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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24TH NOVEMBER, 1888.
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.
41. [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.
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[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.
[53.] 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 Officer 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.
[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 I 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.
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[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.
60. 58 and 59
[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
Emigrants to
reside in depot throw clear days before enibarkation. [loid, subs, 2.]
Supervision of depots. [Ibid. subs. 3.]
Orders in Connell to apply to Chinese passenger ships, [Ibid, sec. 10.]
No Chinese passenger
Sailing ship to clear between April and Septem- ber. [Ibid. sec. 11.]
Emigration Officer may land any emigrant who in unwilling to leave the port and whe has been procured by any fraud, &c. [bid. sec. 1%,
Punishment for improperly obtaining emigrants.
Ibid. sec. 12 Subs. 2.]
Punishment
of persons committing any breach of this Ordi-
nance.
[Ibid, sec. 13.]
Notice to Emigration Officer. [Ord, 5 of 1874 s. 14.1
Report to
Emigration Officer. [Ibid. subs. 2.]
Powers andl duties of Emigration Officer. [Ibid. subs. 3.]
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