The landing of pauper immigrants may be prohibited.Sec. 23. The Governor-General may by proclamation, whenever he deems it necessary, prohibit the landing of pauper or destitute immigrants in all ports or any port in Canada, until such sums of money as are found necessary are provided and paid into the hands of one of the Canadian immigration agents, by the master of the vessel carrying such immigrants, for their temporary support and transport to their place of destination; and during such time as any such pauper immigrants would, in consequence of such orders, have to remain on board such vessel, the Governor in Council may provide for proper anchorage grounds being assigned to such vessel, and for such vessel being visited and superintended by the medical superintendent or any inspecting physician of the port or quarantine station, and for the necessary measures being taken to prevent the rise or spread of diseases amongst the passengers in such vessel and amongst people on shore.—32 and 33 Vict. c. 10, s. 16.Landing of vicious immigrants may be prohibited.Sec. 24. The Governor-General may, by proclamation, whenever he deems it necessary, prohibit the landing in Canada of any criminal, or other vicious class of immigrants designated in such proclamation,except upon such conditions for insuring their re-transportation to the port in Europe whence they came with the least possible delay, as the Governor in Council prescribes; and such conditions may, if the Governor in Council deems it necessary, include the immediate return, or the return with the least possible delay, of the vessel and such immigrants to the said port—such prohibited immigrants remaining on board until such return of the vessel.—35 Vict. c. 28, s. 10.VICTORIA.The Passengers, Harbours, and Navigation Statute, 1865 (No. 255), enacts as follows in secs. 36-39:—Bond to be given for passengers being lunatic, etc.36. If the immigration officer, or assistant immigration officer, shall certify that any passenger shall have arrived in Victoria on board any ship as aforesaid (i.e.any British or foreign navigable vessel of any kind carrying passengers, except vessels plying from any one port in Victoria to any other port therein) being either lunatic, idiotic, deaf, dumb, blind, or infirm, and likely, in his opinion, to become a charge upon the public, or upon any public or charitable institution, the immigration officer shall require the owner, charterer, or master of such ship, within seven days after her arrival to execute with two sufficient sureties, jointly and severally, a bond to her Majesty in the sum of 100l.for every such passenger, conditioned to pay to the Treasurer of Victoria all moneys or expenses which shall or may be laid out or incurred within the space of five years from the execution of the said bond for the maintenance or support of such passenger; and the said sureties shall justify before and to the satisfaction of the said immigration officer, and shall by their oath or affirmation satisfy him that they are respectively residents in Victoria, and each worth treble the amount of the penalty of such bond over and above all their liabilities.Principal immigration agent to report as to forfeiture.37. If any passenger for whom any bond shall have been given as aforesaid, shall at any time within five years from the execution thereof receive maintenance or support from any public or charitable institution in Victoria, the payment incurred for the maintenanceand support of such passenger shall be provided for out of the money collected in and under such bond to the extent of the penalty therein mentioned, or such portion as shall be required for the payment of such maintenance or support; and it shall be the duty of the principal immigration agent, upon representation made to him, to ascertain the right and claim of the Treasurer of Victoria to payment of the amount so expended for the maintenance and support of any such passenger, and to report the same to the Governor in Council; and the said report shall be conclusive in the matter, and shall be evidence of the facts therein stated; and such bond may be put in suit, and the penalty, or as much thereof as shall be required to defray the expenses of such maintenance or support, may be recovered by suit or information on behalf of her Majesty, and in the name of a law officer in any court of competent jurisdiction.Penalty for refusing to execute bond.38. If the owner, charterer, or master of any ship on board which such passengers, specially reported, shall have been carried, shall neglect or refuse to execute a bond as aforesaid within seven days, after being so required as aforesaid, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 100l.sterling, in addition to his liability under the said bond; and such ship shall not be cleared out until the said bond shall have been executed, and the said penalties shall have been paid.Act not to extend to Government immigrants, etc.39. These provisions ... shall not extend to immigrants brought to Victoria at the public expense, nor to shipwrecked mariners brought to Victoria without charge by the master of some other ship than that in which they were wrecked, nor to the crews of ships who shall have signed articles for the whole voyage, nor to her Majesty's land and sea forces.SOUTH AUSTRALIA.Sec. 15 of the Immigration Act, 1872, enacts as follows:—The Governor in Council may from time to time frame, annul, alter, and vary such regulations as may be necessary for declaring what persons shall be eligible for immigration to the said Province (i.e.South Australia), and generally for carrying out the provisions of this Act; and all such regulations, and all instructions which may from time to time be transmitted to any immigration agent, shall be forthwith published in theSouth Australian Government Gazettefor general information, and shall be, within one week from their publication, if Parliament be then sitting, or, if not, then within one week from the next meeting of Parliament, laid upon the table of each House of Parliament.The above Act was passed to "encourage and assist immigration into South Australia, and to provide for the control and supervision of such immigration." Pauper emigrants would not, in all probability, be allowed to land.TASMANIA.The Passengers Act, 1885, enacts as follows:—Bond to be given for certain passengers.Sec. 3. If the collector (at the port of arrival) shall certify that any passenger shall have arrived in Tasmania on board any ship (except one plying from any one port in the Colony to any other port therein) being either lunatic, idiotic, deaf, dumb, blind, or infirm, or from any cause unable to support himself, or likely, in the opinion of the collector, to become a charge upon the public, or upon any public or charitable institution, the collector shall require the owner, charterer, or master of such ship, within seven days after her arrival, to execute a bond to her Majesty in the sum of 100l.for every such passenger.Conditions of the bond.4. Every such bond shall be entered into with at least two sufficient sureties, and the person giving such bond and his sureties shall be bound jointly and severally to pay to the Treasurer of Tasmania all moneys and expenses which shall be laid out or incurred within the space of five years from the execution of the said bond for the maintenance or support of such passenger; and the said sureties shall justify before and to the satisfaction of the collector, and shall by their oath or affirmation satisfy him, that they are respectively residents in Tasmania, and each worth treble the amount of the penalty of such bond over and above all their liabilities.Provisions as to ships quarantined.5. Whenever any such ship or the passengers by such ship shall have performed quarantine in accordance with any law for the time being in force, then the period within which the owner, charterer, or master shall be required to give such bond shall be within seven days after such ship or passenger has or have performed quarantine and been duly discharged therefrom.Bond to be applied to maintenance.6. If any passenger for whom any bond shall have been given as aforesaid, shall at any time within five years from the execution thereof receive maintenance or support from any public or charitable institution in Tasmania, the amount expended for the maintenance and support of such passenger shall be provided for and repaid as herein-after provided out of the moneys collected under such bond, to the extent of the penalty therein mentioned, or such portion thereof as shall be required for the payment of such maintenance or support.Authority in charge of institution to report as to forfeiture of bond.7. It shall be the duty of the authority or person having the control or charge of such public or charitable institution, to ascertain the right and claim of the Treasurer of Tasmania to payment of the amount so expended for the maintenance and support of any such passenger, and to report the same to him with all such information as may enable the Treasurer to recover the moneys due.Bond may be put in suit.8. Every such report shall be conclusive in the matter, and shall be evidence of the facts therein stated; and every such bond may be put in suit, and the penalty, or as much thereof as shall be required to defray the expenses of such maintenance or support, may be recovered by suit or information on behalf of her Majesty, and in the name of a law officer in any court of competent jurisdiction.Penalty for refusing to execute bond.9. If the owner, charterer, or master of any ship shall neglect or refuse to execute a bond in any case within the provisions of this Act within seven days after being so required as aforesaid, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 100l., and the payment of such penalty shall not be deemed to exonerate such owner, charterer, or master from being compelled to execute such bond as by this Act provided; and such ship shall not either during or after the expiration ofthe said period of seven days be cleared out unless and until the said bond shall have been executed and the said penalty has been paid.Act not to extend to Government immigrants, etc.10. The provisions of this Act shall not extend to immigrants brought to Tasmania either wholly or partly at the expense of the Colony, nor to shipwrecked mariners brought to Tasmania without charge by the master of some other ship than that in which they were wrecked, nor to her Majesty's land and sea forces.Recovery of penalties.11. All penalties incurred under section 9 shall be recovered in a summary way before any two or more Justices of the Peace in the mode prescribed by the Magistrates' Summary Procedure Act (19 Vict., No. 8); and any person who thinks himself aggrieved by the imposition of any such penalty, may appeal against the same in the mode prescribed by the Appeals Regulation Act (19 Vict., No. 10).NEW ZEALAND.The Imbecile Passengers Act, 1882 (No. 58), is the same as the Tasmania Act above cited, and need not, therefore, be set out in detail. The only differences are—(1.) The word "New Zealand" must be read throughout instead of "Tasmania."(2.) In secs. 3 and 5, "fourteen days" must be read for "seven days."(3.) In sec. 4, after the words "maintenance or support of such passenger," the words "by or in any public or charitable institution in New Zealand" must be inserted.(4.) In sec. 8, instead of the words from "defray" to the end, the following must be read: "defray the charges incurred in such maintenance or support, may be recovered on behalf of her Majesty in the manner provided by the Crown Suits Act, 1881."(5.) The following must be added as sec. 9:—All moneys recovered or received under any such bond as aforesaid shall be paid by the Commissioner to the public or charitable institution, by or in which any such passengermay have been maintained or supported as aforesaid.(6.) Instead of sec. 11 read as sec. 12:—All penalties incurred under sec. 10 (sec. 9 of the Tasmanian Act) shall be recoverable in a summary way before any two or more Justices of the Peace.APPENDIX G.LIST OF SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL LABOUR ORGANIZATIONS AND TRADES UNIONS WHICH HAVE CONDEMNED UNRESTRICTED ALIEN IMMIGRATION.The Blackburn Power-Loom Weavers' Protection Society.National Society of Amalgamated Brassworkers.Steam-Engine-Makers' Society.Amalgamated Society of Engineers.Operative Bricklayers' Society.Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen.Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners.Boiler-Makers' and Iron Ship-Builders' Society.Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton-Spinners.Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.Miners' Association (Durham).Sailors' and Firemens' Union.British Steel Smelters' Amalgamated Association.The Amalgamated Hammermen's Trade Association.Liverpool and Vicinity United Trades' Council.London Trades' Council (Special sub-committee).Operative Bakers of Scotland National Federal Union.Cardiff, Penarth, and Barry Coal Trimmers' Protection and Benefit Association.National Union of Boot Clickers and Rough Stuff Cutters.Durham County Colliery Enginemens' Association.Operative Cotton Spinners' Society.The United Pointsmen and Signalmens' Mutual Aid and Sick Society.Sailors' and Firemens' Union—Green's Home Branch.Quarrymen's Union.Oldham Provincial Card and Blowing Room Operatives' Association.St. Helen's Association of Colliery Enginemen.Dockers' Union.West Bromwich, Oldbury, Tipton, Coseley and Bradley Amalgamated Association of Miners.United Operative Plumbers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland.Birmingham Operative Brass-Cock Finishers' Society.West Riding of Yorkshire Power-Loom Weavers' Association.Protective and Provident Society of Women working in Trades in Oxford.National Amalgamated Coal-Porters' Union of Inland and Sea-borne Coal Workers.Progressive Union of Cabinet-makers.London Potters' Trade Society.Liverpool Operative Ship-painters.Society of Compositors.Operative Lace-Makers' Society.The Operative Plasterers' Association.The Tin and Iron Plate-Workers' Society.The Society of House Decorators.The Shoemakers' Association.The Master-Tailors' Association (Liverpool); and many others.INDEX.Action of the United States,2Alien Act of William IV.,26,161Alien Acts, English,157Alien Lists, how prepared,29Aliens do not create New Industry,79Aliens who return to Continent,32Allen, Mr., Evidence of,78Alton Locke,69Amalgamated Brassworkers,81American Act of '91,134,177American Immigration,126American Labour,132Amusements of Foreign Jews,47Amusements of Italians,65Anti-Semitic Feeling,35Arrival of Aliens,42Association for Preventing Immigration, &c.,24Asylum, Right of,14Attempts to confuse issue,6"Australia for the Australians,"144Australian Immigration,137Austria,116Barnett, Rev. S. A.,107Barrel Organs,65Bate, Dr., Evidence of,99Bavaria,121Bedford, Bishop of,18,143Belgium,118Boarding-house, Jewish,42Board of Trade Returns,25Boot-slosher,46Boot Trade, Cheap,46British Columbia,138Bulgaria,120Burnett, John, Evidence of,17,75Burnett's Report (Leeds),22Cabinet-making Trade,75Canada,137Canadian Act,137Canadian Immigration,132Causes of Immigration,49Chair-turning,70Chartist Act,155,160Cheap Clothing Trade,74Children's Protection Act,61Chinese Immigrants Act,143Chinese Immigration,139Chinese Minister protests,139Chovevi Zion,47Clouet, E.,124Colonial Workmen,144Combination useless,60Condition of Aliens,42Conference at Sydney,143Contract Labour Law,177Correspondence inTimes,31Craving for Enjoyment, The,107Cruelties ofPadroni,59Cruikshank's Allegory,5Customs, Letter from,28Dangers ofJudenhetze,51Decoy for young Jewesses,48Degradation of Labour,76Dejonge, Henry, Evidence of,18Delicato, The Case of,62Denmark, Laws of,167Derby, Lord,4Destitution of Immigrants,11Dilke, Sir C.,136Discomforts of Journey,38Disraeli, Mr.,83Distribution of Jewish Immigration,36Dockers' Strike,144Drunkenness, an Effect,106Dunraven, Lord,108Economic Aspect, The,69Emigration rendered useless,113European Countries,115Evening News and Post, The,39Example of the United States,127Factory Inspector's Evidence,97Factory Regulations evaded,88Fayrer, Sir Joseph,102Feeling of Working-classes,81Ford Committee, The,132Foreign Revolutionary Societies,56France and Immigration,123Freak, Mr., Evidence of,73Free Trade,154Fur Trade, The,70,71Gains ofPadroni,60Galicia,130Georgian Era, The,159Germany and Aliens,121Goodman, Mr., Evidence of,77Goschen, Mr.,66Goulson Street,44Grandmotherly Legislation,153Greece,123"Greener," The,45Green'sHistory,7Grey, Sir George,155Hackney Board of Guardians,105Hamburg, Law of,149Henry IV., Act of,157Henry VI., Act of,158Henry VII., Act of,158Hicks-Beach, Sir M.,29Holland, Inspector,99Home-work,86Huguenots, The,7,10Ice-cream Vendors,64"Immigrant Emigration,"33Increase of Immigration,17Individual Effort useless,153Infectious Diseases,99Injustice of Russia,8Irish in the United States,127,130Isolation of England,3Italian Children,54Italy, Law of,167Jewish Board of Guardians,24,51,97Jewish Immigrant, Troubles of,37Jewish Immigration,21,33Jewish Ladies' Rescue Society,49Jews, Foreign, Unsanitary habits of,97Jews in Russia,8Juvenal's Satires,56Keir, Mr., Statement of,78Killick, Mrs.,90Kingsley, Canon,106Labour Legislation,83Labour Movement,111Laissez-fairePolicy,135Leeds, Immigration into,23Lengthy Hours of Work,45,88Lewisham Election,84"Limewash,"103Lindsay, Mr., Evidence of,27List of Trades Unions,186Liverpool, Aliens in,21Loss of self-respect,106Manchester, Aliens in,20Mancini, Case of,63Mansion House Meeting,10Marriott, Sir W. T.,152Mason, Rev. W. A.,18"Meadow Bank" Case,99Mile End Board of Guardians,105Model Dwellings,97Moral View, The,107Multiplication of small masters,69Munich Society,131National View, A,79Netherlands, The,119New South Wales,139,145New Zealand Act,138,184Norway,122Official Returns,25Ogle, Dr. W., Evidence of,17,74Old Ford, Vicar of,91Ottoman Government,124Out-work, System of,86Padroni, The,58Pampav.Romano,63Parkes, Sir Henry,145Pauperism and Immigration,104Peter the Great,95Pilgrim Fathers,128Police Reports,20"Pool" of Unemployed,79Portugal,124Practice of counting Aliens,31,33Preventible Diseases,102Prince of Wales,102Prohibition,154Prostitution, Increase of,87Queensland,142Refugees,14Residuum, The,33Restrictive Measures,149Richard II., Statute of,157Roumania,120Russian Edicts,2Russian Jews,9Russia's Injustice,8Russia's Policy,125Sanitary Aspect, The,95Sanitary Legislation,102Sanitation, Importance of,101Saxony,120Select Committee of Immigration,150Sentimental Objection,4Simmons, Mr., Evidence of,18Social Evils,104Socialistic Legislation,153Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress,54Steamship Solicitation,49,129Survival of the Fittest,108"Sweater," The,69Sweaters' Dens,102Sweating Committee, The,96,102"Sweating" prices,71,89Sweden,122Switzerland,123Tasmania,3Thurston, Mr., Evidence of,18Trades Unionism,81Traditional Policy,14,154Traffic in Italian Children,58Trustworthy Statistics, Need of,34"Tuke" Committee, The,130Turkey,124United States Legislation,176Urgency for Legislation,151Victoria, the Chinese,137,144Wages paid to Women,89Whitechapel,94,97Woes of the Workwoman,85Women driven on the Streets,91Würtemburg, Laws of,121Zeitlin, Mr., Evidence of,74THE END.Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, London & Bungay.
The landing of pauper immigrants may be prohibited.
Sec. 23. The Governor-General may by proclamation, whenever he deems it necessary, prohibit the landing of pauper or destitute immigrants in all ports or any port in Canada, until such sums of money as are found necessary are provided and paid into the hands of one of the Canadian immigration agents, by the master of the vessel carrying such immigrants, for their temporary support and transport to their place of destination; and during such time as any such pauper immigrants would, in consequence of such orders, have to remain on board such vessel, the Governor in Council may provide for proper anchorage grounds being assigned to such vessel, and for such vessel being visited and superintended by the medical superintendent or any inspecting physician of the port or quarantine station, and for the necessary measures being taken to prevent the rise or spread of diseases amongst the passengers in such vessel and amongst people on shore.—32 and 33 Vict. c. 10, s. 16.
Landing of vicious immigrants may be prohibited.
Sec. 24. The Governor-General may, by proclamation, whenever he deems it necessary, prohibit the landing in Canada of any criminal, or other vicious class of immigrants designated in such proclamation,except upon such conditions for insuring their re-transportation to the port in Europe whence they came with the least possible delay, as the Governor in Council prescribes; and such conditions may, if the Governor in Council deems it necessary, include the immediate return, or the return with the least possible delay, of the vessel and such immigrants to the said port—such prohibited immigrants remaining on board until such return of the vessel.—35 Vict. c. 28, s. 10.
The Passengers, Harbours, and Navigation Statute, 1865 (No. 255), enacts as follows in secs. 36-39:—
Bond to be given for passengers being lunatic, etc.
36. If the immigration officer, or assistant immigration officer, shall certify that any passenger shall have arrived in Victoria on board any ship as aforesaid (i.e.any British or foreign navigable vessel of any kind carrying passengers, except vessels plying from any one port in Victoria to any other port therein) being either lunatic, idiotic, deaf, dumb, blind, or infirm, and likely, in his opinion, to become a charge upon the public, or upon any public or charitable institution, the immigration officer shall require the owner, charterer, or master of such ship, within seven days after her arrival to execute with two sufficient sureties, jointly and severally, a bond to her Majesty in the sum of 100l.for every such passenger, conditioned to pay to the Treasurer of Victoria all moneys or expenses which shall or may be laid out or incurred within the space of five years from the execution of the said bond for the maintenance or support of such passenger; and the said sureties shall justify before and to the satisfaction of the said immigration officer, and shall by their oath or affirmation satisfy him that they are respectively residents in Victoria, and each worth treble the amount of the penalty of such bond over and above all their liabilities.
Principal immigration agent to report as to forfeiture.
37. If any passenger for whom any bond shall have been given as aforesaid, shall at any time within five years from the execution thereof receive maintenance or support from any public or charitable institution in Victoria, the payment incurred for the maintenanceand support of such passenger shall be provided for out of the money collected in and under such bond to the extent of the penalty therein mentioned, or such portion as shall be required for the payment of such maintenance or support; and it shall be the duty of the principal immigration agent, upon representation made to him, to ascertain the right and claim of the Treasurer of Victoria to payment of the amount so expended for the maintenance and support of any such passenger, and to report the same to the Governor in Council; and the said report shall be conclusive in the matter, and shall be evidence of the facts therein stated; and such bond may be put in suit, and the penalty, or as much thereof as shall be required to defray the expenses of such maintenance or support, may be recovered by suit or information on behalf of her Majesty, and in the name of a law officer in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Penalty for refusing to execute bond.
38. If the owner, charterer, or master of any ship on board which such passengers, specially reported, shall have been carried, shall neglect or refuse to execute a bond as aforesaid within seven days, after being so required as aforesaid, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 100l.sterling, in addition to his liability under the said bond; and such ship shall not be cleared out until the said bond shall have been executed, and the said penalties shall have been paid.
Act not to extend to Government immigrants, etc.
39. These provisions ... shall not extend to immigrants brought to Victoria at the public expense, nor to shipwrecked mariners brought to Victoria without charge by the master of some other ship than that in which they were wrecked, nor to the crews of ships who shall have signed articles for the whole voyage, nor to her Majesty's land and sea forces.
Sec. 15 of the Immigration Act, 1872, enacts as follows:—
The Governor in Council may from time to time frame, annul, alter, and vary such regulations as may be necessary for declaring what persons shall be eligible for immigration to the said Province (i.e.South Australia), and generally for carrying out the provisions of this Act; and all such regulations, and all instructions which may from time to time be transmitted to any immigration agent, shall be forthwith published in theSouth Australian Government Gazettefor general information, and shall be, within one week from their publication, if Parliament be then sitting, or, if not, then within one week from the next meeting of Parliament, laid upon the table of each House of Parliament.
The above Act was passed to "encourage and assist immigration into South Australia, and to provide for the control and supervision of such immigration." Pauper emigrants would not, in all probability, be allowed to land.
The Passengers Act, 1885, enacts as follows:—
Bond to be given for certain passengers.
Sec. 3. If the collector (at the port of arrival) shall certify that any passenger shall have arrived in Tasmania on board any ship (except one plying from any one port in the Colony to any other port therein) being either lunatic, idiotic, deaf, dumb, blind, or infirm, or from any cause unable to support himself, or likely, in the opinion of the collector, to become a charge upon the public, or upon any public or charitable institution, the collector shall require the owner, charterer, or master of such ship, within seven days after her arrival, to execute a bond to her Majesty in the sum of 100l.for every such passenger.
Conditions of the bond.
4. Every such bond shall be entered into with at least two sufficient sureties, and the person giving such bond and his sureties shall be bound jointly and severally to pay to the Treasurer of Tasmania all moneys and expenses which shall be laid out or incurred within the space of five years from the execution of the said bond for the maintenance or support of such passenger; and the said sureties shall justify before and to the satisfaction of the collector, and shall by their oath or affirmation satisfy him, that they are respectively residents in Tasmania, and each worth treble the amount of the penalty of such bond over and above all their liabilities.
Provisions as to ships quarantined.
5. Whenever any such ship or the passengers by such ship shall have performed quarantine in accordance with any law for the time being in force, then the period within which the owner, charterer, or master shall be required to give such bond shall be within seven days after such ship or passenger has or have performed quarantine and been duly discharged therefrom.
Bond to be applied to maintenance.
6. If any passenger for whom any bond shall have been given as aforesaid, shall at any time within five years from the execution thereof receive maintenance or support from any public or charitable institution in Tasmania, the amount expended for the maintenance and support of such passenger shall be provided for and repaid as herein-after provided out of the moneys collected under such bond, to the extent of the penalty therein mentioned, or such portion thereof as shall be required for the payment of such maintenance or support.
Authority in charge of institution to report as to forfeiture of bond.
7. It shall be the duty of the authority or person having the control or charge of such public or charitable institution, to ascertain the right and claim of the Treasurer of Tasmania to payment of the amount so expended for the maintenance and support of any such passenger, and to report the same to him with all such information as may enable the Treasurer to recover the moneys due.
Bond may be put in suit.
8. Every such report shall be conclusive in the matter, and shall be evidence of the facts therein stated; and every such bond may be put in suit, and the penalty, or as much thereof as shall be required to defray the expenses of such maintenance or support, may be recovered by suit or information on behalf of her Majesty, and in the name of a law officer in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Penalty for refusing to execute bond.
9. If the owner, charterer, or master of any ship shall neglect or refuse to execute a bond in any case within the provisions of this Act within seven days after being so required as aforesaid, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 100l., and the payment of such penalty shall not be deemed to exonerate such owner, charterer, or master from being compelled to execute such bond as by this Act provided; and such ship shall not either during or after the expiration ofthe said period of seven days be cleared out unless and until the said bond shall have been executed and the said penalty has been paid.
Act not to extend to Government immigrants, etc.
10. The provisions of this Act shall not extend to immigrants brought to Tasmania either wholly or partly at the expense of the Colony, nor to shipwrecked mariners brought to Tasmania without charge by the master of some other ship than that in which they were wrecked, nor to her Majesty's land and sea forces.
Recovery of penalties.
11. All penalties incurred under section 9 shall be recovered in a summary way before any two or more Justices of the Peace in the mode prescribed by the Magistrates' Summary Procedure Act (19 Vict., No. 8); and any person who thinks himself aggrieved by the imposition of any such penalty, may appeal against the same in the mode prescribed by the Appeals Regulation Act (19 Vict., No. 10).
The Imbecile Passengers Act, 1882 (No. 58), is the same as the Tasmania Act above cited, and need not, therefore, be set out in detail. The only differences are—
(1.) The word "New Zealand" must be read throughout instead of "Tasmania."(2.) In secs. 3 and 5, "fourteen days" must be read for "seven days."(3.) In sec. 4, after the words "maintenance or support of such passenger," the words "by or in any public or charitable institution in New Zealand" must be inserted.(4.) In sec. 8, instead of the words from "defray" to the end, the following must be read: "defray the charges incurred in such maintenance or support, may be recovered on behalf of her Majesty in the manner provided by the Crown Suits Act, 1881."(5.) The following must be added as sec. 9:—All moneys recovered or received under any such bond as aforesaid shall be paid by the Commissioner to the public or charitable institution, by or in which any such passengermay have been maintained or supported as aforesaid.(6.) Instead of sec. 11 read as sec. 12:—All penalties incurred under sec. 10 (sec. 9 of the Tasmanian Act) shall be recoverable in a summary way before any two or more Justices of the Peace.
(1.) The word "New Zealand" must be read throughout instead of "Tasmania."
(2.) In secs. 3 and 5, "fourteen days" must be read for "seven days."
(3.) In sec. 4, after the words "maintenance or support of such passenger," the words "by or in any public or charitable institution in New Zealand" must be inserted.
(4.) In sec. 8, instead of the words from "defray" to the end, the following must be read: "defray the charges incurred in such maintenance or support, may be recovered on behalf of her Majesty in the manner provided by the Crown Suits Act, 1881."
(5.) The following must be added as sec. 9:—
All moneys recovered or received under any such bond as aforesaid shall be paid by the Commissioner to the public or charitable institution, by or in which any such passengermay have been maintained or supported as aforesaid.
(6.) Instead of sec. 11 read as sec. 12:—
All penalties incurred under sec. 10 (sec. 9 of the Tasmanian Act) shall be recoverable in a summary way before any two or more Justices of the Peace.
The Blackburn Power-Loom Weavers' Protection Society.National Society of Amalgamated Brassworkers.Steam-Engine-Makers' Society.Amalgamated Society of Engineers.Operative Bricklayers' Society.Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen.Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners.Boiler-Makers' and Iron Ship-Builders' Society.Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton-Spinners.Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.Miners' Association (Durham).Sailors' and Firemens' Union.British Steel Smelters' Amalgamated Association.The Amalgamated Hammermen's Trade Association.Liverpool and Vicinity United Trades' Council.London Trades' Council (Special sub-committee).Operative Bakers of Scotland National Federal Union.Cardiff, Penarth, and Barry Coal Trimmers' Protection and Benefit Association.National Union of Boot Clickers and Rough Stuff Cutters.Durham County Colliery Enginemens' Association.Operative Cotton Spinners' Society.The United Pointsmen and Signalmens' Mutual Aid and Sick Society.Sailors' and Firemens' Union—Green's Home Branch.Quarrymen's Union.Oldham Provincial Card and Blowing Room Operatives' Association.St. Helen's Association of Colliery Enginemen.Dockers' Union.West Bromwich, Oldbury, Tipton, Coseley and Bradley Amalgamated Association of Miners.United Operative Plumbers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland.Birmingham Operative Brass-Cock Finishers' Society.West Riding of Yorkshire Power-Loom Weavers' Association.Protective and Provident Society of Women working in Trades in Oxford.National Amalgamated Coal-Porters' Union of Inland and Sea-borne Coal Workers.Progressive Union of Cabinet-makers.London Potters' Trade Society.Liverpool Operative Ship-painters.Society of Compositors.Operative Lace-Makers' Society.The Operative Plasterers' Association.The Tin and Iron Plate-Workers' Society.The Society of House Decorators.The Shoemakers' Association.The Master-Tailors' Association (Liverpool); and many others.
The Blackburn Power-Loom Weavers' Protection Society.
National Society of Amalgamated Brassworkers.
Steam-Engine-Makers' Society.
Amalgamated Society of Engineers.
Operative Bricklayers' Society.
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen.
Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners.
Boiler-Makers' and Iron Ship-Builders' Society.
Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton-Spinners.
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
Miners' Association (Durham).
Sailors' and Firemens' Union.
British Steel Smelters' Amalgamated Association.
The Amalgamated Hammermen's Trade Association.
Liverpool and Vicinity United Trades' Council.
London Trades' Council (Special sub-committee).
Operative Bakers of Scotland National Federal Union.
Cardiff, Penarth, and Barry Coal Trimmers' Protection and Benefit Association.
National Union of Boot Clickers and Rough Stuff Cutters.
Durham County Colliery Enginemens' Association.
Operative Cotton Spinners' Society.
The United Pointsmen and Signalmens' Mutual Aid and Sick Society.
Sailors' and Firemens' Union—Green's Home Branch.
Quarrymen's Union.
Oldham Provincial Card and Blowing Room Operatives' Association.
St. Helen's Association of Colliery Enginemen.
Dockers' Union.
West Bromwich, Oldbury, Tipton, Coseley and Bradley Amalgamated Association of Miners.
United Operative Plumbers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland.
Birmingham Operative Brass-Cock Finishers' Society.
West Riding of Yorkshire Power-Loom Weavers' Association.
Protective and Provident Society of Women working in Trades in Oxford.
National Amalgamated Coal-Porters' Union of Inland and Sea-borne Coal Workers.
Progressive Union of Cabinet-makers.
London Potters' Trade Society.
Liverpool Operative Ship-painters.
Society of Compositors.
Operative Lace-Makers' Society.
The Operative Plasterers' Association.
The Tin and Iron Plate-Workers' Society.
The Society of House Decorators.
The Shoemakers' Association.
The Master-Tailors' Association (Liverpool); and many others.
Action of the United States,2Alien Act of William IV.,26,161Alien Acts, English,157Alien Lists, how prepared,29Aliens do not create New Industry,79Aliens who return to Continent,32Allen, Mr., Evidence of,78Alton Locke,69Amalgamated Brassworkers,81American Act of '91,134,177American Immigration,126American Labour,132Amusements of Foreign Jews,47Amusements of Italians,65Anti-Semitic Feeling,35Arrival of Aliens,42Association for Preventing Immigration, &c.,24Asylum, Right of,14Attempts to confuse issue,6"Australia for the Australians,"144Australian Immigration,137Austria,116Barnett, Rev. S. A.,107Barrel Organs,65Bate, Dr., Evidence of,99Bavaria,121Bedford, Bishop of,18,143Belgium,118Boarding-house, Jewish,42Board of Trade Returns,25Boot-slosher,46Boot Trade, Cheap,46British Columbia,138Bulgaria,120Burnett, John, Evidence of,17,75Burnett's Report (Leeds),22Cabinet-making Trade,75Canada,137Canadian Act,137Canadian Immigration,132Causes of Immigration,49Chair-turning,70Chartist Act,155,160Cheap Clothing Trade,74Children's Protection Act,61Chinese Immigrants Act,143Chinese Immigration,139Chinese Minister protests,139Chovevi Zion,47Clouet, E.,124Colonial Workmen,144Combination useless,60Condition of Aliens,42Conference at Sydney,143Contract Labour Law,177Correspondence inTimes,31Craving for Enjoyment, The,107Cruelties ofPadroni,59Cruikshank's Allegory,5Customs, Letter from,28Dangers ofJudenhetze,51Decoy for young Jewesses,48Degradation of Labour,76Dejonge, Henry, Evidence of,18Delicato, The Case of,62Denmark, Laws of,167Derby, Lord,4Destitution of Immigrants,11Dilke, Sir C.,136Discomforts of Journey,38Disraeli, Mr.,83Distribution of Jewish Immigration,36Dockers' Strike,144Drunkenness, an Effect,106Dunraven, Lord,108Economic Aspect, The,69Emigration rendered useless,113European Countries,115Evening News and Post, The,39Example of the United States,127Factory Inspector's Evidence,97Factory Regulations evaded,88Fayrer, Sir Joseph,102Feeling of Working-classes,81Ford Committee, The,132Foreign Revolutionary Societies,56France and Immigration,123Freak, Mr., Evidence of,73Free Trade,154Fur Trade, The,70,71Gains ofPadroni,60Galicia,130Georgian Era, The,159Germany and Aliens,121Goodman, Mr., Evidence of,77Goschen, Mr.,66Goulson Street,44Grandmotherly Legislation,153Greece,123"Greener," The,45Green'sHistory,7Grey, Sir George,155Hackney Board of Guardians,105Hamburg, Law of,149Henry IV., Act of,157Henry VI., Act of,158Henry VII., Act of,158Hicks-Beach, Sir M.,29Holland, Inspector,99Home-work,86Huguenots, The,7,10Ice-cream Vendors,64"Immigrant Emigration,"33Increase of Immigration,17Individual Effort useless,153Infectious Diseases,99Injustice of Russia,8Irish in the United States,127,130Isolation of England,3Italian Children,54Italy, Law of,167Jewish Board of Guardians,24,51,97Jewish Immigrant, Troubles of,37Jewish Immigration,21,33Jewish Ladies' Rescue Society,49Jews, Foreign, Unsanitary habits of,97Jews in Russia,8Juvenal's Satires,56Keir, Mr., Statement of,78Killick, Mrs.,90Kingsley, Canon,106Labour Legislation,83Labour Movement,111Laissez-fairePolicy,135Leeds, Immigration into,23Lengthy Hours of Work,45,88Lewisham Election,84"Limewash,"103Lindsay, Mr., Evidence of,27List of Trades Unions,186Liverpool, Aliens in,21Loss of self-respect,106Manchester, Aliens in,20Mancini, Case of,63Mansion House Meeting,10Marriott, Sir W. T.,152Mason, Rev. W. A.,18"Meadow Bank" Case,99Mile End Board of Guardians,105Model Dwellings,97Moral View, The,107Multiplication of small masters,69Munich Society,131National View, A,79Netherlands, The,119New South Wales,139,145New Zealand Act,138,184Norway,122Official Returns,25Ogle, Dr. W., Evidence of,17,74Old Ford, Vicar of,91Ottoman Government,124Out-work, System of,86Padroni, The,58Pampav.Romano,63Parkes, Sir Henry,145Pauperism and Immigration,104Peter the Great,95Pilgrim Fathers,128Police Reports,20"Pool" of Unemployed,79Portugal,124Practice of counting Aliens,31,33Preventible Diseases,102Prince of Wales,102Prohibition,154Prostitution, Increase of,87Queensland,142Refugees,14Residuum, The,33Restrictive Measures,149Richard II., Statute of,157Roumania,120Russian Edicts,2Russian Jews,9Russia's Injustice,8Russia's Policy,125Sanitary Aspect, The,95Sanitary Legislation,102Sanitation, Importance of,101Saxony,120Select Committee of Immigration,150Sentimental Objection,4Simmons, Mr., Evidence of,18Social Evils,104Socialistic Legislation,153Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress,54Steamship Solicitation,49,129Survival of the Fittest,108"Sweater," The,69Sweaters' Dens,102Sweating Committee, The,96,102"Sweating" prices,71,89Sweden,122Switzerland,123Tasmania,3Thurston, Mr., Evidence of,18Trades Unionism,81Traditional Policy,14,154Traffic in Italian Children,58Trustworthy Statistics, Need of,34"Tuke" Committee, The,130Turkey,124United States Legislation,176Urgency for Legislation,151Victoria, the Chinese,137,144Wages paid to Women,89Whitechapel,94,97Woes of the Workwoman,85Women driven on the Streets,91Würtemburg, Laws of,121Zeitlin, Mr., Evidence of,74
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