A HAWAIIAN KING VISITS HONG KONG, 1881
103
To place medicines on board and every necessary article as required by the Hong Kong Emigration law, also to pay all fees for clearing the passengers from their port, bearing all the expenses to bring them from the interior, to victual them until their departure, to erect a hospital on deck and everything in accordance with the Hong Kong Law for the consideration of Twenty-five Dollars ($25) payable as required, (balance to be settled before departure of the ship) for every passenger over 15 years of age and twelve dollars and a half ($12.5) for every child under 15 years of age and over one year old, nothing being paid for babies under one year.
If an English doctor be engaged Wohang allows one dollar per head and the Hon. W. Hillebrand to find the necessary medicines.
Wohang agrees also to engage a competent interpreter and a Chinese doctor if required at the rate of twenty-five dollars ($25) each per month.
On arrival in Honolulu the Hon. W. Hillebrand's agent to have the option of keeping the interpreter and doctor at the before-named rate of wages or to dismiss them in paying them a present of ($50) fifty dollars each....
Twenty of the passengers have to act as cooks as required by the local law...six have also to act as overseers and two as stewards on board during the passage....
Wohang is bound to put up a rail partition to separate male and female passengers on board....
In witness whereof... 3rd day of June, 1865.
APPENDIX B
W. Hillebrand Wohang
See Plate 17 of this Journal at rear of the volume.
APPENDIX C
Labor Contract, 1890*
THIS MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT, Made and entered into at
Honolulu,
and
by and between
... hereinafter called the Employer,
hereinafter called
the Laborer-
MT
WITNESSETH THAT:
WHEREAS, the Laborer has arrived at the Hawaiian Islands, upon the understanding that he be there employed as an Agricultural Laborer, under the laws of the Republic of Hawaii; and in consideration of the sum of $54 in U.S. Gold Coin, advanced and lent to him by his said Employer for defraying passage money and expenses from his home in China to the Hawaiian Islands, and for clothes, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged,
* Interior Dept., Misc.: Immigration-Contract Forms (Archives of Hawaii).
The Chinese text is at p. 106 following.
A HAWAIIAN KING VISITS HONG KONG, 1881
103
To place medicines on board and every necessary article as required by the Hong Kong Emigration law, also to pay all fees for clearing the passengers from their port, bearing all the expenses to bring them from the interior, to victual them until their departure, to erect a hospital on deck and everything in accordance with the Hong Kong Law for the consideration of Twenty five Dollars ($25) payable as required, (balance to be settled before departure of the ship) for every passenger over 15 years of age and twelve dollars and a half ($124) for every child under 15 years of age and over one year old, nothing being paid to babies under one year.
If an English doctor be engaged Wohang allows one dollar per head and the Hon. W. Hillebrand to find the necessary medicines.
Wohang agrees also to engage a competent interpreter and a Chinese doctor if required at the rate of twenty five dollars ($25) each per month.
On arrival in Honolulu the Hon. W. Hillebrand's agent to have the option of keeping the interpreter and doctor at the before named rate of wages or to dismiss them in paying them a present of ($50) fifty dollars each....
Twenty of the passengers have to act as cooks as required by the local law...six have also to act as overseers and two as stewards on board during the passage....
Wohang is bound to put up a rail partition to separate male and female passengers on board....
In witness whereof... 3rd day of June, 1865.
APPENDIX B
W. Hillebrand Wohang
See Plate 17 of this Journal at rear of the volume.
APPENDIX C
Labor Contract, 1890*
THIS MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT, Made and entered into at
Honolulu,
and
by and between
... hereinafter called the Employer,
hereinafter called
the Laborer-
MT
WITNESSETH THAT:
WHEREAS, the Laborer has arrived at the Hawaiian Islands, upon the understanding that he be there employed as an Agricultural Laborer, under the laws of the Republic of Hawaii; and in consideration of the sum of $54 in U.S. Gold Coin, advanced and lent to him by his said Employer for defraying passage money and expenses from his home in China to the Hawaiian Islands, and for clothes, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged,
* Interior Dept., Misc.: Immigration-Contract Forms (Archives of Hawaii).
The Chinese text is at p. 106 following.
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