In 6030.
No. 34.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
In order to prevent difficulties arising on board Emigrant Ships at the moment of intended departure, through unfounded statements by the Passengers that their Contracts were not properly explained at the time of signature, Persons engaging Emigrants for labor in the Colonies are advised to convey each Laborer before the Emigration Officer, or before a Magistrate, who shall fill in the Contract with a full description of the intending Emigrant, and certify in the form following that its purport has been fully and intelligibly explained. At present no Fee will be charged for such attestation:-
FORM.
Name and Surname of the Laborer contracting (to be written in the Chinese as well as in the English character.) Age,
Native Province, District, and Place, Descriptive Marks,
I CERTIFY, that on this
day of
185..., in my presence, the within Contract was fully, distinctly, and intelligibly (as I believe) explained to the above-named Laborer in a Dialect which he understood; that he expressed himself willing to be bound by its Terms; and that he received into his own hands, in my presence, the sum of Dollars, as advance Wages.
(Signed)
A. B. Justice of the Peace for Hongkong.
The attention of Merchants and others interested in the Emigration Business is specially called to the above intimation.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th March, 1856.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
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In 6030.
No. 34.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
In order to prevent difficulties arising on board Emigrant Ships at the moment of intended departure, through unfounded statements by the Passengers that their Contracts were not properly explained at the time of signature, Persons engaging Emigrants for labor in the Colonies are advised to convey each Laborer before the Emigration Officer, or before a Magistrate, who shall fill in the Contract with a full description of the intending Emigrant, and certify in the form following that its purport has been fully and intelligibly explained. At present no Fee will be charged for such attestation :-
FORM.
Name and Surname of the Laborer contracting (to be written in the Chinese as well as in the English character.) Age,
Native Province, District, and Place, Descriptive Marks,
I CERTIFY, that on this
day of
185, in my presence, the within Contract was fully, distinctly, and intelligibly (as I believe) explained to the above-named Laborer in a Dialect which he understood; that he expressed himself willing to be
Dollars, as advance Wages. bound by its Terms; and that he received into his own hands, in my presence, the sum of (Signed)
A. B. Justice of the Peace for Hongkong. The attention of Merchants and others interested in the Emigration Business is specially called to the above intimation.
By Order,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th March, 1856.
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
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