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Mode of application for licence.

Punishment for furnishing untrue particulars.

Power to revoke and cancel licence.

Building, repairing, equipping, despatching, selling, hiring, &c., &c. without licence.

ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1873.

Chinese Emigrant Ships.

shall be subject to the payment of such fee to the Crown, and to such conditions as may, in each particular case, be prescribed by the Governor in Council.

6. Application for such licence shall be made in writing to the Colonial Secretary, and shall be transmitted through the emigration officer, and the owner, agent, or master of the Chinese emigrant ship in respect of which such licence is applied for, shall furnish all particulars as to the destination of the ship, and as to all matters relating to the intended voyage and emigration which may be required of him.

7. All such particulars shall, if so ordered, be certified upon oath before any Justice of the Peace, and every person who shall knowingly furnish untrue particulars shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labor, for any period not exceeding six calendar months, and to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, either in addition to or in substitution of such imprisonment.

8. If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Governor at any time before the departure of a Chinese emigrant ship:—

(1.) That the particulars furnished in relation thereto are untrue; or

(2.) That further particulars have been discovered since the granting of the licence; or

(3.) That any condition of the licence has been violated,

It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to revoke or vary the licence granted under this Ordinance in respect of such Chinese emigrant ship and to order that the said ship be seized and detained until the said licence be delivered up to be cancelled, or varied.

9. If any person does any of the following acts within the Colony without having obtained a licence from the Governor under this Ordinance, or without any such licence as aforesaid having been granted to the owner, agent, or master of the ship in respect of which such act shall be done, or in contravention of the terms of any such licence if granted, that is to say:—

(1.) Builds, alters or repairs, or agrees to build, alter or repair, or causes to be built, altered or repaired, any ship, with intent or knowledge, or having reasonable cause to believe that the same shall or will be employed in the conveyance of Chinese emigrants to be embarked at any port or place out of the Colony; or

(2.) Fits out, mans, navigates, equips, uses, lets or takes on freight or hire any ship, or commands, or serves on board any ship, with intent or knowledge, or having reasonable cause to believe that the same shall or will be employed in manner aforesaid; or

(3.) Despatches, or causes or allows to be despatched any ship, with intent or knowledge, or having reasonable cause to believe that the same shall or will be employed in manner aforesaid; or