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1312 ORDINANCE No. 3 or 1874.


Chinese Emigration.


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.

8. In any of the following cases, namely :
Power to revoke (a.) If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council at any
and cancel
licence. time before the departure of a Chinese passenger ship that the parti
[Ibid, sec. 9.]
culars furnished in relation thereto under paragraph 3 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 forth
with 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 paragraph 7 ;

It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to revoke the licence granted 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.
Breach of condi 9. The breach of any condition of a licence granted under this section shall be
tion of licence.
deemed a breach of a regulation respecting Chinese passenger ships within the meaning
of section 2 of " The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855."
Application of 10. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to apply the whole or any part
penalty for
breach of this
Ordinance of the penalty recoverable in case of the non -observance or non- performance of the
recoverable
under The regulations of this section under the provisions of section 4 of " The Chinese Passengers'
Chinese Passen
gers' Act, 1855." Act, 1855 ," towards the expenses of reconveying to their homes intending emigrants
[Ibid, sec. 10.]
by any vessel in respect of which the licence granted under this section shall have been
revoked in manner hereinbefore provided.
Regulations of 11. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the regulations contained in
schedule 4 of
Chinese Pas schedule A of " The Chinese Passengers' Act, 1855. ”
sengers' Act,
1855," not to be
affected by this
section.
Emigration passage brokers.

No person to act 6. No person shall act as a passenger broker or in procuring passengers for, or in
as a passage
broker without the sale or letting of passages in any Chinese passenger ship, unless he shall, with two
having entered
into a bond and
obtained a sufficient sureties, to be approved by the emigration officer, have entered into a joint
licence.
[Ord . 11 of 1857, and several bond in the sum of five thousand current dollars, to Her Majesty, Her
Sec. 1.]
Heirs and Successors, according to the form contained in schedule A hereunto annexed ,
which bond shall be renewed on each occasion of obtaining such licence as hereinafter