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HONGKONG.
ANNO DECIMO VICTORIE REGINE.
No. 7 of 1846.
By His Excellency Sir John Francis Davis, Baronet, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
AN ORDINANCE TO REPEAL ORDINANCE No. 18 or 1844, AND TO ESTABLISH A MORE EFFECTUAL REGISTRY OF THE CHINESE INHABITANTS,
AND A CENSUS OF THE POPULATION OF THE ISLAND OF HONGKONG.
[31st December, 1846.] WHEREAS the Islands, Ports, Harbours, Coasts, and Places near and adjacent to the Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies are infested by Pirates and Robbers; and whereas it is necessary for the Protection of the Lives and Property of the Inhabitants of this Colony, and in order the more effectually to prevent Crime, that such Pirates and Robbers, and other Persons of notoriously bad Character, should not be permitted to resort to or reside in the said Colony, and it is deemed expedient to repeal Ordinance No. 18 of 13th November 1844, entitled, "An Ordinance to repeal "Ordinance No. 16 of 1814, and to establish a Registry and "Census of the Inhabitants of the Island of Hongkong," and to substitute other Rules and Regulations in lieu thereof:
I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained, by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the Advice of the Legislative Council of the said Colony, that the said Ordinance No. 18 of the Year 1844 be, and the same is hereby repealed, save and except that the Office thereby established, and therein called "The Census "and Registration Office," shall continue for the purposes herein- after mentioned, and the duties and business thereof shall be discharged and performed by a Registrar-General and other Officers and Assistants to be nominated by His Excellency the Governor, and which said Registrar-General, Officers, and Assist- ants shall receive such Salary and Salaries as His Excellency the Governor in Council may be pleased to appoint, subject to Her Majesty's pleasure.
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II. And be it further enacted and ordained, That after the Duties of Regis passing of this Ordinance, the Registrar-General appointed by trar-General. Ordinance No. 18 of 1844, or to be appointed under this Ordi- nance, shall, while he continues to act as such Registrar-General, be Joint Superintendent of Police, a Justice of the Peace, and Protector of Chinese Inhabitants in the said Colony; and that is shall be his duty to use his best endeavours to prevent the com. mission of crime, and to discover and apprehend the perpetrators thereof, and generally to protect the Chinese Inhabitants of this Colony; and for the purposes of this Ordinance the said Registrar- General is hereby authorised at any time or times to enter any house or boat within the Colony or adjacent waters wholly or partly inhabited or manned by Chinese.
III. And be it further enacted and ordained, That it shall and Registrar-General, may be lawful for the said Registrar-General, with the sanction of by direction of the Governor, may di- His Excellency the Governor, or Officer administering the Govern-vide the Colony into ment for the time being, to divide the Colony of Hongkong into Districts. districts; and that the Officers appointed under Ordinance No.
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