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HONGKONG.
ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIA REGINE.
No. 8 of 1858.
By His Excellency SIR JOHN BowaING, Knight, LL.D., 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 for Regulation of the Chinese People, and for the Population Census, and for other Purposes of Police.
[10th May, 1858.]
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, iu manner following, that is to say:
I. Ordinance No. 6 of 1857 is hereby repealed.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 6 of 1857.
Census and Regis-
II. The Census and Registration Office presently existing in Victoria shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be continued and established, together with the Registrar General and other the Officers and tration Office estab Assistants by whom the duties and business thereof have been hitherto performed; and also together with lished. the Classification presently existing, in the Books of the said Office, of Boats and Vessels, for the purposes of the Schedule to this Ordinance.
ficers.
III. The several Persons now being the Registrar General, Officers, and Assistants, of the said Office, Appointments of Of- shall discharge the duties and business thereof in future at their present Salaries during His Excellency's pleasure; and upon any vacancy, His Excellency way from time to time nominate and appoint such Person for Persons to be such Registrar General, Officers, and Assistants respectively, and at such Salary and Salaries as to His Excellency shall seem meet, and also remove him or them at His Excellency's discretion from time to time, and nominate and appoint another or others in his or their room; yet so as that Her Majesty's pleasure shall be taken as to every nomination, appointment, and removal of a Registrar General, and as to every new limitation of Salary under the provisions of this Section.
Powers and Duties
eral.
IV. The Registrar General is, by virtue of his Office, and for the execution of this Ordinance, and not otherwise, the Protector of Chinese Inhabitants within this Colony, and as such is bounden to use his of the Registrar Gen- best endeavours to prevent the commission of crime, and, if committed, to discover and apprehend the Parties guilty thereof, and generally to watch over and protect the said Chinese Inhabitants; and, for the purposes aforesaid only, he is empowered to enter at any reasonable time or times, as he shall find meet, any Building soever within this Colony, or Vessel or Boat soever within the Waters of the same or adjacent thereto, if such Building, Vessel, or Boat shall then have any Chinaman within or on board of the same.
V. The other Officers and Assistants in the said Census and Registration Office shall be obedient and assisting unto the said Registrar General in the execution of this Ordinance.
Duties of the other Officers and Assistants.
perintendent of Police.
VI. The Powers and Authorities touching the direction and Superintendence of the Police Force, The Chief Magis- which by Ordinance 12 of 1844 were vested in the Chief Magistrate of Police, are from henceforth vested trate's authority to in, and shall be exercised by, the Superintendent of Police for the time being, constituted under the said devoire upon the Su- "Ordinance; and obedience shall be rendered by the Police Force of this Colony to the orders of the said Superintendent of Police, and to all Rules and Regulations by him made or to be made with the approba- tion of the Governor in Council; and the Registrar General is hereby empowered to require from the Superintendent of Police, or in his absence from the Officer acting for him, the services of such of the subordinate members of the Police Force as he may deem necessary for the due execution of the duties of his office, and the said Force when so required shall receive orders from the Superintendent of Police or Inspector on duty, to obey the commands of the said Registrar General in the same maouer as those of the Superintendent of Police.
VIL. Every Person occupying a House, shall cause the Number thereof to be continued upon or painted and affixed to such House, in such wise as the Registrar General shall direct.
Numbers to be painted.
VIII. His Excellency in Council shall have power to approve for, and appoint to, the office of Tepo in Power to elect and any Town, Village, Hamlet, and District, of this Colony, a proper Person to be presented unto him by the appoint Tepos. Occupiers of Chinese Houses therein, or (in default of such presentment) to be nominated by His Excellency in Council for that purpose.
IX. Every Tepo shall have, throughout his Town, Village, Hamlet, or District, but not further or Powers and Duties otherwise, the same powers and authorities, and perform the duties of Constable, and, in that capacity, of the Tepos. shall be immediately subordinate unto the Registrar General, and shall conform to whatsoever lawful Orders, Rules, and Regulations he shall, with the approbation of His Excellency, frame and issue for the better execution of their duties under this Ordinance.
X. The amount of the Salary of each Tepo shall be from time to time fixed by His Excellency in Council, and shall be paid out of the Produce of the Police Tax.
XI. The Hawking of Goods or Wares in the Streets or Roads of this Colony, without a License from the Registrar General, is hereby prohibited.
Salaries of the Tepos.
Unlicensed Hawk- ing prohibited.
Conditions and Fees
XII. No License for such Hawking shall be granted by the Registrar General to any Person except subject to forfeiture on conviction of the holder of any offence before any Justice of the Peace. And of Hawking Licenses, every Applicant, on receiving his said License, shall pay therefor to the Registrar General, to the use of the Crown, the Fee in that behalf mentioned in the Schedule hereunto annexed.
XIII The Registrar General shall grant to such fit and proper Persons, being Chinamen, as shall The Registrar Ĝe- make application unto him in that behalf, Licenses to undertake and perform the Burials of Chinese Dead neral to grant Under- in the Cemeteries, and after the manner prescribed by law; and every such License shall be limited in takers' Licensos. duration to One Year, but renewable at the expiration of each Year; and there shall be paid to him to the
use of the Crown for every such grant or renewal the Fee in that behalf specified in the Schedule hereunto
anuexed.
or dig Graves.
The Undertakers are
XIV. No Person, not being an Undertaker licensed under Section Thirteen, shall henceforward None but Licensed undertake or perform any Burials of Chinese Dead, or dig any Grave within any such Cemetery as aforesaid, Undertakers to bury
XV. Every Licensed Undertaker is hereby required to use his best skill and endeavour to prevent and repress all Offences against, and Violations of, the Laws for regulating Chinese Burials, and to apprehend, required to prevent or cause to be apprehended, all Persons accused thereof, and from time to time to report every such Offence and repress Offences or Violation to the Registrar General with all reasonable speed.
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