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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Publication of the Registra- tion Ordinance, No. 18, is to be considered as the official one; the former not having been duly authorized.
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
By order, TREDERICK W. A. BRUCE.
Headman Contractors, tc., prohibited from employing any person un provided with a Registration Ticket.
Victoria, Hongkong,
Colonial Secretary.
23rd November, 1844.
Blas HONGKONG,*
ANNO OCTAVO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ, No. 18 of 1844.
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who shall grant them a certificate of entry or clearance or if he see cause to withhold the cer tificate of clearance, he shall report the same to
Government,
General In terpretation.
shall be liable to the penalties mflicted by the provisions of this Ordinance on persons residing in the said Colony without being registered,
7.-And be it further enacted and ordained that no person being
15And be it further enacted a headma, contractor, or other
Penalty for and ordained that every master of shall hire any or other persons neglect.
a Chinese vessel who shall not coolice or workmen, not being
conform to the provisions of the previously resident in the Colony section herein before last mentioned shall forfeit for the purposeof executing any and pay a aum pot exceeding 20 dollars. work or service in the said Colo.
16.And be it further enacted ny, unless such person or coolie Penalty on and ordained that if any person or workman not hereinbefore evasion of this shall wilfully conceal or falsify excepted shall have previously obtained a Registra-Ordinance in the particulars of any information tion Ticket and shall produce the same to the cases not other required of him for the purposes person to hiring him or them..
wise provided.. of this Ordinanes or shall on ap- § And be it further enacted
plying to be registered given false "Penalty for and prdained that if any person name or description or shall transfer or lend his BY HIS EXCELLENCY John Francis Davis, koowingly re shall knowingly retain in his or registration Ticket to any other person or shall
ESQUIRE, Governor and Commander-in-Chieftaining unre her employment or harbour or
wear or show the, Registration of the Colony of Hongkong and its Depen-gistered suffer to reside in his or her house
Ticket of another as his own for dencies, Her Majesty a Plenipotentiary and
or on his or her premises any
the purpose of evading the pro. Superintendent of the Trade of British
person hereby required to be regis
visions of this Ordinance, or shall Subjects in China, with the advice of the tered who shall not be duly registered according refuse' or fail to comply with any provisions of Legislative Council of Hongkong.
to the provisions of this, Ordigance he shall be this Ordinance he shall where no other penalty is hereinbefore specially provided be liable to a liable to a penalty not exceeding 20 dollars.
9. And be it further enacted penalty not exceeding 50 dollars. Penalty for and ordained, that if ang person neglecting to liable to be registered under the Power to Go Register. provisions of this Ordinance shall vornor in Co. be found residing in the said Colo-uncil to vary by ny for the space of twenty-four hours without Proclamation
the provisions having been registered he shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding 20 dollars: of this Ordir Exemptions. Provided always that nothing nance.
herein contained shall be cons-" trued to extend to persons employed on board this Ordinance. vessels of war or government transports under any circumstances, nor to officers or seamen belonging
Recovery of to merchant vessels lying in the harbour or roads Penalty. 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.
An Ordinance to repcal the Or- Title. dinance No. 16 of 1844, and to es
tablish a Registry and Census of the Inhabitants of the Island of Hongkong..
WHEREAS, it is expedient Preamble.
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 had of the migratory habits of a portion ofthe 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 repeal the, Ordinance: No. 16 of the 21st August, 1844, passed for the purpose of Buch registration.
1.Be it therefore enacted and Registration or
ordained by Elis Excellency the office to be es. Governor of Hongkong with the tablished,
advice of the Legislative Council aforesaid that the suid Ordinance No. 16 of the therept for the several purposes year 1844 be hereby repealed and that there be established in some convenient locality in Victoria an office to be entitled "The Census and Registrar tion Office," and that the duties and business of this officers and assistants and at such salaries as the office be discharged by a Registrar and such other Governor in Council may be pleased to appoint subject to Her Majesty's pleasure.
Tepos to send in returns when called for.
10.And be it further enacted and ordained, that all headmen or T'epos shall be bound to give a return when called upon by the said registering officer of the boundaries of their districts, of the names and occupation together with the parti in their respective villages or districts and an culars hereinbefore set forth of all persons residing account of the sex, ages and country of all such persons and shall specify in the said return the number of the house according to the Register and the number of persons residing in each house not exceeding 20 dollars for each and every and every such Tepo shall be liable to a penalty person hereby required to be registered found residing within their respective villages or districts without being duly registered as aforesaid or whom they shall not have reported to or caused to be brought before the said registering officer, or who shalt fail after due requisition to make every such return as is hereby required.
made by house
Return to be
holders.
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 regards QUARTERS FOR OFFICERS and STORAGE FOR PUBLIC STORES; and comprising Buildt ings which are now to let, or which may be come available for occupation within a shor period
Office of Ordnance 23rd October, 1844.
NOTICE.
New advertisements, will be received, until 4 O'Clock, on the evenings previous to publi- cation, viz: Tuesdays and Fridays.
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17-And be it further enacted and ordained that in order to pro- vide for the changing circum:: stances of the said colony it shall THE FRIEND OF CHINA, and may be lawful from time t time for the Governor and Execu alive. Council by. Proclamation made in the usual manner to alter or vary the several provisions of
18,And be it further enacted and ordained that all penalties enforced by this Ordinance shati be recovered in a summary map ner before any. Police Magistrate, and, that one moiety thereof shall go and be paid to the informer and in default of payment and on failure of any. sufficient distress the party shall be liable to im prisonment with hard labor for any time not ex- ceeding two calendar months.
Provided always that the penalty of imprison ment shall not in any case attach to the violation of any of the provisions hereinbefore contained respecting the returns to be made by any house- holder for the purpose of any Census, so required as hereinbefore mentioned and it is hereby further ordained and provided that in the interpretation of this Ordinance every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be applied to several persons as well as one person and every word im he applied to a female as well as a male unless when porting the masculine gender only shall extend and such rule of interpretation shall be inconsistent with the context of this finance.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this tath day of November 1844.s
JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS,
A. E. SHELLEY,
GOVERNMENT BILLS. His Excellency the Governor on the Supreme TOTICE is hereby given, that Bills drawn by Government of India,and by the undersigned on the Lords Commissioners of Her 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 t BILLS ON CALCUTTA, Two hundred and twenty
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And be it further enacted and ordained that from and after the lat day of January next, all male inhabitants of theage of 21 years and upwards, or capable of earning a livelihood, resident in the Co- Tony of Hongkong, with the exception of persons employed in the Creil, Military, or Naval Services
11. And be it further enacted Clerk of the Councils. of Her Britannic Majesty, or the Honorable East
Census, and ordained, that for the purposes India Company, Members of the Learned Profes
of the Census the said Registrar- sions, Merchants, Shopkeepers, Householders, and General or such other officer so to be appointed tenants of the Crown paying an annual rent of not as aforesaid shall when and so often as he may be less than $250 for houses or lands or persons pos-directed by the Governor and Executive Council gessing a means of livelihood amounting to the an-
cause to be delivered or left at the residence or nual sum or value of not less than 8500 a year place of business of any householder or house shall be required once in every year to appear holders a blank return to be filled up before a personally at the said office or at such branch of certain day to be therein named with the names fices as may be from time to time established by
and numbers of persons in his or the Governor and Executive Council, to be there registered in manner hereinafter mentioned unless
within his or their house or their employment or residing
(220) Company's Rupees for One hundred where it shall appear, advisable to the said Regis
(100) Mexican Dollars, and houses or on his or their premises BILLS ON LONDON, Forty nine pence, (49d.) trar General to dispense with the said personal ap
and shall in every such return D pearance of any one hereby required to be registered. distinguish and describe the sex country and the value payable in Mexican Dollars or Rupees at
Sterling for one Mexican Dollar, 3.And be it further enacted
occupation of every person so resident as also Ticket to be and ordained that if upon enquiry whether any and which of them be either aliens the option of the purchaser.
EDWARD PINE COFFIN, C. G. it shall appear to the Registrar or resident strangers and that on or after the Commissariat Victoria, 1st November, 1844. General or such other officers so said day named in the said blank return, the said to be appointed as aforesaid that householder or householders is or are hereby the said applicant is a fit and proper person to be required to transmit the said return or deliver the permitted to reside in the said Colony it shall be
same on demand within 5 days after its being left lawful for the said Registrar General or such other
aforesaid officers to be appointed as aforesaid to grant him at such residence or place of business as
so filled up to the said Registrar General or such Registration Ticket without any fee or charge other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid and whatsoever: Provided, also, that if upon enquiry it on failure to do so the said householder or house- shall appear to the said Registrar-General of such holders shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding other officers so to be appointed as aforesaid that. the said unregistered person is a vagabond or bad 50 dollars each. character or without visible means of subsistende Boats, &c., the said Registrar-General or such other officers as aforesaid shall have full power and authority to
to be Regis tered. prohibit him from residing in the said Colony, unless such person shall have been born within the Colony in which case he she or they shall be dealt with according to law provided in such cases.
granted or otherwise.
direction of
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Penalty on Boatowners,
&o.
13.-And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person not having previously obtained such certificate of Registry, and not having painted the number
12.--And be it further enacted and ordained that all lighters bum- boats ferryboats and other vessels plying for hire within the harbours. and waters of this Colony shall be duly registered with the number and description of the crew and of the persons living therein by the 4.And be further enacted to be appointed as aforesaid the said particulars said registering officer or such other officer so Registrar by and ordained that it shall and inay to be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose be lawful to and for the said Re and a certificate of such Registry shall be given to Governor in gistrar-General, for the more ef- the roaster or headman of such lighter bumboat Council to di- fectual discharge of his duty, by vide the island and with the direction of the Go ferryboat or other vessel the number of such inta districts, vernor in Council, to divide the registry to be legibly painted on each side and on and register
said island into districts for the the stern of such lighter bumbont ferryboat or
other vessel. one or more at the purpose of Registry and to different periods, proceed to register one or more of such districts on such days and at such hours as shall appear fitting for such purpose. 5.And be it further enacted Ticket, and ordained that the said Regis
tration "Ticket shall contain the on such lighter bumboat ferryboat or other vessel as is hereinbefore provided shall let or hire or cause name of applicant and the number of the Ticket and the date at which it is granted and such other to be let or hired any such lighter bamboat particulars as to the aforesaid Registrar-General ferryboat or other vessel within the waters of may seem fit, and that in the exercise of sucli dig registry or one granted for another vessel or shall the said Colony or shall show a false certificate of cretion the said. Registrar General shall have regard to the particulars requisite to the formation permit or connive at the said certificate being of the returns of population required from the Co- made use of for another vessel or shall paint or exhibit a false number on the said lighter bumbant Jugies of Great Britain by the Home Government: Provided always that as regards persons of Chinese ferryboat or other vessel he shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a som not exceeding 25 origin of extraction the name of the applicant dollars, and be liable to confiscation of the boat on shall be in the Chinese character also.
ghantarĢAnd be it further enacted no payment of the fine. Ticket to con- and ordained that the said Regis- tinue in force tration Ticket shall contious in Masters of for one year force for the period of one year Chinese Ves- from the date thereof and no sels to report longer, and that on the expiration thereof themselves.
any person who shall not forthwith apply to be again
14—And be it further enacted
and ordained that all masters of Chinese vessels frequenting the waters of this colony shall report themselves immediately upon their arrival in such waters and previ
registered and obtain a fresh Registration Ticket ous to their departure to the Registering Officer
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NOTIE-The Mail for England via Singapore and Bom. bay per clipper Sir Herbert Compton" will be closed at this Office at 5 PM. This day, Wednesday, 27th instant.
A Mail for Singapore and Calcutta per clipper "Coquento " will be closed at 5 PM Saturday Seth instant.
A Mail for Amoyland Chusan by HM. Steamer "Vixen," will he closed at 10a.m. Tuesday 3rd December.
Post Office, Victoria, 25th November, 1844,
By the Vixen from Chusan.we have dates to the 15th. H. M. ship Iris had arrived in 10 days from Hongkong, having succeeded in beating through the Formoza channel against a strong monsoon, and a heavy sea.
By the Ardaseer, at Macan, we have Bombay papers to the 5th of October, The September
was expected in Bombay on the 6th, or 7th, and is now houtly looked for. It is quite possible that the Ardaseer, may have brought London dates. to the 7th of September, and we hear rumours to that effect; if such is the case the news will only will probably be brought on in the Hellen, that be known those interested in the ship. The mait vessel being under dispatch when the Ardascer
sailed. The Stemmer Nemesis sailed for Surat of the 2nd October from which we presume it was intended that the mail should not be sent on by-her.
Sir Henry Pottinger left Bombay on the 27th of August, for England, by Egypt. His Es. cellency embarked under the salutes to which his high rank entitles him, and will, we trust have a prosperous voyage to his native land.
In our last issue we made an important mistake
For the three months ending with June, the ex in referring to the exports of Silk from Shanghai. port was 100, not 1,000, Bales. In the export of Alam there is evidently, a clerical error: for 96 piculs at 84,50, we presume it should read, 336 piculs at $1,20,
The late government establishinent of this colo- its subordinate officers. In what degree their inci- ly, was peculiarly characterised by the incivilty of
good opinions it is impossible to tell, but we know it vility injured the Chief of that government in our
was to some extent, His Excellency invariably treated those who were brought into contact with him politely-and if favors were refused, the res fusal who couched in a strain suited to the posi tion he held as a public servant, representing Her Majesty, and the standing and respectability of those be was addressing. However objectionable Sir Henry Pottinger's measures may have been,--- and however much we have denounced them, and will continue to denounce them, until they are re- padiated by our country it is at the same time undeniable that His Excellency in communication with the Merchants of China, as a body, or indi- vidually, never forgot that he was a Gentleman, and that he was addressing Gentlemen. This prip- ciple infortunately did not extend to all the bran- ches of the public service-the "Jack in office feel- ing"operating upon men of weak minds and essen tially vulgar feelings, induced them to treat with superciliousness-impertenance? men infinitely their superiors in every respect who were brought into contact with them. His Excellency may not have been aware of what we now state,though there. are those in the colony who ill attest to the truth of our assertion that, the behaviour of many of the subordinate officers of his government, and the disposition which they displayed to disoblige and to annoy the inhabitants, tendered in no small de- gree to make his government an unpopular one. The feeling, that the public servants of a govern- ment,must be opposed to these who are governed is a very mistaken one. The fundamental principle of all governments, is to protect the interests of the go- verned-this principle is never lost sight of by our best colonial Governors, as witness Sir Charles Metcalf in Canada; the Earl of Elgin in Jamaica ; and formerly Sir Richard Bourke, in New South Wales. It is not enough that such a principle should regulate the proceedings of the head of the gover. ment, it must descend step by step to the lowest grate of the public service. In a British colony the interests of the colonists must be the interests of their rulers-this in the guiding principle of a good government. It leads the colony to prospe- rity-it enables the government to overcome all dificulties-it promotes that happy unanimity of feeling which is ever so much to be desired, but especially in a small community, Let the colonists once be impressed with the belief that such are the sentiments of their rulers and it smoothy many difficulties differences of opinion upon points not of great importance in themselves, are not blown up by angry feelings, into an unsubstantial magni-
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