CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
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Signed, scaled, and delivered by the above-bounden
and
in the
Presence of
No. 13.
JOHN BOWRING.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Sir JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander- 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 for 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 purposes of this act, what shall be deemed to be the duration of the "voyage of any Chinese passenger ship :"-
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Now therefore, I, Sir JOHN BOWRING, Governor, as aforesail, by this my pro- clamation issued for that purpose, do declare that the following shall be the rule of computation 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-
California or West Coast of America, North of the Equator West Coast of America, South of the Equator.. Sandwich Islands.
New Caledonia and New Hebrides, Feejee
Tahiti, Society or Friendly Islands.. Sydney, Melbourne, or South Australia. Western Australia.
Van Dieman's Land.
New Zealand...
Manila
Singapore
Batavia..
Ceylon..
Madras or Calcutta.
Bombay.
Mauritius or Bourbon.
Cape of Good Hope
West Indies or East Coast of America
Great Britain or Europe.
Siam.....
October to March.
[both inclusive.]
April to September.
100 days.
75 days.
120 days.
120 days.
75 days.
56 days.
Islands,100 days.
100 days.
60 days.
80 days.
45 days.
60 days.
65 days.
80 days.
75 days.
90 days.
20 days.
20 days.
20 days.
45 days.
30 days.
60 days.
45 days.
70 days.
50 days.
75 days.
60 days.
80 days.
60 days.
80 days.
65 days.
85 days.
147 days. 168 days.
162 days. 184 days.
20 days. 45 days.
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 nineteenth year of Her Majesty's reign.
No. 18.
By His Excellency's Command,
(Signed) W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
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
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