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(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.

13. (1.) The following persons are prohibited immigrants within the meaning of this Order:—

(a.) Any person suffering from venereal disease or from tuberculosis 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.

14. (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.

15. 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 vagrancy 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.

16. The master of a ship shall have full authority to prevent any person who is not lawfully entitled to land in Samoa from landing in Samoa from that ship, and for that purpose may detain any such person upon the ship.

17. 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.

18. 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 person (whether in Samoa or elsewhere) to commit, an offence against this Order shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for six months or to a fine of one hundred pounds.

19. When any Chinaman, Samoan, or Asiatic has (whether before or after the commencement of this Order) arrived in Samoa as an indentured agricultural labourer, or otherwise in pursuance of any contract to serve as an agricultural labourer for any period, or in pursuance of any scheme established by public authority for the importation of such agricultural labourers and their service for terms