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CHINESE EMIGRATION IN BRITISH SHIPS

22. (1)All emigrant ships clearing out or proceeding to sea on any short voyage under a general or outport licence shall be subject to the regula tions contained in the Fourth Schedule.

(2) All emigrant ships elearing out or proceeding to sea on any short voyage under a special licence shall be subject to the regulations contained in the Fifth Schedule

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(3) All emigrant ships clearing out or proceeding to sea on any long voyage shall be subject to the regulations contained in the Sixth Schedule.

PART III.

PROVISIONS RELATING TO EMIGRANTS.

23. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to exempt from all or any of the provisions of this Part such, or such class or party of, assisted emigrants and upon such conditions and for such period as may be in the opinion of the Governor in Council desirable.

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(a) MEDICAL INSPECTION.

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24. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint any duly qualified persons as medical officers for the purposes of the Act and of this Ordinance.. 25. No emigrant ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on any voyage, until a duly appointed medical officer shall have certified to the Emigration Officer, and such Emigration Officer shall not grant his certificate unless he is satisfied, that none of the eniigrants passengers or crew appear, by reason of any bodily or mental disease, unfit to proceed or likely to endanger the health or safety of other persons about to proceed in such ship.

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26. A medical inspection of the emigrants, passengers and crew for the purposes of giving such certificate shall take place either on board such ship, or, in the case of emigrants, at the discretion of the Emigration Officer, at such time and on shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint.

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27. A medical inspection of assisted emigrants shall take place on shore. before embarkation as well as on board the ship after embarkation and the Emigration Officer shall not grant his certificate unless he is satisfied that such double inspection has duly made or has been dispensed with by the sanction of the Governor.

28. The medical inspection of emigrants required to be made after their embarkation in any emigrant ship shall take place at such time as the Emi- gration Officer may appoint.

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29, Any medical officer appointed under the provision of this Ordinance for the inspection of intending emigrants and the supervision of matters and things relating to the comfort and well-being of such emigrants before their departure and on their voyage, shall be entitled to charge, and the master, owner, or charterer of the ship carrying or about to carry emigrants in respect of which or whom such inspection or supervision is effected shall pay to such medical officer such fees as may from time to time be prescribed by the Governor in Council...

30. Any Chinese médical practitioner shall be eligible, with the approval of the Governor, for the office of surgeon of any ship for the purposes of the Act of this Ordinance.

(b) PROVISIONS RELATING TO PASSAGE BROKERS.

31. (1) No person shall act as a passage broker or in procuring emigrants for, or in the sale or letting of passages in, any emigrant ship proceeding on any voyage unless he has. with two sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, entered into a joint and several bond in the sum of five thousand dollars to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors, accord- ing to the form ih the Seventh Schedule, which bond shall be renewed on each occasion of obtaining such licence as hereinafter mentioned, and shall be deposited with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs; nor unless such person has obtained a licence to let or sell passages; nor unless such licence is then in force.