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7. The following conditions as to provisions shall be Conditions as observed, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer :- to provisions.
(1.) provisions, fuel, and water shall be placed on board, of good quality, properly packed, and sufficient for the use and consumption of the passengers, over and above the victualling of the crew, during the intended voyage, accord- ing to the following scale :-
for every passenger per diem not less than-
Rice or bread stuffs
Dried
salt fish
Chinese condiment and curry
stuffe
1 ts.
03 lbs.
} OZ.
Fresh vegetables, which will y
keep for short voyages
such as sweet potatoes, turnips carrots, and pump- kins
1 lbs.
Firewood
2 do.
Water (to be carried in tanks
or sweet caska)
1 gallon. (2.) the last preceding condition as to provisions shall be deemed to have been complied with in any case where, by the special authority of the Emigration Officer, any other articles of food have been substituted for the articles enumerat- ed in the foregoing scale, as being equivalent. thereto; and
(3.) the passengers may supply their own pro- visions for the voyage, and proper accommoda- tion for the stowage and sufficient cabooses for the cooking of such provisions must be allowed
8. The Emigration Officer shall not give his certificate Conditions unless be is satisfied :-
precedent to
grant of
(1.) that the ship is seaworthy, clean, and properly certificate,
manned, equipped, fitted, lighted, and venti- lated, and has not on board any cargo likely, from its quality, or mode of stowage, to prejudice the health or safety of the passengers; (2.) that suitable medicines and medical stores, provisions, fuel, and water have been placed on board, of good quality, properly packed, and sufficient in quantity to supply the passengers on board during the intended voyage;
(3.) that all the requirements of the Asiatic Emi- gration Ordinance, 1912, have been complied with; and
(4.) that the intending passengers who are males under the age of sixteen yeare or females have been passed by the Registrar General.
Officer.
9. The Emigration Officer may at any time enter and Power of inspect the ship and the accommodation, provisions, and Emigration stores provided for the Asiatic passengers, and may re- quire the master or any other person to produce the licence and the ship's papers for his inspection, and, if he thinks necessary after inspecting the ship's papers, he may muster and inspect the Asiatic passengers.
to certificate.
10. Where the intended passengers or any of them are Contract or under contract of service, the Emigration Officer shall take abstract, to care that a copy of the form of any such contracts, or an be appended abstract of their substance, signed by himself, is appended to the said certificate, and in all cases if any of the pas sengers are in bad health or insuficiently provided with clothing, or if there is reason to suspect that frund or violence has been practised in their collection or embark- ation, he may dotain the ship, and, if he thinks fit, order all or any of the passengers to be re-landed.
marine
11. The Emigration Officer may, if he thinks fit, before Power to granting his certificate, employ any duly qualified medical employ practitioner, master mariner, marine surveyor, or other medical men, person whose professional assistance and advice he may surveyors, require for the purpose of ascertaining whether the re- and others. quirements of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1912, have been duly complied with, and the costs and charges of obtaining such assistance and advice shall be defrayed by
the owners or charterers of the ship, whether the Emigra-
tion Officer grants his certificate or not.
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12. The Emigration Officer shall from time to time fix Fees of
a reasonable scale of fees and charges, to be approved by professional one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, for persons the remuneration of any professional persons who may be employed. employed by him under the last preceding Regulation, and, pending the approval or disapproval of such scale, the fees and charges therein specified shall be payable, as if the same had been approved in manner aforesaid.
13. The owners or charterers of every ship shall pay Fees of such fees for the remuneration of the Emigration Officer as Emigration may, from time to time, be ordered under instructions from Officer. one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and, until and subject to such instructions, the following fees shall be payable in addition to all fees and charges payable under the last preceding Regulation :---
1. upon every application for a certificate......$25: Provided that for su Emigration Officer's certificate deliver- ed at a second port on the same voyage for a ship which bas already received a certificate at the first port the fee shall be only $12.50: Provided, also, always that no fees shall be payable to the Emigration Officer of this Colony, but in lieu thereof the following stamp duties are hereby imposed: that is to say,-
1. upon every application for a certifiente under
Regulation 2, a stamp duty of............................... $1
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2. upon every certificate granted under Regula-
tion 1, a stamp duty of......
and any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to Sec Ordin- stamps shall be read as if the stamp duties hereby imposed aace No. 16 were inserted in the schedule thereof.
of 1901.
payment of
14. In case default is made by the owners or charterers Power to of the ship in the payment of any fees, costs, or charges to detain ship which they may be liable under the Asiatle Emigration for nou- Ordinance, 1912, and those Regulations the ship may be detained by the British Consul, or if in this Colony by the Governor, until such fees, costs and charges shall have been paid.
fees, etc.
15. The Emigration Officer may withhold his certificate Withholding or revoke the same at any time before the departure of the of certificate. ship, if it appears, to his satisfaction, that any particulars etc., in case of falsa par- contained in the application in writing which has been ticulars far- made for the same, or any other particulars which may nished. have been furnished to him by or on bebalf of the owners, charterers, or muster of the ship in relation thereto, are un- true, or that the requirements of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1912, have not been complied with; and in every such case it shall be lawful for the British Consul, or if in this Colony for the Governor, to seize and detain the ship until the certificate, if already granted, has been delivered up to be cancelled.
16. The master of every such British emigrant ship as Treatment of defined by the said Ordinance shell, during the whole of passengers at
the intended voyage, make issues of provisions, fuel, and water, according to the aforesaid dietary seale, to all the passengers except such as have supplied them- selves therewith, and shall not make any alteration, except for the manifest advantage of the passengers, in respect
of the space allotted to them as aforesaid or in respect of the micans of ventilation, and shall not ill-use the passen- gers or require them (except in case of necessity) to help in working the ship; and shall, in cases where à Medical Officer is not carried, issue medicines and medical comforts, as may be requisite, to the best of his judgment; and shall call at such ports as may be mentioned in the Emigration Officer's clearing certificate for fresh water and other necessaries; and shall carry the passengers without unnecessary delay to the destination to which they have contracted to proceed.
sea.
17. Before the arrival of any such British ship at the Mustering of port for which the passengers have embarked, the master passengers khall cause the passengers to be mustered for the purpose by master.
of ascertaining that there are none on board who are not
in possession of an emigration contract ticket and included in the Emigration Officer's certificate and detailed list of passengers; if any such are found, it shall be duty of the master to hand them over to the proper authority to he dealt with according to law.
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