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CHINESE PASSENGERY ACT.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-bounden
Presence of
No. 13.
PROCLAMATION.
235-
and
in the
JOHN BOWRING.
By His Excellency Sir JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Connauder- in-chief of the colony of Hongkong and its dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British subjects. in China.
Whereas by an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland passed in this the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Her Majesty's reign, entitled An Act fur the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships, under the third clause thereof it is enacted, that "it shall be lawful for the Governor of Hongkong to declare by proclamation" for the pur- poses of this act, what shall be deemed to be the duration of the "voyage of any Chinese passenger ship:".
Now, therefore I, Sir JOHN BOWRING, Governor as aforesaid, by this my proclama- tion issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the rule of computa- tion by which the length of the voyage of any ship carrying Chinese passengers from Hongkong to the several places hereinafter mentioned shall be computed, for the purposes of the act above referred to; that is to say:-
PASSAGE FROM HONGKONG TO THE UNDERMENTIONED PLACES FOR
SHIPS PROPELLED BY SAILS, IN THE MONTHS OF,-
October to March
[both inclusive,]
April to September,
•
..120 75
75 days 120
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California or West Coast of America North of the Equator, 100 days, West Coast of America South of the Equator, Sandwich Islands,
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New Caledonia and New Hebrides, Feejee Islands,
Hebrides, Feejee Islands,} 100
Tahiti, Society or Friendly Islands,.
Sydney, Melbourne or South Australia..
Western Australia,
Van Dieman's Land,
New Zealand,
Manila,...
Singapore, Batavia, . Ceylon,
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...
Mauritius or Bourbon,
Capt of Good Hope,
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West Indies, or East Coast of America,
Great Britain or Europe,..
Siam,...
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Given under my hand and Seal of the Colony, at the Government Offices, Victoria, Hongkong, this 26th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and in the ninteenth year of Her Majesty's reign.
By His Excellency's Command,
(Signed) W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary
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