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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH SEPTEMBER, 1874.

IX. The Emigration Officer may, if he shall think fit, before granting his Emigration Off- certificate, employ any duly qualified medical practitioner, master mariner, cer may employ

medical men, marine surveyor, or other person whose professional assistance and advice be marine sur- may require for the purpose of ascertaining whether the requirements, of section veyors, and VIII of this Ordinance have been duly complied with, and the costs and others. charges of obtaining such assistance and advice, shall be defrayed by the owners or charterers of the ship, whether the Emigration Officer shall grant his certificate or not.

X. The Emigration Officer shall, from time to time, fix a reasonable scale Fees of profes- of fees and charges to be approved by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries sional persons

employed. of State, for the remuneration of any professional persons who may be employed by him under the last preceding regulation, and pending the approval or disap- proval of such scale, the fees and charges therein specified shall be payable, as if the same had been approved in manner aforesaid.

XI. The owners or charterers of every ship shall pay such fees for the Fees of Emigra remuneration of the Emigration Officer, as may, from time to time, be ordered tion Officer. under instructions from one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and until and subject to such instructions, the following fees shall be payable in addition to all fees chargeable under regulation X :-

Upon the application for a certificate,

.$25

.$25

Upon the granting of the certificate, Provided always that no fees shall be payable to the Emigration Officer of Hongkong, but in lieu thereof the following stamp duties are hereby imposed, that is to say :-

Upon every application for a certificate under article II of the regulations contained in schedule B of the said Ordinance, a stamp duty of.

1

Upon every certificate granted under article I of the said.

regulations, a stamp duty of

1

And "The Stamp (Amendment) Ordinance, 1868," shall be read as if the stamp duties hereby imposed were inserted in the schedule thereof.

XII. In case default shall be made by the owners or charterers of the ship Power to detain in the payment of any fees and charges to which they may be liable under ship for non-

payment of fees. section VIII of this Ordinance, the ship may be detained by the British Consul, or if in Hongkong by the Governor, until such fees and charges shall have been paid.

XIII, The Emigration Officer may withhold his certificate or revoke the In case of false same at any time before the departure of the ship, if it shall appear to his satis- particulars, ship faction that any particulars contained in the application in writing which shall may be detained

and certificate have been made for the same or any other particulars which may have been cancelled. furnished to him by or on behalf of the owners, charterers, or master of the ship in relation thereto, are untrue, and that the conditions of section VIII of this Ordinance have not been complied with; and in every such case it shall be lawful for the British Consul, or if in Hongkong for the Governor, to seize and detain the ship until the certificate, if already granted, shall have been delivered up to be cancelled.

sea.

XIV. The master of every British ship shall, during the whole of the Treatment of intended voyage, make issues of provisions, fuel and water, according to the passengers at aforesaid dietary scale, to all the passengers except such as shall have supplied themselves therewith, and shall not make any alteration except for the manifest advantage of the passengers, in respect of the space allotted to them as aforesaid, or in respect of the means of ventilation, and shall not ill-use the passengers, or require them (except in case of necessity) to help in working the vessel; and shall issue medicines and medical comforts, as shall be requisite, to the best of his judgment, and shall call at such ports as may be mentioned in the Emigra- tion Officer's clearing certificate for fresh water and other necessaries; and shall carry the passengers without unnecessary delay to the destination to which they have contracted to proceed.

XV. The master of every British ship shall, within 24 hours after his Production of arrival at the port of destination and at any port of call, produce his emigration emigration papers to the British Consul (if any) at such port, or in case such port shall be papers at port of destination. in Her Majesty's dominions to any officer appointed or authorized by the local Government in that behalf. It shall be lawful for such Consul or other officer to enter and inspect such ship, and in case the master shall obstruct or refuse to assist him in the discharge of such duty, or shall without reasonable cause fail to produce his emigration papers as aforesaid, he shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars, and the ship may be detained by the British Consul, or if in Her Majesty's dominions, by the local Government, until such fine shall have been paid and the emigration papers shall have been given up.

XVI. In all ports and places where no Emigration Officer shall have been British Consul appionted, the British Consul shall, until such appointment, and at all times deemed Emigra-

tion Officer where pending the vacancy of such office, be deemed to be the Emigration Officer for no such Officer is

appointed. the purposes of these Regulations.

(F.)

Under section VIII, paragraph 2.

FOR STEAMERS

Whose steam power shall be sufficient without the aid of sails to propel them at the rate of five statute miles in the hour.

Voyages from Hongkong, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghai, and any port in Formosa, to-

Calcutta.

Pegu.

Sumatra.

Java.

Labuan.

Sarawak,

Manila.

Bangkok. Japan.

The Straits Settlements.

FOR SAILING VESSELS.

Voyages from Hongkong, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghai, and any port in Formosa, to-

From October to March, both iuclusive. From April to September, both in-

Sumatra.

Java.

The Straits Settlements.

Labuan.

Manila, Bangkok.

clusive.

Labuan.

Manila. Bangkok.

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