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CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
Thirdly. Any Chinese passenger ship clearing out or proceeding to sea from any port in this colony or in China, or within a hundred miles of the coast thereof, on any voyages to any other port or ports, for the purpose of commencing at or from any such port or ports as last aforesaid a voyage of more than seven days' duration, shall be deemed to have cleared out or proceeded to sea upon the said last-mentioned voyage from the said first-mentioned port within the meaning of "the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855." This ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in this colony by His Excellency the Governor.
An Ordinance for Licensing and Regulating Passage Brokers. (3rd November, 1857.)
No. 11 of 1857.
Whereas it is expedient to amend existing legislation with reference to emigrants: Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
First.-From and after the passing of this Ordinance, no person shall act as a passage broker or in procuring passengers, for or in the sale or letting of passages in any emigrant ship, unless he shall, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the emigration officer, have entered into a joint and several bond in the sum of five thousand current dollars to Iler Majesty, her heirs and successors, according to the form con- tained in Schedule A., hereunto annexed, which bond shall be renewed on each occasion of obtaining such licence as hereinafter mentioned, and shall be deposited with the emigration officer; nor unless such person shall have obtained a licence to let or sell passages, nor unless such licence shall be then in force; and where different members of the same firm act as passage brokers, each person so acting shall comply with the
terms of this section.
Second.-Any person wishing to obtain a licence to act as a passage broker, shall make application for the same to the emigration officer, who is hereby authorized (if he shall think fit) to grant such licence according to the form in Schedule B., hereunto annexed: Provided always that no such licence shall be granted unless such bond as hereinafter mentioned shall have been first entered into: Provided also, that auv justice or justices of the peace who shall adjudicate on any offence against the Ordi. nance, are hereby authorized to order the offender's licence to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited accordingly; and the said justice or justices making such orders forthwith to cause notice of such forfeiture, in the form contained in the Schedule C., hereunto annexed, to be transmitted to the emigration officer, and such forfeiture shall be exclusive and independent of any other punishment which may be inflicted upon such offender under the provisions of the Ordinance.
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Third. Every person obtaining such licence as aforesaid, shall pay to the emigra tion officer a fee of two hundred current dollars, which the emigration officer is hereby empowered and required to demand and receive upon the issuing of any such licence; and the said emigration officer shall pay over all such fees to the Colonial Treasury, to be applied to the Colonial Revenue.
Fourth.-All such licences shall continue in force until the 31st day of December in the present year, in which such licence shall be granted, and for fourteen days afterwards, unless sooner forfeited as herein before mentioned. Provided that any licence granted before the first day of December in the present year, shall continue in force till the 31st day of December, 1858, and fourteen days afterwards.
Fifth.-Every passage broker who shall or may receive money from any person, for or in respect of a passage in any emigrant ship, shall give every such person a con- tract ticket, under the hand of such passage broker, and stamped with his seal or trade mark, each ticket to be printed in a plain and legible type, according to the form in Schedule D., hereunto annexed, and to be accompanied with a translation thereof in the Chinese language, in plain and legible characters.
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