ORDINANCE No. 18 OF 1844.
Registration and Census.
when and so often as he may be directed by the Governor and Executive Council cause to be delivered or left at the residence or place of business of any householder or householders a blank return to be filled up before a certain day to be therein named with the names and numbers of persons in his or their employment or residing within his or their house or houses or on his or their premises and shall in every such return distinguish and describe the sex, country, and occupation of every person so resident as also whether any and which of them be either aliens or resident strangers; and that on or after the said day named in the said blank return the said householder or householders is or are hereby required to transmit the said return or deliver the same on demand within five days after its being left at such residence or place of business as aforesaid so filled up to the said Registrar General or such other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid; and on failure to do so the said householder or householders shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars each.
12. And be it further enacted and ordained that all lighters, bumboats, ferry boats, and other vessels plying for hire within the harbours and waters of this Colony shall be duly registered with the number and description of the crew and of the persons living therein by the said registering officer or such other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid; the said particulars to be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose; and a certificate of such registry shall be given to the master or headman of such lighter, bumboat, ferry boat, or other vessel; the number of such registry to be legibly painted on each side and on the stern of such lighter, bumboat, ferry boat, or other vessel.
13. And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person not having previously obtained such certificate of registry and not having painted the number on such lighter, bumboat, ferry boat, or other vessel as is hereinbefore provided shall let or hire or cause to be let or hired any such lighter, bumboat, ferry boat, or other vessel within the waters of the said Colony; or shall show a false certificate of registry or one granted for another vessel; or shall permit or connive at the said certificate being made use of for another vessel; or shall paint or exhibit a false number on the said lighter, bumboat, ferry boat, or other vessel; he shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and be liable to confiscation of the boat on non-payment of the fine.
14. And be it further enacted and ordained that all masters of Chinese vessels frequenting the waters of this Colony shall report themselves immediately upon their arrival in such waters and previous to their departure to the registering officer, who shall grant them a certificate of entry or clearance; or if he see cause to withhold the certificate of clearance, he shall report the same to Government.
15. And be it further enacted and ordained that every master of a Chinese vessel who shall not conform to the provisions of the section hereinbefore last mentioned shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty dollars.
16. And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person shall wilfully conceal or falsify the particulars of any information required of him for the purposes of this Ordinance; or shall on applying to be registered give a false name or description; or shall ...
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