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CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
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nance, 1867," and amend the Provisions for securing the Health of Emigrants in Chinese Passenger Ships clearing from Hongkang: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I.-The "Hongkong Emigration Ordinance, 1867," shall be and the same hereby is repealed.
II.—This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Hongkong Emigra- tion Ordinance, 1868.”
III. In the interpretation of this Ordinance the expression "Chinese Passenger Ship" shall mean every ship carrying from any port in the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, more than twenty passengers being natives of Asia on any voyage of more than seven days' duration within the meaning of the "Chinese Passenger Act, 1855," as defined by Section III. of Ordinance No. 9 of 1856.
IV. The owners or charterers of every Chinese passenger ship shall as soon as such ship is laid on for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants provide à depôt or depôts, to be approved of by the Emigration Officer, wherein every intending emigrant by such ship may be lodged, as hereinafter provided, and every such depôt shall be maintained and every emigrant lodging therein shall be supported at the expense of such owners or charterers.
V.--The owners or charterers of every Chinese passenger ship, or if absent from the Colony their respective agents, shall as soon as such ship is laid on for the conveyance of Chinese Emigrants, give notice in writing of the fact to the Emigration Officer specifying in such notice the name, destination and probable time of departure of such ship, and the depôt or depôts in which the intending emigrants by such ship are lodging or intended to be lodged before the embarkation.
VI. Every intending emigrant in a Chinese passenger ship shall, unless exempt- ed by the Emigration Officer, lodge at the least three clear days previously to his embarkation in the depôt provided by the owners or charterers of such ship with the approval of the Emigration Officer in pursuance of Section IV.
VII.-Every such depôt as aforesaid shall be under the supervision of the Emi- gration Officer who may inspect the same at such times as he shall think fit, and there Shall be at all times free ingress and egress allowed to all persons to and from such depôts, from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M.
VIII.-Every Emigration Passage Broker who shall contract with any intending emigrant for a passage in such ship, shall forthwith give notice in writing to the Emigration Officer of every such contract, specifying the name, age and sex of such emigrant and the name of such ship.
IX.-The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint at a salary not exceeding two thousand dollars per annum a medical officer, whose duty it shall be to inspect in- tending emigrants, and to supervise all matters and things in any way relating to the comfort and well-being of such emigrants, both before their departure and on their voyage, and such salary shall be in lieu of all fees.
X. The medical inspection of intending emigrants by a Chinese passenger ship required by Ordinance No. 6 of 1859, shall take place on shore before embarkation as well as on board the said ship after embarkation, and the Emigration Officer shall not grant the certificate required by the "Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," unless he shall be satisfied that such double inspection has been duly made, or has been dispensed with by the sanction of the Governor.
XI.-It shall not be lawful for any emigrant to embark in any Chinese passenger ship, or for the master or other person on board of a Chinese passenger ship to permit any emigrant to embark therein, unless such emigrant shall produce an embarkation permit from the Emigration Officer, who shall not grant the same unless he shall be satisfied that such emigrant has undergone on shore the medical inspection required
law to be made before embarkation.
XII. The medical inspection of emigrants required to be made after their em- barkation in any Chinese passenger ship shall take place at such time as the Emigra- tion Officer shall appoint.
XIII. The fees heretofore payable to the medical practitioner effecting such
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