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ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1876.

Chinese Emigration Amendment.

No. 5 of 1876.

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An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Chinese Passenger Ships

and the Conveyance of Chinese Emigrants.

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[26th April, 1876.]

HEREAS by section 5 of "The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874," it is enacted "that no Chinese passenger ship, except ships about to 'proceed on a voyage of not more than thirty days' duration within the meaning of " section 8 of this Ordinance, shall clear out or proceed to sea, and the emigration “officer shall not grant the certificate prescribed by section 4 of The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855,' unless the master of such ship shall be provided with a licence "under the hand of the Governor and the public seal of the Colony to be obtained "in manner hereinafter mentioned"; "and (paragraph 2) that it shall be lawful " for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to exempt from the operation of this "section, any mail steamers or other vessels which are subject to the provisions of "The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855,' provided that the Chinese passengers proceeding "in such vessels be free emigrants and under no contract of service whatever" and whereas it is expedient that every Chinese passenger ship should be provided with a licence, and that the fee chargeable upon such licence should be reduced, and that the law should be amended as hereinafter provided: Be it thereof enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. Section 5 of "The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874" is hereby repealed, and the second section of this Ordinance is enacted instead thereof, and shall be read as if it had originally been inserted in the place of the said section 5; and in any new edition of the Ordinances may be printed as section 5 of the said Ordinance.

Licensing of "Chinese Passenger Ships."

2. No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea, and the emigration officer shall not grant the certificate prescribed by section 4 of "The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," unless the master of such ship shall be provided with a licence under the hand of the Governor and the public seal of the Colony, or under the hand and seal of an emigration officer, to be obtained in manner hereinafter mentioned.

2. Whenever any Chinese passenger ship is about to proceed to sea upon any voyage of more than seven days' duration, the owners or charterers of such ship, or, if absent from the Colony, their respective agents, may, before such ship is laid on for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants, and before any depôt is opened for their reception, apply in writing to the Colonial Secretary for a licence under the hand of the Governor and the public seal of the Colony for the conveyance of such emigrants and shall furnish all particulars as to the destination of the said ship and as to all other matters relating to the intended voyage and emigration which may be required

of them.

Title.

Preamble.

Repeal.

No Chinese passenger ship

to proceed to sea without a licence from the Governor. [Ord. 4 of 1870, sec. 3.]

Time and inode of application for licence in the Colony. [Ibid, sec. 4.]