ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1857 . 377
Registration and Census.
intending emigrants, in or upon any tenement within this Colony, or on board of any
boat or vessel lying within the same or the waters thereof, and not being at the time
actually and bonâ fide engaged in or for the lawful voyage of the labourers, coolies or
emigrants then on board thereof, unless such person shall have first obtained from the
said Registrar General his licence in writing in that behalf, which licence the said
Registrar General is hereby empowered to grant for such term and upon such conditions
as he shall think fit, upon proof first made of the fitness of such person to receive the
said licence, and upon payment by him to the said Registrar General advanced and
made for the same of such yearly or other fee, as in the schedule hereto is expressed,
and he may from time to time call in and revoke or alter the same so often as he shall
deem expedient .
31. The Registrar General is charged especially for the purposes of this Ordinance Visitation,
inspection, and
to visit, inspect, and approve of any tenement, boat, or vessel, in respect whereof appli approval of
tenements , &c.,
for the purpose
cation shall be made to him for a licence, under section 30, before he shall grant and prevention
of abuse.
or renew the same ; and it shall be at all times during the continuance of any licence
by him so granted or renewed , his duty to enforce the observance of good order, decency,
and morality, and the prevention or punishment of nuisances and other abuses among
the inmates thereof, and whether by them or by any other person committed, and to
secure to the said inmates the enjoyment of their personal rights, as British subjects
whether permanently or for the time being.
32. No private person shall occupy or erect any building or other thing soever Residing or
building, &c., on
upon land not being under lease from the Crown, without the licence of the Registrar Crown land.
General, nor with such licence, if the same could not have been lawfully occupied or
erected before the passing of this Ordinance.
33. Any Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may cause any Chinese Security to
appear within
person to find reasonable security for his appearance in any Court for any purpose and twelve months.
at any time within twelve months, and every adjudication to that effect shall be re
ported forthwith to His Excellency ; and such Chinese not finding such security shall
be deemed a person dangerous to the peace of the Colony, within the meaning of Or
dinance No. 2 of 1857.
34. Written licences under the hand of the Governor or Registrar General, for Licences for
public meetings.
the holding of meetings to consider in a lawful way the redress of supposed grievances ,
or for religious or theatrical entertainments, or for any other purposes of public in
terest, may be granted to any Chinese occupiers applying for the same ; and without
such licences, no Chinese people shall hold or be present at any meetings soever of a
public nature, not convened by the Governor or sheriff, and not being solely for the
purposes of religious worship .
35. Mendicancy in the public highways or streets is hereby forbidden . Mendicancy
forbidden.
36. The Governor in Council is empowered to direct the census of population to The power to
direct census
be taken within this Colony from time to time as to His said Excellency in Council
shall seem meet, and every such direction may be addressed to the Registrar General .