ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1846. 209
Registration and Census.
obtained Chinese security to his or their satisfaction , be furnished with a registration
ticket by the Registrar General containing such particulars as may be expedient, and
that the absence of such registration ticket after the tenth day of service shall render
such domestic servant, artificer, or workman liable to a fine of twenty dollars.
9. And be it further enacted and ordained, that every such Chinese domestic Domestic
servants, &c., to
servant, artificer, or workman having obtained a registration ticket as aforesaid, shall deliver their
registration
tickets to their
deliver the same to his master or employer, and the said registration ticket shall be employer, &c.
returned to him duly endorsed by the master or employer whenever the term of service
shall expire : Provided always that if such domestic servant, artificer, or workman shall
leave his master or employer without permission, or shall so misconduct himself as to
be dismissed, then the said master or employer shall deliver the servant's registration
ticket to the Registrar General, with the cause of such domestic servant, artificer, or
workman leaving his service endorsed thereon.
10. And be it further enacted and ordained, that after the date of the passing of Prohibition of
unregistered
hawkers.
this Ordinance it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to hawk goods er wares
of any description whatsoever on the streets or roads of the Colony under a penalty of
not more than twenty dollars, unless specially permitted to do so by the said Registrar
General, who shall enquire into the character and receive proper security for the good
conduct of such hawker, before such permission shall be so granted, and that the said
permission may at any time be forfeited on conviction of any offence before a Police
Magistrate.
11. And be it further enacted and ordained , that every Chinese boat, or vessel Chinese boats,
&c. to be
plying for hire within the waters of this Colony, or carrying passengers between this registered.
[See Ordinance
No. 3 of 1847.]
Colony and the neighbouring ports, shall obtain from the Registrar General a certificate
of such form and under such security as to him shall seem fit, upon payment of fee
according to size as in the schedule hereunto annexed marked A ; and while in the Number of
registry ticket to
waters of this Colony such boat or vessel shall carry on each bow and on the stern the be affixed to
each boat.
number of its register ticket, painted on wood or tin, which number shall be supplied
by the Registrar General ; and if any person, being owner or master of such boat or Penalty on boat
owners.
vessel, shall let to hire or ply, or cause to be let to hire or plied , any such boat or vessel
within the waters of this Colony, without having first applied for and obtained such
certificate of registry, or having obtained such certificate, shall not have affixed the
number thereof on the bows and stern of such boat or vessel as aforesaid , or shall shew
a false certificate of registry, or one granted to another vessel, or shall permit or
connive at the said certificate being made use of for any other vessel, or shall paint or
exhibit a false number on the said boat or vessel, or shall refuse to shew such certificate
of registry to any person when so required , he or they shall in any or either of such
cases for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and be
liable to confiscation of the boat on non -payment of the fine ; Provided that these
provisions shall in no case apply to vessels visiting the Colony for the purposes of
trade.