374 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD OCTOBER, 1868..
Chinese Medical
XIV. Any Chinese Medical Practitioner properly qualified to the satisfaction of Practitioner may be the Colonial Surgeon shall be eligible with approval of the Governor for the office of Surgeon of a Chinese Passenger Ship within the terms of Schedule A of the " Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855."
Surgeons of Chinese Passenger Ships.
Order in Council of
XV. All Orders of Her Majesty the Queen in Council relating to the quantity of the 5th Day of De-Water to be carried by Passenger Ships having a certain description of Condensing
cember, 1865 to apply
to Chinese Passenger Apparatus shall apply to Chinese Passenger Ships.
Ships.
ger Ship to clear be-
No Chinese Passen- XVI. No Chinese Passenger Ship, unless a Vessel propelled by steam, bound to tween May and Sep. any Port Westward of the Cape of Good Hope shall be permitted to clear from any Port in the Colony between the Months of May and September inclusive.
tember.
Regulations of Sche- dule A of "Chinese Passengers' Act,
XVII. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea without strictly conforming with the Regulations contained in Schedule A of the "Chinese 1855" to be in force Passengers' Act, 1855," except so far as the said Regulations are modified or altered by of the Provisions of this Ordinance or may be inconsistent therewith; and except as aforesaid the said Regulations shall be and continue in full force and effect.
except as altered by this Ordinance.
Ordinance not to extend to Mail Steamers.
Emigration Officer may land any Emi- grant who is unwilling
any
XVIII. This Ordinance shall not extend to any Steam Vessel regularly employed in the Conveyance of the Public Mails under a Contract with the Government of the State or Colony to which such Steam Vessel may belong, except so far as may affect Emigrants on board any such Steamer who may have entered into any contract for re- payment of Passage Money or any engagement for personal service or labor. Provided always that it shall at all times be lawful for the Emigration Officer to inspect Emi- grants about to embark or already embarked on board any such Steamer, and if he deem it advisable to order any or all such Emigrants to be landed in Hongkong.
XIX. It shall be lawful for the Emigration Officer at any time when he is satisfied that any Emigrant unwilling to leave the Port has been procured by any fraud, vio- to leave the Port and lence, or other improper means to land such Emigrant and procure him a passage back who has been procured
to his native place or that from which he was taken, and to give him as compensation by any fraud, &c.
a sum not exceeding 50 Dollars, and also to defray the cost of his maintenance whilst awaiting a return passage, and all such expenses of return passage and compensation shall be recoverable by the Emigration Officer before any Police Magistrate together with all legal expenses incurred, from the Emigration Passage Broker of the vessel in which such Emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped.
Passage Broker liable
to make good all
XX. Every Passage Broker shall be liable to make good all penalties and expenses penalties, &c. in the chargeable to him under this Ordinance, as fully and in the same manner as he is now Ordinance No. 11 of liable to make good penalties and expenses under Ordinance No. 11 of 1857.
same manner as under
1857.
Punishment of Per-
Breach of this Or- dinance.
XXI. The Owners or Charterers of any Chinese Passenger Ship and any Emigra- for committing any tion Passage Broker and any intending Emigrant by a Chinese Passenger Ship and any Master or other Person in charge of a Chinese Passenger Ship who shall fail to comply with or commit any Breach of the Provisions of this Ordinance or any Regulations to be framed under this Ordinance in pursuance of Section VI so far as they may respectively be bound thereby and any Person granting or knowingly uttering any forged Certificate, Permit, Notice, or other Document under this Ordinance shall with- out prejudice to any other Proceeding Civil or Criminal be liable upon summary con- viction before a Magistrate to a Fine not exceeding $500 or to Imprisonment with or without Hard Labor for any Term not exceeding Six Months.
Suspending Clause.
XXII. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's con- firmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in the Colony by the Governor.
Title.
Preamble.
Estimates,
1869.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to apply a Sum not exceeding Eight hundred and Thirty thousand Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1869.
Whereas the Expenditure required for the Service of this Colony for the Year 1869, has been estimated at the Sum of Eight hundred and Twenty-nine thousand and Fifty-two Dollars and Sixty Cents: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I. A Sum not exceeding Eight hundred and Thirty thousand Dollars shall be,
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