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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH OCTOBER, 1868.

XI. It shall not be lawful for any Emigrant to embark in No Emigrant any Chinese Passenger Ship or for the Master or other Person to embark or on board of a Chinese Passenger Ship to permit any Emigrant to be received on embark therein, unless such Emigrant shall produce an Embarka- board without tion Permit from the Emigration Officer, who shall not grant the a Permit. same unless he shall be satisfied that such Emigrant has undergone on shore the Medical Inspection required by Law to be made before Embarkation.

XII. The Medical Inspection of Emigrants required to be Emigration made after their Embarkation in any Chinese Passenger Ship shall Officer to ap- take place at such Time as the Emigration Officer shall appoint. Medical Ins-

point time for

pection after Embarkation.

XIII. The Fees heretofore payable to the Medical Practiti- Fees how pay- oner effecting such Inspection shall be paid in the first Instance able. by the Emigration Passage Broker of such Ship to the Emigra- tion Officer and by him be paid into the Treasury.

XIV. Any Chinese Medical Practitioner properly qualified Chinese Medi- to the Satisfaction of the Colonial Surgeon shall be eligible with cal Practiti Approval of the Governor for the Office of Surgeon of a Chinese oners may be Passenger Ship within the Terms of Schedule A of the "Chinese Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855.”

Passenger Ships.

Surgeons of

XV. All Orders of IIer Majesty the Queen in Council relating All Orders in to the Quantity of Water to be carried by Passenger Ships Council to ap- having a certain Description of Condensing Apparatus shall apply ply to Chinese to Chinese Passenger Ships.

Passenger Ships.

XVI. No Chinese Passenger Ship, unless a Vessel propelled No Chinese by Steam, bound to any Port Westward of the Cape of Good Hope Passenger Ship shall be permitted to clear from any Port in the Colony between to clear be the Months of May and September inclusive.

pro-

tween May and

Regulations of Schedule A of

XVII. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or September. ceed to Sea without strictly conforming to the Regulations contained in Schedule A of the "Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," "Chinese Pas except so far as the said Regulations are modified or altered by sengers' Act, any of the Provisions of this Ordinance or may be inconsistent 1855" to be in therewith; and except as aforesaid the said Regulations shall be

force except as and continue in full Force and Effect.

altered by this Ordinance.

XVIII. 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 &c. such Emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped.

leave the Port

XIX. 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

Emigrants. 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 Section 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.

XX. Every Passage Broker shall be liable to make good all Passage Broker Penalties and Expenses chargeable to him under this Ordinance, liable to make as fully and in the same Manner as he is now liable to make good ties, &c. in the Penalties under Ordinance No. 11 of 1857.

good all Penal-

same Manner as under Ordi- nance No. 11 of 1857.

Breach of this

XXI. The Owners or Charterers of any Chinese Passenger Punishment of Ship and any Emigration 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 this Or- dinance 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 without Prejudice to any other Proceeding Civil or Criminal be liable upon summary Conviction before a Magistrate to a Fine not exceeding Five hundred Dollars, or to Imprisonment with or without Hard Labor for any Term not exceeding Six Months.

XXII. This Ordinance shall not come into Operation until Suspending Her Majesty's Confirmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in Clause. the Colony by the Governor.

Passed the Legislative Council of Iongkong, this 13th Day

of October, 1868.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

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