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Licensing of China Boats, &c.
Power to grant Pro- tection Tickets.
Scale of Boat Fares and Coolie Hire.
Land,
XXIV. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General to grant to such persons, upon such Security and in such Form as he shall think fit, and upon payment to him made to the use of the Crown of such Fee there. for according to size as in the said Schedule hereunto annexed is in that behalf specified, Certificates of License of Chinese Boats or Vessels plying for hire within the waters of this Colony, or carrying passengers between this Colony and the Ports on the Chinese Main; (other than Chinese Boats or Vessels visiting this Colony merely for Trading purposes ;) and every such Boat or Vessel shall carry 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 such Certificate or Number shall be trans- ferred or lent unto any other Boat or Vessel, or the persons on board of the same, nor shall any Certificate or Number other than such as the said Registrar General shall have granted under this Section be assumed And every person having or exhibited by any such Boat or Vessel, or the Persons on board of the same. charge of any such Boat or Vessel is hereby commanded, whensoever thereunto required, to exhibit the Certificate granted in respect thereof under this Section. And all Persons having charge of Chinese Boats or Vessels, and not having obtained or not having on board such Certificate as aforesaid (other than as aforesaid) í are hereby forbidden to employ their said Boats or Vessels in plying here within the said waters, or in carry. ing passengers between this Colony and the said Ports, or to cause, suffer, or connive at their said employ.
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XXV. Upon Security given to the Registrar General and to his satisfaction for the character and conduct of the persons concerned, and upon payment made to him by them of such Fee therefore as in the said Schedule hereunto annexed is in that behalf specified, the Registrar General, when thereunto requested by the said persons, may make out in such form as he shall think fit, and deliver unto the said persons, a Ticket under his hand, entitling any such Chinese Boat or Vessel as aforesaid to the protection of Her Majesty's Naval Forces against Pirates. And it is hereby required, that no such Person shall lend any such Protection Ticket to any other Person, and that no Person shall use or borrow any Protection Ticket whereof he is not the grantee.
XXVI. Scales of Fares for all Licensed Boats and Vessels within the said, waters, and also Scales for the Hire of all Coolies and Labourers by the Day, Hour, or Job, with all proper Regulations for excep tional cases, shall be prepared and fixed, and, if expedient, from time to time altered and varied, by the Registrar General, subject to the approval of His Excellency the Governor in Council; and every such Scale and Variation thereof shall, when and as approved, be notified in the Government Gazette, and shall be And a correct and evidence of the right of the parties concerned to the Fares or Hires therein mentioned. complete copy of every Scale of Fares for the time being in force shall be furnished by the Registrar General to every such Boat or Vessel, which copy the persons owning or having charge of the said Boat or Vessel And it is hereby forbidden to any shall cause to be fixed and exhibited in some conspicuous part thereof. person owning or having charge of any such Boat or Vessel to demand a greater fare, and to any such Coolie or Labourer to demand a greater hire, than by the said respective Scales for the time being in force is sanctioned.
XXVII. No Private Person shall occupy or erect any Building or other thing soever upon Land not Residing or Build- ing, &e, on Crown being under Lease from the Crown without the Licence of the Registrar General, nor with such License if
the same could not have been lawfully occupied or erected before the passing of this Ordinance. Security to appear XXVIII. Any Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may cause any Chinese Person to find within Twelve Months. reasonable Security for his appearance in any Court for any purpose and at any time within Twelve Months; and such Chinese not finding such Security shall be deemed a Person dangerous to the Peace of the Colony, within the meaning of Ordinance No. 2 of 1857.
Licenses for Public Meetings.
The Power to direct Census.
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Blank Returns to be
XXIX. Written Licenses under the hand of the Governor or Registrar General, for the holding of Meetings to consider in a lawful way of the redress of supposed Grievances, or for Religious or Theatrical Entertainments, or for any other purposes of Public Interest, may be granted to any Chinese occupiers apply. ing for the same; and without such Licenses, no Chinese people shall hold or be present at any Meetings soever of a public nature, and not being solely for the purposes of Religious Worship.
XXX. The Governor in Executive Council is empowered to direct the Census of Population to be taken within this Colony from time to time as to His said Excellency in Council shall seem meet, and every such direction may be addressed to the Registrar General.
XXXI. Upon receiving any such direction, the Registrar General shall prepare and cause to be prepared and deliver delivered at every Dwelling and Place of Business throughout this Colony, a Blank Return, to be filled up before a certain day to be therein named with the Names and Number of the Occupiers and Inmates of every such Dwelling or Place of Business, and the persons in their employment or residing with them of within their tenements according to their several Names, Sexes, Occupations, and Countries.
The Blanks to be
XXXII. Every such Blank Return shall, according to its tenor and the truth of the case, be filled up filled up and returned, by the Occupier of the Dwelling or Place of Business where the same shall have been left; and he shall upon demand, within Five Days after the day on which the same was so left, return, or deliver it, so filled up as aforesaid, to the Registrar General.
Penalties.
1. Against Sect. 8.
2. Against Sects, 11 and 12.
3. Against Sects. 14 15, and 18.
5. Against Sect. 22.
6. Against Sect. 24,
7. Against Sect. 25.
8. Against Sect. 26.
9. Against Sect. 27.
10. Against Sect. 28.
11. Against Sect. 29.
12. Against Sect. 32.
13. For every of- fence not specifically provided for.
Enforcement of Pe-
nalties.
XXXIII. Persons violating or disobeying the several Provisions of this Ordinance shall, upon sum- mary conviction of such offence before the Registrar General, or a Stipendiary Magistrate, or any Two Justices of the Peace, incur, forfeit, and pay the several Penalties hereinafter respectively made applicable to the same, that is to say :-
1. For every offence against Section Eight, a Sum not exceeding Forty Dollars, nor less than Five. 2. For every offence against Section Eleven, or Section Twelve, a Sum not exceeding Twenty Dollars,
nor less than Two.
3. For every offence against Section Fourteen, Section Fifteen, or Section Eighteen, a Sum not
exceeding Fifteen Dollars, nor less than One Dollar.
4. For every offence against Section Twenty-two, a Sum not exceeding Twenty Dollars, nor less
than One Dollar.
5. For every offence against Section Twenty-four, a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, nor less than
Ten.
6. For every offence against Section Twenty-five, a Sum not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars, nor less
than Five.
7.
For every offence against Section Twenty-six, a Sum not exceeding Twenty Dollars, nor less
than Fifty Cents.
8. For every offence against Section Twenty-seven, a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, nor less than
Five, (besides the Expenses of the Removal of the Building or thing erected).
9. For every offence against Section Twenty-eight, (unless the same shall be dealt with under the
Ordinance therein mentioned,) a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, nor less than Ten. 10. For every offence against Section Twenty-nine, a Sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars, nơ
less than Five.
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11. For every offence against Section Thirty-two, a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, nor less
than One Dollar.
12. And for every such Disobedience or Violation, for which no specific penalty is hereinbefore provided such Sum, not exceeding in any case Twenty-five Dollars, as the Court shall think fit. XXXIV. In case of nonpayment of any of the said Penalties, the same may be recovered by any of the ways and means whereby, on any summary proceedings before Justices, penalties are or shall be recoverable yet so as that no offender against Section Thirty shall be liable to be imprisoned in such case.