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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30TH MARCH, 1895.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 115.

The following Bills, which were read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, are published.

ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 28th March, 1895.

Power by proclamation to prohibit immigation of Chinese.

Prohibition of importation by steamers, &c.

All ships and Teasels of whatever description to go to the quarantine station.

Breaches and penalties,

Prima ovidence of proclamation.

DRAFT BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to enable the Governor in Council to restrict the immigration of Chinese into the Colony and for other purposes in connection therewith.

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WHEREAS the immigration of Chinese into the Colony may at any moment become a source of imminent danger to the health of the residents and others in the Co- lony, and it is expedient to make provision in respect thereof.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. Whenever the Governor in Council shall be satisfied that the bubonic plague is prevalent or exists in any other port or place, the Governor in Council may from time to time by proclamation under Iris hand, published in the Gazette, prohibit the immigration or importation into the Colony of any Chinese from any such port or place, and may from time to time by notification in the Gazette revoke such proclamation.

2. From and after the publication in the Gazette of any such proclamation, and whilst such proclamation remains in force, no steamer, steamboat, steam-launch, ship or vessel and no junk or other Chinese built boat or vessel shall bring into the waters of the Colony any passenger of Chinese nation- ality or origin, or any passenger appearing to be of such nationality or origin from any port or place mentioned in any such proclamation.

3. From and after the publication in the Gazette of any such proclamation and whilst such proclamation remains in force, all steamers, steamboats, steam-launches, ships or vessels, and all junks and other Chinese built vessels and boats shall, on arriving within the waters of the Colony from any port or place mentioned in any such proclamation, anchor at the Quarantine Anchorage prescribed by the Quarantine Regulations for the time being in force under the provisions of section 25 of The Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance, 1891, and shall not leave such an- chorage until allowed to do so by the order of the "Health Officer" as defined by the regulation No. 1 of the Quaran- tine Regulations of the 3rd May, 1892.

4. Any breach of any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed an offence and shall be punishable on sum- mary conviction before a Magistrate.

The penalty for any breach of section 2 shall be a sum not exceeding $10 for every passenger carried in contraven- tion thereof.

The penalty for any breach of section 3 hereof shall be a sum not exceeding $

The person liable to such panalties shall be the master or other person in charge of any vessel mentioned in the said sections 2 and 3.

5. In any prosecution or proceedings under this Ordi- nance the Gazette containing any proclamation under sec- tion 1 of this Ordinance shall in all Courts in the Colony be prima facie evidence that such proclamation was duly made and of such proclamation and of the facts therein stated.