412 ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1858 .
Regulation of Chinese - Census.
No. 8 of 1858 .
An Ordinance for Regulation of the Chinese People, and for
the Population Census, and for other Purposes of Police .
[ 10th May, 1858. ]
E it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of
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Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, in
manner following, that is to say :
Repeal ofOrdi 1. Ordinance No. 6 of 1857 is hereby repealed . [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 13 of
nance No. 6 of
1857. 1888. ]
CensusandRegis 2. The Census and Registration Office presently existing in Victoria shall, for
tration Office
established. the purposes of this Ordinance, be continued and established, together with the
Registrar General and other the officers and assistauts by whom the duties and business
thereof have been hitherto performed ; and also together with the classification
presently existing, in the books of the said office, of boats and vessels, for the purposes
of the schedule to this Ordinance. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 13 of 1888. ]
Appointments of 3. The several persons now being the Registrar General, officers, and assistants,
officers.
of the said office, shall discharge the duties and business thereof in future at their
present salaries during His Excellency's pleasure ; and upon any vacancy, His
Excellency may from time to time nominate and appoint such person or persons to be
such Registrar General, officers, and assistants respectively, and at such salary and
salaries as to His Excellency shall seem meet, and also remove him or them at His
Excellency's discretion from time to time, and nominate and appoint another or others
in his or their room ; yet so as that Her Majesty's pleasure shall be taken as to every
nomination, appointment, and removal of a Registrar General, and as to every new
limitation of salary under the provisions of this section . [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 13
of 1888, and see section 3 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1866.]
Powers and 4. The Registrar General is, by virtue of his office, and for the execution of this
duties of the
Registrar Ordinance, and not otherwise, the Protector of Chinese inhabitants within this Colony,
General.
and as such is bounden to use his best endeavours to prevent the commission of crime,
and, if committed, to discover and apprehend the parties guilty thereof, and generally
to watch over and protect the said Chinese inhabitants ; and, for the purposes aforesaid
only, he is empowered to enter at any reasonable time or times, as he shall find meet,
any building soever within this Colony, or vessel or boat soever within the waters of
the same or adjacent thereto, if such building, vessel , or boat shall then have any
Chinaman within or on board of the same. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 13 of 1888. ]
Duties of the 5. The other officers and assistants in the said Census and Registration Office
otherofficers and
assistants. shall be obedient and assisting unto the said Registrar General in the execution of this
Ordinance. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 13 of 1888. ]