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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1882.
Application of pen- alty for breach of this Ordinance re- coverable under
"The Chinese Pas- sengers' Act, 1855." [Ibid, sec. 10.]
Regulations of
10. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to apply the whole or any part of the penalty recoverable in case of the non-observance or non-performance of the reg- ulations of this section under the provisions of section V of "The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," towards the expenses of reconveying to their homes intending emigrants by any vessel in respect of which the licence granted under this section shall have been revoked in manner hereinbefore provided.
11. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the regulations contained in schedule 4 of "Chi- schedule 4 of "The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855.”
nese Passengers'
Act, 1855," not to
be affected by this section.
No Person to act as
a passage broker
without having en-
tered into a bond
and obtained a
of 1857, scc. 1.]
Emigration Passage Brokers.
VI. No person shall act as a passenger broker, or in procuring passengers for, or in the sale or letting of passages in any Chinese passenger ship, unless he shall, with two sufficient suretics, to be approved by the Emigration Officer, have entered into a licence. Ord. 11 joint and several bond in the sum of five thousand current dollars, to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, according to the form contained in schedule A hereunto annexed, which bond shall be renewed on each occasion of obtaining such licence as hereinafter mentioned, and shall be deposited with the Emigration Officer; nor unless such person shall have obtained a licence to let or sell passages, 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.
How passage broker's licences may be obtained,
[Flid, sec. 2.]
Power to Magis- trates to order li- cences to be for- feited.
Fee to be paid for licences. Ibid,
sec. B.]
How long licences
are to continue in force.
[Ibid, sec. 4.]
Contract tickets for passages.
Ibid, sec. 5.]
Passage brokers to
certi-
produce to Emigra ficate that they have chartered the ship
for carrying emi- grants. [Ibid, sec. 6.]
Passage brokers to attend before Emi-
gration Officer for
2. Any person wishing to obtain a licence to act as a passage broker, shall make 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 B hereunto annexed: Provided always, that no such licence shall be granted unless such bond as hercinbefore mentioned shall have been first entered into: Provided also. that any Magistrate who shall adjudicate on any offence against this section, 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 contained in the schedule C hereunto annexed, to be transmitted to the Emigration Officer, and such forfeiture shall be ex- clusive and independent of any other punishment which may be inflicted upon such offender under the provisions of this section.
3. Every person obtaining such licence 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.
4. 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 herein before mentioned.
in
receive 5. Every passage broker who shall or may
from money any person, for or of a passage respect
in any
Chinese 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.—each ticket to be printed in a plain and legible type, according to the form in the schedule D hereunto arnexed, and to be accompanied with a translation thereof in the Chinese language, in plain and legible characters.
6.
passage
Every such
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 accommo- dation of or in any Chinese passenger ship proceeding from Hongkong, 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.
7. 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 the purpose of deli- 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 gers. [Ibid, scc. 7.] the true intent and meaning of such contract.
vering the contract tickets to passen-
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