1 ship or vessel forthwith to receive such passenger on board such ship and to carry away such passenger from the Colony; and any master neglecting or refusing to receive or to carry away such passenger accordingly shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of 201. 8. Where an immigrant who is ordered to be deported shall satisfy the Governor in Council that he is unable to comply with such order by reason of not having sufficient means to defray the expense of his return to the port or place from which he came to the Colony, it shall be lawful for the Governor to order the payment out of the Treasury by warrant in the usual manner of a sum sufficient to defray the expenses of, or incidental to, the departure from the Colony of such immigrant and his dependents, if any, or such part thereof as such immigrant is unable to pay: Provided that if any such immigrant shall afterwards return to the Colony he shall not be permitted to land unless or until he shall refund to the Port Officer, to be returned by him into the Treasury, the amount paid under this section to defray the expense of the return of such immigrant to the port or place from which he came to the Colony. 9. Whenever the Governor in Council shall consider it desirable in the interests of the Colony that the immigration into the Colony of any immigrant as defined in this Act, from any place or places out of the Colony shall be prohibited, it shall be lawful for the Governor by Proclamation to prohibit the landing of any such immigrant from any ship or vessel during such period as any such Proclamation shall prescribe, and in such case no immigrant arriving in the Colony from any such place shall be permitted to land in the Colony without the special sanction in each case of the Governor in Council, and then only on complying with such terms and conditions as the Governor in Council shall prescribe or allow; and if any such immigrant shall land in the Colony contrary to any such Proclamation such immigrant and the master of the ship or vessel in which he came to the Colony shall be guilty of an offence against this Act. 10. Any person guilty of an offence against this Act shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of 501. 11. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make all necessary rules for fully carrying into effect the objects of this Act. 12. This Act shall continue in force for a period of three years and from thence to the end of the then next session of the Legislature. ACT of the Government of Bermuda to amend gration Act, 1902." [No. 17.] [July 28, 1919.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend "The Immigration Act, 1902 "':* Be it, therefore, enacted by the Governor, Legislative Council and Assembly of the Bermudas or Somers Islands as follows: 1. The 11th Section of "The Immigration Act, 1902," is hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect the enforcement under the 12th Section of the said Act of any bond given prior to the coming into operation of this Act. 2. Sub-Section (3) of the 14th Section of the said Act is hereby repealed, and the following shall be substituted therefor: (3.) The passenger shall deposit with the immigration officer the sum of 201. 3. Sub-Section (4) of the 14th Section of the said Act is hereby amended by striking out the words "Unless such lastmentioned security by bond shall have been given" at the commencement thereof. 4. The 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Sections of the said Act are hereby amended by substituting "twenty" for 'ten" wherever the latter word occurs before the word pounds," but such amendments shall not affect the application of the provisions of those sections to deposits of 101. made by passengers prior to the coming into operation of this Act. 5. The 18th, 19th and 22nd Sections of the said Act are hereby amended by substituting the word "five" for the word three" wherever the latter word occurs before the word "years," but such amendments shall not affect the application of the provisions of those sections to deposits of 107. made by passengers before the coming into operation of this Act. 6. This Act shall come into operation on such date as the Governor shall by notice in the "Gazette" fix for that purpose, and shall continue in force until and throughout the last day of December, 1921. Vol. XCV, page 236. ACT of the Government of Bermuda to amend The Immigration Act, 1902," by extension of the interpretation of the word Passenger. [No. 11.] [May 18, 1920.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend "The Immigration Act, 1902,'** so as to include within the terms "passenger" as defined by that Act certain first-class passengers and other passengers coming within the classifications hereinafter inentioned. Be it, therefore, enacted by the Governor, Legislative Council and Assembly of the Bermudas or Somers Islands as follows: 1. The interpretation of the word "passenger" contained in the 1st Section of "The Immigration Act, 1902," is hereby extended so as to include any passenger inclusive of any firstclass passenger not being a returning native of these islands whom the immigration officer shall have reason to believe(1.) To be a lunatic, idiot or feeble-minded person; (2.) To be likely to become chargeable to the Government or any parish in these islands; (3.) To be suffering from any loathsome or contagious disease; (4.) To have been convicted of a criminal offence of a nature punishable under any law in force in these islands by imprisonment for one year or more; (5.) To be a prostitute, or to have come to these islands for purposes of prostitution or other immoral purpose, or to have received or come for the purpose of receiving the earnings of prostitution: (6.) To be a person whose passage has been paid by any association, society or employer, provided that if a bond to His Majesty shall be entered into by two sufficient persons approved by the immigration officer in the sum of 201. that such person will, if required by the Governor, leave these islands at any time within one year after arrival, such person shall not be prohibited from landing on the ground only that his passage has been so paid; (7.) To be one who has advocated publicly, or to be a member of an organisation which advocates the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or of any British Possession, or of any friendly State, or the assassination of public officials or the unlawful destruction of property. 2. Section 1 (5) (g) of "The Immigration Act, 1902," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words: Vol. XCV, page 236. or "Or the wife or child of any petty officer, seaman marine in His Majesty's Navy, or of any dockyard artisan who has been brought to these islands at the expense of His Majesty's Government, or the wife or child of any non-commissioned officer, or soldier, in His Majesty's Army.' 3. The provisions of the 32nd Section of "The Immigration Act, 1902," are hereby extended so as to be applicable to any person not a native of these islands who shall apply to the immigration officer for assistance to enable him to leave these islands permanently, and who shall satisfy the immigration officer that he has not sufficient means to defray the expense of his passage elsewhere. 4. Nothing in this Act contained shall be deemed or construed in any way to limit or derogate from the powers conferred upon the immigration officer by any Immigration Acts now in force, but the powers hereby vested in him shall be deemed and construed to be in extension of the powers conferred upon him by any such Acts. 5. Whenever, in consequence of the provisions of the 1st Section of this Act, the immigration officer makes any special investigation with the view of ascertaining whether any passenger comes within such provisions he shall be entitled to a fee of 10s. therefor, in addition to the fee allowed for visiting the ship on which such passenger arrives in these islands. 6. This Act shall come into operation on such date* as the Governor shall by notice in the "Gazette" fix for that purpose, and shall continue in force until and throughout the last day of December, 1921. BRITISH NOTE to the French Government informing of the decision of the Canadian Government to terminate the Commercial Conventions, signed on September 19, 1907, and January 23, 1909, between Canada and France.Paris, March 19, 1920. The British Ambassador at Paris to the French Minister for Foreign Affairs. M. le Président du Conseil, Paris, March 19, 1920. THE denunciation by the French Government of the Franco-Canadian Commercial Conventions of the 19th September, 1907, and the 23rd January, 1909, § took effect on July 12, 1920. + Vol. CXI, page 197. § Vol. CII, page 81. the 10th September, 1919, but they have since then remained in force, subject to termination upon three months' notice by either of the Contracting Parties. The Canadian Government have now decided to terminate the two Conventions in question, and I therefore have the honour, under instructions from His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to notify that they will accordingly cease to be in force after a delay of three months as from the date of this Note. I have, &c. DERBY. AGREEMENT between the Government of the Dominion of Canada and the Governments of the Bahama Islands, Barbados, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Honduras, Jamaica, the Leeward Islands, Trinidad, and the Windward Islands relative to Trade.-Ottawa, June 18, 1920.* AGREEMENT entered into this 18th day of June, 1920, between the Right Honourable Sir George Eulas Foster, Minister of Trade and Commerce; the Honourable Martin Burrell, Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue; the Honourable Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne, Minister of Marine and Fisheries and Minister of the Naval Service; and the Honourable Sir Henry Lumley Drayton, Minister of Finance, representing the Government of the Dominion of Canada; and the Honourable Harcourt Gladstone Malcolm, Speaker of the House of Assembly, representing the Government of the Bahamas Islands; the Honourable William Lambert Collyer Phillips, Colonial Treasurer, representing the Government of Barbados; the Honourable Wilfred Edward Jackson, Colonial Secretary, representing the Government of Bermuda; Captain John McIntosh Reid, Comptroller of Customs, representing the Government of British Guiana; the Honourable Harold Ernest Phillips, Acting Colonial Secretary, representing the Government of British Honduras; the Honourable Charles Ernest St. John Branch, Attorney-General, representing the Government of Jamaica; the Honourable Donald McDonald, Member of the Legisla tive Council, representing the Government of the Leeward Islands; the Honourable Henry Barclay Walcott, Collector of Customs, representing the Government of Trinidad; and * Parliamentary Paper, Cmd. 864. |