ORDINANCE No. 14 of 1870.
Passes for Chinese.
12. The Superintendent of Police shall cause a register of passes to be kept in his office, in which the following particulars shall be entered, that is to say:-
1. The name and address of every person to whom passes have been issued by him.
2. The number of passes issued.
3. The period for which the same were issued.
4. Any other particulars which he may think expedient to record.
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Register of passes to be kept.
13. No applicant shall, without the order of a Magistrate, be entitled to a greater number of passes than the Superintendent of Police shall deem reasonable.
14. The Superintendent of Police may, upon reasonable grounds, refuse to issue passes to any applicant, without the order of a Magistrate.
15. Passes issued by the Superintendent of Police may be lawfully used by any Chinese with the authority of the person to whom the same shall have been issued.
16. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Police upon reasonable grounds to cancel and call in any pass issued by him: Provided always that every person aggrieved by any such cancellation of a pass may apply for redress to a Police Magistrate who may make such order thereon as the justice of the case may require.
Penalties.
Power to refuse passes.
Such passes transferable.
Power to cancel such passes.
17. Every Chinese who shall without reasonable excuse, the proof of which shall lie upon him, be found at large during the night without a pass, &c.
Penalty for being at large during the night without a pass.
17. Every Chinese who shall without reasonable excuse, the proof of which shall lie upon him, be found at large between the hour of nine in the evening and sunrise, or between such hours of the night as may from time to time be specified in that behalf by any orders of the Governor in Council, without a valid pass issued in conformity with this Ordinance, or with a pass which he shall not be lawfully authorized to use, shall be liable on summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars with or without imprisonment with hard labor for any period not exceeding three months.
18. Every Chinese not being the lawful holder of a pass who shall without reasonable excuse, the proof of which shall lie upon him, carry any deadly weapon whatever about him, whether by night or day, shall be liable on summary conviction thereof, to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment with hard labor for any period not exceeding six months, and such weapon shall be forfeited to the Crown. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 6 of 1887.]
19. Whosoever, with intent to defraud, shall forge or alter any pass, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off any pass, knowing the same to be forged or altered, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable at the discretion of the Court to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labor.
Penalty for being found carrying deadly weapons without a pass.
Forgery, &c., of passes.