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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH JANUARY, 1889.

How passage broker's

licence may be obtained. [Ibid. subs. 2.]

Power to Magistrate to order licences to be forfeited.

Fee to be paid for licence. [Ibid. subs. 3.]

How long licence is to continue in force.

Ibid. subs. 4.]

Contract

tickets for passages.

Ibid. subs. 5.]

Passage broker to Iroduce to Emigration Officer certificate that he has chartered the ship for carrying emigrants. [Ibid. subs, 6.]

Passage

broker to attend before Emigration Officer for the purpose of delivering the contract Tickets to passengers.

[Ibid. subs. 7.]

Contract ticket not to be altered. [Ibid. subs. 8.]

Agent not to act without written

authority, and

to produce his autho-

rity on

demand.

Ibid. subs. 9.]

Misrepresen-

tation as to size of ship. [Ibid.]

nor unless such licence shall be then in force; and where different members. of the same firm act as passage brokers, each person so acting shall comply with the terms of this section..

28. Any person wishing to obtain a licence to act as a passage broker shall nake application for the same to the Emigration Officer, and the Emigration Officer is hereby authorized (if he shall think fit) to grant such licence according to the form in schedule F hereto; Provided al- ways, that no such licence shall be granted unless such bond as in the last preceding section mentioned shall have been first entered into: Provided also, that any Magistrate. who shall adjudicate on any offence committed by such broker against this Ordinance, is hereby authorized to order the offender's licence to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited accordingly; and the said Magistrate making such order shall forthwith cause notice of such forfeiture, in the form in the schedule G hereto,, to be transmitted to the Emigration Officer, and such forfeiture shall be exclusive and independent of any other punish- ment which may be inflicted upon such offender under the provisions of this Ordinance.

29. Every person obtaining suchli cence as aforesaid, shall pay to the Emigration Officer a fee of two hundred current dollars, which fee the Emigration Officer is hereby empowered and required to demand and receive upon the issuing of any such licence; and the Emigration Officer shall pay all such fees into the Colonial Treasury, to the use of the Crown.

. 30. Such licence shall continue in force until the 31st day of December in the year in which such licence shall be granted, and for fourteen days afterwards, unless sooner forfeited as hereinbefore mentioned.

31. Every passage broker who shall or may receive money from any person, for or in respect of a passage in any Chi- nese passenger ship, shall give to every such person a contract ticket, under the hand of such passage broker, and stamped with his seal or trade mark,-cach ticket to be printed in a plain and legible type, according to the form in the schedule II hereto, and to be accompanied with a translation thereof in the Chinese language, in plain and legible characters.

32. Every such passage broker before he shall receive or take any money on account of any such passage, or for the sale or letting of the whole or any part of the accommodation of or in any Chinese passenger ship proceeding from Hong- kong, shall produce to the Emigration Officer the certificate of the master or owner of the ship, in respect of which such passage shall or may have been taken, or the accommodation in which shall have been so sold or let, to the effect that such ship has been chartered for the purpose of carrying emigrants, and that he, such passage broker, is authorized to receive payment for such passage, or for the sale or letting of the accommodation in such ship; and such certificate shall be filed in the office of the Emigration Officer.

33. On every occasion of the delivery to any passenger of such contract ticket as aforesaid, the passage broker who shall have engaged to provide such passenger with a passage shall attend with him at the office of the Emigration Officer, in whose presence the contract ticket shall be delivered to such passenger, and who shall explain to him the truc intent and meaning of such contract.

34. No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be altered, after it is once issued, or shall induce any person to part with or render useless or destroy any such contract ticket, during the continuance of the contract which it is intended to evidence.

35. No licensed passage broker shall, as agent for any person, whether a licensed broker or not, receive money for or on account of the passage of any passenger on board a Chinese passenger 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 authority.

36. No person shall, by any fraud, or by false represen- tation as to the size of the ship or otherwise, or by any false pretence whatsoever, induce any person to engage any passage as aforesaid.