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No. 18.
CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
In continuation of Government Notification No. 13, it is hereby further intimated that the "Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," has now been officially communicated to this Government, and His Excellency the Governor desires to point out for general information that in consequence of an alteration made in the House of Lords, the "note" to Schedule A has become inconsistent with the body of the Act, and that the penalty for breach of the Act of the regulations has been reduced from forfeiture of the ship and a fiue, to a misdemeanor.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,
Hongkong, 4th February, 1856.
No. 34.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
In order to prevent difficulties arising on board emigrant ships at the moment of intended departure, through unfounded statements by the passengers that their con- tracts were not properly explained at the time of signature, persons engaging emigrants for labour in the colonies are advised to convey each labourer before the emigration officer, or before a magistrate, who shall fill in the contract with a full description of the intending emigrant, and certify in the form following that its purport has been fully and intelligibly explained. At present no fee will be charged for such attestation.
FORM.
Name and surname of the labourer contracting (to be written in the Chinese as well as in the English character).
Age
Native province, district, and place
Descriptive marks,
I certify, that on this
day of
18 in my presence, the within contract was fully, distinctly, and intelligibly (as I believe) explained to the above-named labourer in a dialect which he understood, that he expressed himself willing to be bound by its terms; and that he received into his own hands, in my presence, the sum of dollars, as advance wages.
(Signed)
A. B.,
Justice of the Peace of Hongkong.
The attention of merchants and others interested in the emigration business is especially called to the above intimation.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
Hongkong, 14th March, 1850.
No. 51.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
It is hereby notified for the information of masters of ships carrying Chinese pas- sengers, and unprovided with the improved appliances usually found in vessels of modern construction, and generally for the information of all interested, that in addition to a windsail for every hatchway, it is required that a constant supply of fresh air be ensured to the between decks in bad weather, by fitting at each end of space set apart for
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