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1086 OF 1889. ] CHINESE EMIGRATION CONSOLIDATION.
Powers of
emigration
5. The emigration officer may, at any time, enter and inspect the ship and
officer . the accommodation, provisions, and stores provided for the Chinese passengers,
and may require the master or any other person to produce the licence, and
the ship's papers for his inspection, and, if he thinks necessary after inspecting
the ship's papers, he may muster and inspect the Chinese passengers.
If in any such case the emigration officer discovers that the number of
passengers on board or intended to be carried upon that voyage exceeds the
number authorized by the licence, or that any condition of the licence, or any
regulation contained in this schedule has been broken, he may detain the
ship until the passengers in excess of the legal number are landed, or until
the condition of the licence or the regulation in question be fully complied
with , and he sball forth with report the circumstances to the Governor.
Production of
emigration 6. The master of every British ship shall, on demand, produce his emigra
papers at port
of destination .
tion papers to the British Consnl at any port to which the licence extends,
or in case such port shall be in Iler Majesty's dominions to any officer
appointed or authorized by the local Government in that behalf.


( E. )
Form of Emigration Passage Broker's Annual Bond , with two Sureties
to be approved by the Emigration Officer, under section 27.
KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, that we A * В.
of, & c . , C D of, & c ., and E of, &c ., are
held and firmly bound unto IIer Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria,
in the sum of five thousand current dollars, to be paid to her said
Majesty, her heirs and successors ; to which payment well and truly
to be made we bind ourselves, and every of us jointly and severally,
our heirs, executors, and administrators, and the heirs, executors, and
administrators of each of us, and each and every of them , firmly by
these presents, sealed with our seals.
Dated this day of in the year one thousand
eight hundred and
WHEREAS by the Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1889, it
is amongst other things enacted ; that no person whatever shall carry on the
business of a passage broker in Hongkong, in respect of any emigrant ship,
or shall be in anywise concerned in the sale or letting of passages in any such
ship, unless such person , with two good and sufficient sureties to be approved
of by the emigration officer, shall have previously entered into a joint and
several bond to Iler Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in the sum of five
thousand current dollars : and whereas the said C.D. and E.F. have been
approved of by the emigration officer as sureties for the said A.B.
Now the condition of this obligation is, that if the above bounden A.B.
shall well and truly observe and comply with all the requirements of the said
recited ordinance, so far as the same relate to passage brokers ; and further,
shall well and truly pay all fines, forfeitures, and penalties,—and also all sums
of money, by way of subsistence money , or of return passage money, and
compensation to any passenger, or on his account, -- and also all costs which
the above-bounden A.B. may at any time be adjudged to pay, under or by
virtue of any of the provisions of the above recited ordinance, or of the Act
of the Imperial Parliament 18th and 19th Victoria , cap. 104, intituled “ An
Act for the Regulation of Chinese Passenger Ships," then, and in such case,
this obligation to be voiil, -otherwise to remain in full force.
Signed, senleil, and delivered , by the above-bounden A.B., C.D. , and E.F.,
in the presence of. †
* Insert personal and family names in full, with the occupation and auldress of each of
the parties.
+ Insert the names and addresses in full of the witnesses,