44 COLONIAL ORDINANCES .
said Registrar-General, Officers, and Assistants shall receive such
Salary and Salaries as His Excellency the Governor in Council may
be pleased to appoint, subject to Her Majesty's Pleasure.
Duties of Registrar- II. And be it further enacted and ordained , That after the
General.
passing of this Ordinance, the Registrar-General appointed by Ordi-
nance No. 18 of 1844, or to be appointed under this Ordinance,
shall, while he continues to act as such Registrar-General, be Joint
Superintendent of Police, a Justice of the Peace, and Protector of
Chinese Inhabitants in the said Colony ; and that it shall be his
Duty to use his best Endeavours to prevent the Commission of
Crime, and to discover and apprehend the Perpetrators thereof, and
generally to protect the Chinese Inhabitants of this Colony ; and for
the purposes of this Ordinance the said Registrar- General is hereby
authorised at any Time or Times to enter any House or Boat within
the Colony or adjacent Waters wholly or partly inhabited or manned
by Chinese.
Registrar-Generalby III. And be it further enacted and ordained , That it shall and
Direction of the Go-
vernor, may divide the may be lawful for the said Registrar-General, with the Sanction of
Colony into Districts. His Excellency the Governor, or Officer administering the Govern-
ment for the Time being, to divide the Colony of Hongkong into
Districts ; and that the Officers appointed under Ordinance No. 13 of
1844, and therein called Paouchong and Paoukea, shall be obedient
to the Orders of the said Registrar-General, and shall at all Times
make such Returns and do all other Things for the Purposes of this
Ordinance as shall be required of them by the said Registrar- General ,
under a Penalty of not more than One Hundred Dollars.
Numbering of Chi- IV. And whereas, for the purpose of giving greater Facility to
nese Houses.
the carrying out the Intentions of this Ordinance, it is necessary
and expedient that all the Houses in the Colony of Hongkong
inhabited by Chinese be numbered : Be it therefore enacted and
ordained, That every Chinese Householder shall cause to be affixed
to his House a painted Number of such Description, and in such
Manner as the Registrar-General shall direct, under a Penalty not
exceeding Forty Dollars.
Tickets to Chinese V. And be it further enacted and ordained, That for the Benefit
Householders.
and Protection of the well-disposed and honest Chinese Inhabitants
of the Colony, every such Householder shall receive a Ticket in
English, signed by the Registrar-General, containing such Parti-
culars as the Registrar-General shall deem expedient, which Ticket
shall be produced when required, under a Penalty not exceeding
Twenty Dollars.
Householder to issue VI. And be it further enacted and ordained , That every such
Tickets to all Residents
&c. Householder shall cause to be hung up and exhibited in some
on
conspicuous Part of his House, a Board inscribed with a true and
accurate List of all Persons resident therein, and shall deliver to
every Person so residing or living in his House, a Ticket sealed
with his Seal, and containing such Particulars and of such Form as
the said Registrar-General shall direct, under a Penalty of not more
than Twenty Dollars, and which said Ticket shall be given up to and
cancelled by such Householder, whenever such Person or Persons
SO