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388. ORDINANCE No. 11 or 1857 .


Emigration Passage Brokers.

Contract tickets 5. Every passage broker who shall or may receive money from any person, for or
for passages.
in respect of a passage in any emigrant ship , shall give to every such person a contract
ticket, under the hand of such passage broker, and stamped with his seal or trade
mark,—each ticket to be printed in a plain and legible type, according to the form in
the schedule D , hereunto annexed , and to be accompanied with a translation thereof in
the Chinese language, in plain and legible characters .
Passage brokers 6. Every such passage broker before he shall receive or take any money on
to produce to
Emigration
Officer certificate account of any such passage, or for the sale or letting of the whole or any part of the
that they have
chartered the accommodation of or in any emigrant ship proceeding from Hongkong, shall produce
ship for carrying
emigrants. to the Emigration Officer the certificate of the master or owner of the ship, in respect
of which such passage shall or may have been taken , or the accommodation in which
shall have been so sold or let, to the effect, that such ship has been chartered for the
purpose of carrying emigrants, and that he, such passage broker, is authorized to
receive payment for such passage, or for the sale or letting of the accommodation in
such ship ; and such certificate shall be filed in the office of the Emigration Officer, and
the contents, thereof entered in a book to be kept by the Emigration Officer, for
recording therein the contents of such certificates.
Passage broker 7. On every occasion of the delivery to any passenger of such contract ticket as
to attend before
Emigration aforesaid, the passage broker who shall have engaged to provide such passenger with
Officer for the
purpose of
delivering the a passage shall attend with him at the office of the Emigration Officer, in whose pre
contract tickets
to passengers. sence the contract ticket shall be delivered to such passenger, and who shall explain to
him the true intent and meaning of such contract .
Contract tickets 8. No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be altered, after it is once issued,
not to be altered.
or shall induce any person to part with or render useless or destroy any such contract
ticket, during the continuance of the contract which it is intended to evidence.
Agents not to act
without written 9. No licensed passage broker shall, as agent for any person, whether a licensed
authority, and to
produce their broker or not , receive money for or account of the passage of any passenger on board
authority on
demand. an emigrant ship, without having a written authority to act as such agent, or on the
demand of the Emigration Officer, refuse or fail to exhibit his licence and such written
authority: and no person whether as principal or agent shall, by any fraud, or by false
representation as to the size of the ship or otherwise, or by any false pretence whatsoever,
induce any person to engage any passage as aforesaid.
Penalties for 10. All violations or disobediences of, or defaults in compliance with, the pro
offences.
visions of this Ordinance, shall be heard and determined summarily under Ordinance
No. 10 of 1844 ; and on conviction of such offences, the respective offenders shall be
sentenced to pay the several penalties, or in default of the payment thereof, to suffer
the several terms of imprisonment respectively hereinafter specified .
1. Against 1. For every offence against section 1 , a fine not exceeding four hundred
sec. 1.
current dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.
2. Against 2. For every offence against section 5, a fine not exceeding fifty current dollars,
sec. 5.
or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six weeks.