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Notice.

Require-

ments as

to hospital

accommo- dation.

Medical

before sail- ing.

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9. The owners or charterers of every such ship about to proceed on any such voyage, or, if they are absent, their respective agents, shall, as soon as such ship is laid ou for the conveyance of emigrants, give notice in writing of the fact to the Emigration Officer specifying in such notice the name, destination, and probable time of departure of such ship.

10.-(1.) In every emigrant ship or British emigrant ship about to proceed on any short or long voyage, there shall be a sufficient space properly divided off and loented to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the port of clearance, to be used exclusively as a hospital and shall in no case be of less dimensions than eighteen clear super- ficial feet for every fifty passengers whom the ship carries.

(2.) Every such hospital shall be fitted with bed places and supplied with proper beds, bedding and utensils, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the port of clear- ance, and shall throughout the voyage be kept so fitted and supplied.

(3.) In the measurement of the passenger decks, for the purpose of determining the number of passengers to be carried in any such ship, the space for the hospital shall be included.

(4.) No such ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on examination any short, long or extended voyage, until the proper medical officer has certified to the Emigration Officer, and the Emigration Officer shall not grant his certificate muless he is satisfied, that none of the 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.

Prohibition

of Asiatic emigrant

ship proceed- ing to sea without

licence.

Time and

(5.) A medical inspection of the passengers for the pur- poses of giving such certificate shall take place either on board the ship, or, at the discretion of the Emigration Officer, at such time and on shore, before embarkation, as lie may appoint.

(6.) The master, owner, or charterer of the ship shall pay to the Emigration Officer a sum at the rate of fifty dollars for every hundred persons so examined.

11. No such ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on any such voyage and the Emigration Officer shall not grant the certificate unless the master of such ship is provided with a licence under the hand of the Governor and the public seal of the Colony or under the hand and scal of an Emigration Officer, to be obtained in manner hereinafter mentioned.

12. Whenever any emigrant ship is about to proeced to mode of ap

sea from the Colony on any such voyngn the owners or plication for

charterers of such ship, or, if absent from the Colony, their licence in the Colony.

respective agents, shall, before such ship is laid on for the conveyance of Asiatic emigrants apply in writing to the Colonial Secretary for a licence under the hand of the Governor and the public seal of the Colony for the con- veyance of such emigrants, and shall furnish all particulars, according to the form in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance, as to the destination of the said ship and as to all other matters relating to the intended voyage and emi- gration which may be required of them.

Third

Schedule.

Time and mode of application

for licence at port out of the Colony.

Third Schedule.

13. Whenever any British emigrant ship, which is not provided with a licence covering her intendel voyage, is about to proceed with Asiatic omigrants from any port in China, or within one hundred miles of the coast there- of, on any short or long voyage, the owners or char- terers of such ship, or, if absent, their respective agents, shall, before such ship is laid ou for the conveyance of Asiatic emigrants apply in writing to the Emigration Offi- cer at such port for a licence under his hand and seal for the conveyance of such emigrants on the intended voyage only, and shall furnish all particulars, according to the form in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance, as to the destination of the said ship and as to all other matters re- lating to the intended voyage and emigration which may be required of them.