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1074
OF 1889. ] CHINESE EMIGRATION CONSOLIDATION .
ship to clear or to any port in Australia , New Zealand, Oceania , or Tasmania
between April shall clear from any port in the Colony between the mouths of
ber.
[ Ibid. sec.
April and September inclusive.
in . )
Emigration
officer nay
54. It shall be lawful for the emigration officer at any time
land any when he is satisfied that any emigrant who is unwilling to leave
emigrant who the port has been obtained by any fraud, violence, or other
to leave the impro; er means, to land such emigrant and procure him a
port and who passage back to his native place or that from which he was
procured by taken, and also to defray the cost of his maintenance whilst
any frand,&c.
[ Ibid, sec.
awaiting a return passage, and all such expenses with all legal
12. ] costs incurred shall be recoverable by the emigration officer
before any Magistrate from the emigration passage broker of the
vessel in which such emigrant was shipped or intended to be
shipped .
Punishment
for improper 55. Whosoever shall unlawfully either by force or fraud take
ly obtaining away cr detain against his will any man or boy with intent to
Mbid.sec.12, plit him on board a Chinese passenger ship and whosoevershall
emigrants.
subs . 2. ] with any such intent receive, harbour, or enter into any con
tract for foreign service with any such man or boy knowing the
same to have been by force or fraud taken and obtained as
herein Jefore mentioned, shall be guilty of felony and being
convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court,
to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding seven years with
or without hard labour .
Punishment
of persons 56. The owners or charterers of any Chinese passenger ship
committing
any breach
and any emigration passage broker and any intending emigrant
of this
ordinance,
by a Chinesepassenger ship and any master or other person in
I vid, sec.
charge of a Chinese passenger ship who shall fail to comply
13. ] with or commit any breach of the provisions of part I of this
ordinance so far as they may respectively be bound thereby,
and any person granting or knowingly uttering any forged
certificate, permit , notice, or other document under this ordi
nance shall, without prejudice to any other proceeding, civil or
criminal, be liable upon summary conviction before a Magis
trate to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to impris
onment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding
six months.


PART II.
EMIGRATION FROM PORTS OUT OF THE COLONY.
Emigrant ship fittings.
Notice to
emigration
57. Before beginning to fit out any ship intended to be used
officer, for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants to be embarked at any
( Ord. 5 of port or place out of the Colony, a notice to that effect shall be
1874 , s. 14. ]