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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1882.

Medical inspection of emigrants under contract of servicc. [Ord. 12 of 1868, see. 10.]

No emigrant to embark or be re- ceived on board without a permit. [ Ibid, sec. 11.]

Emigration Officer

to appoint time for medical inspection after embarkation. [Ibid, sec. 12.] Chinese medical practitioners may be surgeons of Chinese passenger ships. [Ibid, sec. 14.]

Modified regulations

the ship, shall pay to the Emigration Officer a sum at the rate of twenty-five current dollars, for every hundred persons so examined, and such Emigration Officer shall pay the same into the treasury to the use of the crown.

5. The medical inspection of emigrants under contracts of service shall take place on shore before embarkation as well as on board the said ship after embarkation and the Emigration Officer shall not grant the certificate required by "the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855" unless he shall be satisfied that such double inspection has been duly made. or has been dispensed with by the sanction of the Governor.

any

6. It shall not be lawful for any emigrant under contract of service to embark in 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.

7. The medical inspection of emigrants required to be made after their embarkation in Chinese passenger ship shall take place at such time as the Emigration Officer

any shall appoint.

8. 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 sur- geon of a Chinese passenger ship within the terms of schedule A of "The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855.

Regulations for voyages of not more than thirty days' duration.

VIII. All ships clearing out or proceeding to sea upon voyages of not more than for voyages or not thirty days' duration, shall be subject to the modified regulations contained in schedule

of

more than thirty

days' duration.

[See Ord. 8 of 1871.]

Voyages declared to

be of not more than tion." [Ibid, sec. 1.]

thirty days' dura-

Not to affect ships not within "The

E of this Ordinance which as regards such ships shall be substituted for those contained in schedule 4 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.

2. The voyages specified in schedule F to this Ordinance annexed, 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.

3. This section shall not be construed as affecting any Chinese passenger ship Chinese Passengers which is about to proceed to sea on a voyage of not more than seven days' duration.

Act."

Depôts to be pro-

vided for the

lodging of emi-

Depôts for emigrants under contract of service.

IX. The owners or charterers of every Chinese passenger ship which is about to convey emigrants under contracts of service shall, as soon as such ship is laid on for the grants. [Ord. 12 of conveyance of such emigrants, provide a depôt or depôts, to be approved of by the Emigration Officer, wherein every intending emigrant by such ship may lodge as here- inafter provided, and every such depôt shall be maintained and every emigrant lodging therein shall be supported at the expense of such owners or charterers.

1868, sec. 4.]

Emigrants to lodge

2. Every intending emigrant by such Chinese passenger ship shall lodge, at the in depôt three clear least three clear days previously to his embarkation, in the depôt provided by the

owners or charterers of such ship.

days before

embarkation.

[Ibid, sec. 6.]

Supervision of

depôts.

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Ibid, sec. 7.]

Orders in Council

to apply to Chinese

passenger ships. [Ibid, sec. 15.]

3. 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 depôts, from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M.

Orders in Council relating to quantity of water.

X. All Orders of Her Majesty the Queen in Council relating to the quantity of water to be carried by passenger ships having a certain description of condensing ap- paratus shall apply to Chinese passenger ships.