Emigration and Immigration: Reports of the Consular Officers of the United States

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1887 - 748 pages

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Page 469 - ... that in all cases where no time is already or shall hereafter be specially limited for making any such complaint or laying any such information in the act or acts of parliament relating to each particular case, such complaint shall be made and such information shall be laid within six calendar months from the time when the matter of such complaint or information respectively arose.
Page 357 - ... any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge...
Page 480 - Provisions of this or the special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith, may be according to the Forms in the Schedules (A.) and (B.) respectively to this Act annexed, or as near thereto as the Circumstances of the Case will admit...
Page 456 - passenger ship" the beams supporting the "passenger decks" shall form part of the permanent structure of the ship : they shall be of adequate strength, in the judgment of the emigration officer at the port of clearance, and shall be firmly secured to the ship to his satisfaction. The
Page 459 - Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners, acting by and under the authority of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, from time to time, by any notice in writing issued under the hands of any two of such Commissioners, and published in the London...
Page 3 - Relations, and ordered to be printed. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith...
Page 465 - Majesty may seem fit for preserving order, promoting health, and securing cleanliness and ventilation on board of passenger ships proceeding from the United Kingdom to any port or place in Her Majesty's possessions abroad ; and...
Page 455 - An Act to amend the Passengers Act, 1852, so far as relates to the Passages of Natives of Asia or Africa, and also Passages between the Island of Ceylon and certain Parts of the East Indies. That nothing in this Act convary an Act passed in the 16. The Master of every Ship, whether a "Passenger Ship...
Page 468 - Complaint ; and upon Proof of the Offence, or of the Complainant's Claim, (as the Case may be,) either by Confession of the Party offending or complained against, or upon the Oath of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses (and the...
Page 462 - Crew appear, by reason of any bodily or mental Disease, unfit to proceed, or likely to endanger the Health or Safety of the other Persons about to proceed in such Vessel.

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