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436 ORDINANCES Nos . 13 AND 14 OF 1858.


Chinese Passenger Ships. Appropriation.


take place either on board the vessel, or, at the discretion of the said Emigration
Officer, at such convenient place on shore, before embarkation, as he may appoint ; and
the master, owner, or charterer of the ship, shall pay to such medical practitioner a
sum at the rate of twenty-five Mexican dollars, for every hundred persons so examined :
Provided, that in case the Emigration Officer on any particular occasion shall be unable
to obtain such certificate as aforesaid, or the attendance of a medical practitioner
within a reasonable time, or without payment of an inspection fee at a higher rate
than that hereby ordained , then it shall be lawful for the said Emigration Officer to
dispense with such medical inspection as aforesaid, and to satisfy himself by his own
personal examination, (for which he shall receive the fee hereinbefore ordained to be
paid, ) of the fit sanitary state of the crew and passengers : Provided also, that all fees
received under this section by the Emigration Officer or Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong,
shall be within three days after the receipt thereof paid over by the officer receiving
them into the Treasury, to the use of the Crown .
Certificate not to 5. No Emigration Officer shall give the certificate required by the " Chinese Pas
begranted unless
sanitary regula ' sengers' Act, 1855," in respect of any Chinese passenger ship, unless he be satisfied as
tions are com
plied with.
aforesaid with the hospital accommodation therein provided, and with the sanitary
state of the crew and passengers .

Suspending 6. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until Her Majesty's confirmation
clause.
thereof shall have been proclaimed in this Colony by His Excellency the Governor.


[Confirmation never proclaimed. Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887. ]




No. 14 of 1858 .

An Ordinance to authorize the application of a Sum not exceeding
Twenty-five Thousand Pounds, to defray the Supplementary
contingent Charges of the Year 1858 .
[ 1st November , 1858. ]

Preamble. HEREAS it has become necessary to make further provision for the public
W service of the Colony, for the year 1858, in addition to the charge upon the
revenue for the service of the said year already provided for in the Estimates submitted
to the Legislative Council : Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the
Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as
:
follows :

Supplementary 1. A sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand pounds shall be and the same is
Estimates, 1858.
hereby charged upon the revenue of this Colony for the services mentioned in the
schedules A, B, and C, to this Ordinance annexed , in addition to all sums heretofore
lawfully charged upon the said revenue on any account whatsoever.