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ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1874. 1313


Chinese Emigration.


mentioned, and shall be deposited with the emigration officer ; nor unless such person
shall have obtained a licence to let or sell passages , nor unless such licence shall be
then in force ; and where different members of the same firm act as passage brokers ,
each person so acting shall comply with the terms of this section.

2. Any person wishing to obtain a licence to act as a passage broker, shall make How passage
broker's licences
may be obtained .
application for the same to the emigration officer, and the emigration officer is hereby [Ibid, sec. 2.]
authorized (if he shall think fit) to grant such licence according to the form in schedule
B hereunto annexed : Provided always, that no such licence shall be granted unless
such bond as hereinbefore mentioned shall have been first entered into : Provided also, Power to Ma
gistrates to order
licences to be
that any Magistrate who shall adjudicate on any offence against this section, is hereby forfeited.
authorized to order the offender's licence to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon
be forfeited accordingly ; and the said Magistrate making such order shall forthwith
cause notice of such forfeiture, in the form contained in the schedule Chereunto
annexed, to be transmitted to the emigration officer, and such forfeiture shall be
exclusive and independent of any other punishment which may be inflicted upon such
offender under the provisions of this section.

3. Every person obtaining such licence as aforesaid, shall pay to the emigration Fee to be paid
for licences.
officer a fee of two hundred current dollars, which fee the emigration officer is hereby [Ibid, sec. 3.]

empowered and required to demand and receive upon the issuing of any such licence ;
and the emigration officer shall pay all such fees into the Colonial Treasury, to the use
of the Crown.


4. Such licence shall continue in force until the 31st day of December in the year Howlonglicences
are to continue
in which such licence shall be granted , and for fourteen days afterwards, unless sooner in force.
[Ibid, sec. 4.]
forfeited as hereinbefore mentioned .

5. Every passage broker who shall or may receive money from any person, for or Contract tickets
for passages.
in respect of a passage in any Chinese passenger ship, shall give to every such person (Ibid, sec. 5.]

a contract ticket, under the hand of such passage broker, and stamped with his seal or
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trade mark, each ticket to be printed in a plain and legible type, according to the
form in the schedule D hereunto annexed, and to be accompanied with a translation
thereof in the Chinese language, in plain and legible characters.


6. Every such passage broker before he shall receive or take any money on account Passage brokers
to produce to
emigration
of any such passage, or for the sale or letting of the whole or any part of the accom officer certificate
that they have
modation of or in any Chinese passenger ship proceeding from Hongkong, shall produce chartered the
ship for carrying
to the emigration officer the certificate of the master or owner of the ship, in respect of emigrants.
[Ibid, sec. 6.]
which such passage shall or may have been taken, or the accommodation in which
shall have been so sold or let, to the effect that such ship has been chartered for the
purpose of carrying emigrants, and that he, such passage broker, is authorized to
receive payment for such passage, or for the sale or letting of the accommodation in
such ship ; and such certificate shall be filed in the office of the emigration officer.