The Bonghong Government Gazette.
[OCTOBER 24, 1857.
of carrying Emigrants, and that be, such Passage Broker, is authorized to receive Payment for such Passage, or for the Sale or Letting of the Accommodation in such Ship; and such Certificate shall be filed in the Office of the Emigration Officer, and the Contents thereof entered in a Book to be kept by the Emigration Officer, for recording therein the Contents of such Certificates. Passage Broker to VII. On every occasion of the delivery to any Passenger of such Contract Ticket as aforesaid, the attend before Emigra- Passage Broker who shall have engaged to provide such Passenger with a Passage shall attend with him at purpose of delivering the Office of the Emigration Officer, in whose presence the Contract Ticket shall be delivered to such the Contract Tickets Passenger, and who shall explain to him the true Intent and Meaning of such Contract; and upon cach to l'assengers.
tion Officer for the
Contract Tickets not
to be altered.
Agents not to act
Contract Ticket there shall be paid by the Passage Broker issuing the same a Fee of Twenty-five Cents, which Fee the Emigration Officer is hereby authorized and required to receive and take,-such Fees to be paid over to the Colonial Treasurer to be applied to the Colonial Revenue.
VIII. No Person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be altered, after it is once issued, or shall induce any Person to part with or render useless or destroy any such Contract Ticket, during the continuance of the Contract which it is intended to evidence.
IX. No Licensed Passage Broker shall, as Agent for any Person, whether a Licensed Broker or not, without written Au- receive Money for or on account of the Passage of any Passenger on board an Emigrant Ship, without thority, and to pro- duce their Authority having a written Authority to act as such Agent, or on the demand of the Emigration Officer, refuse or fail on demand.
to exhibit his License and such written Authority; and no Person whether as Principal or Agent shall, by any Fraud, or by false Representation as to the Size of the Ship or otherwise, or by any false Pretence whatsoever, induce any Person to engage any Passage as aforesaid.
Penalties for Of- feuces.
J. Against Section I.
2. Against Section V.
3. Against Sections
VI. and IX.
4. Against Section VII.
5. Against Section VIII.
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X. All Violations or Disobediences of, or Defaults in Compliance with, the Provisions of this Ordi- nance, shall be heard and determined summarily under Ordinance No. 10 of 1844; and on conviction of such Offences, the respective Offenders shall be sentenced to pay the several Penalties, or in default of the payment thereof, to suffer the several Terms of Imprisonment respectively hereinafter specified.
1. For every Offence against Section One, a Fine not exceeding Four Hundred current Dollars,
or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Six Months.
2. For every Offence against Section Five, a Fine not exceeding Fifty current Dollars, or Impri-
sonment for a Term not exceeding Six Weeks.
3. For every Offence against Sections Six or Nine, a Fine not exceeding One Hundred current
Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Three Months.
4. For every Offence committed by a Passage Broker against Section Seven, a Fine not exceeding
One Hundred current Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Three Months.
5. For every Offence against Section Eight, a Fine not exceeding Fifty current Dollars, or Impri-
sonment for a Term not exceeding Two Months.
XI. For the Purposes of this Ordinance, the Term "Emigrant Ship" shall mean every Ship carrying more than Twenty Passengers being Natives of China, and clearing out for a Port or Ports not in the Chinese Empire; the Term "Emigration Officer" shall include every Person lawfully acting as Emigration Officer, Emigration Agent, or Protector of Emigrants in Hongkong; and the Term "Passengers," shall include all Passengers being natives of China.
SCHEDULES TO WHICH THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE REFERS.
SCHEDULE A.
Form of Emigration Passage Broker's Annual Bond, with two Sureties to be approved by the Emigration Officer. KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, that we A*
of &c., C
B
D
of &c., and E
of &c., are held and firmly bound unto Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, in the Sum of Five Thousand current Dollars, to be paid to Her said Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors; to which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves, and every of us jointly and severally, our Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, and the Heirs Executors, and Administrators of each of us, and each and every of them, firmly by these presents, sealed with our Seals, dated this
Day of
in the Year Que Thousand Eight Hundred and
of 1857," it is amongst
WHEREAS by the "Ordinance for Licensing and Regulating Emigration Passage Brokers, No. other things Enacted: that no Person whatever shall carry on the business of a Passage Broker in Hongkong, in respect of any Emigrant Ship, or shall be in any wise concerned in the sale or letting of Passages in any such Ship, unless such Person, with two good and sufficient Sureties to be approved of by the Emigration Officer, shall have previously entered into a joint and several Bond to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in the Sum of Five Thousand current Dollars; And Whereas the said C. D. and E. F. have been approved of by the Emigration Officer as Sureties for the said A. B.
Now the condition of this Obligation is, that if the above bounden A. B. shall well and truly observe and comply with all the require- ments of the suid recited Ordinance, so far as the same relate to Passage Brokers; and farther, shall well and truly pay all Fines, Forfeitures, and Penalties,—and also all Hums of Money, by way of subsistauce Money, or of return Passage Money, and compensation to any Passenger, or on his account,—and also all costs which the above bounden 4. B. may at any time be adjudged to pay, under or by virtue of any of the Provisions of the above recited Ordinance, or of the Act of the Imperial Parliament 18th & 19th Victoria, cap. 104, entituled, "An Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships": then, and in such case, this obligation to be void,-otherwise to remain in full force.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the above bounden A. B., C. D., and E. F., in the presence off
A. B. of‡
[* Insert Personal and Family names in full, with the Occupation and Address of oach of the Parties.]
it Insert the Names and Addresses in full of the Witnesses.]
SCHEDULE B.
Form of Emigration Passage Broker's License.
having shown to the satisfaction of me, the undersigned, that he hath given Bond to Her Majesty, as by the "Ordinance for Licensing and Regulating Emigration Passage Brokers, No. of 1857," required: I, the under- signed, do hereby License and authorize the said A. B. to carry on the business of a Passage Broker in Hongkong, in respect of Passengers on board Emigrant Ships proceeding from Hongkong, until the end of the present Year, and Fourteen Days afterwards, unless this License shall be sooner determined by Forfeiture for Misconduct on the part of the said A. B., as in the aforesaid Ordinance is provided.
One Thousand Eight Hundred and
[L.S.]
Given under my Hand and Seal this
Day of
Signature
J
Emigration Officer.
The Personal and Family names in full of the Person applying for the License, with his Address and Trade or Occupation, must be correctly inserted.
If a Member of a Firm, the Personal and Family names of all the Members must be given.]
Form of Notice to be given to the Emigration Officer of Forfeiture of a License.
Day of Day of
SCHEDULE C.
SIR,This is to give you notice, that the License granted on the
18 to A. B. of ||
to Act as an Emigration Passage Broker, was on the
now last past duly declared by me
Signatures
(or us), the undersigned Justice (or Justices) of the Peace.in Petty Sessions assembled, to be forfeited.¶
To the EMIGRAtion Officer,
Victoria, Hongkong,
Place and Date
| The Personal and Family names in full, with the Address and Trade or Occupation of the Farty, to be here inserted.]
Here state yeyerally the Reason of Forfeiture.)
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