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Conditions AS 7. The following conditions as to provisions shall be to provisions. observed, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officor :-
(1.) provisions, fuel, and water shall he 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
Iba.
Dried
salt fish
..........
Of lbs.
I OZ.
Chinese condiment and curry
Stuff's
Fresh vegetables, which will
keep for short voyages
such as sweet potatoes, 14 Ba
turnips, carrots, and pump-
kius....
Firewood
Water (to be carried in tanks
or sweet casks)
2 do.
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- od in the foregoing scale, as being equivalent thereto; and
(3.) the passengers may supply their own pro- visious for the voyage, and proper accommoda- tion for the stowage and sufficient cabooses for the cooking of such provisions must be allowed,
Conditions 8. The Emigration Officer shall not give his certificate precedent to unless he is satisfied :- grant of certificate.
Tower of
Officer.
(1.) that the ship is seaworthy, clean, and properly manued, equipped, fitted, lighted, and venti- Inted, and has not on board any cargo likely, from its quality, or mode of stowage, to prejudico the health or safety of the passengers; (2.) that suitable medicines and medical stores, provisions, fuel, and water have been placed on hoard, 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, 191, have been complied with; nod
(4.) that the intending passengers who are males under the age of sixteen years or females bave been passed by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
9. The Ewigration Officer may at any time enter and Emigration inspect the ship and the accominodation, provisions, and 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, be many muster and inspect the Asiatic passengers.
Detention of SLip if AUT emigrants ill or under
certain other
circum-
stances.
marine
Lurveyors, and others.
10. The Emigration Officer may in all cases if any of the passengers are in bad health or insufficiently provided with clothing, or if there is reason to suspect that fraud or violence has been practised in their collection or anbark- ation, detain the ship, and, if he thinks fit, order all or any of the passengers to be re-landed.
Power to
11. The Emigration Officer may, if lie thinks fit, before employ granting bis certificate, employ any daly qualified medical medical man, practitioner, master mariner, marine surveyor, or other person whose professional assistance and advice he may require for the purpose of ascertaining whether the re- quirements of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 191 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 Governor-in-Council shall from time to time fis Fees of
a reasonable scale of fers und charges, to be approved by professional one of is Majesty's Principal Secretaries of Stale, for persons the remuneration of any professional persons who may be employed. employed under the lust preceding Regulation, and, pending the approval or disapproval of such scale, the fees and charges therein specified shall be payable, as if the same bad been approved in manner aforesaid.
13. The owners or charterers of every ship shall pay Eces of such fees for the remuneration of the Emigration Officer as Emigration tay, 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 inst preceding Regulation:-
1. upon every application for a certificate......$25 : Provided that for an Emigration Othcer's certificate deliver- ed at a second port on the same voyage for a ship which has 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 lion thereof the following stamp duties are hereby imposed that is to say :-
1. upon every application for a certificate under
Regulation 2, a stamp duty of......... $ 1
2. upon every certificate granted under Regula-
tion 1, a stamp duty of.......
.$ 1
and any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to stamps shall be read as if the stamp duties hereby imposed were inserted in the schedule thereof,
for nou- 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 Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 191, and these Regulations the ship may be fees, etc. detained by the British Consul, or if in this Colony by the Governor, until such fees, costs and charges shall have been paid.
etc.. in case
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 of false par- contained in the application in writing which has been ticulare fur- made for the same, or any other particulars which may nished. have been furnished to him by or on behalf of the owners, charterers, or master of the ship in relation thereto, are un- true, or that the requirements of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 191, 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 scize and detain the ship until the certificate, if already granted, has been delivered up to be cancelled.
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16. The master of every such British emigrant ship as Treatment of defined by the said Ordinance shall, during the whole of Passengers at the intended voyage, make issues of provisions, fuel, atud water, according to the aforesaid dietary scale, to all the passengers except such as have supplied them- solves 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 means of ventilation, and shall not ill-use the pussen- gers or require thein (except in ease of necessity) to help in working the ship; and shall issue medicines and medical comforte, as may be requisite; and sbali 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 necessary delay to the destination to which they are bound.
17. Before the arrival of any such British ship at the Mustering of port for which the passengers have embarked, the master passengers by master. shall cause the passengers to be mustered for the purpose of ascertaining that there are none on board who are not in possession of an emigration passage 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 be dealt with according to law.
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