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ORDINANCE No. 11 OF 1857.

Emigration Passage Brokers.

3. For every offence against sections 6 or 9, 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 7, a fine not exceeding one hundred current dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.

5. For every offence against section 8, a fine not exceeding fifty current dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months.

11. 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.

3. Against secs. 6 and 9.

4. Against sec. 7.

5. Against sec. 8.

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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.

B
of $o., C
D
KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, that we A*
of &c., and E
F of &c., are held and firmly bound unto Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen 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 one thousand eight hundred and

WHEREAS by the "Ordinance for Licensing and Regulating Emigration Passage Brokers, No. 11 of 1857," it is amongst 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 anywise 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 requirements of the said recited Ordinance, so far as the same relate to passage brokers; and further, shall well and truly pay all fines, forfeitures, and penalties,-and also all sums of money, by way of subsistence money, or of return passage money, and compensation to any passenger, or on his account,-and also all costs which the above-bounden A.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, entitled "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 of †

* Insert personal and family names in full, with the occupation and address of each of the parties. † Insert the names and addresses in full of the witnesses.