ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1876.
Chinese Emigration Amendment.
chargeable upon such licence should be reduced, and that the law should be amended as hereinafter provided: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---
1. The following portions of section 5 of "The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874," are hereby repealed, viz.:-
Paragraph 1. The words "except ships about to proceed on a voyage of not more than thirty days' duration within the meaning of section 8 of this Ordinance."
Paragraph 2. The whole.
Paragraph 3. The words "and shall also furnish the like particulars where any exemption is applied for under paragraph 2 of this section."
2. The fee payable upon the granting of a licence shall henceforth be five dollars only; and in any reprint of the said Ordinance the said sum may be inserted in paragraph 5, section 5 in place of the "one hundred dollars" therein mentioned.
3. The Governor in Council may, at his discretion, grant to any mail steamer or other vessel a general licence for any period, or for any number of voyages, or for voyages to and from any specified port or ports, upon the condition that the vessel provided with such licence shall carry only free passengers under no contract of service whatever, except as hereinafter mentioned:
General licences shall be exempt from the provisions of paragraph 6 of section 5 aforesaid.
4. The Governor in Council may, at his discretion, authorise any person to engage any specified number of Chinese artisans, mechanics, labourers, or servants for any person resident in any British possession, and to make contracts in writing on behalf of such resident with the persons so engaged. Every such contract shall be made in triplicate, and one part thereof shall be lodged in the office of the Colonial Secretary; and such part shall be admissible in evidence without a stamp.
Any vessel provided with a general licence may carry any persons so engaged without thereby affecting her licence.
5. Nothing in "The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874," shall prevent passengers natives of Asia from travelling in the first class cabin of any vessel which is provided with a general licence, on the same terms as passengers of other nationalities; or in the first or second class cabin, if the vessel carries more than two classes of passengers.
Such passengers are hereby exempted from the necessity of obtaining contract passage tickets, or of submitting themselves to be mustered or inspected by any gration officer or medical officer or other person.
Such passengers shall, however, be reckoned in calculating the number of passengers, natives of Asia, who are carried by the said vessel,
1419
Repealing part of section 5 of Ordinance 5 of 1874.
Reducing the fees for licences.
General licences to mail steamers, &c.
The Governor may authorise labourers and servants to be engaged for persons in British possessions. [See, 8, 7.]
Ordinance 5 of 1874 not to prevent Chinese passengers from travelling in first or second cabin as other nationals. [See, 3, 7,]
ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1876.
Chinese Emigration Amendment.
chargeable upon such licence should be reduced, and that the law should be amended as hereinafter provided: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---
1. The following portions of section 5 of "The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874," are hereby repealed, viz.:-
Paragraph 1. The words "except ships about to proceed on a voyage of not more than thirty days' duration within the meaning of section 8 of "this Ordinance.”
Paragraph 2. The whole.
Paragraph 3. The words "and shall also furnish the like particulars where any exemption is applied for under paragraph 2 of this section."
2. The fee payable upon the granting of a licence shall henceforth be five dollars only; and in any reprint of the said Ordinance the said sum may be inserted in paragraph 5, section 5 in place of the "one hundred dollars" therein mentioned.
3. The Governor in Council may, at his discretion, grant to any mail steamer or other vessel a general licence for any period, or for any number of voyages, or for voyages to and from any specified port or ports, upon the condition that the vessel provided with such licence shall carry only free passengers under no contract of service whatever, except as hereinafter mentioned:
General licences shall be exempt from the provisions of paragraph 6 of section 5 aforesaid.
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4. The Governor in Council may, at his discretion, authorise any person to engage any specified number of Chinese artisans, mechanics, labourers, or servants for any person resident in any British possession, and to make contracts in writing on behalf of such resident with the persons so engaged. Every such contract shall be made in triplicate, and one part thereof shall be lodged in the office of the Colonial Secretary; and such part shall be admissible in evidence without a stamp.
Any vessel provided with a general licence may carry any persons so engaged without thereby affecting her licence.
5. Nothing in "The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874," shall prevent passengers natives of Asia from travelling in
in the first class cabin of any vessel which is provided
with
a general licence, on the same terms as passengers of other nationalities; or in the first or second class cabin, if the vessel carries more than two classes of passengers.
Such passengers are hereby exempted from the necessity of obtaining contract passage tickets, or of submitting themselves to be mustered or inspected by any gration officer or medical officer or other person.
Such passengers shall, however, be reckoned in calculating the number of pas- sengers, natives of Asia, who are carried by the said vessel,
1419
Repealing part of section 5 of Ordinance 5 of
1874.
Reducing the fees for licences.
General licences to mail steamers, &c.
The Governor. may aathorise labourers and servants to be engaged for persons in British possessions. [See, 8, 7.]
Ordinance 5
of 1874 not to. prevent Chinese passengers from travelling in first or second cabin as other nationals. [See, 3. 7,]
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