Emigration Passage Brokers. Schedule B. hereunto annexed: Provided always, that no such tioned shall have been first entered into: Provided also, that any Power to JusJustice or Justices of the Peace who shall adjudicate on any tices to order Offence against this Ordinance, are hereby authorized to order the Licences to be Offender's Licence to be forfeited, and the same shall thereupon be forfeited. forfeited accordingly; and the said Justice or Justices making such Order shall forthwith cause notice of such Forfeiture, in the Form contained in the Schedule C. hereunto 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 Ordinance. III. Every Person obtaining such Licence as aforesaid, shall Fee to be paid pay to the Emigration Officer a Fee of Two Hundred current for Licences. Dollars, which Fee the Emigration Officer is hereby empowered and required to demand and receive upon the Issuing of any such Licence; and the said Emigration Officer shall pay over all such Fees to the Colonial Treasurer, to be applied to the Colonial Revenue. IV. All such Licences shall continue in Force until the 31st Day of December in the Year in which such Licence shall be granted, and for Fourteen Days afterwards, unless sooner forfeited as herein-before mentioned. [Residue has had its effect.] How long Li cences are to continue in Force. V. Every Passage Broker who shall or may receive Money Contract Tickfrom any Person, for or in respect of a Passage in any Emigrant ets for Passages. Ship, shall give to every such Person a Contract Ticket, under the Hand of such Passage Broker, and stamped with his Seal or 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. Passage Bro kers to produce to Emigration Officer Certificate that they have chartered VI. Every such Passage Broker before he shall receive or take any Money on account of any such Passage, or for the Sale or Letting of the whole or any Part of the Accommodation of or in any Emigrant Ship proceeding from Hongkong, shall produce to the Emigration Officer the Certificate of the Master or Owner of the Ship, in respect of which such Passage shall or may have been the Ship for taken, or the Accommodation in which shall have been so sold or carrying Emilet, to the Effect, that such Ship has been chartered for the Purpose grants. 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, and the Contents thereof entered in a Book to be kept by the Emigration Officer, for recording therein the Contents of such Certificates. VII. On every Occasion of the Delivery to any Passenger of such Contract Ticket as aforesaid, the Passage Broker who shall have engaged to provide such Passenger with a Passage shall attend with him at the Office of the Emigration Officer, in whose Presence the Contract Ticket shall be delivered to such Passenger, Passage Bro ker to attend before Emigration Officer for the Purpose of delivering the ets to Passenand gers. Contract Tick Contract Tickets not to be altered. Agents not to act without written Autho rity, and to produce their Authority on demand. Penalties for 1. Against Section 1. 2. Against Section 5. 3. Against Sections 6. and 9. 4. Against Section 7. 5. Against Section 8. Emigration Passage Brokers. and who shall explain to him the true Intent and Meaning of such Contract. VIII. No Person shall fraudulently alter or cause to be altered, after it is once issued, or shall induce any Person to part with or render useless or destroy any such Contract Ticket, during the Continuance of the Contract which it is intended to evidence. IX. No Licensed Passage Broker shall, as Agent for any Person, whether a Licensed Broker or not, receive Money for or on account of the Passage of any Passenger on Board an Emigrant Ship, without having a written Authority to act as such 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. X. All Violations or Disobediences of, or Defaults in Compliance with, the Provisions of this Ordinance, shall be heard and determined summarily under Ordinance No. 10. of 1844; and on Conviction of such Offences, the respective Offenders shall be sentenced to pay the several Penalties, or in Default of the Payment thereof, to suffer the several Terms of Imprisonment respectively herein-after specified. (1.) For every Offence against Section One, a Fine not exceed. ing Four Hundred current Dollars, or Imprisonment for a Term not exceeding Six Months. (2.) For every Offence against Section Five, a Fine not exceed- (3.) For every Offence against Sections Six or Nine, a Finc (5.) For every Offence against Section Eight, a Fine not ex- XI. For the Purposes of this Ordinance, the Term "Emigrant Ship" shall mean every Ship carrying more than Twenty Passengers being Natives of China, and clearing out for a Port or Ports not in the Chinese Empire; the Term "Emigration Officer" shall include every Person lawfully acting as Emigration Officer, Emigration Agent, or Protector of Emigrants in Hongkong; and the Term "Passengers" shall include all Passengers being natives of China. SCHE Emigration Passage Brokers. SCHEDULES to which the foregoing Ordinance refers. SCHEDULE A. Form of Emigration Passage Broker's Annual Bond, with Two KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, that we A* B D of, &c., and E F of, &c., C Eight Hundred and WHEREAS by the "Ordinance for Licensing and Regulating Emigration. "Emigration Passage Brokers, No. 11. of 1857," it is amongst other Things enacted; that no Person whatever shall carry on the business of a Passage Broker in Hongkong, in respect of any Emigrant Ship, or shall be in anywise concerned in the sale or letting of Passages in any such Ship, unless such Person, with two good and sufficient Sureties to be approved of by the Emigration Officer, shall have previously entered into a joint and several Bond to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in the Sum of Five Thousand current Dollars: And Whereas the said C.D. and E.F. have been approved of by the Emigration Officer as Sureties for the said A.B. Now the condition of this Obligation is, that if the above bounden A.B. shall well and truly observe and comply with all the requirements of the said recited Ordinance, so far as the same relate to Passage Brokers; and further, shall well and truly pay all Fines, Forfeitures, and Penalties, and also all Sums of Money, by way of subsistence Money, or of return Passage Money, and compensation to any Passenger, or on his account,-and also all costs which the above-bounden A.B. may at any time be adjudged to pay, under or by virtue of any of the Provisions of the above recited Ordinance, or of the Act of the Imperial Parliament 18th & 19th Victoria, cap. 104, entituled "An Act for the Regulation "of Chinese Passenger Ships;" then, and in such case, this obligation to be void,-otherwise to remain in full force. Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the above-bounden A.B., C.D., and E.F., in the presence off. * Insert Personal and Family names in full, with the Occupation and Address of each of the Parties. † Insert the Names and Addresses in full of the Witnesses. Emigration Passage Brokers. SCHEDULE B. Form of Emigration Passage Broker's Licence. A.B. of* having shown to the satisfaction of me, the undersigned, that he hath given Bond to Her Majesty, as by the "Ordinance for Licensing and Regulating Emigration Passage "Brokers, No. 11 of 1857," required: I, the undersigned, do hereby Licence and authorize the said A.B. to carry on the business of a Passage Broker in Hongkong, in respect of Passengers on board Emigrant Ships proceeding from Hongkong, until the end of the present Year, and Fourteen Days afterwards, unless this Licence shall be sooner determined by Forfeiture for Misconduct on the part of the said A.B. as in the aforesaid Ordinance is provided. Given under my Hand and Seal this Thousand Eight Hundred and Day of One *The Personal and Family names in full of the Person applying for the Licence, with his Address and Trade or Occupation, must be correctly inserted. the SCHEDULE C. Form of Notice to be given to the Emigration Officer of SIR,-This is to give you notice, that the Licence granted on to Act as an Emigration Passage Broker, was on the Day of now last past duly declared by me (or us), the undersigned Justice (or Justices) of the Peace in Petty Sessions assembled to be forfeited.‡ †The Personal and Family names in full, with the Add ress and Trade or Occupation of the Party, to be here inserted. 66 Here state severally the Reason of Forfeiture. SCHEDULE D. Form of Contract Passage Ticket. in I hereby engage that the Chinese named at foot hereof shall be provided with a Passage to, and shall be landed at, the Port of in the Ship or Vessel called the ," with not less than 72 cubic Feet and 12 superficial Feet for Berth accommodation, and shall be victualled according to Schedule A. to the "Chinese Passengers Act, 1855," annexed, during the Voyage, and the term of detention at any place before I hereby certify, that I have explained and registered the above An Ordinance for Checking the spread of Venereal Diseases. Title. [24th November, 1857.] WHEREAS it is expedient to make Provision for checking Preamble. the spread of Venereal Diseases within this Colony' Be it therefore Enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: I. In the Interpretation of this Ordinance, the following Words Definition of or Phrases shall have the respective Meanings hereby assigned to Terms. them, that is to say, "Prostitute" shall mean any Woman who shall live or reside in a Registered or a Declared Brothel : "Declared Brothel" shall mean any House in which Women All Brothels to II. From and after the passing of this Ordinance no Person shall keep a Brothel within the Colony of Hongkong, unless the be Registered, L 2 same and to be within |