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No. 193.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH OCTOBER, 1878.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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The following Notification received from the Colonial Secretary, Ceylon, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 1st October, 1878.

C. MAY, Acting Colonial Secretary.

Till further notice there will be held monthly at Trincomalie sales of timber felled in the Government Forests of Tamankaduwa. The timber will be laid down on the sea beach of the inner. harbour of Trincomalie.

The quantity of timber offered at each sale will be about 100 logs of Ebony and 500 logs of Satin-wood, Halmilla, &c.

The sales will be held on the 20th of each month, or if the 20th falls on a Sunday, then on the Monday 21st.

The first sale will be held on Monday,, 21st October.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Colombo, 10th September, 1878.

JOHN DOUG

Colon

No. 194.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,

The following Instructions for the guidance of persons engaged in Chinese Immigration, which have been issued in Singapore, are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 2nd October, 1878.

C. MAY,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

INSTRUC

FOR THE GUIDANCE OF ERSONS ENGAGED IN CHINESE IMMIC RATION AND SONS IN CHARGE OF DEPOTS UNDER ORDINANCE No. II OF 1877. Chinese Immigrants Ordinance, 1877, no Chinese Immigrant is to be landed at any any place beyond the limits of the port at the Settlement, under a penalty not exceeding $25 for each Immigrant landed at any other place (Sections 2 and 10).

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2. The arrival of every Chinese Immigrant Ship at any Settlement is to be forthwith reported to the Master-Attendant or Harbour-master under penalty not exceeding $500 (Section 10), when an officer from the Department of the Protector is to board the ship (Section 3) and examine each Immigrant as to the payment of his passage money (Section 5).

3. No Immigrant can be landed till after the Ship has been visited by the officers of the Chinese Department.

4. All Immigrants, whose passage shall not be paid for, within 24 hours after the arrival of the Ship, are to be landed at a depôt, where they are to be kept under the care of the Protector, till arrangements are made for their passage money and agreements to labour; but no such Immigrant is to be kept longer than 10 days against his own will (Section 7).

5. All engagements to labour are to be registered in such form as the Governor may direct (Section 8).

6. By Section 9 the words "Chinese Immigrant" and "Immigrant Ship" are defined as follows:-- "Chinese Immigrant" means Chinese brought to the Colony from China in a Chinese Immigrant Ship, not being first or second class passengers; and "Chinese Immigrant Ships" are ships bringing such persons exceeding 20 in number to the colony.

NOTE.

It will facilitate the despatch of ships, if the masters of vessels with Chinese passengers on board, will, on approaching the Ports of the Straits Settlements, hoist the signal D.K.W., and separate the women and children on board, from the rest of the passengers.

Singapore, August, 1878.

W. A. PICKERING, Protector of Chinese.