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No. 1.]

Production of emigration

papers at port.

THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1889.

(2.) If in any such case the Emigration Officer discovers that the number of passengers on board or intended to be carried upon that voyage exceeds the number authorized by the licence, or that any condition of the licence or any of these Regulations has been broken, he may detain the ship until the passengers in excess of the legal number are landed or until the condition of the licence or the regulation in question is fully complied with, and he shall forthwith report the circumstances to the Governor.

6. The master of every British ship shall, on demand, produce his emi- gration papers to the British Consul at any port to which the licence extends, of destination. or, in case such port is in Her Majesty's Dominions, to any officer appointed

or authorized by the local Government in that behalf.

Section 27.

THE FIFTH SCHEDULE.

FORM OF EMIGRATION PASSAGE BROKER'S ANNUAL Boxd, with TWO SURETIES TO BE APPROVED BY THE EMIGRATION OFFICER.

Know all men by these preseuts, that we, A.B.,'

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C.D., of and E.F., of

are held and firmly bqund unto Our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria in the sum of five thousand dollars, to be paid to Our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors; to which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves, and

of us every 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, scaled with our seals.

Dated this

day of

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Whereas by the Chinese Emigration Ordinance, 1889, it is amongst other things enacted that no person shall carry on the business of a passage broker in Hongkong, in respect of any emigrant ship, or shall be in any- wise concerned in the sale or letting of passages in any such ship, unless such person has, with two good and sufficient sureties to be approved of by the Emigration Officer, previously entered into a joint and several bond to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in the sum of five thousand 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-hounden 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 said recited Ordinance or of the

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