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CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.

their collection or embarcation, he may detain the ship, and if he shall think fit, may order all or any of the passengers to be re-landed.

SCHEDULE (B).

Emigration Officer's Certificate, &c.

I hereby authorize the Chinese passenger ship

sea for the port of

can legally carry

adults. viz

children, and

in

to proceed to

; and I certify that the said ship

male

adults, and that there are on board Jassengers making in all

men,

women,

female children, such children being between the ages

superficial feet, being [here superficial fect being [here

of one and twelve years; that the space set apart and to be kept clear for the use of such emigrants is as follows: On the upper deck describe the Space]; and in the between deck describe the Space]; that the ship is properly manned and fitted, and that the means of ventilating the part of the between decks appropriated to passengers are as follows, [here describe the Means of Ventilation]; that the ship is furnished with a proper quantity of good provisions, fuel and water for

days' issues to the passengers

according to the annexed dietary scale, and with a proper quantity of medicines, instruments, and medical comforts according to the annexed scale of medical neces- saries; that I have inspected the contracts between the emigrants and their intended employers (the terms of which are annexed to this certificate), and consider thein reasonable; that no fraud appears to have been practised in collecting the emigrants; and that there are on board a surgeon † [and interpreter] approved by me, and designated [respectively

and

the master of the ship is to put into for water and fresh vegetables.]

and

Dated this

day of

18

(Signed)

Emigration Officer.

SCHEDULE (C).

Form of boud to be given by the Masters of Chinese Passenger Ships.

Know all men by these presents, That we are held and firmly bound unto our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, in the sum of one thousand pounds of good and lawful money of Great Britain, to be paid to our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs and successors; to which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and every of us, jointly and severally, for and in the whole, our heirs, executors, administrators, and every of them, firmly by these presents.

Dated this

day of

18

Sealed with our Seals.

Whereas by the Chinese Passenger Act, 1855, it is enacted, that before any Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on a voyage of more than seven days' computed duration, the master thereof shall, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by an emigration officer, enter into a bond to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, in the sum of one thousand pounds.

"

whereof

Now the condition of this obligation is this, that if (in respect of the ship

is master) all and every of the requirements of the said Chinese Passenger Act, and of the regulations contained in Schedule (A.) to the said. Act aonexed, or enacted by the Legislature of Hongkong, shall be well and truly observed and performed [§ in like manner as the same ought to be observed and performed in case the said ship were a British ship, and the said

a British subject), then this

obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and effect,

• The scales must be those prescribed by the Regulations in schedule 4.

+ In case the ship has been authorized to proceed without an Intrepræter, omit the Part between Bracueta, and add" and that the Ship has been authorized to proceed without an Interpreter."

The Part between Brackets is to be inserted or not xa may be required. This clause to be inserted only in the case of a Foreign Chinese Passenger Ship.

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