Appendix, No.6.
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HONGKONG.
ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINÆ.
No. 8 of 1858.
His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative cil of Hongkong.
An Ordinance for Regulation of the Chinese People, and for the Population Census, and for other Purposes of Police..
10th May, 1858..]
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the elative Council thereof, in manner following, that is to say:—
1. Ordinance No. 6 of 1857 is hereby repealed.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 6 of 1857,
Census and Regis-
The Census and Registration Office presently existing in Victoria shall, for the purposes of this inance, be continued and established, together with the Registrar General and other the Officers and tration Office stants by whom the duties and business thereof have been hitherto performed; and also together with lished. Classification presently existing, in the Books of the said Office, of Boats and Vessels, for the purposes of Schedule to this Ordinance.
The several Persons now being the Registrar General, Officers, and Assistants, of the said Office, discharge the duties and business thereof in future at their present Salaries during His Excellency's sure; 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 Hes 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 esty'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.
estab-
Appointments of Of-
ficers.
eral.
IV. The Registrar General is, by virtue of his Office, and for the execution of this Ordinance, and Powers and Duties otherwise, the Protector of Chinese Inhabitants within this Colony, and as such is bounden to use his of the Registrar Gen.
endeavours to prevent the commission of crime, and, if committed, to discover and apprehend the ies guilty thereof, and generally to watch over and protect the said Chinese Inhabitants; and, for the poses aforesaid only, he is empowered to enter at any reasonable time or times, as he shall find meet, any ing soever within this Colony, or Vessel or Boat soever within the Waters of the same or adjacent reto, if such Building, Vessel, or Boat shall then have any Chinaman within or on board of the same.
V. The other Officers and Assistants in the said Census and Registration Office shall be obedient and ing unto the said Registrar General in the execution of this Ordinance.
Duties of the other Officers and Assistants.
The Chief Magis-
VI. The Powers and Authorities touching the direction and Superintendence of the Police Force,
by Ordinance 12 of 1844 were vested in the Chief Magistrate of Police, are from henceforth vested trate's authority to and shall be exercised by, the Superintendent of Police for the time being, constituted under the said devolve upon the Su- perintendent of Police. inance; and obedience shall be rendered by the Police Force of this Colony to the orders of the said erintendent 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 erintendent 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 execution of the duties is office, and the said Force when so required shall receive orders from the Superintendent of Police Enspector on duty, to obey the commands of the said Registrar General in the same manner as those of
Superintendent of Police.
Vil. Every Person occupying a House, shall cause the Number thereof to be continued upon or anted 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 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 Conncil for that purpose.
IX. Every Tepo shall have, throughout his Town, Village, Hamlet, or District, but not further or Powers and Duties herwise, the same powers and authorities, and perform the duties of Constable, and, in that capacity, of the Tepos.
all be immediately subordinate unto the Registrar General, and shall conform to whatsoever lawful Orders,
les, and Regulations he shall, with the approbation of His Excellency, frame and issue for the better
fecution of their duties under this Ordinance.
X. The amount of the Salary of each Tepo shall be from time to time fixed by His Excellency in uncil, and shall be paid out of the Produce of the Police Tax.
XI. The Hawking of Goods or Wares in the Streets or Roads of this Colony, without a License
the Registrar General, is hereby prohibited.
XII. No License for such Hawking shall be granted by the Registrar General to any Person except
Salaries of the Tepos.
Unlicensed Hawk- ing prohibited.
Conditions and Fees
ject to forfeiture on conviction of the holder of any offence before any Justice of the Peace. And of Hawking Licenses. ery Applicant, on receiving his said License, shall pay therefor to the Registrar General, to the use of the own, 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- ake 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 takers' Licenses.
uration 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
nexed.
None but Licensed
or dig Graves.
The Undertakersare
XIV. No Person, not being an Undertaker licensed under Section Thirteen, shall henceforward dertake 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 ad repress all Offences against, and Violations of, the Laws for regulating Chinese Burials, and to apprehend, required to prevent 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.
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