ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1876.
Chinese Emigration Amendment.
SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 5 OF 1876.
RECO
REGR
3 AUG 8!
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend the Law relating to Chinese Passenger Ships and the Conveyance of Chinese Emigrants. [26th April, 1876.]
WHEREAS by section V of "The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874," it is enacted "that no Chinese passenger ship, except ships about to proceed on a voyage of not more than thirty days' duration within the meaning of section VIII of this Ordinance, shall clear out or proceed to sea, and the Emigration Officer shall not grant the certificate prescribed by section IV of The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, unless the master of such ship shall be provided with a licence under the hand of the Governor and the public seal of the Colony to be obtained in manner hereinafter mentioned"; and (paragraph 2) "that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to exempt from the operation of this section, any mail steamers or other vessels which are subject to the provisions of The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, provided that the Chinese passengers proceeding in such vessels be free emigrants and under no contract of service whatever"; and whereas it is expedient that every Chinese passenger ship should be provided with a licence, and that the fee chargeable upon such licence should be reduced, and that the law should be amended as hereinafter provided: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I. Section V of "The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874" is hereby repealed, and the second section of this Ordinance is enacted instead thereof, and shall be read as if it had originally been inserted in the place of the said section V; and in any new edition of the Ordinances may be printed as section V of the said Ordinance.
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II. No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea without a licence from the Governor. No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea, and the Emigration Officer shall not grant the certificate prescribed by section IV of "The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," unless the master of such ship shall be provided with a licence under the hand of the Governor and the public seal of the Colony, or under the hand and seal of an Emigration Officer, to be obtained in manner hereinafter mentioned. (Ord. 4 of 1870, sec. 9.)
2. Whenever any Chinese passenger ship is about to proceed to sea upon any voyage of more than seven days duration, the owners or charterers of such ship, or, if absent from the Colony, their respective agents, may, before such ship is laid out for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants, and before any depôt is opened
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ORDINANCE No. 5 or 1876.
Chinese Emigration Amendment.
SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
No. 5 OF 1876.
RECO
REGR
3 AUG 8!
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend the Law relating to Chinese Passenger Ships and the Conveyance of Chinese Emigrants. [26th April, 1876.]
Wolidation Ordiance, 1874," it is enacted "that no Chinese
THEREAS by section V of "The Chinese Emigration Con-
passenger ship, except ships about to proceed on a voyage of not "more than thirty days' duration within the meaning of section "VIII of this Ordinance, shall clear out or proceed to sea, and the "Emigration Officer shall not grant the certificate prescribed by "section IV of The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, unless the "master of such ship shall be provided with a licence under the "hand of the Governor and the public seal of the Colony to be "obtained in manner hereinafter mentioned"; and (paragraph 2) "that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, froni time to time, to exempt from the operation of this section, any mail "steamers or other vessels which are subject to the provisions "of The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, provided that the "Chinese passengers proceeding in such vessels be free enigrauts "and under no contract of service whatever"; and whereas it is expedient that every Chinese passenger ship should be provided with a licence, and that the fee chargeable upon such licence should be reduced, and that the law should be amended as hereinafter provided: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I. Section V of "The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Orili- wance, 1874" is hereby repealed, and the second section of this Ordinance is enacted instead thereof, and shall be read as if it had originally been inserted in the place of the said section V; and in any new edition of the Ordinances may be printed as section V of the said Ordinance.
Licensing of Chinese Passenger Ships."
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II. No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea, No Chinese and the Emigration Officer shall not grant the certificate prescribed passenger ship by section IV of "The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," unless the to proceed to niaster of such ship shall be provided with a licence under the hand of the Governor and the public seal of the Colony, or under the Governor. the hand and seal of an Emigration Officer, to be obtained in (Ord. 4 of
1870, sce. 9.) nanner hereinafter mentioned.
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2. Whenever any Chinese passenger ship is about to proceed Time and mode to sea upon any voyage of more than seven days duration, the of application owners or charterers of such ship, or, if absent from the Colony, the Colony, their respective agents, may, before such ship is laid ou for the [bid, sec. 4.] conveyance of Chinese emigrouts, and before any depôt is opened
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