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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH JANUARY, 1889.
No empirant
to embark or
be received on
board without a permit.
[Ibid. subs. 6.]
Emigration Othcer to appoint time for medical inspection
after embark- aticu.
[Ibid, subs, 7.4
Chinese
medical
practitioner
may be
surgeon of
Chinese passenger ship.
[Ibid. subs. 8.]
Modified regulations
for voyages of not more than thirty days' duration.
[Seerd 5 of 1871 s. 8.]
Voyages declared to be
of not more than thirty days' duration. [Ibid..sub.2]
Not to affect
hips uot
within The Chinese Parsengers Act."
[ivid. subs, 3.]
Depôts to be provided for the lodging of emigrants. [/bid. Bec. 9.]
Emigrants to reside in depot three clear days before embarkation. [Ibid. subs. 2.]
Supervision of depots. [Ibid. subs. 3.]
Orders in Council to
apply to Chin, se passinger shius,
[Ilad. sec. 10.]
No Chinese PAR CIgor Sailing
stip to clear betcon April and Septem- 1. r.
Ziid. sec. 11.3
Fmigration Oficer may land any
mirent who is unwilling To leave the pert and who has been pretand by any fraud, &c. [Zbiti. sec. 12.
43. It shall not be lawful for any emigrant under contract of service to embark in any Chinese passenger ship, or for the master or other person on board of a Chinese passenger ship to permit any such emigrant to embark therein, unless such emigrant shall produce an embarkation permit from the Emigration Officer, who shall not grant the same unless he shall be satisfied that such emigrant has undergone on shore the medical inspection required by law to be made before embarkation.
44. The medical inspection of emigrants required to be made after their embarkation in any Chinese passenger ship shall take place at such time as the Emigration Officer shall appoint.
45. Any Chinese medical practitioner properly qualified to the satisfaction of the Colonial Surgeon shall be eligible, with approval of the Governor, for the office of surgeon of a Chinese passenger ship for the purposes of "The Chinese Passengers Act 1855" or of this Ordinance.
Regulations for voyages of not more than thirty days' duration.
46. All ships clearing out or proceeding to sea upon voyages of not more than thirty days' duration, shall be subject to the modified regulations contained in schedule I of this Ordinance which as regards such ships shall be substituted for those contained in schedule A of "The Chinese Passengers Act 1855," but nothing in this section contained shall be deemed to relieve Chinese passenger ships from the operation of the said Act, except so far as the same is by the said schedule expressly modified.
47. The voyages specified in schedule L to this Ordi- nance are hereby declared to be voyages of not more than thirty days' duration, subject as regards steamers to the conditions as to their rate of speed and as regards sailing vessels to the conditions as to the periods of the year during which the voyage shall be performed, in the said schedule respectively expressed and contained,
48. Sections 46 and 47 shall not be construed as affect- ing any Chinese passenger ship which is about to proceed to sea on a voyage of not more than seven days" duration.
Depôts for emigrants under contract of service.
49. The owners or charterers of every Chinese passen- ger ship which is about to convey emigrants under contracts of service shall, as soon as such ship is laid on for the con- veyance of such emigrants, provide depôts, to be approved of by the Emigration Officer, wherein every intending emigrant by such ship may lodge as hereinafter provided, and every such depôt shall be maintained and every emigrant lodging therein shall be supported at the expense of such owners or charterers.
50. In the discretion of the Governor every intending emigrant by such Chinese passenger ship shall reside, three clear days at least previously to his embarkation, in a depôt provided by the owners or charterers of such ship.
51. Every such depôt as aforesaid shall be under the supervision of the Emigration Officer who may inspect the · same at such times as he shall think fit, and there shall be at all times free ingress and egress allowed to all persons to and from such depôt, from 6×A.M. to 6 P.M.
52. All Orders of Her Majesty in Council relating to the quantity of water to be carried by passenger ships having a certain description of condensing apparatus shall apply to Chinese passenger ships.
3. No Chinese passenger ship, unless a vessel propelled by steam, bound to any port westward of the Cape of Good Hope or to any port in Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, or Tasmania shall clear from any port in the Colony between the months of April and September inclusive.
54. It shall be lawful for the Emigration Officer at any time when he is satisfied that any emigrant who is unwilling to leave the port has been obtained by any fraud, 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 awaiting a return passage, and all such expenses with all legal costs incurred shall be recoverable by the Emigra- tion Öfficer before any Magistrate (in the Supreme Court) from the Emigration passage broker of the vessel in which such emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped.
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