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ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1876 . 1425


Chinese Emigration Amendment.


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

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 passen
gers, natives of Asia, who are carried by the said vessel .

10. In case it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, at Powerto remove
master or other
officer.
any time before the departure of a Chinese passenger ship, that the master, mate, or [Ibid, sec. 8.]
any other officer of such ship is unfit for the proper discharge of his duties by reason
of incompetency or misconduct, or for any other sufficient cause, it shall be lawful for
the Governor, by order under his hand, to discharge and remove such master, mate, or
other officer from the said ship , and thereupon the owners or charterers thereof, or their
agents, shall forthwith appoint a master, or mate, or other officer, as the case may be,
to be approved by the emigration officer, in the place of the one so discharged and
removed as aforesaid.


11. In any of the following cases, namely :

(a.) If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, or Power to revoke
and cancel
emigration officer, at any time before the departure of a Chinese licence.
[Ibid, sec. 9.]
passenger ship , that the particulars furnished to him in relation thereto
under the second paragraph of this section are untrue, or that any
condition of the said licence has been violated ;

(b.) If any Chinese passenger ship shall fail to clear out and proceed to sea,
within the period specified in the licence granted under this section ,
or within such extended period as aforesaid ;

(c.) If the owners or charterers of a Chinese passenger ship shall fail forthwith
to appoint a master, mate, or other officer to be approved as aforesaid ,
in the place of any master, mate, or other officer discharged under the
tenth paragraph of this section ;

It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council or emigration officer to revoke the licence
granted by him under this section in respect of such Chinese passenger ship, and to
order that the said ship be seized and detained until her emigration papers (if already
granted) be delivered up to be cancelled.

12. The breach of any condition of a licence granted under this section shall be Breach of
condition of
licence.
deemed a breach of a regulation respecting Chinese passenger ships within the meaning
of section 2 of " The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855."