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Recovery of For- XV. And be it further enacted and ordained, That any person feituresand Penalties who may enter into any security to be taken by the Registrar- General or by any Police Magistrate under this Ordinance which shall become forfeited in its conditions, such person shall by such forfeiture be considered to have incurred a penalty of not more than the amount of such security, which penalty shall be recovered with all or any of the other penalties mentioned in this Ordinance in a summary manner, before any Police Magistrate, under the pro- visions of Ordinance No. 10 of 1844: Provided always that the penalty of Imprisonment shall not in any case attach to the viola- tion of any of the provisions hereinafter contained respecting the Returns to be made by any Householder for the purpose of any Census so required as hereinafter mentioned.

Census.

XVI. And be it further enacted and ordained, That for the purposes of the census, the said Registrar-General or such other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid shall, when and so often as he may be directed by the Governor and Executive Council, cause to be delivered or left at the residence or place of business of any or every householder or householders, being Europeans, Natives of India, or otherwise, a blank return to be filled up before a certain day to be therein named, with the names and number of persons in his or their employ or residing within his or their house or houses, or on his or their premises, and shall in every such re- turn distinguish and describe the name, sex, country, and occupa tion of every person so resident, and also whether any and which of them be either Aliens or resident Strangers; and that on or after the said day named in the said Blank Return, the said householder Returns to be made or householders is and are hereby required to transmit the said by Householders.

return or deliver the same on demand within five days after its being left at such Residence or Place of Business as aforesaid, so filled up, to the said Registrar-General, or such other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid, and on failure to do so, the said house- holder or householders shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Dollars.

It.terpretation clause.

XVII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That for the purposes of this Ordinance the term Householder shall be taken to mean the person acting as master of the house for the time being, or should he not be found after due enquiry made, the owner of the house, or the agent or person acting for the owner of the House, being Chinese, and where a house is tenanted by several individuals as partners or otherwise, then any one of the said part- ners or individuals. And the term House shall be understood to mean any dwelling-house, shop, outhouse, or other building whatsoever, and the term European shall be taken to mean all persons other than Chinese, and the term Chinese shall be taken to mean all natives of China or Chinese Natives of Hongkong or elsewhere, and every word importing the singular number only, shall extend and be applied to several persons as well as one person, and every word importing the masculine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male, unless where such rule of Interpretation shall be inconsistent with the context of this Ordinance.

Large Fast Boats

Middle Sized do.

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SCHEDULE A.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this Thirty-first day of December, 1846. L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO Clerk of Councils.

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J. F. DAVIS,

Governor, &c., &e.

LaiAlmare, Castro Clerk of Councils.

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Ixtract of a Report from the Officiating

Registrar boneral, dated 19 October, 1846.

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The Registration of the Chinese.

any thing

can never_

more than an assistance to the

Police Department, the general officiency of which-

depends entirely upon the nature-

construction, and the

of its

non-

in

system adopted, relation to the habits, manners, and general - character, of the people. Not there are points in. which the present system- of Registration might be materially improved .

petty I find that in many cases both persons

and boats produce a supposititions security,

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of whore seal, they profess to produce.

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