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The Hongkong Government Gazelle.

[DECEMBER 31, 1859.

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Preamble.

Supplementary Esti- mates, 1859.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VICESIMO TERTIO VICTORIE REGINÆ.

No. 5 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.

An Ordinance to authorize the appropriation of a Supplementary Sum not exceeding Four Thousand Pounds,

to defray the charges of the Year 1859.

[26th December, 1859.]

Whereas it has become necessary to make further Provision for the Public Service of the Colony for the Year 1859, in addition to the charge upon the Revenue for the Service of the said Year already provided for in the Estimates submitted to the Legislative Council: Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. A Sum not exceeding Four Thousand Pounds shall be, and the same is hereby, charged upon the Revenue of this Colony for the Service of the Year 1859, and the said Sum so charged shall be expended as hereinafter specified, that is to say :-

CIVIL ESTABLISHMENTS:

The Governor,

Auditor General,

Registrar General, ...

MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT,

POLICE,

PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES, AND GRATUITIES, TRANSPORT,

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792 6 10

274 6 2

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12 6 9

404 12 3

1,568 4 4

262 3 10

506 13 4

SPECIAL EXPENSES,

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Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

this 26th Day of December, 1859,

L. D'ALMADA e Castro,

Clerk of Councils.

148 1 7

£3,968 15 1

HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON.

Confirmed.

Proclamation

of 21 May, 1860

Preamble.

HONGKONG.

ANNO VICESIMO TERTIO VICTORIE REGINÆ.

Ne. 6 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 IIongkong.

An Ordinance for providing Hospital Accommodation on board Chinese Passenger Ships, and for the Medical Inspection of the Passengers and Crews about to proceed to Sea in such Ships.

[26th December, 1859.]

Whereas it is desirable to provide for the allocation of a Space on board Chinese Passenger Ships, for the purposes of a Hospital or Sick Bay, and also for the Medical Inspection of the Passengers and Crews on board such Ships, with a view to the better securing the Health of Passengers therein : Be it enacted and ordained, by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- ospital accommo- I. In every Chinese Passenger Ship there shall be a sullicient Space properly divided off to the satis- dation to be provided, faction of the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, to be used exclusively as a Hospital or Sick Bay for 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 case be of less dimensions than Eighteen clear Superficial Feet for every Fifty Passengers which the Ship shall carry. Such Hospitals shall be fitted with Bed Places, and and properly fitted up.

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. Space for Hospital

II. In the measurement of the Passenger Decks, for the purpose of determining the Number of Passengers to be included in mea- surement of capacity to be carried in any Chinese Passenger Ship, the Space for the Hospital shall be included.

for l'assengers.

III. No Chinese 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.

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in such Vessel; and a Medical Inspection of the Passengers for the purposes of giving such Certificate shall take place either on board the Vessel, or, at the discretion of the said Emigration Officer, at such convenient Place on Shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint; and the Master, Owner, or Charterer of the Ship, all pay to such Medical Practitioner a Sum at the rate of Twenty-five current Dollars, for every Haired 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 dispense with such Medical Inspection as aforesaid, and to satisfy himself by his own personal examination, (for which he shall receive the Fee hereinbefore ordained to be paid.) of the fit sanitary state of the Crew 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.