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# EMIGRATION RULES,
## Where Emigrants are under Contract of Service.
## EMIGRATION DEPÔTS.
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1. It shall not be lawful to open any House for the reception of intending Emigrants without a License first obtained as hereinafter under a Penalty of $300.
2. Every License shall be for six months, but may at any time be withdrawn by order of the Governor.
3. Applications for the opening of Houses for the reception of Emigrants must be addressed to the Emigration Officer of the Port.
4. Each application shall specify the number of persons proposed to be accommodated and shall describe generally the measures which have been adopted for the accommodation, cleanliness, and general health and comfort of the Emigrants, as well as for the separation of the sexes.
5. After due inspection and approval by the Emigration Officer, Licenses for the opening of an Emigration House or Houses, and stating the number to be from time to time accommodated in each house, may be issued by the Colonial Secretary, on a certificate of previous examination and approval signed by the Colonial Surgeon, the Emigration Officer and the Registrar General, and on payment of a Fee of $10 for each House Licensed.
6. Suitable Hospital accommodation shall be provided in each House and suitable Offices for the performance of their duties by the Emigration and other Public Officers.
7. The door of each House must be opened at Sunrise and closed again at Sunset, and free egress and ingress without any let or hindrance whatever must, within such hours, be allowed to all the Emigrants resident therein and their friends, and the Police must at all hours have free access to every Emigration House.
8. Each Emigrant House must have, what the Emigration Officer may consider, a sufficient number of Servants and Watchmen to secure order and cleanliness by day and night throughout the premises, and each Servant so employed must be duly registered.
9. Any applicant for permission to engage Chinese for Emigration under contract shall furnish to the Emigration Officer written particulars as to the Licensed House or Houses in which the Emigrants are to be lodged, the name of the vessel in which they are to be embarked, the country for which they are destined, and the conditions or terms under which they are to be engaged.
## SUPERVISION OF NOTICES FOR COLLECTION OF EMIGRANTS.
10. Copies of all notices sent to the country for the collection of Emigrants must, previous to issue, be submitted to the Emigration Officer, who will take care that due warning is given in them to the effect that no person will be received at an Emigration House unless he is strong and healthy and that in event of rejection on such account he incurs the risk of being required to defray the cost of his return.
## EXAMINING APPLICANTS FOR EMIGRATION.
11. The Emigration Officer having given permission as aforesaid, the employer or his agent may submit daily to the Emigration Officer at such time as the said Emigration Officer may appoint, such applicants for admission as may be desirous of emigrating, but no Emigrant shall be lodged except in cases of emergency, nor in such cases more than 24 hours, in any such Emigrant Depôt before being produced before the Emigration Officer, under a Penalty of $50 for infraction of this Provision.
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EMIGRATION RULES,
Where Emigrants are under Contract of Service.
EMIGRATION DEPÔTS.
In 94446,
183
1. It shall not be lawful to open any House for the reception of intending Emigrants without a License first obtained as hereinafter under a Penalty of $300. 2.-Every License shall be for six months, but may at any time be withdrawn by order of the Governor.
3.--Applications for the opening of Houses for the reception of Emigrants must be addressed to the Emigration Officer of the Port.
4.-Each application shall specify the number of persons proposed to be accommodated and shall describe generally the measures which have been adopted for the accommodation, cleanliness, and general health and comfort of the Emigrants, as well as for the separation of the sexes.
5.-After due inspection and approval by the Emigration Officer, Licenses for the opening of an Emigration House or Houses, and stating the number to be from time to time accommodated in each house, may be issued by the Colonial Secretary, on a certificate of previous examination and approval signed by the Colonial Surgeon, the Emigration Officer and the Registrar General, and on payment of a Fee of $10 for each House Licensed.
6.Suitable Hospital accommodation shall be provided in each House and suitable Offices for the performance of their duties by the Emigration and other Public Officers.
7.-The door of each House must be opened at Sunrise and closed again at Sunset, and free egress and ingress without any let or hindrance whatever must, within such hours, be allowed to all the Emigrants resident therein and their friends, and the Police must at all hours have free excess to every Emigration House.
8. Each Emigrant House must have, what the Emigration Officer may consider, a sufficient number of Servants and Watchinen to secure order and cleanliness by day and night throughout the premises, and each Servant so employed must be duly registered.
9.-Any applicant for permission to engage Chinese for Emigration under contract shall furnish to the Emigration Officer written particulars as to the Licensed- House or Houses in which the Emigrants are to be lodged, the name of the vessel in which they are to be embarked, the country for which they are destined, and the conditions or terms under which they are to be engaged.
SUPERVISION OF NOTICES FOR COLLECTION OF EMIGRANTS.
10.-Copies of all notices sent to the country for the collection of Emigrants must, previous to issue, be submitted to the Emigration Officer, who will take care that due warning is given in them to the effect that no person will be received at an Emigration House unless he is strong and healthy and that in event of rejectiou on such account he incurs the risk of being to defray the cost of his return.
wing APPLICANTS FOR EMIGRATION.
11.-The Emigration Officer having given permission as aforesaid, the employer or his agent may submit daily to the Emigration Officer at such time as the said Emigration Officer may appoint, such applicants for admission as may be desirous of emigrating, but no Emigrant shall be lodged except in cases of emergency, nor in such cases more than 24 hours, in any such Emigrant Depôt before being produced before the Emigration Officer, under a Penalty of $50 for infraction
of this Provision.
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