except in a boarding-house for assisted emigrants licensed under this Ordinance.

43.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to license a sufficient number of fit and proper persons to keep hotels and boarding-houses for assisted emigrants.

(2.) Every such licence shall be granted for such period not exceeding twelve months, and on payment of such fee and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by any rules to be made under the next succeeding section.

(3.) Every hotel or boarding-house keeper licensed under this Ordinance shall enter into a bond in the sum of 1,000 dollars, with two sufficient sureties to be approved by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, for the due observance of such terms and conditions.

44.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to make rules for the licensing, regulation, and sanitary maintenance of such hotels or boarding-houses, and with regard to all persons residing therein, and by such rules to require such registers or other books to be kept as he may deem expedient.

(2.) All such rules, when made, shall be published in the "Gazette," and when so published shall be as valid and binding as if contained in this Ordinance.

45.—(1.) The keeper of every such hotel or boarding-house shall supply the Secretary for Chinese Affairs with a return of all emigrants who are inmates of the house, giving their number, names, descriptions, and such other particulars as the Secretary for Chinese Affairs may direct, together with the name of the emigrant ship by which they intend to proceed.

(2.) Such return must be supplied at least twenty-four hours before the examination by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and shall be in such form as he may direct.

46.-(1.) The keeper of every licensed hotel or boardinghouse from which any assisted emigrant is to be shipped, or in the case of every male emigrant under the age of 16 years and of all female emigrants, the passage broker who provides the passage shall attend at the office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or other place appointed for the examination to be held by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and shall then furnish the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or such officer as the Secretary for Chinese Affairs may appoint, with two copies of the photograph of every such emigrant, with the names, ages, and number of the said emigrants, numbered to correspond with a list containing the names, ages, sex, destination, occupation, and any other particulars which may be required by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs concerning each emigrant entered thereon, together with the name of the ship by which each emigrant intends to sail and the date of departure.

(2.) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to employ photographers to furnish the photographs required by this section.

PART IV.-Penal Provisions.

47. Except where otherwise expressly prescribed under the provisions of this Ordinance, any person contravening any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour.

48. Any person contravening any of the provisions of any regulation contained in the Schedules to this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour.

49. The master of any ship failing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of section 6 of this Ordinance shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

50. Any person knowingly furnishing any untrue particular required to be furnished under the provisions of section 16 of this Ordinance shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

51. Any person who shall furnish upon oath or declaration under the provisions of section 58 of this Ordinance any untrue particulars required to be furnished under the provisions of section 16 of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour.

52. Any person who

(a.) Makes or attempts to make any fraudulent use of a certificate granted under the provisions of this Ordinance; or (b.) Forges, counterfeits, alters, or erases the whole or any part thereof; or

(c) Uses or attempts to use any spurious or fraudulent certificate, and every person aiding and abetting in such offence; or

(d.) By any fraud or false representation as to the size of a ship or otherwise, or by any false pretence whatsoever induces any person to engage a passage in any emigrant ship; or

(e.) Falsely represents any assisted emigrant to be a nonassisted emigrant;

shall be liable on indictment or on summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year and to a fine not exceeding 1,000 dollars.

53. Every person who

(a.) Unlawfully, either by force or fraud, takes away or detains against his will any person with intent to put him on board any emigrant ship; or,

(b.) With any such intent, receives, or harbours, or enters into any contract for foreign service with any person so taken away or detained;

shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years.

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54. Every person who falsely and deceitfully personates, or aids and abets in falsely and deceitfully personating, an emigrant or intending emigrant at any attendance before or examination by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, or any officer appointed by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, or an Emigration Officer required by this or any other Enactment for the time being in force relating to Asiatic emigration, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding 250 dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

55.-(1.) Every person who commits any contravention of any rule made under the provisions of section 44 of this Ordinance shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars in respect of such contravention.

(2.) The keeper of any hotel or boarding-house who knowingly furnishes any false or incorrect return or other particulars required of him, or who obtains or attempts to obtain by fraud, intimidation, or force the shipment of any emigrant or intending emigrant, and every person who aids or abets such keeper in so doing shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding 500 dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.

(3.) Any such keeper and his sureties shall also be liable to the enforcement of his and their bond, and the licence of such keeper may be suspended or cancelled by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

56. The owners or charterers of any emigrant ship, and any emigration passage broker, and any intending emigrant by any such ship, and any master or other person in charge of any such ship who fails to comply with or commits any breach of the provisions of this Ordinance so far as they may respectively be bound thereby, and any person granting or knowingly uttering any forged certificate, permit, notice, or other document under this Ordinance shall, without prejudice to any other proceeding, civil or criminal, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars or imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

PART V.-Miscellaneous.

57. It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to apply the whole or any part of the penalties recoverable under section 5 of the Act for the non-observance or non-performance of the regulations made under this Ordinance or the Act, towards the expenses of reconveying to their homes or transferring to another ship emigrants who were intending to proceed in any vessel whose licence has been revoked in manner hereinbefore provided.

58. Particulars or any of such required to be furnished under any of the provisions of section of this Ordinance shall, if so

ordered by an Emigration Officer, be verified upon oath or declaration before an Emigration Officer or Justice of the Peace, who are hereby authorized to administer such oath or declaration.

59. The forms in the Schedules to this Ordinance or forms to the like effect, with such variations and additions as circumstances may require, may be used for the purposes therein indicated and according to the directions therein contained, and instruments in those forms shall (as regards the form thereof) be valid and sufficient.

60. "The Chinese Emigration Ordinance, 1889,"* is hereby repealed.

61. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until His Majesty's confirmation of the same shall have been proclaimed in Hong Kong by the Governor.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 2nd day of December, 1915.

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils. Assented to by his Excellency the Governor, the 3rd day of December, 1915. CLAUD SEVERN, Colonial Secretary.

SCHEDULES.

[Schedules 1-11 not printed.]

ORDINANCE of the Government of Hong Kong to amend the Law relating to Companies.

[No. 31.]

[December 17, 1915.†]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Companies Ordinance, 1915," and shall be read and construed as one with "The Companies Ordinances, 1911 and 1913,"S and the said Crdinances and this Ordinance may be cited together as "The Companies Ordinances, 1911-1915.

2. In this Ordinance

"British Company" means a company incorporated in the United Kingdom, or in the Colony, or in any other British Possession, and includes a China Company and a Hong Kong China Company.

* Vol. LXXXI, page 766. Came into force January 1, 1916.

See page 460.

See page 62.

"China Company" means a company limited by shares or by guarantee, incorporated under the Companies Ordinances, and the operations of which are directed and controlled from some place within the limits of "The China (Companies) Order in Council, 1915."*

"China Orders in Council" means "The China Order in Council, 1904,"† and any Orders in Council amending, read with, ancillary to, or substituted for the same.

"Hong Kong China Company" means a company incorporated under the Companies Ordinances, which carries on some part of its business within the limits of "The China (Companies) Order in Council, 1915," and the operations of which are directed and controlled from some place in the Colony.

"Minister" means His Majesty's Minister in China, and includes Chargé d'Affaires or other chief diplomatic representative.

"Registrar" includes the Registrar of Companies and the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai.

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'Registrar of Companies" means the Registrar of Companies in Hong Kong, appointed under "The Companies Ordinances, 1911-1915."

"Registrar of Companies at Shanghai" means the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai, appointed under "The China (Companies) Order in Council, 1915."

"Supreme Court for China" means His Britannic Majesty's Supreme Court for China, established under the China Orders in Council.

"The Court" has the same meaning as in "The Companies Ordinance, 1911."

"The Companies Ordinances" means "The Companies Ordinances, 1911-1915," and includes any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same.

3. (1.) There shall be a register and Registrar of Companies at Shanghai.

(2.) All acts done within the limits of "The China (Companies) Order in Council, 1915," in pursuance of the provisions of the Companies Ordinances, by, to, with, or before the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai shall, subject to the provisions of "The China (Companies) Order in Council, 1915," be of the same force and validity as if they had been done by, to, with, or before the Registrar of Companies.

(3.) All documents and other written information which a company is required by the Companies Ordinances to file with the Registrar of Companies shall, in the case of a China Company, be filed with the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai, and a copy of all such documents and other written information shall, in the case of a Hong Kong China Company, be filed with the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai.

(4.) All fees which a company is required by the Companies

* See page 363.

+ Vol. XCVII, page 150.