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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH JULY, 1872.

and Deaths.

shall be of durable Materials, and in them shall be printed upon each side of every Leaf the Heads of Information herein required to be known and registered of Births and Deaths respectively; and every Page of each such Books shall be numbered progressively from the Beginning to the End, beginning with Number One; and every Place of Entry shall be also numbered progressively from the Beginning to the End of the Book, beginning with Num- ber One; and every Entry shall be divided from the following Entry by a printed Line.

Registrar to

V. The Registrar General shall cause himself to be provided register Births with, and shall furnish to every Registrar, a sufficient Number of Register Books of Births and of Register Books of Deaths; and the Registrar General and every Registrar shall be authorised, and is hereby required, to inform himself carefully of every Birth and every

Death which shall happen within his Districts or District, Place or Village after this Ordinance shall have come into Operation, and to learn and register as soon after the Event as conveniently may be done, without Fee or Reward save as hereinafter mentioned, in One of the said Books, the Particulars required to be registered according to the Forms in the said Schedules (A) and (B) respectively touching every such Birth or every such Death, as the Case may be, which shall not have been already registered, every such Entry being made in Order from the Beginning to the End of the Book.

Parents or Occupiers of Houses in which Births or Deaths happen, and

Coroners in

VI. The Father or Mother of any Child born, or the Occupier of every House or Tenement within the Colony of Hongkong in which any Birth or Death shall happen after this Ordinance shall have come into Operation, may within Seven Days next after the Day of such Birth or within Five Days after the Day Policemen and of such Death respectively, give Notice of such Birth or Death to the Registrar General or to the Registrar of the District, Case of Foundlings or

Village or Place in which such Birth or Death shall have occurred; exposed Dead and in Case any new born Child or any Dead Body shall be Bodies to give found exposed, any Police Constable who shall have found such Child exposed and the Coroner in the Case of the Dead Body, shall forthwith give Notice and Information thereof and of the Place where such Child or Dead Body was found to the Registrar General or Registrar, as the Case may be; and for the Purpose of this Ordinance, the Superintendent of the Victoria Gaol, and Superintendent, Warden or Keeper of every Hospital or other public or charitable Institution, shall be deemed the Occupier

Notice.

Parent or

Occupier of

to give

known.

thereof.

VII. The Father of every Child born in the Colony of Hongkong after this Ordinance shall have come into Operation or in Case House required of the Death, Illness, Absence or Inability of the Father, the Particulars of Mother of such Child, shall within Thirty Days after the Day Birth so far as of every such Birth, give Information to the Registrar General or Registrar of the District or Place within which such Birth may have occurred; or in Case of the Death, Illness, Absence or Inability of the Father and Mother, the Occupier of the House or Tenement in which such Child shall have been born, shall within Thirty Days after the Day of every such Birth give Information upon being requested so to do, to the Registrar General or Registrar of the District or Place within which such Birth may have occurred; according to the best of his or her Knowledge and Belief, of the several Particulars hereby re- quired to be known or registered.

As to Registry

tion of 30 Days:

Child.

VIII. In all Cases where the Notice required by this Ordinance after Expira- shall be given to the Registrar General or any Registrar within after Birth of Thirty Days of the Birth of any Child exclusive of the Day of Birth, no Fee shall be required or paid for registering the said Birth; but when such Notice shall be given after the Expiration of the said Thirty Days, and within Sixty Days after the said Birth, exclusive of the Day of Birth, a Fee of One Dollar shall be required of and paid by the Person who by virtue of this Ordi- nance is charged with the Duty of giving Notice of such Birth. If no such Notice as aforesaid be given within the said Sixty Days, the Person charged with the Duty of giving such Notice shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars.

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Birth.

Name given in IX. If any Child born within the Colony whose Birth shall Baptism may have been registered as aforesaid, shall within Six Months next be registered after it shall have been so registered, have any Name given to it Months after in Baptism, the Parent or Guardian of such Child, or other Person Registration of procuring such Name to be given, may, within Seven Days next after such Baptism, procure and deliver to the Registrar General or Registrar, in whose Custody the Register of the Child may then happen to be, a Certificate, according to the Form of Schedule (C) to this Ordinance annexed, signed by the Minister who shall have performed the Rite of Baptism, which Certificate, such Minister is hereby required to deliver immediately after the Baptism, whenever the same shall be then demanded, on Payment of the Fee of One Dollar, which he shall be therefor entitled to receive; and the Registrar General or Registrar, upon Receipt of such Certificate, and on Payment of the Fee of One Dollar, which