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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
Published by Authority.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 2ND JUNE, 1866.
VOL. XII.
No. 23.
No. 83.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
At the request of Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton, the following Emigration Convention, in English and French, is published for general information.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th May, 1866.
NOTIFICATION.
No. 14 of 1866.
The Undersigned has been instructed by His Excellency Sir R. ALCOCK, K.C.B., Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in China, &c., &c., to publish the annexed Convention in English and Chinese, signed at Peking on the 5th of March instant by the said Minister Plenipotentiary and Monsieur DE BELLONET, H. I. M.'s Chargé d'Affaires, on the one hand, and the Prince of Kung on the other, which embodies the rules and regulations under which contract emigration by the subjects of the contracting Powers is hereafter to be carried on.
D. B. ROBERTSON,
Consul.
H. B. M. Consulate, Canton, May 16, 1866.
CONVENTION
To regulate the engagement of Chinese Emigrants by British and French Subjects.
The Government of His Majesty the Emperor of China having requested that, in accordance with the terms of conventions signed at Peking the 24th and 25th of October 1860, a set of Regulations should be framed to secure to Chinese Emigrants those safeguards which are required for their moral and physical well-being; the following, after due discussion and deliberation at the Yamên of Foreign Affairs, have been adopted by the undersigned, and will henceforth be in force.
REGULATIONS.
ARTICLE I.
Any person desiring to open an Emigration Agency in any Port in China, must address an application in writing to that effect to his Consul, enclosing at the same time copy of the Rules which he proposes to observe in his Establishment, copy of the Contract which he offers to Emigrants, together with the necessary proofs that he has complied with all the conditions imposed by the laws of his country regulating Emigration.
ARTICLE II.
The Consul after having assured himself of the solvency and respectability of the Applicant, and having examined and approved the copies of the Rules and Contracts, shall communicate them to the Chinese Authorities and shall request them to issue the Licence necessary for opening an Emigration Agency.
The Licence, together with the Rules and Contracts as approved by the Chinese Authorities will be registered at the Consulate.
ARTICLE III.
No License to open an Emigration Agency shall be withdrawn except upon sufficient grounds, and then only with the sanction of the Consul. In such a case the Einigration Agent shall have no claim to compensation for the closing of his establishment and the suspension of his operations.
ARTICLE IV.
No modification of the Rules and Contracts when once approved by the Consul and by the Chinese Authorities shall be made without their express consent; and in order that no Emigrant may be ignorant of them the said Rules and Contracts shall in all cases be posted up on the door of the Emigration Agency and in the quarters of the Emigrants.
The Emigration Agent shall be allowed to cirenlate and make generally known in the towns and villages of the Province copies of these Rules and Contracts which must in all cases bear the Seals of the Chinese Authorities and of the Consulate.
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