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OCTOBER 9, 1858.]
The Hongkong Government Gazette.
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I. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage of more than Seven Existing Regulations Days' duration, without strictly conforming in every respect with the Regulations contained in Schedule (A) to continue in forco. annexed to the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, and heretofore in force under the Second Section of the
3.d Act.
II. In every Chinese Passenger Ship there shall be a sufficient Space properly divided off to the Hospital accommo- satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance, to be used exclusively as a Hospital or dation to be provided. Hospitals for the Passengers; this Space shall be 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 opper Passenger Deck, and not elsewhere, and shall in no case be less than Eighteen clear superficial Feet for every Fifty Passengers which the Ship shall carry. Such Hospitals 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 throughout the Voyage kept so fitted and supplied.
Space for Hospital
III. In the Measurement of the Passenger Decks, Poop, Round-house, or Deck-house, for the purpose to be included in Mea- of determining the Number of Passengers to be carried in any Chinese Passenger Ship, the Space for the surement of capacity Hospital shall be included.
for Passengers. IV. No Chinese Passenger Ship shall clear out or proceed to Sea on any Voyage as aforesaid, until Passengers and Crew some Medical Practitioner, to be appointed by the Emigration Officer at the Port of Clearance if other to be exainined before than Hongkong, and if Hongkong be the Port of Clearance, then until the Colonial Surgeon shall have sailing by some Medi- certified to the said Emigration Officer, and the said Emigration Officer shall be satisfied that none of the Passengers or Crew appear, by reason of any bodily or mental disease, unfit to proceed, or likely to endanger the Health or safety of other Persons about to proceed, in such Vessel: such Medical Inspection of the Passengers 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, er Charterer of the Ship, shall pay to such Emigration Officer a Sum at the rate of
Mexican Dollars, for every Hundred Persons so examined: Provided also, that in case the Emigration Officer on any particular occasion shall be unable to obtain the attendance of a Medical Practitioner within a reasonable tinie, 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.
V. No Emigration Officer shall give the Certificate required by the Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855, in respect of any Chinese Passenger Ship, unless he be satisfied as aforesaid with the Hospital Accommodation therein provided, and with the sanitary state of the Crew and Passengers.
VI. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation thereof shall bave been proclaimed in this Colony by His Excellency The Governor.
cal Practitioner.
Certificate not to be
granted unless sanitary Regulations are com- plied with.
Suspen ding Clause.
No. 92.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
FREDERICK WILLIAM GREEN, Esquire, having been appointed Member of the Legislative Council, during the suspension of THOMAS CHISHOLM ANSTEY, Esquire, and pending reference to Her Majesty, the needful Oaths were administered to Mr GREEN, at the Sitting of the said Council on the 4th instant; and the Honourable Member took his Seat accordingly.
By Order,
FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 5th October, 1858.
No. 93.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Return of Notes in Circulation and Specie in Reserve at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, is published for general information.
By Order,
FRED. FORTH, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 6th October, 1858.
Account of the average Amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong, for the Month ending 30th September, 1858, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.
NOTES ISSUED, SPECIE IN RESERVE,
Oriental Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st October, 1858.
$527,062! $200,000.
P. CAMPBELL, Manager,
I inspected this day the Books and Treasure Vault of the Oriental Bank Corporation, and hereby certify, that the Amount of Specia
shown is in accordance with the Terms of the Royal Charter.
J. A. CARVALHO, Accountant.
Victoria, Hongkong, 6th October, 1858.
HENRY C. LEWIS, Deputy Assistant Commissary General,
For the Colonial Treasurer.
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