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44.--(1.) It shall be lawful for the Registrar General Power to or the Emigration Officer, at any time when he is satisfied land that any emigrant who is unwilling to leave the port has emigrant been obtained by any fraud, violence, or other improper willing to means, to land such emigrant and procure him a passage leave port back to his native place or that from which he was taken, and who bas and also to defray the east of his mainten ince whilst await- been
procured ing a return passago.
(2.) All such expenses, with all legal costs incurrel, shall be recoverable by the Registrar General or Emigration Officer before any Magistrato from the emigration passage broker of the vessel in which such emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped.
Emigration Boarding-houses.
by fraud, etc
45. No contrack or assisted emigrant aball, without the Prohibition sauction of the Registrar General, be permitted to embark of Chinese
emigrant in this Colony in any emigrant ship on any short, long or embarking extended voyage unless he has been lodged in a hotel or otherwise boarding-house licensed under this Ordinance during a than from period of not less than forty-eight hours previous to the licensed
boarding- examination by the Registrar General,
house.
46.--(1.) It shall be lawful for the Registrar General to Licensing of liceuse a sufficient number of fit and proper persons to boarding- keep hotels and boarding-houses for contract and assisted houses, emigrants.
(2.) Every such licence shall be granted for such period, not exceeding twelve months, and ou payment of such fee, and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by any rules to be made under the next succeeding section.
(3.) Every hotel or boarding-house keeper licensed under this Ordinance shall enter into a bond in the sun of one thousand dollars, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the Registrar General, for the due observance of such terms and conditions,
for boarding- housek
47(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Comcil Power to to make rules for the licensing, regulation, and sanitary make rules maintenance of such hotels or boarding-houses, and with regard to all emigrants residing therein, and by such rules to require such register or other books to be kept as he may deem expedient, with regard to all visitors to such hotels and boarding-houses and to contract or assisted emigrants,
(2.) Every person who commits a breach of any rule made under this section shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
particulars of
48.-(1.) The keeper of every sucli hotel or boarding- Furaishing house shall supply the Registrar General with a return of return of all emigrants who are inmates of the house, giving their emigrants number, names, descriptions and such other particulars as before en- the Registrar General may direct together with the name of barkation. the emigrant ship by which they intend to proceed.
(2.) Such return minst be supplied at least twenty-four hours before the examination by the Rogistrar General and shall be in such form as he may direct.
Photographs.
Chinese emigrants.
49. The keeper of every licensed hotel or hoarding- Furnishing house from which any contract or assisted emigrant is to photographs be shipped or in the case of every male emigrant under the of certain age of sixteen years and of all female emigrants the pas suge broker who provides the passage shall attend at the Registrar General's Office or other place appointed for the examination to be held by the Registrar General, and shall then farmish the Registrar General with two copies of the photograph of every such emigrant, with the names, ages and number of the said emigrants, numbered to cor- respond with a list containing the names, ages, sex, destina- sion, occupation and any other particulars which may be required by the Registrar General concerning each person enferol thereon tegether with the name of the ship by which each person intends to sail and the date of departure.
(2.) It shall be lawful for the Registrar General to Employment employ a certain unmber of fit and respectable photograph- of photo- ers to furnish the photographs required by this section, graphers.
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Miscellaneous Provisions.
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50. Every person who-
(1) makes or attempts to makes auy fraudulent use of a certificate grauted this Ordinates; or (2.) forges, counterfeits, alters, or erases the whole
or any part theroof; or
(3.) uses or attempts to use any spurions or frandu- leut certificate, and every person aiding and abetting in such offence; or
(4.) commits any offence against the provisions of
section 43,
shall be liable on indictment or on summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year and to a
fine not exceeding one thousand dollars,
51. Every person who-
Fraudulent
use of certificate.
Punishment for impro-
(1.) unlawfully, either by force or fraud, takes perly obtain. away or detaius against his will any emigrant ing emigrant. with intent to put him ou board any emigrant ship or British emigrant ship; or,
(2.) with any such intent, receives, harbours, or euters into any contract for foreign service with any such emigrant, knowing the same to have been by force or fraud taken and obtained as hereinbefore mentioned,
shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprison- meat for any term not exceeding seven years.
52. Every person who falsely and deceitfully personates, Punishment or aids and abets in falsley and deceitfully persouating, an for person. emigrant or intending higrant at any attendance before ation of or examination by the Emigration Officer or the Registrar
emigrant. General, required by any enactment for the time being in force relating to Asiatic emigration shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for say term not exceeding six months.
53.-(1.) The keeper of any hotel or boarding-house who Penalty for knowingly furnishes any false or incorrect return or other furnishing particulare required of him, or who obtains or attempts false return, to obtain by fraud, intimidation, or force, the shipment shipment, of any Asiatic emigrant or intending einigrant, and every etc. person who aids or abets such keeper in so doing, shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.
(2.) Any such keeper and his sureties shall also be liable to the enforcement of his and their bond, and the licence of such keeper may be suspended by the Registrar General.
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54. The owners or charterers of any emigrant ship or General British emigrant ship and any emigration passage broker, penalty. and any intending emigrant by any such ship, and any master or other person in charge of any such ship who fails to comply with or commits any breach of the provisions of this Ordinance so far as they may respectively he bound thereby, and any person granting or knowingly uttering any forged certificate, permit, notice, or other doenment under this Ordinance shall, without prejudice to any other proceeding, civil or criminal, be liable, on summary cou- viction, to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
55. The forms in the Sebedules to this Ordinance or Use of forms. forms to the like effect, with such variations and additions Schedules. as circumstances may require, may be used for the purposes therein indicated and according to the directions therein contained, and instruments in those forins shall (as regards the form thereof) be valid and sufficient.
56. The following enactments are repealed :-
Ordinance No. 1 of 1889,
No. 34 of 1902.
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No. 13 of 1904.
No. 4 of 1908.
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