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MEDICAL INSPECTION OF EMIGRANTS.
12.-Previous to registration each applicant shall be carefully examined by the Medical Officer, and if approved shall have the proposed Contract fully explained to him, after which he shall be registered in a Book kept for such purpose by the Emigration Officer. A copy of the Contract shall also be then and there handed to him.
FROM MEDICAL INSPECTION TO EMBARCATION OF EMIGRANTS.
13.-After Medical Inspection and Registration each Emigrant may go away and return at the end of 4 days for final engagement, or remain in the Emigration House where suitable food and lodging shall be supplied to him.
SHIPPING LIST OF EMIGRANTS TO BE KEPT.
14.-A Shipping List shall be kept at each Emigration House in which the name of each Emigrant shall be entered, and extracts from every such list shall as required be given by the Emigration Officer to the Employer or his Agent as Shipping Permits.
EMBARCATION OF EMIGRANTS.
15.-No Emigrant shall be called upon to embark unless at such times as the Emigration Officer shall appoint, nor until 4 days at the least shall have elapsed from the date of his registration; and previous to embarcation the provisions of the Contract shall be again explained to him by the Emigration Officer in presence of the Registrar General; and every such Emigrant shall be free then to elect whether he will embark with a view to signing and completing his Contract.
16.-The Emigration Officer and Registrar General will attend at the Emigration House for the purpose of explaining Contracts previous to embarcation, as provided in Rule No. 15, on such days and at such hours as they may notify.
SIGNING OF CONTRACTS.
17. Every Emigrant having embarked must afterwards at such time as the Emigration Agent shall appoint, be distinctly asked by the Emigration Agent whether he understands the Contract and is willing to enter into it—and any Emigrant who says he is unwilling, shall at once be conveyed back to the shore and allowed to go where he pleases. On the other hand every Emigrant, who being questioned as above signifies his assent and signs the Contract, shall there and then be furnished gratuitously with Clothing and Bedding suitable to and sufficient for the voyage. He shall also be paid at such time any stipulated cash payment or advance.
18.-Having signed the Contract, no Emigrant will be at liberty to leave the Vessel, unless with consent of his Employer; but every Emigrant shall be allowed two clear days after signing his Contract and before departure of the Vessel, to see his friends alongside and dispose of his money as he may wish.
REJECTED AND SICK EMIGRANTS.
19. The Employer will be responsible for the return to his native district of every Emigrant, who shall have been rejected by the Medical Officer previous to or after registration or after embarcation, or who being registered may have declined to enter into the Contract.
20.-Any Emigrant taken ill at the Emigration House may either be medically treated there, or sent to the Public Hospital at the expense of the Employer, as may be deemed expedient by the Emigration Officer.
21.-In event of the death of any applicant for Emigration or of any registered Emigrant, either at the Emigration House or at the Hospital, all expenses incurred shall be defrayed by the Employer.
CHINESE DOCTORS IN ANY "CHINESE PASSENGER" SHIP.
22.-As soon as practicable the Owner or Charterer of any Emigrant Ship from the Port of Hongkong, shall nominate to the Emigration Officer one Chinese Doctor for every 200 or portion of 200 Passengers to be carried in such Ship, whenever the Emigration Officer considers that a competent European or American Surgeon for the whole Ship cannot be engaged without unreasonable expense or difficulty.
23.-The Owner or Charterer shall also present to the Emigration Officer two Householders, or other Persons, to become Sureties, as hereafter more fully explained, by Rule 29, in the sum of $1,000 each, for each and every Chinese Doctor nominated for such Ship.
24.-The Registrar General shall be required to certify in writing that such Sureties are reputable persons and valid for the amount for which they are about to be bound.
25.-The validity of such Sureties being so certified, they shall enter into a Bond with the Emigration Officer conditioned as required in Rule 29.
26.-The Emigration Officer shall then give the intending Doctor or Doctors an order to be examined by Medical examiners to be appointed, from time to time, for that purpose by His Excellency the Governor.
27.-The Examiners shall forward their decision as to the competency or otherwise of each intending Chinese Doctor to the Emigration Officer, who shall retain and record it.
28.-No Chinese Doctor shall take charge of Emigrants without a Certificate of Competency from the appointed Examiners.
BOND OF SURETIES, CONDITIONS OF.
29.-The conditions of the Bond named in Rule 25 shall be as follows:
1. That the Chinese Doctors certificated by the appointed Examiners will actually and bonâ fide sail in the Ship named in the Bond, on the Voyage therein designated, and will not quit such Ship before the end of the said Voyage, and will give proper attention to the health of the Chinese Passengers.
2. That the Medicines named by the Examiners in a List certified for the Ship in question will actually be put on board, and be of good quality, and of the quantities named in the List, and that they shall not be discharged from the Vessel before the end of the Voyage.
30.-Such Bond duly entered into shall be filed in the Emigration Office.
31.-For each Chinese Doctor found competent, there shall also be sent by the Examiners to the Emigration Officer, a certified List of Medicines, proper for the intended voyage, which the Emigration Officer shall file.
MEDICINES.
32. In addition to the Chinese Medicines mentioned above, in Rule 29, Clause 2, each Emigrant Ship shall carry the following Medicines:
Ipecacuanha Powder, 2 oz. Chloride of Lime, 20 lbs. Quinine, 4 oz. Antimonial Powder, 8 oz. Blistering Plaister, 16 oz. Sulphur Sublimed, 12 oz. Sulphur Ointment, 2 yards. Adhesive Plaister (spread), 1 oz. Sulphate of Zinc, 4 drams. Lunar Caustic, .36 quarts. Lime Juice, 36 quarts. Rum or Brandy, 12 Epsom Salts, 6 lbs. Tincture of Opium, 1 oz. Cholera Pills, … drams.353
MEDICAL INSPECTION OF EMIGRANTS.
12.-Previous to registration cach applicant shall be carefully examined by the Medical Officer, and if approved shall have the proposed Contract fully explained to him, after which he shall be registered in a Book kept for such purpose by the of the Contract shall also be then and there handed Emigration Officer. to him.
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FROM MEDICAL INSPECTION TO EMBARCATION OF EMIGRANTS.
13.-After Medical Inspection and Registration each Emigrant may go away and return at the end of 4 days for final engagement, or remain in the Emigration House where suitable food and lodging shall be supplied to him.
SHIPPING LIST OF EMIGRANTS TO BE KEPT.
14.-A Shipping List shall be kept at each Emigration House in which the maine of each Emigrant shall be entered, and extracts from every such list shall as required be given by the Emigration Officer to the Employer or his Agent as Shipping Permits.
EMBARCATION OF EMIGRANTS.
15.-No Emigrant shall be called upon to embark unless at such times as the Emigration Officer shall appoint, nor until 4 days at the least shall have elapsed from the date of his registration; and previous to embarcation the provisions of the Contract shall be again explained to him by the Emigration Officer in presence of the Registrar General; and every such Emigrant shall be free then to elect whether he will embark with a view to signing and completing his Contract.
16.- --The Emigration Officer and Registrar General will attend at the Einigration House for the purpose of explaining Contracts previous to embarcation, as provided in Rule No. 15, on such days and at such hours as they may notify.
SIGNING OF CONTRACTS.
17. Every Emigrant having embarked must afterwards at such time as the Emigration Agent shall appoint, be distinctly asked by the Emigration Agent whether he understands the Contract and is willing to enter into it--and any Emigrant who says he is unwilling, shall at once be conveyed back to the shore and allowed to go where he pleases. On the other hand every Emigrant, who being questioned as above signifies his assent and signs the Contract, shall there and then be furnished gratuitously with Clothing and Bedding suitable to and sufficient for the voyage. He shall also be paid at such time any stipulated cash payment or advance.
18.-Having signed the Contract, no Emigrant will be at liberty to leave the Vessel, unless with consent of his Employer; but every Emigrant shall be allowed two clear days after signing his Contract and before departure of the Vessel, to see his friends alongside and dispose of his money as he may wish.
REJECTED AND SICK EMIGRANTS.
19. The Employer will be responsible for the return to his native district of every Emigrant, who shall have been rejected by the Medical Officer previous to or after registration or after embarcation, or who being registered may have declined to enter into the Contract.
20.-Any Emigrant taken ill at the Emigration House may either be medically treated there, or sent to the Public Hospital at the expense of the Employer, as may be deemed expedient by the Emigration Officer.
21.-In event of the death of any applicant for Emigration or of any registered Emigrant, either at the Emigration House or at the Hospital, all expenses incurred shall be defrayed by the Employer.
CHINESE DOCTORS IN ANY "CHINESE PASSENGER" SHIP.
22.--As soon as practicable the Owner or Charterer of any Emigrant Ship from the Port of Hongkong, shall nominate to the Emigration Officer one Chinese Doctor for every 200 or portion of 200 Passengers to be carried in such Ship, when-
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ever the Emigration Officer considers that a competent European or American Surgeon for the whole Ship cannot be engaged without unreasonable expense or difficulty.
23.-The Owner or Charterer shall also present to the Emigration Officer two Householders, or other Persons, to become Sureties, as hereafter more fully explained, by Rule 29, in the sum of $1,000 each, for each and
every Chinese Doctor nominated for such Ship.
24.-The Registrar General shall be required to certify in writing that such Sureties are reputable persons and valid for the amount for which they are about to be bound.
25.-The validity of such Sureties being so certified, they shall enter into a Bond with the Emigration Officer conditioned as required in Rule 29.
26.-The Emigration Officer shall then give the intending Doctor or Doctors an order to be examined by Medical examiners to be appointed, from time to time, for that purpose by His Excellency the Governor.
27.-The Examiners shall forward their decision as to the competency or otherwise of each intending Chinese Doctor to the Emigration Officer, who shall retain and record it.
28.-No Chinese Doctor shall take charge of Emigrants without a Certificate of Competency from the appointed Examiners.
BOND OF SURETIES, CONDITIONS OF.
29.-The conditions of the Bond named in Rule 25 shall be as follows:
1. That the Chinese Doctors certificated by the appointed Examiners will actually and bonâ fide sail in the Ship named in the Boud, on the Voyage therein designated, and will not quit such Ship before the end of the said Voyage, and will give proper attention to the health of the Chinese Passengers.
2. That the Medicines named by the Examiners in a List certified for the Ship in question will actually be put on board, and be of good quality, and of the quantities named in the List, and that they shall not be discharged from the Vessel before the end of the Voyage. 30.-Such Bond duly entered into shall be filed in the Emigration Office. 31.-For each Chinese Doctor found competent, there shall also be sent by the Examiners to the Emigration Officer, a certified List of Medicines, proper for the intended voyage, which the Emigration Officer shall file.
MEDICINES.
32. In addition to the Chinese Medicines mentioned above, in Rule 29, Clause 2, each Emigrant Ship shall carry the following Medicines.
Ipecacuanha Powder,
Chloride of Lime,
Quinine,.
Antimonial Powder,
Blistering Plaister,
Sulphur Sublimed,
Sulphur Ointment,
For every 100 Passengers.
Adhesive Plaister (spread),
Sulphate of Zinc,
Lunar Caustic, ....
Lime Juice,
Rum or Brandy, Epsom Salts,
Tincture of Opium, Cholera Pills,..
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