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CHINESE PASSENGERS ACT.

Eighth-No Person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be altered, after it is once issued or shall induce any l'erson to

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Contract Tickets to Passengers.

part with or render useless or destroy any such Contract Ticket, during the continu- ance of the Contract which it is intended to evidence.

without written au-

on demand.

Ninth.-No Licensed Passage Broker shall, as Agent for any Agents not to act Person, whether a Licensed Broker or not, receive money for or on account of the Passage of any Passsenger on board an Emni-thority, and to pro- duce their Authority grant Ship, without having a written Authority to act as such Agent, or on the demand of the Emgration Officer, refuse or fail to exhibit his License and such written Authority: and no Person whether as Princi- pal or Agent shall by any Fraud, or by false Representation as to the Size of the Ship or otherwise, or by any false Pretence whatsover, induce any Person to engage any Pasange as aforesaid.

Tenth-All Violations or disobediences of, or defaults in Penalties for Of- compliance with, the Provisions of this Ordinance, shall be heard

fences.

and determined summarily under Ordinance No. 10 of 1844; and on conviction of such offences, the respective offenders shall be sentenced to pay the several penalties, or in default of the payment thereof to suffer the several Fines or Imprisonment re- spectively hereinafter specified

1st-For every Offence against Section One, a Fine not ex- | 1. Against Section I ceeding Four Hundred current Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Six Months.

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2nd. For every Offence against Section Five a Fine not exceeding Four Hundred current Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Six Weeks.

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2. Against Section

3. Against Sections VI and IX.

Months.

4. Against Section

3rd-For every Offence committed by a Passage Broker against Sections Six or Nine a Fine not exceeding One Hundred current Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Three

4th. For every Offence committed by a Passage Broker against Section Seven, a Fine not exceeding One Hundred cur- VII. rent Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Three Months.

5th. For every Offence against Section Eight, a Fine not 5. Against Section exceeding Fifty current Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not VIII. exceeding Two Months.

Eleventh.-For the purposes of this Ordinance, the term Emigrant Ship shall mean every ship carrying more than Twenty Passengers being Natives of China; and clearing out for a Port or Ports not in the Chinese Empire; the term Emigration Officer shall include every Person lawfully acting as Emigration Officer, Emigration Agent, or Protector of Emigrants in Hongkong; and the Term "Passengers" shall include all Passengers being natives of China.

An Ordinance for the continuance of the herebefore existing Regulations respecting Chinese Passenger Ships; and in case of British Ships, respecting the Treatment of the Passengers therein while at sea; and

for making Regulations in additon thereto.

(21st October, 1858.)

Whereas it is desirable to make further Provision, in addi- |

Preamble.

tion to that made by the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, for the regulation of Chinese