MAY 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1675

(b.) The Chinaman has paid to the Samoan Treasury the sum
of one hundred pounds.
(3.) This clause shall not apply—
(a.) To any accredited officer of the Chinese Government:
(b.) To any Chinaman landing in Samoa in pursuance of the
authority of the Minister of External Affairs:
(c.) To any Chinaman who satisfies a Collector of Customs that
he is a resident of Samoa returning thereto after not
more than two years’ absence, or that he was born in
Samoa:
(d.) To any Chinaman brought to Samoa as an agricultural
labourer in accordance with any scheme approved by the
Minister of External Affairs for the importation of such
labourers and their service for terms of years.
(4.) In this Order “Chinaman” means any person, whether male
or female, and whether a British subject or an alien, belonging to
the Chinese race, and includes a half-caste Chinaman and a person
intermediate in blood between a half-caste and a person of pure
descent from the Chinese race, and also includes any native of China
or its dependencies or of any island in the China Seas other than a
native of pure European descent.
(5.) A Chinaman shall not be deemed to have landed in Samoa
within the meaning of this clause if he arrives in Samoa as the
master or a member of the crew of a vessel and leaves Samoa with
that vessel on her first departure from the Territory.
12. (1.) The following persons are prohibited immigrants with-
in the meaning of this Order:—
(a.) Any person suffering from venereal disease or from tuber-
culosis or leprosy:
(b.) Any person who at any time within five years of his arrival
in Samoa has been convicted in any place of any criminal
offence punishable in the place where it was committed
by imprisonment for more than one year:
(c.) Any person of unsound mind.
(2.) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this clause, no
person shall be deemed to be a prohibited immigrant who at the time
of his arrival in Samoa is already lawfully resident in the Territory.
(3.) It shall not be lawful for any prohibited immigrant to land
in Samoa.
13. (1.) “Vagrant” means any person having insufficient lawful
visible means of support, and not being a Samoan born in Samoa.
(2.) Every vagrant found in Samoa shall be guilty of an offence
against this Order and shall be liable accordingly.
14. When any person is within six months after his arrival in
Samoa convicted of landing in Samoa in breach of this Order, or is
within twelve months after his arrival in Samoa convicted of vag-
rancy under this Order, and is in consequence arrested and deported
in pursuance of this Order, the cost incurred by the Samoan Treasury
in so deporting him shall constitute a debt due to the Crown by the
owner of the vessel by which he arrived in Samoa, and the clearance
of that vessel, or of any other vessel belonging to the same owner,
from any port in Samoa may be withheld by a Collector of Customs
until such debt is paid.
15. The master of a ship shall have full authority to prevent
any person who is not lawfully entitled to land in Samoa from land-
ing in Samoa from that ship, and for that purpose may detain any
such person upon the ship.
16. If the master of a ship permits any person unlawfully to
land in Samoa or is in any way knowingly concerned in the breach
or attempted breach of the provisions of this Order by any person,
or in any conspiracy to commit any such breach, the master commits
an offence against this Order and shall be liable accordingly.
17. Every person who commits, or attempts to commit, or does
any act with intent to commit, or counsels, procures, aids, abets, or
incites any other person to commit, or conspires with any other
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