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33. Every passage broker who has engaged to provide Explanation an emigrant with a passage shall, either personally or by of passage his duly authorised representative, attend with such ticket to

emigrant. passenger at such place and time as may be appointed by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and in the presence of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or of such officer as the Secretary for Chinese Affairs may appoint the true intent and meaning of such passage ticket shall be ex- plained to such emigrant with the object of ascertaining that such emigrant understands where he is going and that such emigrant is not acting under compulsion and is not being influenced to emigrate by false representations.

(2.) In the absence of any appointment by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the said attendance, in the case of all female emigrants, and in the case of all male emigrants who either are assisted emigrants or appear to the Secre- tary for Chinese Affairs to be under the age of 16 years, shall take place at the office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and in the case of all other emigrants shall take place on board the emigrant ship.

(2.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to direct that any of the provisions of this section may be dispensed with in the case of emigrants travelling to any British possession.

39. No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be- Prohibition altered, rendered useless, or destroyed, after it is once issued, of alteration or shall fraudulently induce any person to part with, or of passage

ticket. render useless, or destroy, any such passage ticket, until the termination of the passage which it is intended to evidence.

as agent.

40. No licensed passage broker shall, as agent for any Authority of person, whether a licensed broker or not, receive money passage for or on account of the passage of any emigrant on board broker to act an emigrant ship, without having a written authority to act as such agent, or, on the demand of the Emigration Officer, refuse or fail to exhibit his licence and such written autho- rity.

who is un-

41.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Power to Affairs or the Emigration Officer, at any time when he is land satisfied that any emigrant who is unwilling to leave port emigrant has been obtained by any fraud, violence, or other improper willing to means, to land such emigrant and procure him a passage leave port back to his native place or that from which he was taken, and who has and also to defray the cost of his maintenance whilst await- been 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.

procured by fraud,

otherwise

42. No assisted emigraut shall, without the sanction of Prohibition the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, be permitted to embark of emigrant in this Colony in any emigrant ship on any voyage unless embarking he has been lodged in a hotel or boarding-house licensed than from under this Ordinance during a period of not less than licensed 48 hours previous to the examination by the Secretary boarding. for Chinese Affairs.

house.

43.—(1.) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Licensing of Affairs to license a sufficient number of fit and proper persous boarding- to keep hotels and boarding-houses for assisted emigrants.

Louses.

(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.