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CHINESE PASSENGERS ACT

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9. The Emigration Officer may, if he shall think fit, before granting his certificate, employ any duly qualified medical practitioner, master mariner, marine surveyor, or other person whose professional assistance and advice he may require for the purpose of ascertaining whether the requirements of section 46 of this Ordinance have been duly complie l with, an I the costs and charges of obtaining such assistance and advice shall be defrayed by the owners or charterers of the ship, whether the Enigration Officer shall grant his certificate or not.

10. The Emigration Officer shall, from time to time, fix a reasonable scale of fees and charges to be approved by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, for the remuneration of any professional persons who may be employed by him under the last preceding regulation, and pending the approval or disapproval of such scale, the fees and charges therein specified shall be payable, as if the same had beeu approved in manner aforesaid.

11. The owners or charterers of every ship sha'l pay such fees for the remuneration of the Emigration Officer as may, from time to time, be ordered under the instructions from one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and until and subject to such instructions, the following fees shall be payable in addition to all fees charge- able under regulation 10:-

Upon the application for a Certificate. Upon the granting of the Certificate,

$23

$25

Provided always that no fees shall be payable to the Emigration Officer of Hongkong, but in lieu thereof the following stamp d ties are hereby in posed, that is to say -

Upon every application for a Certificate under regulation 2 contained in this

schedule, a stamp duty of......................

.SI

Upon every Certificate granted under regulation 1 of this schedule, a stamp

duty of

3 1

And The Stimp Ordinance, 1836, shall be real as if the stamp du ies hereby imposed were inserted in the sedule thereof.

12. In case default shall be made by the owners or chatterers of the hip in the payment of any fees and charges to which they may be liable under s. con 46 of this Ordinance and this Sche Tale, the ship may be det ned by the B.itish Consul, or if in Hongkong by the Governor, until such fees and charges shall have boom paid.

13. The Emigration Officer may witholl his ce tificate or revs • the same at any time befor the departure of the ship, if it shall appear to his saistot on that any particulars contained in the appletion in wring which she'l bar been inde for the same or any other particulars which may have been farm, shel o him by or on behalf of the owners, charter rs, or master of the ship in relation thereto, a so untrue, and that the condi ions of section 45 of this Ordnance have not been complied with: and in every such case it shall be lawful ite the fitish Consul, or if in Hongkong for the Governor, to seize and d-tain the ship nnul the certificate, if already gra ted, shali have been delivered up to be cancelled.

14. The master of every British ship shall, during the whole of the intend d voyage, make issues of provisions, fuel, and ater. according to the aforesaid dietary scale, to all the passengers except such as shall have supplied them elves therewith, and shall not make any alteration except for the manifest advantage of the passengers, in respect of the space allotted to them as aforesaid, or in respect of the means of ventilation, and shall not ill-use the passengers, or require them (except in case of necessity) to help in working the vessel; and shall issue medicines and medical comforts, as shall be requisite, to the best of his judgment, and shall call at such ports as may be mentioned in the Emigration Officer's clearing certificate for fresh water and other necessaries; and shall carry the passengers without unnecessary delay to the destination to which they have contracted to proceed.

15. The master of every British ship shall, within 24 hours after his arrival at the port of destination and at any port of call, produce his emigration papers to the British Consul (if any) a' such port, or in case such pɔrt shall be in Her Majesty's