Notification, together with all other ordinances relating to Harbour and Emigration Matters, is being revised.