THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH MAY, 1874.
to the Conditions as to the Periods of the Year during which [Ibid, Sec. 4.] the Voyage shall be performed, in the said Schedule respectively expressed and contained.
3. This Section shall not be construed as affecting any Not to affect Chinese Passenger Ship which is about to proceed to Sea on a Ships not with- Voyage of not more than Seven Days' Duration.
Depôts for Emigrants under Contract of Service.
in the Chinese Passengers' Act.
IX. The Owners or Charterers of every Chinese Passenger Depôts to be Ship which is about to convey Emigrants under Contracts of provided for the Lodging Service shall, as soon as such Ship is laid on for the Conveyance of Emigrants. of such Emigrants, provide a Depôt or Depôts to be approved [Ord. 12 of of by the Emigration Officer wherein every intending Emigrant 1868, Sec. 4.] by such Ship may lodge as hereinafter provided, and every such Depôt shall be maintained and every Emigrant lodging therein shall be supported at the Expense of such Owners or Charterers.
2. Every intending Emigrant by such Chinese Passenger Ship Emigrants to shall lodge, at the least Three clear Days previously to his Em-lodge in Depôt barkation, in the Depôt provided by the Owners or Charterers of such Ship.
Three clear Days before Embarkation, [Ibid, Sec. 6.]
3. Every such Depôt as aforesaid shall be under the Su-Supervision of pervision of the Emigration Officer who may inspect the same at Depôts. such Times as he shall think fit, and there shall be at all Times Ibid, Sec. 7.] free Ingress and Egress allowed to all Persons to and from such Depôts, from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M.
Orders in Council relating to Quantity of Water.
Council to ap-
X. All Orders of Her Majesty the Queen in Council relating Orders in to the Quantity of Water to be carried by Passenger Ships having a certain_Description of Condensing Apparatus shall ply to Chinese apply to Chinese Passenger Ships.
No Chinese Passenger Ship unless propelled by Steam to clear between April and September.
Passenger Ships. [Ibid, Sec.15.]
XI. No Chinese Passenger Ship, unless a Vessel propelled No Chinese by Steam, bound to any Port Westward of the Cape of Good Passenger Ship
to clear be-
Hope or to any Port in Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, or tween April Tasmania shall be permitted to clear from any Port in the Colony and September. between the Months of April and September inclusive.
[Ibid,Sec.16.]
Unwilling Emigrants.
leave the Port
XII. It shall be lawful for the Emigration Officer at any Emigration Time when he is satisfied that any Emigrant who is unwilling to Officer may leave the Port has been obtained by any Fraud, Violence, or other land any Emi- improper Means, to land such Emigrant and procure him a Passage grant who is back to his native Place or that from which he was taken, and also unwilling to to defray the Cost of his Maintenance whilst awaiting a Return and who has Passage, and all such Expenses with all legal Costs incurred shall been procured be recoverable by the Emigration Officer before any Police Magis- by any Fraud, trate from the Emigration Passage Broker of the Vessel in which [Ibid, Sec.18.] such Emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped.
&c.
Emigrants. [Ibid,Sec.19.]
2. Whosoever shall unlawfully either by Force or Fraud Punishment take away or detain against his Will any Man or Boy with Intent for improperly to put him on board a Chinese Passenger Ship and whosoever obtaining shall with any such Intent receive, harbor, or enter into any Con- tract for Foreign Service with any such Man or Boy knowing the same to have been by Force or Fraud taken and obtained as in this Paragraph before mentioned, shall be guilty of Felony and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Seven Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years with or without Hard Labor.
Penalties for Breach of Ordinance.
Breach of this
XIII. The Owners or Charterers of any Chinese Passenger Punishment of Ship and any Enigration Passage Broker and any intending Persons com- Emigrant by a Chinese Passenger Ship and any Master or other mitting any Person in Charge of a Chinese Passenger Ship who shall fail to Ordinance. comply with or commit any Breach of the Provisions of Part I [Ibid,Sec.21.] of this Ordinance so far as they may respectively be bound there- by, and any Person granting or knowingly uttering any forged Certificate, Permit, Notice, or other Document under this Or- dinance shall, without Prejudice to any other Proceeding, Civil or Criminal, be liable upon summary Conviction before a Ma- gistrate to a Fine not exceeding Five hundred Dollars, or to Imprisonment with or without Hard Labor for any Term not exceeding Six Months.
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