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Depôts may be established.
Rules for ditto.
Examination of Immigrants on
arrival.
Immigrants whose
passage money is paid.
Immigrants whose
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passage money is not
paid.
Engagements to be registered. Breaches of engagements.
Interpretation.
Penalty under Section 2.
Penalty under Section 3.
Governor can delegate powers.
Governor can suspend operation.
Repeals 10 of 1873. Short Title,
4. It shall be lawful for the Governor to establish convenient Depôts at any of the Settlemen reception of Chinese Immigrants, and to frame rules for the management and regulation of such and to frame Tables of Fees and of Charges to be paid for the use of the Depôts, and for the mainte Immigrants while accommodated therein; provided always that the amount of the fee to be charg not exceed one dollar for every Immigrant whose passage shall not have been paid.
5. On the arrival of a ship bringing Chinese Immigrants at any of the Settlements, the Protect Assistant Protector shall examine each of such Immigrants as to the payment of his passage money.
6. All Immigrants whose passage money shall have been paid before or immediately after the of the ship, shall be forthwith landed and examined at a into, or proposed to be entered into, by them, and the Protector shall explain to every such Immigr Depôt as to any engagement to labour liability, which may rest on such Immigrant, and shall also explain the terms of any agreement to entered into or proposed to be entered into by such Immigrant; and he shall then forthwith be allo leave the Depôt.
7. Every such Immigrant whose passage money is not paid within twenty-four hours from the of the ship, shall be landed at a Depôt, where he may be kept under the care of the Protector of C Immigrants, till arrangements are made for the payment of his passage money and for his agreem labour: provided that no person shall be so kept against his own will for a longer period than ten day 8. All engagements to labour by any such Immigrants shall be registered in such form and with particulars as the Governor may from time to time direct.
All breaches of such engagements to labour shall be punishable under the provisions of Sections 49, both inclusive, and of the first paragraph of Section 50 of the Ordinance No. I. of 1876, as if sections where embodied in this Ordinance; but the words "Place of Employment" shall be substitute the word "Estate" as used in the said sections, and the said Section 50 shall be read as if the words " as is provided in Section 51" in line 3, and the words "save as aforesaid" in line 8 were omitted.
9. The expression "Chinese Immigrant," as used in this Ordinance, shall be held to mean Chi brought to the Colony from China in any Chinese Immigrant Ship, not being first or second-class ca passengers; and the expression "Chinese Immigrant Ship" shall be held to mean a ship bringing Chir Immigrants exceeding twenty in number, to the Colony. And the word "Ship" shall include ev description of vessel used in navigation.
10. I. Any person landing or attempting to land or causing or permitting to be landed, or abetti the landing of, any Chinese Immigrant contrary to the provisions of Section 2, shall be liable on convicti to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each and every such Immigrant.
II. The Master or person in command of, or in charge of, a Chinese Immigrant Ship arriving at any of the Settlements, who shall not forthwith, and before any of the Immigrants are permitted to leave th ship, report or cause to be reported at the office of the Master-Attendant or Harbour-Master the arrival, the ship with Immigrants, stating the number of Immigrants shall, on conviction, be liable to a penalty ne exceeding five hundred dollars.
11. It shall be lawful for the Governor to delegate the excercise of the several powers vested in hin by this Ordinance to the Colonial Secretary at Singapore, and to each of the Lieutenant-Governors of Penang and Malacca, in his absence from the several Settlements respectively.
12. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time by order, at all or any of the Settlements, to suspend the operation of any part or section of this Ordinance, and from time to time to restore the operation of the same.
13. Ordinance No. 10 of 1873 is hereby repealed.
14. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Chinese Immigrants Ordinance, 1877," and shall come into operation at such time as the Governor may direct by order in Council.
No. 214.
Passed this 23rd day of March, 1877.
A. M. SKINNER,
Acting Clerk of Councils..
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Notices to Mariners are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th October, 1877.
Government of Queensland.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
ROCK, FLINDERS PASSAGE, TORRES STRAITS.
CECIL C. SMITH, Acting Colonial Secretary,
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The following additional information relative to the Rock in Flinders Passage, of which a notice was issued from this office on the 6th March last, has been received from Captain Hannah :-
The Rock, which is small in extent, and steep to on all sides, lies in the following position, viz. :—
Channel Rock,
North-western extreme of King Point on with the hill standing midway between
that point and Horned Hill,.
West.
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The Police Magistrate's house on Vivien Point being nearly in line with the south-east peak of Friday Island.
Vessels entering the Passage from the eastward should keep the North Point of Prince of Wales' Island in line with the North-west extremity of Horn Island while passing the line of the Midway Hill and King Point. After passing this line, the northern end of Channel Rock should be steered for until the North-west end of Horn Island bears S.W., when the buoys at the eastern end of Ellis Channel will be in sight, and a course may be steered for the anchorage under Thursday Island accordingly.
Department of Ports and Harhours, Brisbane, 23rd June, 1877.
G. P. HEATH, Commander R.N.,
Portmaster.`
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