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CHINESE EMIGRATION.

[No. 1.

name, destination, and probable time of departure of such slip, and, in all cases where such intending emigrants are under contracts of service, of the depôt or depôts in which such intending emigrants are lodging or intended to be lodged before embarkation.

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6. No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on a voyage of more than seven days' duration, and the Emigration Officer shall not grant the certificate prescribed by section 4 of the Act, unless proceeding to the master of such ship is provided with a licence under the hand of the licence. Governor and the public seal of the Colony or under the hand and seal of an Emigration Officer, to be obtained in manner hereinafter men- tioned.

Time and mode of appli- cation for

Colony,

7. Whenever any Chinese passenger ship is about to proceed to sea on a voyage of more than seven days" duration, the owners or char- terers of such ship, or, if absent from the Colony, their respective agents, licence in the shall, before such ship is laid on for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants and before any depót is opened for their reception, apply in writing to the Colonial Secretary for a licence under the hand of the Governor and the public seal of the Colony for the conveyance of such emigrants, and shall furnish all particulars, according to the form in the First Schedule First to this Ordinance, as to the destination of the said ship and as to all other Schedule. matters relating to the intended voyage and emigration which may be required of them.

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8. Whenever any Chinese passenger ship, which is not provided with Time and a licence covering her intended voyage, is about to proceed with free mole of appli Chinese emigrants under no contract of service whatever from any port in China, or within one hundred miles of the coast thereof, on a voyage of not more than thirty days' duration, the owners or charterers of such ship, or, if absent, their respective agents, shall, before such ship is laid on for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants and before any depôt, is opened for their reception, apply in writing to the Emigration Officer at such port for a licence under his hand and seal for the conveyance of such emigrants on the intended voyage only, and shall furnish all parti- culars, according to the form in the First Schedule to this Ordinance, as First to the destination of the said ship and as to all other matters relating to Schedule. the intended voyage and emigration which may be required of them.

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9. All such particulars shall, if so ordered, be verified upon oath or Verification of declaration before the Emigration Officer or any Justice of the Peace, particulars, who are hereby authorized to administer such oath or declaration; and every person who knowingly furnishes untrue, particulars shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceed- ing six months and to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, either