604
Emigrant to reside in depôt three clear days before embarkation.
Supervision of depôt.
Provision as to quantity of water to be carried.
Prohibition of Chinese passenger Sailing ship in certain months.
No. 1.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1889.
51. In the discretion of the Governor, every intending emigrant by such Chinese passenger ship shall reside three clear days at least previously to his embarkation in a depôt provided by the owners or charterers of such ship.
52. Every such depôt as aforesaid shall be under the supervision of the Emigration Officer, who may inspect the same at such times as he may think fit, and there shall be at all times free ingress and egress allowed to all persons to and from such depôt, from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M.
53. All Orders of Her Majesty-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.
54. No Chinese passenger ship, except a vessel propelled by steam, bound to any port westward of the Cape of Good Hope or to any port in Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, or Tasmania shall clear from any port in the Colony between the months of April and September inclusive.
55. (1.) 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 land emigrant 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,
Power to land emigrant who is unwilling to leave port and who has been procured by fraud, etc.
Punishment for improperly obtaining emigrant.
Punishment of person committing breach of Part I, etc.
(2.) All such expenses, with all legal costs incurred, shall be recoverable by the Emigration Officer before any Magistrate from the emigration passage broker of the vessel in which such emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped.
56. Every person who-
(1.) unlawfully, either by force or fraud, takes away or detains against his will any man or boy with intent to put him on board a Chinese passenger ship; or,
(2.) with any such intent, receives, harbours, or enters into any contract for foreign service with any such man or boy, knowing the same to have been by force or fraud taken and obtained as hereinbefore mentioned,
shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding seven years.
57. The owners or charterers of any Chinese passenger ship, and any emigration passage broker, and any intending emigrant by a Chinese passenger ship, and any master or other person in charge of a Chinese passenger ship who fails to comply with or commits any breach of the provisions of Part I, so far as they may respectively be bound thereby,
604
Emigrant to reside in depôt three
clear days before
embarkation.
Supervision of depôts.
Provision as
·
to quantity of water to be carried.
Prohibition of
Chinese
passenger
Sailing ship
in certain
months.
No. 1.]
THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1889.
51. In the discretion of the Governor, every intending emigrant by such Chinese passenger ship shall reside three clear days at least previously to his embarkation in a depôt provided by the owners or charterers of such ship.
52. Every such depôt as aforesaid shall be under the supervision of the Emigration Officer, who may inspect the same at such times as he may think fit, and there shall be at all times free ingress and egress allowed to all persons to and from such depôt, from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M.
53. All Orders of Her Majesty-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.
54. No Chinese passenger ship, except a vessel propelled by steam. bound to any port westward of the Cape of Good Hope or to any port in Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, or Tasmania shall clear from any clearing for certain places port in the Colony between the months of April and September inclusive. 55. (1.) 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 land emigrant 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,
Power to
who is un- willing to leave port and who has been procured by fraud, ete.
Punishment for impro- perly obtain- ing emigrant.
Punishment of person committing breach of Part I. etc.
(2.) All such expenses, with all legal costs incurred, shall be recover- able by the Emigration Officer before any Magistrate from the emigra- tion passage broker of the vessel in which such emigrant was shipped or intended to be shipped.
56. Every person who-
(1.) unlawfully, either by force or fraud, takes away or detains against his will any man or boy with intent to put him on board a Chinese passenger ship; or,
(2.) with any such intent, receives, harbours, or euters into any con- tract for foreign service with any such man or boy, knowing the same to have been by force or fraud taken and obtained as hereinbefore mentioned,
shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at without hard the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment, with or labour, for any term not exceeding seven years.
57. The owners or charterers of any Chinese passenger ship, and any emigration passage broker, and any intending emigrant by a Chinese passenger ship, and any master or other person in charge of a Chinese passenger ship who fails to comply with or commits any breach of the provisions of Part I, so far as they may respectively be bound thereby,
→ Dream WM Fr.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.