376 ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1857.
Registration and Census.
number of her certificate aforesaid, which number shall be supplied by the Registrar
General for that purpose ; and no such certificate or number shall be transferred or
lent unto any other boat or vessel, or the persons on board of the same, nor shall any
certificate or number other than such as the said Registrar General shall have granted
under this section be assumed or exhibited by any such boat or vessel, or the persons
on board of the same. And every person having charge of any such boat or vessel is
hereby commanded , whensoever thereunto required , to exhibit the certificate granted
in respect thereof under this section. And all persons having charge of Chinese boats
or vessels, and not having obtained or not having on board such certificate as aforesaid
(other than as aforesaid ) are hereby forbidden to employ their said boats or vessels in
plying here within the said waters, or in carrying passengers between this Colony and
the said ports, or to cause, suffer, or connive at their said employment.
Power to grant 28. Upon security given to the Registrar General and to his satisfaction for the
protection
tickets.
character and conduct of the persons concerned , and upon payment made to him by
them of such fee therefor as in the said schedule hereunto annexed is in that behalf
specified, the Registrar General, when thereunto requested by the said persons, may
make out in such form as he shall think fit, and deliver unto the said persons, a ticket
under his hand, entitling any Chinese boat or vessel having such certificate as aforesaid
to the protection of Her Majesty's Naval Forces against pirates. And it is hereby
required, that no such person shall lend any such protection ticket to any other person,
and that no person shall use or borrow any protection ticket whereof he is not the
grantee.
Scale of boat 29. Scales of fares for all licensed boats and vessels within the said waters, and
fares and coolie
hire.
also scales for the hire of all coolies and labourers by the day, hour, or job , with all
proper regulations for exceptional cases, shall be prepared and fixed , and, if expedient,
from time to time altered and varied, by the Registrar General, subject to the approval
of His Excellency the Governor in Council ; and every such scale and variation thereof
shall, when and as approved , be notified in the Government Gazette, and shall be evi
dence of the right of the parties concerned to the fares or hires therein mentioned .
And a correct and complete copy of every scale of fares for the time being in force shall
be furnished by the Registrar General to every such boat or vessel, which copy the
persons owning or having charge of the said boat or vessel shall cause to be fixed and
exhibited in some conspicuous part thereof. And no person owning or having charge of
any such boat or vessel, or being such coolie or labourer, shall demand or receive a
greater fare or hire than by the scale for the time being in force and relating thereto
is sanctioned ; and no such person shall refuse, without reasonable and sufficient cause,
to accept employment according to his scale, whensoever offered in conformity with this
Ordinance, or use any abusive or insolent language to any person soever, so employing
or offering him such employment.
Licences to
receive and 30. No person soever, Chinaman or European, shall lodge, receive, or keep any
lodge coolies, &c.
Chinese labourers or coolies, (not being persons in his actual employment as such , or
bona fide inmates of his tenement, boat, or vessel), nor any Chinese emigrants, or