Licenses to receive
evidence of the right of the parties concerned to the Fares or Ilires therein mentioned. And a correct and complete copy of every Scale of Fares for the time being in force shall be furnished by the Registrar General to every such Boat or Vessel, which copy the persons owning or having charge of the said Boat or Vessel And no Person owning or having shall cause to be fixed and exhibited in some conspicuous part thereof.
charge of any such Boat or Vessel, or being such Coolie or Labourer, 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 no such Person shall refuse, without reasonable and sufficient cause, to accept employment according to his Scale, when- soever offered in conformity with this Ordinance, or use any abusive or insolent language to any Person soever, to employing or offering him such employment.
XXX. No Person soever, Chinaman or European, shall lodge, receive, or keep any Chinese Labourers or and lodge Coolics, &c. Coolies, ( not being Persons in his actual employment as such, or bond 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 bona 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 empowered 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 he shall deem expedient.
XXXI. The Registrar General is charged especially for the purposes of this Ordinance to visit, inspect, Visitation, insepc- tion, and approval of and approve of any Tenement, Boat, or Vessel, in respect whereof application sh all be made to him for a Tenements, &c., for License, under Section Thirty, before he shall grant or renew the same; and it shall be at all times during the the purpose and pre- continuance of any License by him so granted or renewed, his duty to enforce the observance of good order,
vention of abuse.
Land.
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.
XXXII. No Private Person shall occupy or erect any Building or other thing soever upon Land not Residing or Build- ing, &c., on Crown being under Lease from the Crown, without the Licence of the Registrar General, nor with such License, if
the same could not have been lawfully occupied or erected before the passing of this Ordinance.
XXXIII. Any Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may cause any Chinese Person to find Security to appear within Twelve Months, 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 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. 2 of 1857.
Licenses for Public Meetings.
Mendicancy forbidden The Power to direct Census.
ed.
Blank Returns to be
XXXIV. Written Licenses under the hand of the Governor or Registrar General, 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 occupiers apply- ing 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.
XXXV. Mendicancy in the public Highways or Streets is hereby forbidden.
XXXVI. The Governor in Council is empowered to direct the Census of Population to be taken 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.
XXXVII. Upon receiving any such direction, the Registrar General shall prepare and cause to be prepared and deliver- 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 or within their tenements according to their several Names, Sexes, Occupations, and Countries.
The Blanks to be
filled
up
XXXVIII. Every such Blank Return shall, according to its tenor and the truth of the case, be filled up and returned, by the Occupier of the Dwelling or Place of Business where the same shall have been left; and he shall upon demand, 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.
Penalties.
1. Against Sec. 7.
2. Against Sect. 8.
3. Against Secta. 11 and 12.
4. Against Sects. 13, 14, 15, 18 and 19.
5. Against Sect. 22*
6. Against Sect. 25,
7. Against Sect. 26.
8. Against Sect. 27.
9. Against Sect. 28.
10. Against Sect. 29
11. Against Sects. 30 and 31.
12. Against Sect. 32.
13. Against Sect. 33.
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14. Against Sect. 34.
15. Against Sect. 35.
XXXIX. 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, or (if the said person shall so demand) before a Stipendiary Magistrate, or any Two Justices of the Peace, incur, and pay, or suffer the several Penalties and forfeitures hereinafter respectively made applicable to the same, that is to say:-
1. For every offence of vagrancy, (being a first offence), within the meaning of Section Seven, the penalty of exposure in the stocks for a period not exceeding Three Hours, nor less than Half-an- hour; or (being a second or subsequent offence) the like penalty together with the public in- fliction of not more than Thirty-six Blows, nor less than Five Blows with a Rattan; and also together with deportation if His Execellency in Council shall think fit.
2. For every offence against Section Eight, a Sum not exceeding Forty Dollars, nor less than Two. 3. For every offence against Section Eleven, or Section Twelve, a Sum not exceeding Twenty Dollars,
nor less than One Dollar.
4. For every offence against Section Thirteen, Section Fourteen, Section Fifteen, Section Eighteen or
Section Nineteen, a Sum not exceeding Fifteen Dollars, nor less than One Dollar.
5. For every offence against Section Twenty-two, a Sum not exceeding Ten Dollars, nor less than
Fifty Cents.
6. For every offence against Section Twenty-five, a Sum not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars, nor less
than One Dollar.
7. For every offence against Section Twenty-six, a Sum not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars, nor less
than One Dollar,
8. For every offence against Section Twenty-seven, a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, nor les
than Five, or the forfeiture of the Boat or Vessel.
9. For every offence against Section Twenty-eight, a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, nor less than Five, or if the Court shall so think fit the forfeiture of the Boat or Vessel, either in lieu of, or in addition to, the said Sum.
10. For every offence against Section Twenty-nine, a Sum not exceeding Twenty Dollars, nor less
than Fifty Cents.
11. For every offence against Section Thirty or Section Thirty-one, a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars,
nor less than Five Dollars.
12. For every offence against Section Thirty-two, a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, nor less than
Five, (besides the Expenses of the Removal of the Building or thing occupied or erected). 13. For every offence against Section Thirty-three, (unless the same shall be dealt with under the Ordinance therein mentioned,) a Sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, nor less than Five.
14. For every offence against Section Thirty-four, a Sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars, nor
less than Five.
15. For every offence against Section Thirty-five, a Sum not exceeding Five Dollars, nor dess than Twenty Cents; or the offender shall, at the discretion of the Court, receive not more than Thirty-six Blows, nor less than five Blows, with a Rattan; and he shall also, if His Excellency in Caunail shall so decids, boesported to any place in the Chinese Empire.
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