422 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH SEPTEMBER, 1874.
Medical examination
before sailing. [Ord. 5 of 1869, sec. 3.]
Medical inspection
of emigrants
4. No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on any voyage of more than seven days' 'duration, until the proper medical officer as provided shall have certified to the Emigration Officer, and the said Emigration Officer shall not grant his certificate unless he is satisfied, that none of the passengers or crew appear by reason of any bodily or mental disease, unfit to proceed or likely to endanger the health or safety of other persons about to proceed in such vessel; and a medical inspection of the passengers for the pur- poses of giving such certificate shall take place either on board the vessel, or, at the discretion of the said Emigration Officer, at such time and place on shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint; and the master, owner, or charterer of the ship, shall pay to the Emigration Officer a sum at the rate of twenty-five current dollars, for every hundred persons so ex- amined, and such Emigration Officer shall pay the same into the treasury to the use of the crown.
5. The medical inspection of emigrants under contracts of ser- vice shall take place on shore before embarkation as well as on board the said ship after embarkation and the Emigration Officer under contract of service.
shall not grant the certificate required by "the Chinese Passengers, [Ord. 12 of
Act, 1855" unless he shall be satisfied that such double ins- 1868, sec. 10.] paction has been duly made, or has been dispensed with by the
sanction of the Governor.
No emigrant to embark or
board without
a permit.
6. It shall not be lawful for any emigrant under contract of service to embark in any Chinese passenger ship, or for be received on the master or other person on board of a Chinese passenger ship to permit any such emigrant to embark therein, unless such [İbid, sec. 11.] emigrant shall produce an embarkation permit from the Emi- gration Officer, who shall not grant.the same unless he shall be satisfied that such emigrant has undergone on shore the medical inspection required by law to be made before embarkation.
Emigration Officer to ap point time for
medical ins- pection after embarkation, [Ibid, sec. 12.] Chinese medi- cal practi-
7. The medical inspection of emigrants required to be made after their embarkation in any Chinese passenger ship shall take place at such time as the Emigration Officer shall appoint.
8. Any Chinese medical practitioner properly qualified to the satisfaction of the Colonial Surgeon shall be eligible, with ap- tioner may be proval of the Governor, for the office of surgeon of a Chinese Chinese pas- passenger ship within the terms of schedule 4 of "The Chinese senger ships. Passengers' Act, 1855." [Ibid,sec. 14.]
surgeons of
Modified' regulations
for voyages of not more than
thirty days' duration.
Regulations for voyages of not more than thirty days' duration.
VIII. All ships clearing out or proceeding to sea upon voyages of not more than thirty days' duration, shall be subject to the modified regulations contained in schedule E of this Ordinance which as regards such ships shall be substituted for those contained in schedule 4 of "The Chinese Passengers' Act, [See Ord. 8 of 1855," but nothing in this section contained shall be deemed 1871.]
to relieve Chinese passenger ships from the operation of the said Act, except so far as the same is by the said schedule expressly modified.
Voyages de- 2. The voyages specified in schedule F to this Ordinance clared to be of annexed, are hereby declared to be voyages of not more than not more than thirty days' duration, subject as regards steamers to the con- thirty days' duration. ditions as to their rate of speed and as regards sailing vessels [Ibid, sec. 4.] to the conditions as to the periods of the year during which the voyage shall be performed, in the said schedule respectively expressed and contained.
Not to affect
3. This section shall not be construed as affecting any ships not with- Chinese passenger ship which is about to proceed to sea on a
voyage of not more than seven days' duration,
in "The
Chinese Pas- sengers' Act."
Depôts to be provided for the lodging of emigrants. [Ord. 12 of 1868, sec. 4.]
Depôts for emigrants under contract of service.
IX. The owners or charterers of every Chinese passenger ship which is about to convey emigrants under contracts of service shall, as soon as such ship is laid on for the conveyance of such emigrants, provide a depôt or depôts, to be approved of by the Emigration Officer, wherein every intending emigrant 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. Emigrants to 2. Every intending emigrant by such Chinese passenger ship lodge in depôt shall lodge, at the least three clear days previously to his em- barkation, the depôt provided by the owners or charterers of such ship.
three clear days before embarkation. [Ibid, sec, 6.]
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