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ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1876 . 1423


Chinese Emigration Amendment.


No. 5 of 1876 .

An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Chinese Passenger Ships Title.

and the Conveyance of Chinese Emigrants .

[ 26th April, 1876. ]

HEREAS by section 5 of " The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, Preamble.
W 1874," it is enacted " that no Chinese passenger ship, except ships about to
" proceed on a voyage of not more than thirty days' duration within the meaning of
" section 8 of this Ordinance, shall clear out or proceed to sea, and the emigration.
" officer shall not grant the certificate prescribed by section 4 of The Chinese
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Passengers ' Act, 1855 ,' unless the master of such ship shall be provided with a licence
“ under the hand of the Governor and the public seal of the Colony to be obtained
" in manner hereinafter mentioned " ; and ( paragraph 2 ) that it shall be lawful
"for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to exempt from the operation of this
" section, any mail steamers or other vessels which are subject to the provisions of
" The Chinese Passengers Act, 1855 ,' provided that the Chinese passengers proceeding
"in such vessels be free emigrants and under no contract of service whatever " ; and
whereas it is expedient that every Chinese passenger ship should be provided with a
licence, and that the fee chargeable upon such licence should be reduced, and that the
law should be amended as hereinafter provided : Be it thereof enacted by the Governor
of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :

1. Section 5 of " The Chinese Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1874 " is Repeal.
hereby repealed, and the second section of this Ordinance is enacted instead thereof,
and shall be read as if it had originally been inserted in the place of the said section 5 ;
and in any new edition of the Ordinances may be printed as section 5 of the said
Ordinance.

Licensing of " Chinese Passenger Ships."

2. No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea, and the emigration No Chinese
passenger ship
to proceed to sea
officer shall not grant the certificate prescribed by section 4 of " The Chinese Passengers' without a licence
from the
Act, 1855 ," unless the master of such ship shall be provided with a licence under the Governor.
[Ord. 4 of 1870,
hand of the Governor and the public seal of the Colony, or under the hand and seal вес . 3.7
of an emigration officer, to be obtained in manner hereinafter mentioned .

2. Whenever any Chinese passenger ship is about to proceed to sea upon any Time and mode
ofapplication
voyage of more than seven days' duration, the owners or charterers of such ship , or, for licence in the
Colony.
[Ibid, sec. 4.]
if absent from the Colony, their respective agents, may, before such ship is laid on
for the conveyance of Chinese emigrants, and before any depôt is opened for their
reception, apply in writing to the Colonial Secretary for a licence under the hand of
the Governor and the public seal of the Colony for the conveyance of such emigrants
and shall furnish all particulars as to the destination of the said ship and as to all
other matters relating to the intended voyage and emigration which may be required
of them.