CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902 — Page 362

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HONGKONG.

May 7th, 1902.

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which we shall hold an examination on the officers.

We enclose copies of landing certificates of

stowaways. The Bond for $70,000 gold is therefore

now fulfilled and cancelled.

"Kwelyang". We enclose press reports of the

trial of three Chinese stowaways and three quarter-

masters.

Sir:

We beg to call the attention of the Committee of

the Chamber of Commerce to the inadequacy of the

present Colonial Ordinance dealing with Stowaways,

which has been brought to our notice in connection

with the recent case of our Steamer "Kaifong".

(No.22 of 1890,-) reads as fol-

The Ordinance,

-

Yours faithfully,

lows:

(Signed)

Butterfield and Swire.

'If any person

shall be found on board any

*passenger ship with intent to obtain a passage

"therein without the consent of the owner, ohar-

*terer, or master thereof, such person,

and

every person aiding and abetting him in such

'fraudulent intent, shall respectively be liable

"to penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars

"and in default of payment to imprisonment, with

or without hard labour, for a period not ex-

*ceeding six calendar months; and such person

*so found on board may be taken before any Jus-

*tice

he Secretary,

Hongkong Chamber of Commerce.