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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 3, 1915.
Power to land emigrant who is un- willing to leave port and who has
been procured by fraud.
Prohibition of emigrant embarking otherwise
than from licensed boarding- house.
Licensing of boarding- houses.
Power to make rules
41.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or the Emigration Officer, at any time when he is satisfied that any emigrant who is unwilling to leave port has been obtained by any frand, violence, or other improper means, to land such emigrant and procure him a passage back to his native place or that from which he was taken, and also to defray the cost of his maintenance whilst await- ing a return passage.
(2.) All such expenses, with all legal costs incurred, shall be recoverable by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or Emigration Officer before any Magistrate from the emigra- tion passage broker of the vessel in which such emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped.
(c.)—Provisions as to Emigration Boarding-houses.
42.- (1.) No assisted emigrant shall, without the sanction of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, be permitted to embark in this Colony in any emigrant ship on any voyage unless he has been lodged in a hotel or boarding-house licensed under this Ordinance during a period of not less than 48 hours previons to the examination by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
(2.) No person shall accommodate any assisted emigrant except in a boarding-house for assisted emigrants licensed under this Ordinance.
43.-(1.) It'shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to license a sufficient number of fit and proper persons to keep hotels and boarding-houses for assisted emigrants.
(2.) Every such licence shall be granted for such period not exceeding 12 months, and on payment of such fee and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by any rules to be made under the next succeeding section.
(3.) Every hotel or boarding-house keeper licensed under this Ordinance shall enter into a bond in the sum of 1,000 dollars, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, for the due observance of such terms and conditions.
44.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to make rules for the licensing, regulation, and sanitary for boarding maintenance of such hotels or boarding-houses, and with regard to all persons residing therein, and by such rules to require such registers or other books to be kept as he may deem expedient.
houses.
Furnishing return of
(2.) All such rules, when made, shall be published in the Gazette and, when so published, shall be as valid and binding as if contained in this Ordinance.
45.-(1.) The keeper of every such hotel or boarding- house shall supply the Secretary for Chinese Affairs with a particulars of return of all emigrants who are inmates of the house, giving emigrants
their number, names, descriptions and such other particulars as the Secretary for Chinese Affairs may direct together with the name of the emigrant ship by which they intend to proceed.
before em- barkation.
Furnishing
photographs of certain emigrants.
(2.) Such return must be supplied at least 24 hours before the examination by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and shall be in such form as he may direct,
46. (1.) The keeper of every licensed hotel or board- ing-house from which any assisted emigrant is to be shipped or in the case of every male emigrant under the age of 16 years and of all female emigrants the passage broker who provides the passage shall attend at the Office of the Se- cretary for Chinese Affairs or other place appointed for the examination to be held by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and shall then furnish the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, or such officer as the Secretary for Chinese Affairs may appoint, with two copies of the photograph of every such emigrant, with the names, ages and number of the said emigrants,
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