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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1882.

Power to remove master or other

officer. [Ibid, sec.

8.1

Power to revoke

and cancel licence.

Thid, sec. 9.]

Breach of condition. of licence.

Application of penalty for breach of this Ordinance

recoverable under sengers Act, 1855."

The Chinese Pas-

[bid, sec. 10.]

Regulations of schedule A of

Chinese Passen-

gurs' Act, 1855," not to be affected by this section.

Suspending clause.

No. 8.

Such passengers are hereby exempted from the necessity of obtaining contract passage tickets, or of submitting themselves to be mustered or inspected by any Emi- gration Officer, or medical officer, or other person.

Such passengers shall, however, be reckoned in calculating the number of passen- gers, natives of Asia, who are carried by the said vessel.

10. In case it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, at any time before the departure of a Chinese passenger ship, that the master, mate, or any other officer of such ship is unfit for the proper discharge of his duties by reason of incompetency or misconduct, or for any other sufficient cause, it shall be lawful for the Governor, by order under his hand, to discharge and remove such master, mate, or other officer from the said ship, and thereupon the owners or charterers thereof, or their agents, shall forthwith appoint a master, or mate, or other officer, as the case may be. to be approved by the Emigration Officer, in the place of the one so discharged and removed as aforesaid.

11. In any of the following cases, namely:-

(a.) If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, or Emi- gration Officer, at any time before the departure of a Chinese passenger ship, that the particulars furnished to him in relation thereto under the second paragraph of this section are untrue, or that any condition of the said licence has been violated;

(b.) If any Chinese passenger ship shall fail to clear out and proceed to sea, within the period specified in the licence granted under this section, or within such extended period as aforesaid;

(c.) If the owners or charterers of a Chinese passenger ship shall fail forth- with to appoint a master, mate, or other officer to be approved as aforesaid, in the place of any master, mate, or other officer discharged under the tenth paragraph of this section; It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council or Emigration Officer to revoke the licence granted by him under this section in respect of such Chinese passenger ship, and to order that the said ship be seized and detained until her emigration papers (if already granted) be delivered up to be cancelled.

12. The breach of any condition of a licence granted under this section shall be deemed a breach of a regulation respecting Chinese passenger ships within the meaning of section II of "The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855.'

13. 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 regulations 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.

14. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the regulations contained in schedule A of “The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855."

III. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirma- tion of the same shall have been proclaimed by the Governor.

[L.S.] A. E. Kennedy.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty The QUEEN, conveyed through The Right Honourable The EARL OF CARNARVON, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinance; namely:-

No. 5 of 1876, entitled-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend the Law relating to Chinese Passenger Ships and the Conveyance of Chinese Emigrants:

Now, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinance has been so approved and confirmed, as aforesaid.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

Given at Victoria, Hongkong, this 13th Day of July, 1876.

J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.