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III. The several Persons now being the Registrar General, Officers, and Assistants, of the said Office, Appointments of Of- el discharge the duties and business thereof in future at their present Salaries during His Excellency's 'easure; and upon any vacancy, His Excellency may from time to time nominate and appoint such Person Persons to be such Registrar General, Officers, and Assistants respectively, and at such Salary and daries as to His Excellency shall seem meet, and also remove him or them at His Excellency's discretion time to time, and nominate and appoint another or others in his or their room; yet so as that Her Mesty's pleasure shall be taken as to every nomination, appointment, and removal of a Registrar General,
as to every new limitation of Salary under the provisions of this Section.
eral.
IV. The Registrar General is, by virtue of his Office, and for the execution of this Ordinance, and Powers and Duties t otherwise, the Protector of Chinese Inhabitants within this Colony, and as such is bounden to use his of the Registrar Gen- best endeavours to prevent the commission of crime, and, if committed, to discover and apprehend the Parties guilty thereof, and generally to watch over and protect the said Chinese Inhabitants; and, for the prposes aforesaid only, he is empowered to enter at any reasonable time or times, as he shall find meet, any Fadding soever within this Colony, or Vessel or Boat soever within the Waters of the same or adjacent thereto, if such Building, Vessel, or Boat shall then have any Chinaman within or on board of the same.
1. The other Officers and Assistants in the said Census and Registration Office shall be obedient and goisting unto the said Registrar General in the execution of this Ordinance.
Duties of the other Officers and Assistants.
VI. The Powers and Authorities touching the direction and Superintendence of the Police Force, The Chief Magis- which by Ordinance 12 of 1844 were vested in the Chief Magistrate of Police, are from henceforth vested trate's authority to in, and shall be exercised by, the Superintendent of Police for the time being, constituted under the said devolve upon the Su- perintendent of Police. Ordinance; and obedience shall be rendered by the Police Force of this Colony to the orders of the said Superintendent of Police, and to all Rules and Regulations by him made or to be made with the approba- of the Governor in Council; and the Registrar General is hereby empowered to require from the Saperintendent of Police, or in his absence from the Officer acting for him, the services of such of the bordinate members of the Police Force as he may deem necessary for the due exccution of the duties of his office, and the said Force when so required shall receive orders from the Superintendent of Police or Inspector on duty, to obey the commands of the said Registrar General in the same manner as those of the Superintendent of Police.
VII. Every Person occupying a House, shall cause the Number, thereof to be continued upon or painted and affixed to such House, in such wise as the Registrar General shall direct.
Numbers to be painted.
Power to elect and
VIII. His Excellency in Council shall have power to approve for, and appoint to, the office of Tepo in zny Town, Village, Hamlet, and District, of this Colony, a proper Person to be presented unto him by the appoint Tepos,
cupiers of Chinese Houses therein, or (in default of such presentment) to be nominated by His Excellency Comicil for that purpose.
Powers and Duties
IX. Every Tepo shall have, throughout his Town, Village, Hamlet, or District, but not further or etherwise, the same powers and authorities, and perform the duties of Constable, and, in that capacity, of the Tepos.
he immediately subordinate unto the Registrar General, and shall conform to whatsoever lawful Orders, Roks, and Regulations he shall, with the approbation of His Excellency, frame and issue for the better execution of their duties under this Ordinance.
. The amount of the Salary, of each Tepo shall be from time to time fixed by His Excellency in Council, and shall be paid out of the Froduce of the Police Tax.
XI. The Hawking of Goods or Wares in the Streets or Roads of this Colony, without a License Com the Registrar General, is hereby prohibited.
Salaries of the Tepos.
Unlicensed Hawk- ing prohibited.
Conditions and Fees
XII. No License for such Hawking shall be granted by the Registrar General to any Person except *bject to forfeiture on conviction of the holder of any offence before any Justice of the Peace. And of Hawking Licenses. overy Applicant, on receiving his said License, shall pay therefor to the Registrar General, to the use of the Crown, the Fee in that behalf mentioned in the Schedule hereunto annexed.
XIII. The Registrar General shall grant to such fit and proper Persons, being Chinamen, as shall The Registrar Ge- mike application unto him in that behalf, Licenses to undertake and perform the Burials of Chinese Dead neral to grant Under-
the Cemeteries, and after the manner prescribed by law; and every such License shall be limited in deration to One Year, but renewable at the expiration of each Year; and there shall be paid to him to the
* of the Crown for every such grant or renewal the Fee in that behalf specified in the Schedule hereunto
annexed.
takers' Licenses.
None but Licensed
XIV. No Person, not being an Undertaker licensed under Section Thirteen, shall henceforward undertake or perform any Burials of Chinese Dead, or dig any Grave within any such Cemetery as aforesaid. Undertakers to bury
XV. Every Licensed Undertaker is hereby required to use his best skill and endeavour to prevent dig Graves.
The Undertakerare 1 repress all Offences against, and Violations of, the Laws for regulating Chinese Burials, and to apprehend, required to prevent er cause to be apprehended, all Persons accused thereof, and from time to time to report every such Offence and repress Offences
Violation to the Registrar General with all reasonable speed.
against Burial Laws. XVI. The Registrar General shall grant to such Persons, upon such Security and in such Form as Licensing of Boats, His Excellency in Council shall think fit, and upon payment made to the use of the Crown of such Fee &c.
erefor according to size as in the said Schedule hereunto annexed is in that behalf specified, Certificates f License of Boats or Vessels plying for hire within the Waters of this Colony, or carrying Passengers etween this Colony and the Ports on the Chinese Main (other than Boats or Vessels having British, Colonial, or Foreign Registers (not being Chinese Registers); and also other than Market Boats or Vessels, or Boats or Vessels, visiting this Colony merely for Trading purposes); and every such Boat or Vessel shall erry on each of her bows and on her stern, legibly painted upon Wood or Tin, the true Number of her Certificate aforesaid, which Number shall be supplied by the Registrar General for that purpose; and no ach Certificate or Number shall be transferred or lent unto any other Boat or Vessel, or the Persons on end of the same, nor shall any Certificate or Number other than such as the said Registrar General shall Me granted under this Section be assumed or exhibited by any such Boat or Vessel, or the Persons board of the same. And every Person having charge of any such Boat or Vessel is hereby commanded, Mensoever thereunto required, to exhibit the Certificate granted in respect thereof under this Section. A4 all Persons having charge of Boats or Vessels, and, not having obtained or not having on board such Certificate as aforesaid (other than as aforesaid), are hereby forbidden to employ their said Boats or Vessels Flying here within the said Waters, or in carrying Passengers between this Colony and the said Ports, ** to cause, suffer, or connive at their said employment.
XVII. Scales of Fares for all Licensed Boats and Vessels licensed to ply for Hire within the said Scale of Boat Fares, Meters, and also Scales for the Hire of all Public Conveyances, Chair Coolies, and Porters, by the Day, Hour, and Chair and Porter
, with all proper Regulations for exceptional cases, shall be prepared and fixed, and, if expedient, from
e to time altered and varied, by His Excellency the Governor; and every such Scale and Variation der of shall be notified in the Government Gazette, and shall be evidence of the right of the Farties peterned to the Fares or Hires therein mentioned. And no Person owning or having charge of any such Bang, Vessel, or Conveyance, or being such Chair Coolie or Porter, or Bearer or Driver of any such Con-
Hire.