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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH SEPTEMBER, 1874.

Breach of condition of licence.

Application of penalty for breach of this

Ordinance recoverable

under "The

Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855."

[Ibid, sec. 10.]

9. 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."

10. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to apply the whole or any part of the penalty recoverable in case of the non-observance or non-performance of the regulations of this section under the provisions of section V of "The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," towards the expenses of reconveying to their homes intending emigrants by any vessel in respect of which the licence granted under this section shall have been revoked in manner herein before provided.

Regulations of 11. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the schedule A of regulations contained in schedule A of "The Chinese Passengers'

Act, 1855."

"Chinese Pas-

sengers' Act,

1855," not to

be affected by

this section.

No Person to

licence.

[Ord. 11 of

1857, sec. 1.]

Emigration Passage Brokers.

VI. No person shall act as a passenger broker, or in procuring act as a passage passengers for, or in the sale or letting of passages in any broker without Chinese having entered

passenger ship, unless he shall, with two sufficient into a bond sureties, to be approved by the Emigration Officer, have entered and obtained a into a joint and several bond in the sum of five thousand cur- rent dollars, to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, accord- ing to the form contained in schedule A hereunto annexed, which bond shall be renewed on each occasion of obtaining such licence as hereinafter mentioned, and shall be deposited with the Emigration Officer; nor unless such person shall have obtained a licence to let or sell passages, nor unless such licence shall be then in force; and where different members of the same firm act as passage brokers, each person so acting shall comply with the terms of this section.

How passage broker's li- cences may be obtained.

2. Any person wishing to obtain a licence to act as a passage broker, shall make application for the same to the Emigration Officer, and the Emigration Officer is hereby authorized (if he [Ibid, sec. 2.] shall think fit) to grant such licence according to the form in schedule B hereunto annexed: Provided always, that no such licence shall be granted unless such bond as herein before men- Power to Ma- tioned shall have been first entered into: Provided also, that any gistrates to Magistrate who shall adjudicate on any offence against this sec- order licences tion, is hereby authorized to order the offender's licence to be to be forfeited. forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited accordingly; and the said Magistrate making such order shall forthwith cause notice of such forfeiture, in the form contained in the schedule Chereunto annexed, to be transmitted to the Emigration Officer, and such forfeiture shall be exclusive and independent of any other punishment which may be inflicted upon such offender under the provisions of this section.

for licences.

Fee to be paid 3. Every person obtaining such licence as aforesaid, shall pay to the Emigration Officer a fee of two hundred current dollars, [Ibid, sec. 3.] which fee the Emigration Officer is hereby empowered and re- quired to demand and receive upon the issuing of any such licence; and the Emigration Officer shall pay all such fees into the Colonial Treasury, to the use of the crown.

How long li- 4. Such licence shall continue in force until the 31st day of cences are to December in the year in which such licence shall be granted, continue in and for fourteen days afterwards, unless sooner forfeited as [Ibid, sec. 4.] hereinbefore mentioned.

force.

Contract

tickets for

passages.

5. Every passage broker who shall or may receive money from any person, for or in respect of a passage in any Chinese [Ibid, sec. 5.] passenger ship, shall give to every such person a contract ticket, under the hand of such passage broker, and stamped with his seal or trade mark,-each ticket to be printed in a plain and legible type, according to the form in the schedule Dhereunto annexed, and to be accompanied with a translation thereof in the Chinese language, in plain and legible cha-

racters.

Passage bro-

6. Every such passage broker before he shall receive or take kers to produce to Emigration any money on account of any such passage, or for the sale or Officer certifi- letting of the whole or any part of the accommodation of or in cate that they any Chinese passenger ship proceeding from Hongkong, shall have chartered produce to the Emigration Officer the certificate of the master or the ship for owner of the ship, in respect of which such passage shall or may have been taken, or the accommodation in which shall have been [Ibid, sec. 6.] so sold or let, to the effect that such ship has been chartered for the purpose of carrying emigrants, and that he, such passage broker, is authorized to receive payment for such passage, or for the sale or letting of the accommodation in such ship; and such certificate shall be filed in the office of the Emigration Officer.

carrying emi- grants.