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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND JUNE, 1867.
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VI. Every such Depôt as aforesaid shall be under the supervision of the Emigration Supervision of Depôts Officer who may inspect the same at such times as he shall think fit and may from and control of Emi- time to time with the approval of the Governor in Council make any Regulations which shall be deemed expedient to ensure the healthiness thereof and the proper treatment and control of the Emigrants lodging therein.
VII. The Owners or Charterers of every Chinese l'assenger Ship or if absent from Notice of every the Colony their respective Agents and every licensed Emigration Passage Broker who with an Emigrant to shall contract with any intending Emigrant for a passage in such Ship shall forthwith be given to Emigration give notice in writing to the Emigration Officer of every such Contract specifying the name age and sex of such Emigrant and the name of such Ship.
Officer.
to appoint a Medical
VIII. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint at a Salary not exceeding Governor authorized $2,000 per annum a Medical Officer whose Duty it shall be to inspect intending Officer at a Salary not Emigrants and to supervise all matters and things in any way relating to the comfort exceeding $2,000 per and well-being of such Emigrants both before their departure and on their voyage and annum. such Salary shall be in lieu of all Fees.
IX. The Medical Inspection of intending Emigrants by a Chinese Passenger Ship Medical Inspection. required by Ordinance No. 6 of 1859 shall take place on shore before embarkation as well as on board the said Ship after embarkation and the Emigration Officer shall not grant the Certificate required by the "Chinese Passenger's Act 1855" unless he shall be satisfied that such double Inspection has been duly made.
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X. It shall not be lawful for any Emigrant to embark in any Chinese Passenger No Emigrant to Ship or for the Master or other Person in charge of a Chinese Passenger Ship to permit embark or be received any Emigrant to embark therein, unless such Emigrant, shall previously have received Permit. and shall produce an embarkation Permit from the Emigration 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.
XI. The Medical Inspection of Emigrants required to be made after their embarka- Emigration Officer to tion in any Chinese Passenger Ship shall take place at such time as the Emigration appoint time for Officer shall appoint.
Medical Inspection, after embarkation.
XII. The Fees heretofore payable to the Medical Practitioner- effecting such Fees how payable. Inspection shall be paid in the first instance by the Charterer of such Ship to the Emigration Officer and by him paid into the Treasury.
XIII. Any Chinese Medical Practitioner properly qualified to the satisfaction of Chinese Medical the Colonial Surgeon shall be eligible with approval of the Governor for the office of Practitioners approv- Surgeon of a Chinese Passenger Ship within the terms of Schedule A of the "Chinese may be Surgeons of Passenger's Act 1855.”
ed by Colonial Surgeon
Chinese Passenger
Ships.
XIV. In all cases where a Chinese Medical Practitioner shall be appointed Surgeon Chinese Medicines of a Chinese Passenger Ship the whole or any portion of the Medicines and Medical and Medical Comforts. Comforts required to be placed on board by the said Schedule may be dispensed with provided that in lieu thereof suitable and sufficient Medicines and Medical Comforts adapted to the method of treatment pursued by the Chinese shall be placed on board according to a scale to be approved by the Colonial Surgeon.
Day of
XV. The Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council dated the 5th Day of Order in Council of December 1865 relating to the quantity of Water to be carried by Passenger Ships the th having a certain description of Condensing Apparatus shall apply to Chinese Passenger apply to Chinese Ships.
Passenger Ships.
any
XVI. The Owners or Charterers of any Chinese Passenger Ship and any Emigration Punishment of Persons Passage Broker and any intending Emigrant by a Chinese Passenger Ship and any committing an Master or other Person in charge of a Chinese Passenger Ship who shall fail to comply with Ordinance. or commit any Breach of the Provisions of this Ordinance or any Regulations and Bye-Laws to be framed under this Ordinance in pursuance of Sections VI and XVIII so far as they may respectively be bound thereby and any Person granting or know- ingly 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 $500 or to Imprisonment with or without Hard Labor for any Term not exceeding Six Months.
XVII. No Chinese Passenger Ship bound to any Port Westward of the Cape of No Chinese Passenger Good Hope shall be permitted to clear from any Port in the Colony between the Months Ship to clear between of May and September inclusive.
May and September.
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