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CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT.
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 fine to a misdemeanour.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office Victoria,
Hongkong, 4th February, 1856.*
JOHN BOWRING.
PROCLAMATION.
By His Excellency Sir JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Com- mander-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 the eighteenth and nineteenth years of Her Majesty's reign, entitled An Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passengers' 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 passengers:-
Now therefore, I, Sir JOHN BOWRING, Governor, as aforesaid, by this my proclamation 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 Shanghai, Ningpo, Foochow, and Amoy, to the several places hereinafter mentioned, shall be computed for the purposes of the act above referred to, that is to say:-
COMPUTATION OF LENGTH OF VOYAGE IN ANY CHINESE PASSENGER SHIP FROM THE NORTHERN PORTS OF CHINA TO THE UNDERMENTIONED PLACES.
From
Shanghai and Ningpo.
From Foochow.
From Amoy.
To California or West.Coast of America, North of}
the Equator.....
Oct. to Apr. to Oct. to Apr. to Oct. to Apr. to Mar. Sept Mar. Sept. Mar. Sept.
Both inclusive, Both inclusive. Both inclusive.
90
70
95
West Coast of America, South of the Equator.... Sandwich Islands.......
100
100
70
52
73
115 115 117 117
73
97 74
54 74 55
23
New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fejee Islands, Ta- Į
hiti, Friendly Islands.......
105
125
103 113
Sydney, Melbourne, or South America.
65
100
62
Western Australia.......
50
80
"
Van Dieman's Land..
70
100
JJ
"
New Zealand.....
Manila...
,, Singapore..
Ceylon.....
80 110
77
100
15
40
12
25
65
22
Batavia..
59
*
Madras or Calcutta....
,,
Bombay...
"
Mauritius or Bourbon...
35
80
32
50
90
47
55
95
52
ៗ ននននន
102
107
90
61
85
70
46
65
70
66
85
76
95
30
11
25
55
21
50
70
31
65
80
46
75
85
51
80
65
100
63
90
62
85
65
100
63
90
62
85
70 105
67
95
66
90
,, Cape of Good Hope......
West Indies or East Coast of America........
Great Britain or Europe...................
Siam...
J
152 188 150 178 148 173
167
204
163 194 163 190
25
65
23
55
22
60
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