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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 may be surgeons of Chinese passenger ships.
All Orders in Council to apply to Chinese passenger ships.
No Chinese passenger ship to clear between May and September.
Regulations of schedule 4 of "Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855" to be in force except as altered by this Ordinance.
Emigration officer may land any emigrant who is unwilling to leave the port and who has been procured by any fraud, &c.
Punishment for improperly obtaining emigrants.
ORDINANCE No. 12 of 1868, Chinese Emigration.
11. It shall not be lawful for any emigrant to embark in any Chinese passenger ship or for the master or other person on board of a Chinese passenger ship to permit any emigrant to embark therein, unless such emigrant 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.
12. 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.
13. The fees heretofore payable to the medical practitioner effecting such inspection shall be paid in the first instance by the emigration passage broker of such ship to the emigration officer and by him be paid into the Treasury.
14. 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 Passengers' Act, 1855."
15. All orders of Her Majesty the Queen in Council 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.
16. No Chinese passenger ship, unless a vessel propelled by steam, bound to any port westward of the Cape of Good Hope shall be permitted to clear from any port in the Colony between the months of May and September inclusive.
17. No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea without strictly conforming to the regulations contained in schedule A of the "Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," except so far as the said regulations are modified or altered by any of the provisions of this Ordinance or may be inconsistent therewith; and except as aforesaid the said regulations shall be and continue in full force and effect.
18. It shall be lawful for the emigration officer at any time when he is satisfied that any emigrant who is unwilling to leave the port has been obtained by any fraud, violence, or other improper means, to land such emigrant and procure him a passage back to his native place or that from which he was taken, and also to defray the cost of his maintenance whilst awaiting a return passage, and all such expenses with all legal costs incurred shall be recoverable by the emigration officer before any Police Magistrate from the emigration passage broker of the vessel in which such emigrant was shipped, or intended to be shipped.
19. Whosoever shall unlawfully either by force or fraud take away or detain against his will any man or boy with intent to put him on board a Chinese passenger ship and whosoever shall with any such intent receive, harbor, or enter into any contract for foreign service with any such man or boy knowing the same to have been by
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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 medi-
cal practitioners may be surgeons of Chinese
passenger ships.
All Orders in
Connell to apply
to Chinese passenger ships.
No Chinese passenger ship
to clear between May and September.
Regulations of schedule 4 of Chinese Pas- sengers' Act, 1856” to be in
force except as altered by this Ordinance.
Emigration officer may land any emigrant who is unwilling to leave the port and who has been procured
by any fraud, &c.
Punishment for improperly obtaining
-emigrants.
ORDINANCE No. 12 or 1868,
Chinese Emigration.
OF
11. It shall not be lawful for any emigrant to embark in any Chinese passenger ship or for the master or other person on board of a Chinese passenger ship to permit any emigrant to embark therein, unless such emigrant 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.
12. 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.
13. The fees heretofore payable to the medical practitioper effecting such inspection shall be paid in the first instance by the emigration passage broker of such ship to the emigration officer and by him be paid into the Treasury.
14. 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 Passengers' Act, 1855."
15. All orders of Her Majesty the Queen in Council 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.
16. No Chinese passenger ship, unless a vessel propelled by steam, bound to any port westward of the Cape of Good Hope shall be permitted to clear from any port in the Colony between the months of May and September inclusive.
17. No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea without strictly conforming to the regulations contained in schedule A of the "Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855," except so far as the said regulations are modified or altered by any of the provisions of this Ordinance or may be inconsistent therewith; and except as aforesaid the said regulations shall be and continue in full force and effect.
18. It shall be lawful for the emigration officer at any time when he is satisfied that, any emigrant who is unwilling to leave the port has been obtained by any fraud, violence, or other improper means, to land such emigrant and procure him a passage back to his native place or that from which he was taken, and also to defray the cost of his maintenance whilst awaiting a return passage, and all such expenses with all legal costs incurred shall b
recoverable by the emigration officer before any Police Magistrate from the emigration passage broker of the vessel in which such emigrant was shipped. or intended to be shipped.
19. Whosoever shall unlawfully either by force or fraud take away or detain against his will any man or boy with intent to put him on board a Chinese passenger ship and whosoever shall with any such intent receive, harbor, or enter into any con- tract for foreign service with any such man or boy knowing the same to have been by
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