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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT
Corulitions of licence and
AZELE
E, 15TH APRIL, 1876.
6. The granting of any licence shall be in the discretion of the Governor in Council, and in cases within the third paragraph amount of fee, of this section, shall be in the discretion of the Emigration Officer, [Ibid, sec. 6.] and in every case shall be subject to the payment of a fee of five dollars, and to such conditions as may, from time to time, ba prescribed under instructions from Her Majesty's Principal Secre- tary of State for the Colonies, and the Governor in Conueil may impose such conditions on the granting of any licence as he shall think expedient in each particular case, provided the same shall not be contrary to or inconsistent with such instructions.
Governor in
Council may impose conditions.
Licence to specify time
7. Every licence, other than a general licence, granted under this section in respect of any Chinese passenger ship shall specify of departure; the period within which such ship shall clear out and proceed to sea: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, or Emigration Officer who granted the licence, from [Ibid, ser. 7.] time to time, to extend such period.
proviso for extension
thereof.
The Governor may authorise labourers and servants to he engaged for persons in British possessions.
Ordinance 5 of 1874 not to prevent
Chinese pas- sengers from travelling in first or second
cabin as other nationals.
Power to
[Ibid, sec. 8.]
8. The Governor in Council may, at his discretion, authorise any person to engage any specified number of Chinese artisans, mechanics, labourers, or servants for any person resident in any British possession, and to make contracts in writing on behalf of such resident with the persons so engaged. Every such contract shall be made in triplicate, and one part shall be lodged in the office of the Colonial Secretary; and such part shall be admissible in evidence without a stamp.
Any vessel provided with a general licence may carry any per- sons so engaged without thereby affecting her licence.
9. Nothing in "The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordi- nance, 1874," shall provent passengers, natives of Asia, from travelling in the first class cabin of any vessel which is provided with a general licence, on the same terms as passengers of other nationalities; or in the first or second class cabin, if the vessel carries more than two classes of passengers.
Such passengers are hereby exempted from the necessity of ob- taining contract passage tickets, or of submitting themselves to be mustered or inspected by any Emigration Officer, or medical officer, or other person.
Such passengers shall, however, be reckoned in calculating the number of passengers, natives of Asia, who are carried by the said vessel.
10. In case it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Governor remove master in Council, at any time before the departure of a Chinese pas- or other officer. senger 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:-
Power to revoke and cancel licence. [Ibid, sec. 9.]
Breach of condition of licence.
Application of penalty for
Ordinance
(a) li it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, or Emigration Officer, at any time before the departure of a Chinese passenger ship, that the parti- culars finished to him in relation theroto under the second paragraph of this section are nutrue, or that any condition of the said licence has been violated;
(3.) 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 forthwith to appoint a master, mate, or other officer to be approved as aforesaid, in the place of any mas- ter, 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 snch 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.”
18. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to apply the whole or any part of the penalty recoverable in case of the french of this non-observance or non-performance of the regulations of this see- tion under the provisions of section V of "The Chinese Passengers' Act, 18h0,” towards the expenses of reconveying to their homes intending enigrants by any vessel in respect of which the licence gamated mater this section shall have been revoked in munner berlubeine per vided.
recoverable under The Chinese
Passengers' A 1855.
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