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HONGKONG,

ANNO NONO

VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

No. 13 of 1845.

Y His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Baro- net, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipoten- tiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Sub- jects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong,

AN ORDINANCE TO ESTABLISH A LICENSED GHAUT SERANG IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG, AND FOR THE BETTER RE- GULATION OF LASCARS RESORTING THERETO.

[25th October, 1845.]

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I. WHEREAS it is expedient, That Lascars resorting to the said Colony should have, according to usage, the aid and superintendence of a Ghaut Serang, and also that Legislative provision should be made as respects them and such Serang: No person to act Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of or lodge, or ship as Ghaut Serang, Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, Lascars without Li- That from and after the passing of this Ordinance no person shall act as a Ghaut Serang, or lodge, or ship, or contract for the shipping, of Lascars in the said Island, or the Harbour thereof, without first having obtained from the Colonial Se- cretary of said Island an annual License for that purpose, in whose discretion it shall be to grant or disallow the same, and that a sum of Two Hundred Dollars shall be payable on the

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