ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1858 . 415
Regulation of Chinese - Census.
be prepared and fixed , and , if expedient, from time to time altered and varied, by His
Excellency the Governor ; and every such scale and variation thereof shall be notified
in the Government Gazette, and shall be evidence of the right of the parties concerned
to the fares or hires therein mentioned . And no person owning or having charge of
any such boat, vessel, or conveyance, or being such chair coolie or porter, or bearer or
driver of any such conveyance, 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 notified ;
and no such person shall refuse, without reasonable and sufficient cause, to accept
employment according to his scale, whensoever offered in conformity with this Ordi
nance, or use any abusive or insolent language to any persen soever so employing
him , or offering him such employment. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 13 of 1888. ]
18. No person soever, Chinaman or European , shall lodge, receive , Licences to
receive and
or keep any Chinese labourers or coolies ( not being persons in his actual lodge ccclies,
&c.
employment as such, or bonâ fide inmates of his tenement, boat , or vessel , )
nor any Chinese emigrants or 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 bona 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 required 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 shall be expedient.
19. 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, &r +
cation shall be made to him for a licence, under section 18 , before he shall grant or for the purpose
and prevention
of abuse.
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. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 24 of 1887. ]
20. No private person shall occupy or erect any building or other Residing or
building. &c ..
thing soever upon land not being under lease from the Crown, without on Crown
land .
the licence of the Surveyor General ; nor with such licence, if the same