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CHINESE PASSENGERS' ACT

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 complied with, and the costs and charges of obtaining such assistance and advice shall be defrayed by the owners or charterers of the ship, whether the Emigration 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 inay 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 been approved in manner aforesaid.

11. The owners or charterers of every ship shall 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.....

.$25 $25

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

Upon every application for a certificate under Regulation 2 contained in this

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

duty of.........

$1

$1

And the Stamp Ordinance, 1886, shall be read as if the stamp duties hereby imposed were inserted in the schedule thereof.

12. In case default shall be made by the owners or charterers of the ship in the payment of any fees and charges to which they may be liable under Section 46 of this Ordinance and this Schedule, the ship may be detained by the British Consul, or if in Hongkong by the Governor, until such fees and charges shall have been paid.

13. The Emigration Officer may withhold his certificate or revoke the same at any time before the departure of the ship, if it shall appear to his satisfaction that any particulars contained in the application in writing which shall have been made or the same or any other particulars which may have been furnished to him by or on behalf of the owners, charterers, or master of the ship in relation thereto, are untrue and that the conditions of Section 46 of this Ordinance have not been complied with and in every such case it shall be lawful for the British Consul, or if in Hongkong for the Governor, to seize and detain the ship until the certificate, if already granted, shall have been delivered up to be cancelled.

14. The master of every British ship shall, during the whole of the intended voyage, make issues of provisions, fuel, and water, according to aforesaid dietary scale, to all the passengers except such as shall have supplied themselves 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 bis arrival at the port of destination and at any port of call, produce his emigration papers to the British Consul (if any) at such port, or in case such port shall be in her Majesty's dominions to any officer appointed or authorized by the local Government in that behalf. It shall be lawful for such Consul or other officer to enter and inspect such ship, and in case the master shall obstruct or refuse to assist him in the discharge of