1314 ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1874.
Chinese Emigration.
Passage broker 7. On every occasion of the delivery to any passenger of such contract ticket as
to attend before
emigration aforesaid, the passage broker who shall have engaged to provide such passenger with a
officer for the
purpose of
delivering the passage shall attend with him at the office of the emigration officer, in whose presence
contract tickets
to passengers. the contract ticket shall be delivered to such passenger, and who shall explain to him
[Ibid , sec. 7.]
the true intent and meaning of such contract.
Contract tickets 8. No person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be altered , after it is once issued ,
not to be altered.
[Ibid, sec. 8.] or shall induce any person to part with or gender less or destroy any such contract
ticket, during the continuance of the contract which it is intended to evidence.
Agents not to 9. No licensed passage broker shall, as agent for any person, whether a licensed
act without
written autho broker or not, receive money for or on account of the passage of any passenger on
rity, and to
produce their
authority on board a Chinese passenger ship, without having a written authority to act as such
demand.
[Ibid, sec. 9.] agent, or on the demand of the emigration officer, refuse or fail to exhibit his licence
and such written authority ; and no person whether as principal or agent shall, by any
fraud, or by false representation as to the size of the ship or otherwise, or by any false
pretence whatsoever, induce any person to engage any passage as aforesaid.
Notice of every
contract with 10. Every emigration passage broker who shall contract with any intending
emigrants to be emigrant for a passage in such ship shall forthwith give notice in writing to the
given to emigra
tion officer.
[Ord. 12 of 1868, emigration officer of every such contract specifying the name, age and sex of such
sec. 8.]
emigrant and the name of such ship .
Penalties for 11. All violations or disobediences of, or defaults in compliance with , the provis
offences.
[Ord. 11 of 1857, ions of this section shall be heard and determined summarily under Ordinance No. 10
sec. 10.1
of 1844 ; and on conviction of such offences, the respective offenders shall be sentenced
to pay the several penalties, on in default of the payment thereof, to suffer the
several terms of imprisonment respectively hereinafter specified : --
(a.) For every offence against paragraph 1 , a fine not exceeding four hundred
dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months.
(b.) For every offence against paragraph 5 , a fine not exceeding fifty dollars,
or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six weeks .
(c.) For every offence against paragraph 6, a fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
(d.) For every offence committed by a passage broker against paragraph 7, a
fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment for a term
not exceeding three months.
(e.) For every offence against paragraph 8, a fine not exceeding fifty dollars,
or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months.
Hospital and medical inspection.
Hospital accom 7. In every Chinese passenger ship , except ships about to proceed on a voyage of
modation to be
provided, [Ord. not more than thirty days' duration within the meaning of section 8 of this Ordinance,
6 of 1859, sec. 1.1
there shall be a sufficient space properly divided off to the satisfaction of the emigration
officer at the port of clearance, to be used exclusively as a hospital or sick bay for the
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