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The Hongkong Government Gazette.
[MAY 15, 1858.
veyance, shall demand or receive a greater Fare or Hire than by the Scale for the time being in force, and relating thereto is sanctioned and notified; and no such Person shall refuse, without reasonable and suflicient cause, to accept employment according to his Scale, whensoever offered in conformity with this Ordinance, or use any abusive or insolent language to any Person soever, so employing him, or offering him such employment.
XVIII. No Person soever, Chinaman or European, shall lodge, receive, or keep any Chinese Labourers and lange Coolies, &e. or Coolies, (not being Persons in his actual employment as such, or boná fide Inmates of his Tenement, Boat, or Vessel,) nor any Chinese Emigrants, or intending Emigrants, in or upon any Tenement within this Colony, or on board of any Boat or Vessel lying within the same or the Waters thereof, and not being at the time actually and boni fide engaged in or for the lawful voyage of the Labourers, Coolies, or Emigrants, then on board thereof, unless such Person shall have first obtained from the said Registrar General his License in writing in that behalf, which License the said Registrar General is hereby required to grant for such term and upon such conditions as he shall think fit, upon proof first made of the fitness of such Person to receive the said License, and upon payment by him to the said Registrar General advanced and made for the same of such yearly or other Fee as in the Schedule hereto is expressed, and he may from time to time call in and revoke or alter the same so often as shall be expedient.
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XIX. The Registrar General is charged especially for the purposes of this Ordinance to visit, inspect, Visitation, inspec. tion, and approval of and approve of any. Tenement, Boat, or Vessel, in respect whereof application shall be made to him for. Tenements, &c., for License, under Section Eighteen, before he shall grant or renew the same; and it shall be at all times, the purpose and pro- during the continuance of any License by him so granted or renewed, his duty to enforce the observance
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of good order, decency, and morality, and the prevention or punishment of Nuisances and other abuses among the Inmates thereof, and whether by them or by any other Person committed, and to secure to the said Inmates the enjoyment of their personal rights, as British Subjects, whether permanently or for the time being.
XX. No private Person shall occupy or erect any Building or other thing soever upon Land not Residing or Build-
Crown being under Lease from the Crown, without the License of the Surveyor General; nor with such License, ing, ac, on
Land.
if the same could not have been lawfully occupied or erected before the passing of this Ordinance.
XXI. Any Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may cause any Chinese Person to find Sceurity to appear reasonable Security for his appearance in any Court for any purpose and at any time within Twelve Months, and every adjudication to that effect shall be made in open Court and reported forthwith to His Excellency; and such Chinese not finding such, Security shall be deemed a Person dangerous to the Peace of the Colony, within the meaning of Ordinance No. 9 of 1857.
within Twelve Months.
Licenses for Public Meetings.
Mendicancy
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XXII. Written. Licenses under the hand of the Governor for the holding of Meetings to consider in a lawful way the redress of supposed Grievances, or for Religious or Theatrical Entertainments, or for any other purposes of Public Interest, may be granted to any Chinese Occupier applying for the same; and without such Licenses, no Chinese people shall hold or be present at any Meetings soever of a public nature, not convened by the Governor or Sheriff, and not being solely for the purposes of Religious Worship.
XXIII Mendicancy in the public Highways or Streets is hereby forbidden.
XXIV. The Governor in Council is empowered to direct the Census of Population to be taken The Power to direct within this Colony from time to time as to His said Excellency in Council shall seem meet, and every such
direction may be addressed to the Registrar General.
Census.
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XXV. Upon receiving any such direction, the Registrar General shall prepare and cause to be delivered at every Dwelling and Place of Business throughout this Colony, a Blank Return, to be filled up before a certain day to be therein named with the Names and Number of the Occupiers and Inmates of every such Dwelling or Place of Business, and the Persons in their employment, or residing with them, orʼ within their Tenements, according to their several Names, Sexes, Occupations, and Countries.
XXVI. Every such Blank Return shall, according to its tenor and the truth of the case, be filled up by the Occupier of the Dwelling or Place of Business where the same shall have been left; and he shall within Five Days after the day on which the same was so left, return, or deliver it, so filled up as aforesaid, to the Registrar General.
XXVII. No Person acting or employed by any other Person acting in the execution of this any of Disqualification of Ordinance, and no Member of the Family of any such Person, shall be possessed of or interested in
in the Beats, Vessels, Conveyances, or (in cases within Section Eighteen) Tenements to which this Ordinance
relates, either in his or her own right or in the right of another, and either at Law or in Panity.
XXVIII. Persons violating, or disobeying, or failing to comply with, the several Provisions of this Ordinance shall, upon summary conviction of such Offence before the Registrar General if a Justice of the Peace, or (if the said Person shall so demand) before a Stipendiary Magistrate, or any Two Justices of the Peace sitting for him, incur, and pay, or suffer the several Penalties and Forfeitures hereinafter respectively made applicable to the same, that is to say :----
l'enalties.
1. Against Sect. 7.
2. Against Sect. li.
4. Against Sects. 14 ani 15.
1. Against Sect. 10.
5. Against Sect. 17.
6. Against Sects. 18
7. Against Sect. 20.
#. Against Sert. 22.
2. Against Sect. 23.
1. Against Sect. 26. 11. Against Sect. 27.
42. For every offence
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1. For every Offence against Section Seven, a Sum not exceeding Forty Dollars.
2. For every Offence against Section Eleven, a Sum not exceeding Ten Dollars.
3. For every Offence against Section Fourteen or Section Fifteen, a Sum not exceeding Twenty-five
Dollars.
4. For every Offence against Section Sixteen, a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.
5. For every Offence against Section Seventeen, a Sum not exceeding Twenty Dollars.
6. For every Offence against Section Eighteen or Section Nineteen, a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.
7. For every Offence against Section Twenty, a Sam not exceeding Fifty Dollars, (besides the Ex-
penses of the Removal of the Building or Thing occupied or erected).
8. For every Offence against Section Twenty-two, a Sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars.
9. For every Offence against Section Twenty-three, a Sum not exceeding Five Dollars; or the Offender shall, at the discretion of the Court, receive not more than Thirty-six Blows, not less than Five Blows, with a Rattan; and he shall also, if His Excellency in Council shall so decide, be deported to any place in the Chinese Empire or elsewhere.
10. For every Offence against Section Twenty-six, a Sum not exceeding Twenty Dollars. 11. For every Offence against Section Twenty-seven, a Sum not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars; and also, (where the nature of the case admits thereof,) forfeiture of, and incapacity to hold, any employment under this Ordinance.
12. And for every such Disobedience, Violation, or Default, for which no specific Penalty is hereinbefore provided, such Sum, not exceeding in any case Five Dollars, as the Court shall think fit. XXIX. In case of non-payment of any of the said pecuniary Penalties, the same may be recovered by Enforcement of Pe- any of the ways and means whereby, on any summary proceedings before Justices, Penalties are or shall be reenverable; yet so as that no Offender against Section Twenty-six shall be liable to be imprisoned in such case.
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