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1072 [ 1 OF 1889. ) CHINESE EMIGRATION CONSOLIDATION.
Merlical 41. No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to
examination
before sailing, séa on any voyage of more than seven days' duration , until the
sea
ibid. subs. proper medical officer as provided shall have certified to the
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emigration officer, and the said emigration officer shall not grant
his certificate unless he is satisfied, that none of the passengers
or crew appear by reason of any bodily or mental disease, unfit
to proceed or likely to endanger the health or safety of other
persons about to proceed in such vessel ; and a medical inspection
of the passengers for the purposes of giving such certificate shall
take place either on board the vessel, or, at the discretion of the
said emigration officer, at such time and on shore, before embarka
tion, as he may appoint; and the master, owner, or charterer
of the ship, shall pay to the emigration officer a sum at the rate
of twenty -five current dollars, for every hundred persons so
examined , and such emigration officer shall pay the same into
the treasury to the use of the Crown .
Medical ins
pection of
42. The medical inspection of emigrants under contracts of
emigrants service shall take place on shore before embarkation as well as
under con
tract of on board the said ship after embarkation and the emigration
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service. officer shall not grant the certificate required by “ The Chinese
( 1 bid . subs. Passengers Act, 1855 ,” unless he shall be satisfied that such
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double inspection has been duly made, or has been dispensed
with by the sanction of the Governor.
No emigrant
to embark or
43. It shall not be lawful for any emigrant under contract
be received on of service to embark in any Chinese passenger ship, or for the
board without
a permit.
master or other person on board of a Chinese passenger ship to
[ Ibid . subs. permit any such emigrant to embark therein, unless such
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emigrant shall produce an embarkation permit from the emigra
tion officer , who shall not grant the same unless he shall be
satisfied that such emigrant has undergone on shore the medical
inspection required by law to be made before embarkation .
Emigration 44. The medical inspection of emigrants required to bemade
officer to
appoint time after their embarkation in any Chinese passenger ship shall take
for medical
inspection place at such time as the emigration officer shall appoint.
after embark
ation .
( Ibid . subs.
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Chinese
medical
45. Any Chinese medical practitioner properly qualified to
practitioner the satisfaction of the Colonial Surgeon shall be eligible, with
may be
surgeon of
approval of the Governor, for the office of surgeon of a Chinese
Chinese passenger ship for the purposes of “ The Chinese Passengers
passenger Act, 1855 " or of this ordinance.
ship.
[ Ibid, subs. Regulations for voyages of not more than thirty
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days' duration .
Modified 46. All ships clearing out or proceeding to sea upon voyages
regulations
for voyages of of not more than thirty days' duration , shall be subject to the