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OCTOBER 24, 1857.]

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The Hongkong Government Gazette.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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Notice is hereby given, that "Kellett's Island" has been occupied as a Military Post, and that no Person, except those on Military Duty, can be allowed to land upon the Island,

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 23d October, 1857.

No. 144.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

It is hereby notified, that under the terms of Ordinance No. 11 of 1844, Wednesday, the 18th Day of November next, is fixed for a Special Sessions of Justices of the Peace, to be held on that day at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of considering Applications for Licenses for the Sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors, during the Year commencing the 1st December next.

Applications for such Licenses must be Lodged at the Chief Magistrate's Office at least Ten Days before the Sessions, in the Form prescribed by the Ordinance above mentioned.

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 14th October, 1857.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

W. T. BRIDGES, Acting Colonial Secretary.

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The following Draft. Ordinance "for Licensing and Regulating Emigration Passage Brokers," read a second ume at a Meeting of the Legislative Council held this day, is published for general information.

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HONGKONG.

ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINE.

No. of 1857.

By His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

An Ordinance for Licensing and Regulating Emigration Passage Brokers.

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October, 1857.]

Be it Enacted and Ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

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1. From and after the passing of this Ordinance, no Person shall act as a Passage Broker or in pro- curing Passengers, for or in the Sale or Letting of Passages in any Emigrant Ship, unless he shall, with

as a Passage Broker two sufficient Sureties to be approved by the Emigration Officer, have entered into a joint and several Bond without having enter- in the Sum of Five Thousand current Dollars to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, according to the ed into a Bond and ob form contained in Schedule A, hereunto annexed, which Bond shall be renewed on each occasion of tained a License. obtaining such License as hereinafter mentioned, and shall be deposited with the Emigration Officer; nor unless such Person shall have obtained a License to let or sell Passages, nor unless such License shall be then in force; and where different members of the same Firm act as Passage Brokers, each Person so acting shall comply with the Terms of this Section.

II. Any Person wishing to obtain a License to act as a Passage Broker, shall make application for How Passage Brok- the same to the Emigration Officer, and the Emigration Officer is hereby authorised (if he shall think fit) er's Licenses may be to grant such License according to the form in Schedule B, hereunto annexed: Provided always, that obtained.

no such License shall be granted unless such Bond as hereinbefore mentioned shall have been first entered

into: Provided also, that any Justice or Justices of the l'eace who shall adjudicate on any Offence against Power to Justices to this Ordinance, are hereby authorized to order the Offender's License to be forfeited, and the same shall order Licenses to be thereupon be forfeited accordingly; and the said Justice or Justices making such order shall forthwith forfeited. cause, notice of such forfeiture, in the form contained in the Schedule C, hereunto annexed, to be transmitted to the Emigration Officer, and such forfeiture shall be exclusive and independent of any other Punishment which may be inflicted upon such Offender under the Provisions of this. Ordinance.

III. Every Person obtaining such License as aforesaid, shall pay to the Emigration Officer a Fee of

Fee to be paid for

One Hundred current Dollars, which Fee the Emigration Officer is hereby empowered and required to Licenses. demand and receive upon the issuing of any such License; and the said Emigration Officer shall pay over all such Fees to the Colonial Treasurer, to be applied to the Colonial Revenue.

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IV. All such Licenses shall continue in force until the 31st Day of December in the year in which How long License such License shall be granted, and for Fourteen Days afterwards, unless sooner forfeited as hereinbefore are mentioned: Provided, that any License granted before the 31st Day of December in the present year, shall force. continue in force till the 31st Day of December 1858, and for Fourteen Days afterwards."

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V. Every Passage Broker who shall or may receive Money from any Person, for or in respect of a Passage in any Emigrant Ship, shall give to every such Person a Contract Ticket, under the hand of such Passages. Passage Broker, and stamped with his Seal or Trade Mark,—each Ticket to be printed in a plain and legible Type, according to the Form in the Schedule D, hereunto annexed, and to be accompanied with a Trans- lation thereof in the Chinese Language, in plain and legible Characters.

VI. Every such Passage Broker before he shall receive or take any Money on account of any such Passage Brokers t Passage, or for the sale or letting of the whole or any part of the Accommodation of or in any Emigrant Ship produce to Emigratio proceeding from Hongkong, shall produce to the Emigration Officer the Certificate of the Master or Owner Officer Certificate the of the Ship, in respect of which such Passage shall or may have been taken, or the Accommodation they have chartere the Ship for carryit in which shall have been so sold or let, to the effect, that suck Ship has been chartered for the purpose Emig