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29.-(1.) No person shall act as a passenger broker or Prohibition in procuring passengers for, or in the sale or letting of of person passages in, any emigrant ship proceeding on any short, acting as long or extended voyage unless he has, with two sufficient broker with sureties, to be approved by the Registrar General, entered out having into a joint and several bond in the sum of five thousand entered into dollars to His Majesty, his heirs and successors, according bond and
obtained to the form in the Sixth Schedule to this Ordinance, which licence. bond shall be renewed on each occasion of obtaining such Sizth: licence as hereinafter mentioned, and shall be deposited Schedula, with the Registrar Gencral: nor unless such person has obtained a licence to let or sell passages: nor unless such licence is then in force.
(2.) Where different members of the same firm act as passage brokers, each person se acting shall comply with
the terms of this section.
30. Any person wishing to obtain a licence to set as Mode of a passage broker shall make application for the same to the obtaining Registrar General who is hereby authorized, if he thinks fit, passage
broker's to graut such licence, according to the from in the Seventh licence, and Selicdule to this Ordinance: Provided always that no such forfeiture licence shall be granted unless such bond as is mentioned thereof. in the last preceding section has been first entered intu: Seventh
Schedule. Provided, also, that any Magistrate who adjudicates on any offence committed by such broker against this Ordinance is hereby authorized to order the offender's licence to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited ne- cordingly and the said Mugistrato making such order shall forthwith cause notice of such forfeiture, in the form in
the Eightly Schedule to this Ordinance, to be transmitted Eighth to the Registrar General, and such forfeiture shall be Schedule. exclusive and independent of any other punishment which may be inflicted upon such offender under the provisious of this Ordinance.
31. Every person obtaining euch licence as aforesaid Pee to be shall pay to the Registrar General a fee of two hundred paid for
licence. dollars, or where the duration of the licence is short such reduced fee us the Governor-in-Council may authorise.
32. Such licence shall continue in force until the thirty- Duration of first day of December in the year in which such licence is licence. granted, and for fourteen days afterwards, unless sooner forfeited as hereinbefore mentioned.
33.--(1) Every passage broker who receives money Giving of from any person for or in respect of a passage in any contract emigrant ship proceeding on any short, long or extendeil ticket for voyage shall give to such person a contract passage ticket, Passage. under the hand of such passage broker and stamped with his seal or trade mark,
2.) Every such ticket shall be printed in a plain and Ninth legible type, according to the form in the Ninth Sebedule to Schedule. this Ordinance, and shall be accompanied with a translation thereof in the Chinese language, in plain and legible characters,
34. Every passage broker, before he receives or takes Production any money on account of any passage or for the sale or to Emigra letting of the whole or any part of the accommodation of tion Officer of certificate of or in any such ship proceeding from this Colony, shall
chartering produce to the Registrar General the certificate of the ship for master or owner of the ship in respect of which a passage carrying has been taken or the accommodation in which has been so emigrants. sold or let, in the effect that such ship has been chartered for the purpose of carrying emigrants, and that such pas- sage broker is authorized to receive payment for such passage or for the sale or letting of the accommodation in such ship; and such certificate shall be filed in the office of the Registrar Goueral)
Officer for
35. On every occasion of the delivery to any passenger Attendance of such contract passage ticket as aforesaid, the passage
before broker who has engaged to provide such passenger with a General or
Registrar passage shall :-
(1.) in the case of every male Asiatic passenger who is purpose of a contract or assisted emigrant or under the age delivering sixteen years and of every female passenger, attend, passage either personally or by his duly authorised representa- tickets to tive with him or her at the office of or other place passengers, appointed by the Registrar General, in whose presence the contract passage ticker shall be delivered to such
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177 passenger, and who shall explain to such passenger the true intent and meaning of such contract passage ticket with the object of ascertaining that he or she understands where he or she is going and that he or she is nor acting under compulsion or being influenced to emigrate by false represcutatious; and,
(2.) in the case of every other Asiatic passenger attend. either personally or by his duly authorised representa tive, with him at the medical inspection on board ship which inspection shall also be attended by the Registrar General in whose presence the true intent and mean- ing of the contract passage ticket shall be explained to such passenger with the object of ascertaining that bo understands where he is going and that he is not acting under compulsion or being influenced to emi- grate by fulse representations. Provided that when- ever it may appear desirable the Governor-in-Conneil may direct that any of the provisions of this sub- section may be dispensed with: in the case of passen- gers travelling to any British possession.
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36. No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be Prohibition altered, rendered useless, or destroyed, after it is once issued, of alteration or shall fraudulently induce any person to part with, or of contract render uscless, or destroy, any such contract passage ticket, ssage until the termination of the passage which it is intended
ticket.
to evidence.
as agent, etc.
37. No licensed passage broker shall, as agent for any Authority of person, whether a licensed broker or not, receive money pasange for or on account of the passage of any passenger on board beker to act an emigrant ship, without having a written authority to act as such agent, or, on the demand of the Emigration Officer, refuse or fail to exhibit his licence and anch written authority.
contract
38. Every pussage broker who contracts with any in- Giving of tending emigrant for a passage in any ship shall forth with notice of give notice in writing to the Registrar General of every such contract, specifying the name, age, and sex of such emigrant and the name of such ship.
Medical Inspection.
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emigrant to Registrar General.
39. Any medical officer whose duty it may be to inspect Fees intending emigrants and to supervise all matters and things of medical in any way relating to the comfort and well-being of such officer. emigrants before their departure and on their voyage, shail be entitled to charge such fees as may from time to time be prescribed by the Governor-in-Conucil, Such fees shall be paid by the medical officer into the Goneral Re- venue of the Colony.
40. The medical inspection of emigrants other than free Medical Asiatic emigrantëshall take place on shore before embarkn- inspection of tion as well as on board the ship after embarkation, and emigranta.
under the Emigration Officer shall not grant the certificate unless he is satisfied that such double inspection has been duly service. made or has been dispensed with by the sauction of the Governor.
contract of
41. The medical inspection of emigrants required to be Time for tade after their embarkation in any Chinese passenger medical ship shall take place at such time as the Emigration inspection Officer may appolat.
after em- barkation.
42. Any Chinese medical practitioner shall be eligible, Right of with the approval of the Governor, for the office of surgeon Chinese of any ship for the purposes of the Act or of this Urdin- medicat
ance.
Misrepresentation and Fraud.
practitioner to be surgeon of ship.
43.-(1.) No person shall, by any fraud, or by false Mis- representation as to the size of the ship or otherwise, or by represent any false pretenco whatsoever, induce any person to engage any passage as aforesaid,
(2.) No person shall falsely represent any contract or assisted emigraut to be a free Asiatic emigrant.
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