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APPENDIX F.
A
BILL
ESTITLED
An Ordinance to provide for the Registration of Chair and Jinricksha Coolies in private employ.
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the Registration of Chair and Jiuricksha Coolies in private employ :
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Private Coolie Ordinance, 1901.”
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2. In this Ordinance, the word "coolie means a Chinese employed by a non-Chinese as the bearer of a chair or the puller of a jinricksha.
The word "master coolie.
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3. A Register of Coolies shall be kept at the Central Police Station, and shall be under the control of the Captain Superintendent of Police.
4. (1) Every person, who, at the commencement of this Ordinance, is employed as a coolie, shall, within thirty days next thereafter, attend at the Central Police Station and furnish the Captain Superintendent of Police with the following partienlars, to be entered in such Re- gister:-
(a.) Names.
(b.) Age.
(e.) Whother chair bearer or jinricksha puller or both. (d.) Name and address of master.
(e.) Native place.
(f.) Such other particulars as the Captain Superintend-
ent of Police may require.
(2.) He shall also furnish two copies of his photograph, one to be inserted in the Register, the other to be attaclied to the Certificate of Registration.
5. Every person, who, after the commencement of this Ordinance, shall wish to engage himself as a coolie, shall attend at the Central Police Station and supply the par- ticulars and photographs mentioned or referred to in section
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6. Any person coming within the meaning of the pro- visions of sections 4 and 5, shall, after supplying the requisite particulars and photographs, receive from the Captain Superintendent of Police, a numbered Certificate of Registration in the form given in the Schedule hereto, or such other form as may, from time to time, be approved by the Governor-in-Council, provided always that it shall be competent for the Captain Superintendent of Police, in his discretion, to rofuse such Certificate of Registration to any person.
7. The Certificate of Registration shall be issued gratis, and shall contain on the face thereof, the particulars, except (d.), required by section 4 to be entered in the Register. There shall be endorsed on such Certificate, the names and. addresses of all masters and the periods of service with each master, and there shall be a column for remarks by a Magistrate. Moreover, the face of the Certificate shall bear the Police Department seal of which a portion shall be impressed upon the photograph.
8. Every registered coolie shall, within thirty-six hours of every change of service, report the same at the Central Police Station, and produce his Certificate for the purpose of having the name and address of his new master endorsed thereon.
9. Every 'coolie, within three days of entering into service, shall deliver to his master his Certificate, which shall be kept by that master and shall be returned to the coolie upon his discharge from service.