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ORDINANCE No. 1 of 1876. 1419


Chinese Emigration Amendment.


chargeable upon such licence should be reduced , and that the law should be amended
as hereinafter provided : Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong , with
the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :--

1. The following portions of section 5 of " The Chinese Emigration Consolidation
. Repealing part of
section 5 of
Ordinance 5 of
Ordinance, 1874," are hereby repealed , viz . : 1874.

Paragraph 1. The words " except ships about to proceed on a voyage of not
"< more than thirty days ' duration within the meaning of section 8 of
" this Ordinance."
Paragraph 2. The whole.
Paragraph 3. The words " and shall also furnish the like particulars where
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any exemption is applied for under paragraph 2 of this section."

2. The fee payable upon the granting of a licence shall henceforth be five dollars Reducing the
fees for licences.
only ; and in any reprint of the said Ordinance the said sum may be inserted in
paragraph 5, section 5 in place of the " one hundred dollars " therein mentioned .

3. The Governor in Council may, at his discretion, grant to any mail steamer or General licences
to mail steamers,
&c.
other vessel a general licence for any period, or for any number of voyages, or for
voyages to and from any specified port or ports, upon the condition that the vessel
provided with such licence shall carry only free passengers under no contract of service
whatever, except as hereinafter mentioned :

General licences shall be exempt from the provisions of paragraph 6 of section 5
aforesaid.

4. The Governor in Council may, at his discretion, authorise any person to engage The Governor
may authorise
labourers and
any specified number of Chinese artisans, mechanics, labourers, or servants for any servants to be
engaged for
person resident in any British possession , and to make contracts in writing on behalf of persons in
British
such resident with the persons so engaged. Every such contract shall be made in possessions.
[See, s. 7.]
triplicate, and one part thereof shall be lodged in the office of the Colonial Secretary;
and such part shall be admissible in evidence without a stamp.

Any vessel provided with a general licence may carry any persons so engaged
without thereby affecting her licence.

5. Nothing in " The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874," shall Ordinance 5
of 1874 not to
prevent Chinese
prevent passengers natives of Asia from travelling in the first class cabin of any vessel passengers from
travelling in first
which is provided with a general licence, on the same terms as passengers of other or second cabin
as other
nationalities ; or in the first or second class cabin, if the vessel carries more than two nationals.
classes of passengers . [See, s. 7,]


Such passengers are hereby exempted from the necessity of obtaining contract
passage tickets, or of submitting themselves to be mustered or inspected by any emi
gration officer or medical officer or other person.

Such passengers shall, however, be reckoned in calculating the number of pas
sengers, natives of Asia, who are carried by the said vessel.