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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
Ticket.
of such districts on sneh days. and a such hours as shall appear fitting for such TITH a to prevent confusion, it is párti purpose.
5. And be it further enacted cularly desired that all persons having
and ordained that the said Registra, business connected with Her Majesty's Consu
tion Ticket shall contain the name lates in China, will address themselves to A. of applicant and the number of the Ticket and the W. Elmslie, Esq., Acting Secretary to the Ple-date, at which it is granted and such other parti. nipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Briculars as to the aforesaid Registrar General may tish Trade; and that, in all points connected seem fit. and that in the exercise of such discretion with this Colony, Letters may be addressed to the said Registrar shall have regard to the par: the Honorable F. W. A. Bruce, Colonial Se- ticulars requisite to the formation of the returns cretary.
of population required from the Colonies of Great Britain by the Home Government: Provided always that as regards persons of. Chinese origin or extraction the name of the applicant shall be in the Chinese character also...
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By order, FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE,
Colonial Secretary
Victoria. Hongkong, 18th November, 1844.
GOVERNMENT PROCLAMATION.
As
Sit has come to the knowledge of His Ex
cellency the Governor, that persons have encroached on the property of the Crown and on the space set apart for streets, by erecting buildings, and by constructing Balconies and Verandahs, extending beyoned the limits of the lots held by them on lease; His Excellency has given instructions to have the encroach- ments removed: And warns all persons, that no permission will in future be granted to any one, to exceed the boundaries of his lot, on any pretence whatever.
By order,
› FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE. --... Colonial Secretary,
Victoria, Hongkong,
19th November, 1844.
HONGKONG,
ANNO OCTAVO VICTORIE REGINA,
No. 16 of 1844., BY HIS EXCELLENCY JOIN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquins, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Depen- dencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Superintendent of the "Trade of British Subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
:: Preamble.
THEREAS. it is expedient and required by Her Majesty's Government, that a Census should from time to time be taken of the population of the Colony of Hongkong, in common with other parts of Her Majesty's Dominions, and whereas to secure tranquillity and good order in the said Colony and its Dependencies, consideration being bad of the migratory habit of a portion of the population, and to prevent the resort thereto of abandoned characters and of persons without any ostensible means of subsistence, it is also expedient that a registry be established of persons resident and sojourning therein, and whereas also it is further deemed fitting to amend and modify the Ordinance No. 16 of the 21st August, 1044, passed for the purpose of
of such registration,
I-Be it therefore enacted and Registration ordained by His Excellency the office to be es. Governor of Hongkong with the tablished, advise of the Legislative Council thereof for the several purposes aforesaid that there be established in some con- venient locality in Victoria an office tobe entitled "The Census and Registration Office," and that the duties and business of this office bedischarged by a Registrar and such other officers and assistants and at such salaries as the Governor in Council may be pleased to appoint subject to Her Majesty's pleasure.
2.And be it further enacted and ordained that from and after the
day of not bad next, all male inhabitants of the age of 21 years and upwards, or capable of earning a livelihood, resident in the Colony of Hongkong, with the exception of persons employed in the Civil, Military, or Naval Services of Her Britanic Majesty, or the Honorable East India Company; Members of the Learned Professions, Merchants, Shopkeepers, Householders, and tenants of the Crown paying an annual rent of not less than $250 for houses or lands or persons possessing a means of livelihood amounting to the annual sum or value of not less than $500 a year shall be required once in every year to appear personally at the said office or at such branch offices as may be from time to time established by the Governor and Executive Council, to be there registered in manner hereinafter mentioned unless where it shall appear advisable to the said Registrar-General to dispense with the said personal appearance of any one hereby required to be registered.
Ticket to be granted or other wise.
6. And be it further enacted Ticket to con- and ordained that the said Re- tinue in force for gistration Ticket shall continue one, gent mean
in, force for the period of one year from the date thereof and no longer, and that on the expiration thereof any person who any belgon, who shall not forthwith apply to be and obtain a fresh Registration agam registered Ticket shall be liable to the penalties inflicted by the provisions of thisOrdinance on persons residing in the said Colony without being registered.
dipads loose or And be it further enacted Headman Con and ordained that no person tractors, &c.. pro being a headman, contractor, hibited from em- or other shall hire any or other playing any per persons coolies or workmen, son unprovided not being previously resident with a Registra- in the Colony for the purpose tion Ticket,
of executing any work or ser vice in the said Colony, unless such person or coolie or a workmen got herein before excepted shall bave previously obtained a Registration Ticket and shall produce the same to the person so hiring him or them.
8-And be it further enacted Penalty for and ordained that if any person knowingly re shall knowingly retain in his or taining unre her employment or harbour or gistering per suffer to reside in his or her house or on his or her premises any sons...
person hereby required to be re- gistered who shall not be duly registered accord. ing to the provisions of this Ordinance he shall 9.And be it further enacted be liable to a penalty not exceeding 20 dollars Fenalty for ne- and ordained, that if any person Slecting to Reliable to be registered under gister.
the provisions of this Ordi- nance shall be found residing in the said Colony for the space of twenty-four hours without having been registered he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 20 dollars:
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Penalty on Boat acted and ordained that if any person not having owners, &c.
previously obtained such certificate of Registry and not having painted the number on such lighter bumboat ferryboat or other vessel as is hereinbefore provided shall let or hire or cause to be ler or hired any such lighter bumbont ferryboat or other vessel within the winters of the said Colony, or shall show a false certificate of registry or one granted for another vessel or shall permit or connive at the said certificate being made use of for another vessel, or shall paint or exhibit a false number on the said lighter boat bumboat ferryboat or other vessel he shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding 25 dollars, or to be liable confisca», tion of the boat on non payment of the fine. ber
Masters of Chinese Ves sels to report themselves
14. And be it further enacted.. and ordained that all masters of Chinese vessels frequenting the waters of this colony shall re- port themselves immediately upon their arrival in such waters an. previous to their departure to the Registering Of ficer who shall grant them a certificate of entry or olearance or if hesee cause to, withhold the certi firate of clearance he shall report the same to Govcrument.
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Penalty on evasion of this Urdinance in cases not otherwise provided for.
15-And be it further enacted Penalty for and ordined that every master of a:
Chinese vessel who shall not con form to the provisions of the sec neglect. tion herein before last mentioned shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding 20 dollars.
16.—And be it..further enacted and ordained that if any person shall wilCally conceal or falsify the par- ticulars of any informa General Interpretation required of him for tion Clause,
the purposes of this Ordi- nance or shall on applying to be registered give a false name or description. or shall transfer or lend his registration Ticket to any other person or shall wear or show the Registration Ticket of other as his own for the purpose of evading the provisions of thisOrdinance, or shall refuse or fail to comply with any provisions of this Ordinance he shall where no other penalty is. hereinbofore specially provided be lible to a penalty not exceeding 50 dollars.
And be it further ch- Power to Go, acted and ordained that in or
vernor in Coun- cil to vary by Proclamation the provisions of this
den to provide for the changing circumstances of the said co- long it shall and may be hawful from time to time for the Go- vernor and Executive Comicil by Proclamation made in the. Provided always that nothing usual manner to alter or vary the several provi.. Exemptions, herein contained shall be construed sions of this Ordinance.
18-And be it further to extend to persons employed
Tepos to send in Returns when called for.
act.
Recovery
nalty.
of Pe- emmeted and ordained that all penalties enforced by this Ordinance shall be recover- ed in a summary inner before any Police Magistrate and that one moiety thereof shall go and be paid to the informer and in default of pay- ment and on failure of any sufficient distress the party shall be liable to imprisonment with hard labor for any time not exceeding two calerida?. months.
BUILDINGS REQUIRED
FOR
MILITARY PURPOSES. THE Respective Officers of the Ordnance Department, are still open to receive TENDERS from Merchants or others, for the hire of Buildings for Military purposes, both as FOR PUBLIC STORES; and comprising Buildt regards QUARTERS FOR OFFICERS and STORAGE ings which are now to let, or which may be come available for occupation within a shor- period
Office of Ordnance 23rd October, 1944.
"NOTICE.
New advertisements, will be received, until 4 O'Clock, on the evenings precurus to publi- cation, vis: Tuesdays and Fridays.
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17 San
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from N. to E
during the night at intervals.
30 01 29 94 29 96.7 75 71 72.9 ENE
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Chinese day Bay of Day of Mouth Week.
Max
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Meant
Max Mia Meut. Thermometer.
For Latter
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Fore light, hotter moût., fine clear.
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Fore light, mid, modt,, fiue clear.
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fodt, for fine clear, later dull rady
METEOROLOGICAL TABLE FROM 170 NOVEMBER TO NOVEMBER 17′′, 1844,
Remarlo.
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
(To the Editor of the Friend of China.)
on board vessels of war or government transports under any circumstances, nor to officers or seamen belonging to merchant vessels lying in the harbour or roads of Victoria who previous to landing shall obtain from the master or officer in charge of the said vessel leave to go ashore in writing under his hand;
10-And be it further en acted and ordained, flat all headmen or Tepos shall be
Provided always that the penalty of imprison- bound to give a return when cal led upon by the said registering ment shall not in any case attach to the violation officer of the boundaries of their districts, of the of any of the provisions hereinhefore contained re-
SIR-In your issue of thinst, you inside opinions on ta xation for this colony. Eventure to offer a few words on names, and occupation together with the particulars specting the returns to be made by any householder herein before set forth of all persons residing in for the purpose of any Census, so required as their respective villages or districts and an account hereinbefore mentioned and it is hereby further the Registration of the Chinese, that of Europeans bijug of the sex, ages and country of all such persons ordained and provided that in the interpretation of Isincerely trust consigned to oblivion. I have quitherto the a and shall specify in the said return the number of this Ordinance every word imparing the sigular been rather an advocate for their registration, as a means of the house according to the Register and the number only shall extend and be applied to several having some check over the inaux of sugges and vagabonds number of persons residing in each house and every persons as well as one person and every word im such Tepo' shall be liable to a penalty not exceed-porting the masculine gender only shall extend and in 20 dollars for each and every person hereby be applied to a female as well as a male unless when of prestige arising from failure, and 2nd by the handle it will required to be registered found residing within such rule of interpretation shall be inconsistent, their respective villages or districts without being with the context of this Ordinance... duly registered as aforesaid or shom they shall not live reported to or caused to be brought before the said registering officer, or who shal fail after due requisition to make every such return as is hereby required.
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tege but oudl.And be it: further enacted and ordained, that for the pur- Census.
prizes of the Census the said Registrar,General or such other officer so to be puuted as aforesaid shall when and so often as he may be directed by the Governor and Executive Council cause: to be delivered or left at the residence or place, of business of any householder or householders a blank return to be filled up before a certain day to be therein named with the Bames and numbers of persons in his or their employment or residing within bis or their house Kathman made or houses or on his or their pre-
holders.
Passed the Legislative Council on the 18th day of November 1844.
JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS,
Governor, &c.; &c.
A. E. SHELLEY, Clerk of the Legislative Council.
GOVERNMENT BILLS. [OTICE is hereby given, that Bills drawn by His Excellency the Governor on the Supreme Government of India, and by the undersigned on the Lords Commissioners of ther Majesty's Treasury, can be obtained at this Office until further notice, on written applications in the usual form; and that the rates of Exchange fixed for the present month (November) are the following viz: BILLS ON CALCUTTA, Two hundred and twenty
(220) Company's Rupees for One hundred (100) Mexican Dollars, and BILLS ON LONDON, Forty nine prince, (19.)
Sterling for one Mexican Dollar, the valne payable in Meican Dollars or Rupees at the option of the purchaser.
the island, but on reconsideration Lam inclined to object to, first from the impossibility there will exist of copying it into full execution in all its details, with the consequent luss give the Mandarins of towloon and other parts of the emi- pite over every pour follow who may come to the colony to parchase a few pieces of langeloth or a chest of drug, if out from one of the five parts 7 their wives and families being as jet all ou the mainland and in their grasp.
This last objection has more reference to the registering of vessels fc, coming to the port, and altho one of the items of the late Registration Ordinance" takes its origin from Sir Henry Pottinger's supplementary treaty, and here I would remark that of all the men whom the astute diplomatists of the Flowery land have guiled, he, with the splendid, oppor. menity he had, with the Emperor of thina on his knees be fore him he say bears the belt from the whole of them! This assertion will no doubt with many be taken as mark of the writers prejudice or insanity, by appeal to every one who knows anything of trade, or of the wants of this intant and by him used colony, if amongst others, these most soi.
cadal ontcrments, artiden 13. 11. 16. 17. of said treaty dự not be in oil in it ?.
England fought for nearly 3 year, spent much money and last tany valuable aves, and for what, to gain an honorable- pence and a treaty of commerce--they were obtaineil-the first will be kept as long as policy dictates, or their conceived ability to avenge themselves has arisen, the other as regartis the tariff may be deed admirable, in many other respects it is far other re. In addition to these Honkong was red ed, and every lover of England rejoined thereat, as opening re
(3.--And be it further enacted and ordained that if upon en- quiry it shall appear to the such Registrar-General or other officers so to be appointed as aforesaid that the said applicant is a fit and proper person to be permitted to reside in the said Colony it shall be lawful for the said Registrar- General or such other officers to be appointed as aforesaid to grant him a Registration Ticket with out any fee or charge whatsoever. Provided at such residence or place of business as aforesaid Til reference to the Advertisement from this Barbarians" who laid low his pride, and that they do not
also, that if upon enquiry it shall appear to the said Registrar-General or such other officers so t be appointed as aforesaid that the said uaregistered ris à vagabond or bad chemeter or without person visible means of subsistence the said Registrar- General or such other officers as aforesaid shall have full power and authority to prohibit him from residing in the said Colony, unless such person shall have been born within the Colony is which case he she or they shall be dealt with according to law provided in such cases,
4.And be it further emcred Registrar by and ordained that it shall and directionof Go- nay be lawful to and for the vernor inCoun" said Registrar, for the mare ef- cil to divide the fectual discharge of his dury, by island into dis and with the direction of the tricts, and re- Governor in Council, to divise gister one or the said island into districts be more at diffs the the parse of Registry and ront periods in priced to registrose or pore
Return to be mises and shall in every such made by House return distinguish and describe the sex country and occupa tion of every person so resident as also whether any and which of them be either aliens or resident strangers and that on or after safd householder or householders is or are hereby the said day named in the said blank return the required to transmit the said return or deliver the same on-demand within 5 days after its being left so filed up to the said Registrar-General or such other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid and on failure to do so the said householder or house orders, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 50 dollars each.
Bosts, &c,to be Registered.
EDWARD PINE COFTIN, C. G. Commissari Victoria, 1st November, 1911.
Uffee date! 25th ultimo insting. Tenders for building two Ranges of Barracks mour the East Battery: Notice is hereby given that note of the Tenders were approved of, and that Tenders for the performance of the same work will conti pue to be received until the 23rd. Instant at Commissariat Office 15th Nov, 1941. under the conditions formerly announced.
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ule emporium for the manufactures of the country and- za asylin under her flag, und unquestionably with mose li beral management it would have been, fuilseif may yet be come so, but when Bir Henry confirmed it as a↔ free port ** to it the pations of the world, he was gutted into the most stringent enactments to present its beings to the very puppie whose commerce We sought to obtain, and on those accouji alone it was chilly valuable for Sir, do you magise that one Mandarin at one of the fes ports will willing by facilitate bie country's vessels nothing to trade with the red bristled throw every obstacle in their way, by aham, mintepreson. tation, had delay'? such is known to have been already down and with continue tothe so, and we may look in vain Ér aay other result, pebly fozyears to conte, if an dur park theso But no better hopes that that, for our now mirà senza to pezerive the suicidal, I had ready said inqaitons,” fally of them, by quially per- mitting the tow junka which come, to trade without in or hinderases. Giva-dum all facility to resort to the colony.. inthe merchants" everytemuragement to wule amongst ge, and much diy be yet hoped be fun Hongkong-ime carry out Bil Henry's policy and you will quickly rethica the end to a mere maitary wronghold, and then Sie, with whom will gono deal on the subject of wastings
erud articles are us be worked out
12--And be it furtherenacted and ordained that all lighters bam bosta ferryboats and other resech plying for hire within the harbors
be received at this Office until Friday the and waters of this Colony shall be duly registered NOTICE is hereby given that Tenders will
la fan, register the Chinese inliatsurute if it can be dong with the number and description of the crew and
with effect, and is deemed better than the mare legitimate of the perssus living therein by the sud registering: 22nd Instant at noon from persons willing to
contract to cut and level ground above the gas of an efficient gailen, but lay letters on their com4 affeer or such other ofiter so to be appointed as aforeaid the sit particulars to be cnsered in a book to be kept for that purpose and a certificats Canton Bazaar as perked off in Lais, anfagrees, Lepime inquintonal in the incomings of ongoing of such Registry shit be given to the raster or able to Specifications aut plans ses may here, and wound the interests of Regland in the most vita or headman of such Fighter bambous ferryboat or set at the office of Commanding Royal En- nasant-la år probili. Servant, other temel the Bunder of such meginry sy be legibly painted on each ade and no the stern of 13,—And be a karties are such lighter bumbus ferry boat or orber Termi
gingers,
Security for performance of the contracti will be required
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