THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH JANUARY, 1889.
55. Whosoever shall unlawfully either by force or fraud take away or detain against his will any man or boy with intent to put him on board a Chinese passenger ship and whosoever shall with any such intent receive, harbour, or enter into any contract for foreign service with any such man or boy knowing the same to have been by force or fraud taken and obtained as hereinbefore mentioned, shall be guilty of felony and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding seven years with or without hard labour.
56. The owners or charterers of any Chinese passenger ship and any emigration passage broker and any intending emigrant by a Chinese passenger ship and any master or other person in charge of a Chinese passenger ship who shall fail to comply with or commit any breach of the provisions of part of this Ordinance so far as they may respectively be bound thereby, and any person granting or knowingly uttering any forged certificate, permit, notice, or other document under this Ordinance shall, without prejudice to any other proceeding, civil or criminal, be liable upon summary conviction before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months.
PART II.
EMIGRATION FROM PORTS OUT OF THE COLONY. Emigrant ship fittings.
57. Before beginning to fit out any ship intended to be used for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants to be embar- ked at any port or place out of the Colony, a notice to that effect shall be given in writing to the Emigration Officer, and such notice shall be signed by the owner and master of such ship, or in the event of the owner not being resident within the Colony, by the agent and master thereof, and in case such notice shall not have been given, the owner and master, or the agent and master of such ship, as the case may be, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance: Provided always that where there shall be no agent of an absent owner in the Colony, the notice may be signed by the master alone.
58. The master of every ship arriving within the waters of the Colony and which shall be fitted out for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants shall, within twenty-four hours, report the same to the Emigration Officer, and in case he shall neglect so to do, he shall be deemed guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
59. The fittings of every ship mentioned in sections 57 and 58 shall be subject to the approval of the Emigra- tion Officer, who is hereby empowered, at all reasonable times, to go on board and search and inspect such ship and her fittings and to order any fittings which shall in his opinion be objectionable, to be forthwith removed; and any person who shall in any way impede or attempt to impede the Emigration Officer in the execution of this duty, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
60. No such ship shall clear out or proceed to sea until the master thereof shall have received from the Emigration Officer a certificate in the form contained in schedule M hereto, and every such certificate shall be liable to a stamp duty of twenty-five dollars.
61. All barricades and gratings apparently intended to be used, or which are capable of being used for the purpose of confining Chinese emigrants below decks, or within any particular part of a ship shall be deemed to be prohibited fittings.
62. It shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time, by Proclamation to be inserted in the Gazette to prohibit the use or carriage in any ship of any other fittings therein specified, and every such prohibition shall have the same force and effect as if it were expressly enacted in this Ordi-
nance.
63. All prohibited fittings wherever found within the Colony shall be seized and shall be forfeited to the Crown in manner hereinafter mentioned.
64. Whoever shall, without lawful excuse (the proof of which shall lie on the accused), manufacture, purchase, sell, or have in his possession any prohibited fittings, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
65. The owner, agent, or master of any ship intended for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants to be embarked at any port or place out of the Colony who shall knowingly permit any prohibited fittings to be taken on board such ship, or to remain therein after the same have been taken on board, or
Panishment for improperly obtaining emigrants. [Ibid. see. 12 subs. 2.]
Punishment of persons committing any breach of this Ordi. nance.
[Ibid. sec. 13.]
Notice to Emigration Officer.
[Ord. 5 of 1874 8. 14.]
Report to Emigration Officer, [Ibid. subs. 2.]
Powers and duties of Emigration Officer. [Ibid. suba. 3.]
Certificate of Emigration Officer. Ibid. subs. 4.]
Barricades and gratinga prohibited. [Ibid. subs. 5.]
Other prohibited fittings.
Ibid. subs. 6.]
Seizure and forfeiture thereof. [Ibid. subs. 7.]
Unlawful possession, &c. of prohibited fittings. [[bid, subs, 8.]
Taking prohibited fittings on board, or rofusal to
remove the same. [Ibid. subs. 9.]
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