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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

No. 51.

No. 199.

Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 12TH DECEMBER, 1874.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

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The following Bill for dividing the City of Victoria into Districts, and for the better Registration of Householders and Chinese Traders and Servants in the Colony, is published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 11th December, 1874.

J. Gardiner Austin, Colonial Secretary.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, dividing the City of Victoria into Districts, and for the better Registration of Householders and Chinese Traders and Servants in the Colony of Hongkong.

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HEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the better Preamble.

registration of householders and of Chinese traders.

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in the regular employ of persons other than Chinese: Be it

therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

I. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Victoria Registration Short title. Ordinance, 1874."

II. "The Victoria Registration Ordinance, 1866," is hereby repealed: but such repeal shall not affect the validity of any thing done thereunder, or of any register kept or made there- under, and all such registers shall remain in force for the pur- poses of this Ordinance, and copies thereof or extracts therefrom shall be received in evidence in all Courts of the Colony, if cer- tified in the manner prescribed by this Ordinance.

Repeal.

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III. In the construction of this Ordinance, the term "house- Interpretation holder" shall mean the actual tenart or occupant of the whole clause. of any building or tenement in a district of Victoria, or in holder." cases where there shall be no such person, then the immediate landlord of the whole of such building or tenement, but shall not include or extend to any person other than a Chinese, unless a portion of his house be rented by any Chinese, and in cases of companies and corporations, the Secretary or Manager thereof shall be deemed the householder, and shall be liable to all the provisions of this Ordinance accordingly.

The expression "full names" shall mean the name which is first given to a Chinese after birth and his surname.

"Full names.”

districts.

IV. The city of Victoria shall, for the purposes of registration Division of under this Ordinance, be divided into the nine following districts, the town of that is to say: (1) Shektongtsui, (2) Sai Ying Pun, (3) Taiping- Victoria into shan, (4) Sheung Wan, (5) Chung Wan, (6) Ha Wan, (7) Wanchai, (8) Bowrington, (9) So Kon Po; and the boundaries of the said districts shall be those specified in a map regulating and defining the boundaries of the said districts, and the said map shall be kept in the office of the Registrar General and a duplicate of the same in the office of the Surveyor General.

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V. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, alter all Power to alter or any of the said districts or their boundaries, and may in- districts. crease or diminish the number of the same.

VI. Separate register books in respect of each of the said dis- Register of tricts shall be kept in the Registrar General's office.

districts.