722781-1859-GOVERNMENT-NOTIFICATION — Page 2

DECEMBER 17, 1859.]

The Hongkong Government Gazette,

HONGKONG.

ANNO VICESIMO TERTIO VICTORIA REGINE.

No. of 1859.

By His Excellency SIR HERCULES GEORGE ROBERT ROBINSON, Knight, Governor, and Commander-in- Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Un Ordinance for providing Hospital Accommodation on board. Chinese Passenger Ships, and for the Medical Inspection of the l'assengers about to proceed to Sea in such Ships.

[ December, 1859.]

Preamble.

93

Hospital accomino-

Whereas it is desirable to provide for the allocation of a Space on board Chinese Passengers Ships, for the purposes of a Hospital or Sick Bay, and also for the Medical Inspection of the Passengers on board such Ships, with a view to the better securing the Health of Passengers in such Ships: Be it enacted and ordained, by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advico of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- 1. In overy Chinese Passenger Ship there shall be a sufficient Space properly divided off to the satis- etion of the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, to be used exclusively as a Hospital or Sick Bay for dation to be provided the Passengers; this Space shall be either under the Poop, or in the Round-house, or in any Deck-house which shall be properly built and secured to the satisfaction of such Emigration Officer, or on the upper Passenger Deck, and not elsewhere, and shall in no caso be of less dimensions than Eighteen elear Superficial Feet for every Fifty Passengers which the Ship shall carry. Such IIospitals shall be fitted with Bed Places, and supplied with proper Beds, Bedding, and Utensils, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, and shall throughout the Voyage be kept so fitted and supplied.

II. In the measurement of the Passonger Decks. Poop, Round-house, or Deck-house, for the purpose of determining the Number of Passengers to bo carried in any Chinese Passenger Ship, the Space for the Hospital shall be included.

and properly fitted

up.

Space for Hospital to be included in mea- surement of capacity for Passengers.

III. No Chineso Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage of more than Seven Passengers and crew Days' duration, until some Medical Practitioner shall have certified to the Emigration Officer, and the said to be examined before Emigration Officer shall be satisfied, that none of the Passengers or Crew appear, by reason of any bodily or sailing, by some Medi- mental Disease, unfit to proceed or likely to endanger the Health or Safety of other Persons about to proceed cal Practitioner. In such Vessel; and a Medical Inspection of the Passengers for the purposes of giving such Certificate shall take place either ou board the Vessel, or, at the discretion of the said Emigration Officer, at such convenient Place on Shore, before embarkation, as ho may appoint; and the Master, Owner, or Charterer of the Ship, shall pay to such Medical Practitioner a Sum at the rate of Twenty-five Mexican Dollars, for every Hundred Persons' so examined: Provided, that in case the Emigration Officer on any particular occasion shall be unable to obtain such Certificate as aforesaid, or the attendance of a Medical Practitioner within a reasonable time, or without payment of an Inspection Fee at a higher rate than that hereby ordained, then it shall be lawful for the said Emigration Officer to disponse with such Medical Inspection as aforesaid, aud to satisfy himself by his own personal oxamination, (for which he shall receive the Fee hereinbefore ordained to be paid,) of the fit sanitary stato of the Crow and Passengers: Provided also, that all Fees received under this Section by the Emigration Officer, or Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong, shall be within Three Days, after the receipt thereof, paid over by the Officer receiving them into the Treasury, to the use of the Crown.

Certificate not to be

have been complied with.

IV. No Emigration Officer shall give the Certificate required by the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855, in granted unless the respect of any Chinese Passenger Ship, unless he be satisfied as aforesaid with the Hospital Accommodation Provisions hereof shall in such Ship provided, and with the sanitary state of tho Crew and Passengers thereto belonging.

V. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's Confirmation thereof shall have been proclaimed in this Colony by His Excellency the Governor.

Suspending clause.

VI. In the Interpretation of this Ordinance the term "Chinese Passenger Ship" shall have the same Interpretation clause. meaning as is attached thereto under the Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the Eighteenth and Nine- teenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, known as the "Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855."

VII. This Ordinance may be cited for any purpose whatever under the name of the “ Chinese Passen- gers' Health Ordinance.”

Short title of Ordi-

nance.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VICESIMO TERTIO VICTORIE REGINÆ.

No. of 1859,

By His Excellency SIR HERCULES GEORGE ROBERT ROBINSON, Knight, Governor and Commander-in- Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

n

An Ordinance to amend the Provisions of Ordinance No:8 of 1858, respecting the Deportation of Mendicants.

[ December, 1859.] Whereas it is desirable to amend the Provisions, in Ordinance No. 8 of 1858 contained, respecting the Deportation of Mendicants from this Colony, and to embody the Law respecting such Deportations in one Ordinance: Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

Preamble.

I. That from and after the passing of this Ordinance, Ordinance No. 1 of 1859, and also so much of Repeal of No. 1 of Ordinance No. 8 of 1858 as provides that Persons convicted of Mendicancy in the Public Streets shall, if Ilis 1859, and of part of Excellency in Council shall so decide, bo deported to any place in the Chinese Empire or elsewhere, shall be, No. 8 of 1853. and the same are hereby, repealed.

II. That any Offender under Section Twenty-three of Ordinance No 8 of 1858 shall, in addition to the punishment for such Offence provided by tho said Ordinance, bo deported to his Native Country if His Excel- deported to their Na- lency the Governor shall so decide.

Offenders may be

tive Country.

•