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Employment

of photo- graphers.

Penalty for

contraven- tion of

Ordinance.

Penalty for contraven- tion of legulations.

Penalty for

contraven- tion of section 6.

Penalty for

contraven- tion of sections 15, 16 and 17.

Penalty for

contraven- tion of section 58.

Penultics for :- fraudulent

use of certificate;

counterfei- ting certificate;

use of spurious certificate;

fraudulent inducement to emigrate;

false repre- sentation as to emigrant.

Punishment

for impro- perly obtain- ing emigrant,

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with 2 copies of the photograph of every such emigrant, with the names, ages and number of the said emigrants, numbered to correspond with a list containing the names, ages, sex, destinu tion, occupation and any other particulars. which may be required by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs concerning each person entered thereon together with the name of the ship by which each person intends to sail and the date of departure.

(2.) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to employ fit and respectable photographers to furnish the photographs required by this section.

PART IV.

Penal Provisions,

47. Except where otherwise expressly prescribed under the provisions of this Ordinance any person contravening any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,

48. Any person contravening any of the provisions of any regulation contained in the Schedules to this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,

49. The master of any ship failing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of section 6 of this Ordinance shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceed- ing 100 dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 6 months.

50. Any person knowingly furnishing any untrue par- ticular required to be furnished under the provisions of sections. 15, 16 or 17 of this Ordinance shall be liable on summary conviction * tʊ a fine not exceeding 100 dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 6 months.

51. Any person who shall furnish upon oath or declara- tion under the provisions of section 58 of this Ordinance any untrue particulars required to be furnished under the provisions of sections 15, 16 or 17 of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,

52. Any person who-

(a.) makes or attempts to make any fraudulent use of a certificate granted under the provisions of this Ordinance; or

(b.) forges, counterfeits, alters, or crases the wholo

or any part thereof; or

(c.) uses or attempts to use any spurious or fraudu- lent certifiente, and every person aiding and abetting in such offence; or

(d) by any frand or false representation as to the size of a ship or otherwise or by any false pretence whatsoever induces any person to engage a passago in any emigrant ship or British emigrant ship; or

(e) falsely represents any assisted emigrant to be

a free emigrant ;

shall be liable on indictment or on summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year and to a fine not exceeding 1,000 dollars.

53. Every person who-

(a.) unlawfully, either by force or fraud, takes away og detains against his will any emigrant with intent to put him on board any emigrant ship or British emigrant ship; or,

(b.) with any such intent, receives, or harbours, or enters into any contract for foreign service with any emigrant so taken away or detained, shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisou- ment for any term not exceeding 7 years.