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of the year was $1,539. In April, $3,250 were placed in the hands of the Treasurer of the Eyre Diocesan Refuge to be used as an endowment and to be returned to the Registrar General in case the Refuge is closed. The Registrar General's Charitable Fund will now be merged in a larger fund. In 1905 I reported that a small fund was in process of formation by me for the assistance principally of disabled workmen and widows. In my report for 1907 I had to state that I had postponed indefinitely any attempt to obtain substantial additions to the Fund. This year prospects seemed more favourable and I was encouraged to think I might raise $15,000. When my intention became known, the task of raising the money was taken out of my hands by Mr. Ho Kom-tong and Mr. Lau Chü-pak, a Committee was formed of which the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai was the Chairman and $36,200 were raised and presented to the Government to be used for the purposes to which I had destined what I could collect. The subscribers asked that my name should be connected with it, and in this and future reports I shall have the embarrassment of making mention of The Brewin Charity. As it has not been possible to arrange for Government Officers to act as trustees, the subscriptions have been placed in the hands of the Tung Wa Hospital and the income will be administered by the Registrar General.
LEGISLATION.
The principal Ordinances of 1910 which affected the Chinese and which are of other than technical interest are:-
No. 10 of 1910.-The Malicious Damage Amendment Ordinance. The second part of this Ordinance which relates to injuries to trees and plants upon Crown Land and to other Crown property, and provides for inflicting a fine on resident landowners continues the policy of the Trees Preservation Ordinance, 1888, but requires an enquiry to be held before a fine can be inflicted. In the Colony (except the New Territories) the enquiry is to be held by the Registrar General and the Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry Department.
No. 15 of 1910.-The Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance. This amendment of Ordinance No. 4 of 1897 was made with the object of establishing the legal position of the Registrar General as guardian of all children who may have been sold by their parents, and of legalising the powers he has hitherto exercised when any case of ill-treatment of domestic servants was brought to his notice.
No. 20 of 1910.-The Marriage Amendment Ordinance. By this Ordinance a much needed change is made in the Marriage Law. To prevent fraud, the facilities hitherto given to Chinese even though not resident in Hongkong, to contract a civil marriage in the Colony, have been withdrawn; and except under a Governor's licence, only Chinese who have been born in the Colony or are permanently resident here, and who have contracted or are about to contract, a marriage according to the rites and customs of China, can contract a civil marriage before the Registrar General.
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of the year was $1,539. In April, $3,250 were placed in the hands of the Treasurer of the Eyre Diocesan Refuge to be used as an en- dowment and to be returned to the Registrar General in case the Refuge is closed. The Registrar General's Charitable Fund will now be merged in a larger fund. In 1905 I reported that a small fund was in process of formation by me for the assistance principal- ly of disabled workmen and widows. In my report for 1907 I had to state that I had postponed indefinitely any attempt to obtain sub- stantial additions to the Fund. This year prospects seemed more favourable and I was encouraged to think I might raise $15,000. When my intention became known, the task of raising the money was taken out of my hands by Mr. Ho Kom-tong and Mr. Lau Chü-pak, a Committee was formed of which the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai was the Chairman and $36,200 were raised and presented to the Government to be used for the purposes to which I had destined what I could collect. The subscribers asked that my name should be connected with it, and in this and future reports I shall have the embarrass- ment of making mention of The Brewin Charity. As it has not been possible to arrange for Government Officers to act as trustees, the subscriptions have been placed in the hands of the Tung Wa Hospital and the income will be administered by the Registrar General.
LEGISLATION.
The principal Ordinances of 1910 which affected the Chinese and which are of other than technical interest are:-
No. 10 of 1910.-The Malicious Damage Amendment Ordinance. The second part of this Ordinance which relates to injuries to trees and plants upon Crown Land and to other Crown property, and pro- vides for inflicting a fine on resident landowners continues the policy of the Trees Preservation Ordinance, 1888, but requires an enquiry to be held before a fine can be inflicted. In the Colony (except the New Territories) the enquiry is to be held by the Registrar General and the Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry Department.
No. 15 of 1910.-The Protection of Women and Girls Amend- ment Ordinance. This amendment of Ordinance No. 4 of 1897 was made with the object of establishing the legal position of the Registrar General as guardian of all children who may have been sold by their parents, and of legalising the powers he has hitherto exercised when any case of ill-treatment of domestic servants was brought to his notice.
No. 20 of 1910.-The Marriage Amendment Ordinance. By this Ordinance a much needed change is made in the Marriage Law. To prevent fraud, the facilities hitherto given to Chinese even though not resident in Hongkong, to contract a civil marriage in the Colony, have been withdrawn; and except under a Governor's licence, only Chinese who have been born in the Colony or are permanently resident here, and who have contracted or are about to contract, a marriage according to the rites and customs of China, can contract a civil marriage before the Registrar General.
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