stations.

clothing, transport or other help to Immigrants intending to Quarantine settle within the territory of the Province having furnished such sum or sums.

IMMIGRANTS-DUTY PAYABLE ON THEM.

duty payable

ing passen

2. There shall be raised, levied and collected, a duty payable Capitation in the manner hereinafter prescribed by the master of every Vessel by Masters of arriving in any Port in Canada from any Port in the United King- v ssels bringdom or in any other part of Europe, with Passengers or Immigrants gors. therefrom, and such duty shall be one dollar for every Passenger or Immigrant above the age of one year, who embarked from any Port in the United Kingdom under the sanction of Her Majesty's Government, ascertained by a certificate from one of the Officers of Her Majesty's Customs at the Port at which such Vessel cleared, or from any other Port in Europe with the sanction of the Government of the Country to which such Port belongs, ascertained by certificate of the proper authority at such Port,-and one dollar and fifty cents for every Passenger or Immigrant who embarked without such sanction:

paid.

2. The said duty shall be paid by the master of such Vessel, How such duty shall be or by some person on his behalf, to the Collector of Customs at the Port in Canada at which such Vessel is first entered, and at the time of making such first entry, which shall contain on the face of it the number of Passengers actually embarked on board the vessel; and no such entry shall be deemed validly made or have any legal effect whatsoever, unless such rates or duties are so paid as aforesaid; but no child under the age of one year shall be reckoned among the number of Passengers;

drafts to be

3. Any draft, order or other document made or signed by any Commissariat person in the United Kingdom aforesaid, duly empowered to that accepted in effect by Her Majesty's Government, and directed to Her Majesty's payment of Commissary General or other Commissariat Officer in Canada, and dut,. authorizing the payment to the Collector of Customs aforesaid, of the duty which would otherwise be payable by the Master of any Vessel for any number of Immigrants on board such Vessel, shall be accepted by the Collector as payment of the duty payable on such Immigrants, and the sum mentioned in such order shall thereafter be received by such Collector and paid over and applied in the same manner as other money raised under the authority of this Act;

to passengers

4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the Exception as raising, levying or collecting, or to require the payment of, any not landed rate or duty in respect of any passenger or immigrant on board in Canada. of any vessel entered at any port in the Dominion, other than such as are to be landed in Canada.

IMMIGRANTS.—PROPORTION OF PASSENGERS TO SIZE OF VESSEL.

3. If any Vessel from any Port or place on the Continent of Proportion of Europe, or from any other Port or place out of Her Majesty's Passenger to superficial

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Dominions,

area of lower Dominions, come within the limits of Canada, having on board deck of vessel. or having had on board at any time during her voyage, any greater number of Passengers than one Adult Passenger for every twelve clear superficial feet on the lower or platform deck of such Vessel, appropriated to the use of such Passengers and unoccupied by stores or other goods not being the personal luggage of such Passengers, or having on board or having had on board at any time during her voyage a greater number of persons, (including the Master and Crew and the cabin Passengers, if any,) than in the proportion of one person for every two tons of the tonnage of such Vessel calculated in the manner used for ascertaining the tonnage of British Ships, the Master of such Vessel shall thereby incur a penalty of not less than eight dollars nor more than twenty dollars for each Passenger or person constituting such excess:

Penalty for contravention.

Definition of "adult."

2. For the purposes of this section, each person of or above the age of fourteen years shall be deemed an Adult, and two persons above the age of one year and under the age of fourteen years, shall be reckoned and taken as one Adult.

Recital.

Penalty for carrying pasentered on list.

sengers not

Master not to

allow passen

gers to leave vessel until

list has been

delivered.

Penalty for contravention.

IMMIGRANTS.-OBLIGATIONS OF MASTERS OF VESSELS BRINGING THEM.

4. And whereas Masters of Vessels are in the practice of embarking Passengers after the Vessel has been cleared and examined by the proper Officer at the Port of departure, and without delivering lists of such additional Passengers to some Officer to whom by law the same ought to be delivered; for the prevention and punishment of such practice: For every Passenger not included in the list of Passengers by any Vessel sailing from a Port in Her Majesty's Dominions, delivered to the Collector of Customs at the Port of Departure, or at the Port where such additional Passenger was embarked, or at the Port at which such Vessel touched after the embarkation of such Passenger, the Master of such Vessel shall, in addition to the duty payable as aforesaid, and at the same time and under the same penalties, pay to the Collector of Customs at the Port in Canada at which the said Vessel is first entered, the sum of eight dollars for each Passenger so embarked as aforesaid, and not included in one of the said lists.

5. No Master of any Vessel arriving at any port in Canada shall permit any Passenger to leave the Vessel until he has delivered to the Collector of Customs at the Port, a certified and correct Passenger list in the form hereinafter mentioned, nor until such list has been certified to be correct and a certificate of such correctness and a permission to allow his Passengers to leave the Vessel, and a receipt for the duties payable by him under the provisions of this Act, has been given to him by the Collector of Customs, under a penalty of not less than twenty dollars and not exeeeding one hundred dollars, to be paid by the Master of the Vessel, for every Passenger leaving the same contrary to the provisions of this Act:

2. The said list shall contain the name of each head of a family What the list being a Passenger on board the Vessel, his profession or trade, his shall contain. country and the place of his destination, and the number of adult persons and children belonging to his family on board such Vessel, and the name of each person not belonging to any family, with the like particulars of country, trade, profession and destination.

made when a

her arrival in

6. Nothing in this Act shall prevent the Master of any Vessel Entry to be from permitting any Passenger to leave the Vessel at the request passenger of such Passenger before the arrival of the Vessel at her final leaves the Port of destination; but in every such case, the names of the Pas- vessel before sengers so leaving shall be entered in the manifest on the list of port. Immigrants made out at the time of the clearing of the Vessel from the United Kingdom or other part of Europe as aforesaid, and shall be certified under the signatures of the Passengers so leaving the Vessel; And if the number of Passengers remaining on board on the arrival of the Vessel at her final Port of destination does not correspond with that mentioned in such manifest, after deducting Penalty for the number who have so left the Vessel, the Master thereof shall contravention. incur a penalty of twenty dollars for each Passenger not found on board or entered on the manifest as having left the Vessel as aforesaid.

in

7. Every Pilot who has had charge of any Vessel having Pas- Duty of Pilot sengers on board, and knows that any Passenger has been permit-fringement of ted to leave the Vessel contrary to the provisions of this Act, and this Act. who does not within twenty-four hours after the arrival of such Vessel in the Harbour to which he engaged to pilot her, inform the Collector of Customs thereat, that a Passenger or Passengers has or have been so permitted to leave the Vessel, shall incur a Penalty. penalty not exceeding five dollars, for every Passenger with regard to whom he has wilfully neglected to give such information.

REPORT BY THE MASTER.

sel to deliver

8. The Master of any Passenger Vessel shall, within twenty- Master of vesfour hours after such vessel arrives at her final Port of destination, report of pasand before any entry of such Vessel shall be allowed, deliver to sengers. the Collector of Customs at the Portat which such Vessel is entered, a correct Report in the form of the Schedule A to this Act, of all the Passengers on board such Vessel at the time of her departure from the Port or place whence she cleared or sailed for Canada, and a true statement of the other particulars mentioned in the said form, under a penalty upon such Master of twenty dollars for each Penalty. day during which he neglects so to deliver such list, after the expiration of the said twenty-four hours, and of eight dollars for each Passenger whose name is omitted in such list.

entered in

9. In addition to the particulars hereinbefore required in the Other partilist of Passengers to be delivered on each voyage by the Master culars to be of any Vessel carrying Passengers and arriving at any Port in report. Canada to the Collector of Customs at such Port, the Master shall

report

Penalty for

report in writing to the Collector the name and age of all Passengers embarked on board of such vessel on such voyage, who are lunatic, idiotic, deaf or dumb, blind or infirm, stating also whether they are accompanied by relatives able to support them:

2. And if any Master of any such Vessel omits to report the contravention. particulars herein specified, or makes any false report in any such particulars, he shall incur a penalty of not less than twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, for every such Passenger in regard to whom any such omission has occurred or any such false report is made for which penalty the owner or owners of the Vessel shall also be liable jointly and severally.

Entry as to passengers who have

died.

Disposal of property.

Collector of Customs to give receipt.

10. The said report shall further contain the name, age and last place of residence of any person who has died during the passage of the Vessel, and shall specify whether such Passenger was accompanied by relatives or other persons, and the names of such relatives or other persons, who were entitled to take charge of the moneys and effects left by such Passenger; and if there were no such relatives or other persons entitled to take charge of the same, then the report shall fully designate the quantity and description of the property (whether money or otherwise) left by such Passenger; and the said Master shall pay over and fully account for the same to the Collector of Customs for the Port at which the Vessel is entered:

2. The Collector of Customs shall thereupon grant to such Master a receipt for all moneys or effects so placed in his hands by the Master, which receipt shall contain a full description of the nature or amount thereof; and if any Master of a Vessel shall neglect or refuse to make such report, or to pay over and account make report. for any such moneys or effects, as required by this section, he shall incur a penalty of not less than twenty dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars for every such case of neglect or refusal.

Penalty for neglect or refusal to

tendent.

SPECIAL DUTY OF QUARANTINE OFFICERS.

11. The Medical Superintendent of any Quarantine Station Duty of Medical Superin- shall forthwith after the anchoring thereat, in compliance with the requirements of "The Quarantine and Health Act of 1868," of any Vessel carrying Passengers, examine into their condition; and for that purpose the said Medical Superintendent, or other competent person thereunto appointed, may go on board and through any such Vessel and inspect the list of Passengers, and the Bill of Health, Manifest, Log Book or other papers of the Vessel, and, if necessary, take extracts from the same:

Presence of any lunatic

or idiotic per

2. If, on examination, there is found among such Passengers any Lunatic, Idiotic, Deaf and Dumb, Blind or Infirm Person, not son, &c., to be belonging to any Immigrant family, and such person is, in the reported. opinion of the Medical Superintendent, likely to become permanently a public charge, the Medical Superintendent shall forth

with

with report the same officially to the Collector of Customs at the Port at which the Vessel is to be first entered, who shall (except in the cases in which it is hereinafter provided that such bond may be dispensed with) require the Master of the Vessel, in Subsequent addition to the duty payable for the Passengers generally, to proceedings. execute, jointly and severally with two sufficient sureties, a Bond Bond to be to Her Majesty in the sum of three hundred dollars for every such given. Passenger so specially reported, conditioned to indemnify and save harmless the Government of Canada or of any Province in Canada, or any Municipality, Village, City, Town or County, or Charitable institution within the same, from any expense or charge to be incurred within three years from the execution of the Bond, for the maintenance and support of any such Passenger;

3. The said sureties shall justify before and to the satisfaction Nature of of the said Collector, and by their Oath or Affirmation (which such sureties. Collector may administer) shall satisfy him that they are respectively residents in Canada, and each worth double the penalty of such Bond over and above all their debts and liabilities, personal and real;

pay over a

rity.

4. It shall be optional with the Master of such Vessel either to Master may enter into such Bond jointly and severally with sufficient sureties, certain sum as aforesaid, or to pay to the Collector of Customs who might instead of otherwise require such Bond, such sum as may have been fixed in giving secuthat behalf by any instructions from the Government of Canada, as being just and equitable and sufficient to indemnify Canada, or any of the Provinces, or any Municipality, Village or City, Town or County, or Charitable Institution within Canada, against the risk of expense for the care, support and maintenance of such Passenger or Passengers during the then next ensuing three years;

be dispensed

5. And the Collector of Customs may dispense with such bond, When bond or or money in lieu thereof, if it appears by the certificate of the payment may Medical Superintendent at the proper Quarantine Station (which with. certificate the said Medical Superintendent may give) that the Passenger with respect to whom such bond or money is required has become lunatic, idiotic, deaf and dumb, blind or infirm, from some cause not existing or discernable at the time of the departure of the ship from the port where such Passenger embarked.

back such

12. The proper Agent for Immigration may, with the consent Arrangement of the Minister of Agriculture, make arrangements with the Mas- for sending ter, Owner or Charterer of the vessel carrying the lunatic, idiotic, persons. deaf and dumb, blind or infirm person with respect to whom a bond has been given, or money paid in lieu thereof, or with the Master, Owner or Charterer of any other vessel, for the reconveyance of such person to the port from which he was carried to Canada;

2. Money paid in lieu of or on breach of the condition of a Money paid in Bond in any such case, or so much thereof as is necessary, may lieu of bond

be