944.
Notice of every passage contract made with an emigrant to be given to emigration officer.
Governor authorized to appoint a medical officer at a salary not exceeding $2,000 per annum.
Medical inspection.
No emigrant to embark or be received on board without a permit.
Emigration officer to appoint time for medical inspection after embarkation.
Fees how payable.
Chinese medical practitioners approved by Colonial Surgeon may be surgeons of Chinese passenger ships.
Chinese medicines and medical comforts.
Order in Council of the 5th day of December 1865 to apply to Chinese passenger ships.
ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1867.
Emigration.
7. The owners or charterers of every Chinese passenger ship or if absent from the Colony their respective agents and every licensed emigration passage broker who shall contract with any intending emigrant for a passage in such ship shall forthwith give notice in writing to the emigration officer of every such contract specifying the name, age, and sex of such emigrant and the name of such ship.
8. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint at a salary not exceeding $2,000 per annum a medical officer whose duty it shall be to inspect intending emigrants and to supervise all matters and things in any way relating to the comfort and well-being of such emigrants both before their departure and on their voyage, and such salary shall be in lieu of all fees.
9. The medical inspection of intending emigrants by a Chinese passenger ship required by Ordinance No. 6 of 1859 shall take place on shore before embarkation as well as on board the said ship after embarkation, and the emigration officer shall not grant the certificate required by the "Chinese Passenger's Act 1855" unless he shall be satisfied that such double inspection has been duly made.
10. It shall not be lawful for any emigrant to embark in any Chinese passenger ship or for the master or other person in charge of a Chinese passenger ship to permit any emigrant to embark therein, unless such emigrant shall previously have received and shall produce an embarkation permit from the emigration officer, who shall not grant the same unless he shall be satisfied that such emigrant has undergone on shore the medical inspection required by law to be made before embarkation.
11. The medical inspection of emigrants required to be made after their embarkation in any Chinese passenger ship shall take place at such time as the emigration officer shall appoint.
12. The fees heretofore payable to the medical practitioner effecting such inspection shall be paid in the first instance by the charterer of such ship to the emigration officer and by him paid into the Treasury.
13. Any Chinese medical practitioner properly qualified to the satisfaction of the Colonial Surgeon shall be eligible with approval of the Governor for the office of surgeon of a Chinese passenger ship within the terms of schedule A of the "Chinese Passenger's Act 1855.”
14. In all cases where a Chinese medical practitioner shall be appointed surgeon of a Chinese passenger ship, the whole or any portion of the medicines and medical comforts required to be placed on board by the said schedule may be dispensed with, provided that in lieu thereof suitable and sufficient medicines and medical comforts adapted to the method of treatment pursued by the Chinese shall be placed on board according to a scale to be approved by the Colonial Surgeon.
15. The order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council dated the 5th day of December 1865 relating to the quantity of water to be carried by passenger ships having a certain description of condensing apparatus shall apply to Chinese passenger ships.
944.
Notice of every passage contract made with an
emigrant to be
given to emigra- tion officer.
Governor authorized to appointa medical
officer at a salary not exceeding $2,000 per
annum.
Medical inspec- tion.
No emigrant to embark or be received on board without a permit.
Emigration, officer to appoint time for medical Inspection after embarkation.
Fees how payable.
Chinese medical practitioners approved by
Colonial Surgeon
may be surgeons of Chinese
passenger ships.
Chinese medicf- nes and medical comforts.
Order in Council
of the 5th day or December 1865- to apply to
Chinese passen- ger ships.
ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1867.
Emigration.
7. The owners or charterers of every Chinese passenger ship or if absent from the Colony their respective agents and every licensed emigration passage broker who shall contract with any intending emigrant for a passage in such ship shall forthwith give notice in writing to the emigration officer of every such contract specifying the name age and sex of such emigrant and the name of such ship.
8. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint at a salary not exceeding $2,000 per annum a medical officer whose duty it shall be to inspect intending emigrants and to supervise all matters and things in any way relating to the comfort and well-being of such emigrants both before their departure and on their voyage and such salary shall be in lieu of all fees.
9. The medical inspection of intending emigrants by a Chinese passenger ship required by Ordinance No. 6 of 1859 shall take place on shore before embarkation as well as on board the said ship after embarkation and the emigration officer shall not grant the certificate required by the "Chinese Passenger's Act 1855" unless he shall be satisfied that such double inspection has been duly made.
10. It shall not be lawful for any emigrant to embark in any Chinese passenger ship or for the master or other person in charge of a Chiuese passenger ship to permit any emigrant to embark therein, unless such emigrant shall previously have received and shall produce an embarkation permit from the emigration officer who shall not grant the same unless he shall be satisfied that such emigrant bas undergone on shore the medical inspection required by law to be made before embarkation.
11. The medical inspection of emigrants required to be made after their embarka- tion in any Chinese passenger ship shall take place at such time as the emigration officer shall appoint.
12. The fees heretofore payable to the medical practitioner effecting such inspection shall be paid in the first instance by the charterer of such ship to the emigration officer and by him paid into the Treasury.
13. Any Chinese medical practitioner properly qualified to the satisfaction of the Colonial Surgeon shall be eligible with approval of the Governor for the office of surgeon of a Chinese passenger ship within the terms of schedule A of the "Chinese Passenger's Act 1855.”
14. In all cases where a Chinese medical practitioner shall be appointed surgeon of a Chinese passenger ship the whole or any portion of the medicines and medical comforts required to be placed on board by the said schedule may be dispensed with provided that in lieu thereof suitable and sufficient medicines and medical comforts adapted to the method of treatment pursued by the Chinese shall be placed on board according to a scale to be approved by the Colonial Surgeon.
15. The order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council dated the 5th day of December 1865 relating to the quantity of water to be carried by passenger ships having a certain description of condensing apparatus shall apply to Chinese passenger ships.
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