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HONGKONG.
ANNO DECIMO VICTORIE REGINE. No 7 of 1840
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.
Homololder to fur-
nish Registrar Gone rel with all required information, and re port to Chinese Bis
trict Officer changes In his House,
VII And be it further enact. ed and ordained, That every such Householder shall at all times give the raid Registrar, General such information as he may require of him for any of the purposes of this Ordinance; and shall also report to the Chinese Officer of the H Excellener Bir Joan FRANCIS DAVIS, District in which he shall ride, all marriages, overhor and Commander-in-Chief ofthe births, deaths, and every change connected with any Hongkong and its Dependencies, and person or persons whatsoever arriving in or depart that of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipoting from his house, under a penalty of not more and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of than Twenty Dollars. Babeen in China, with the Advice of the
Registration of Chi. ative Council of Bongkang
ness Servants in Eu 10pean employ,
VIII. And be it further ennet ed and ordained, That for the benefit and protection of the Eu- An Ordinance to repeal Or.
ropean Residents of this Cos dinance No. 18 of 1844, and to more effectant Registry of the Chinesefony, every Chinese domestic servant, artificer, or mis, and a Cescue of the Population of the workinan residing on the premises and employed by Europeans, shall, on producing to the Registrar General à certificate from his employer or employers, and having obtained Chinese security to his or their satisfaction, be finished with a Registration Ticket by the Registrar General containing such particu Jara as may be expedient, and that the absence of such Registration ticket after the tenth day of service, shall render such domestic servant, artificer, or workusan liable to a Fins of Twenty Dollars,
IX. And be it further enacted
[31st December 1846.] WHEREAS the Islands, Ports, Harbors, Consts, and Places pear and adjacent to the Island of Hongkong and Ha Dependencies are infested by Pirates and Rob.
31 and whereas it is necessary for the Protection of the Lives and Property of the Inhabitants of this Colony, and in order the more effectually to prevent Crime, that such Pirates and Robbers, and other Peness of notoriously bad Character, should not be permitted to resort to or to reside in the said Co- leay, and it is deemed expedient to repeal Ordinance No. 18 of 13th November 1844, entitled, " An Or- "dinance to repeal Ordinance No. 10 of 1944, and to establish a Registry and Census of the Inba- #bitants of the Island of Hongkong," anil to sub- stitute other Riales and Regulations in lieu thereof :
Repeal of Ordi pance No. 18 of 1844.
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L Be it therefore enacted and ordained, by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the Avice of the Legislative Council of the said Colony, that the said Ordinance No. 18 of the Year 1844 be, and the same is hereby repealed, save and except that the Office thereby Pstablished, and herein called "The Census and Registration Office," shall continue for the purposes hereinafter men- tioned, and the duties and business thereof shall be discharged and performed by a Registrar-General and other Officers and Assistants to be nominated by His Excellency the Governor, and which said Registrar-General, Officers and Assistants shall receive such Salary and Salaries as His Excellency the Governos in Council may be pleased to appoint, subject to Her Majesty's pleasure.
Duties of Regis trar-General
And be it farther enacted
Domestic Pervants
to deliver their
Registration Tickets to their employers,
c.
and ordainel, That every such
Chinese domestic servant, arti- ficer or workman having obtain ed a Registration Ticket as aforesaid, shall deliver the same
to his master or employer, and the said registration ticket shall be returned to him duly endorsed by the master or employer whenever the term of service shalt expire; Provided always that if such domes- tic servant, artificer or workman shall leave his master or employer without permission, or shall so misconduct himself as to be dismissed, then the said master or employer shall deliver the servant's Re gistration Ticket to the Registrar-General with the cause of such domestic servant, artificer, or work man leaving his service endorse thereon.
Prohibition of Da.
Chinese Boats, &c. to bo Registered.
information required of him for the purposes of this ordinance, or shall give a niso name, or descrip- tion, or shall transier or lend his registration ticket to any other person, or shall wear or show the re- gistration ticket of another as his own, for the pur- pose of evading the provisions of this Ordinance, or shall in any way infringe the provisions of this Ordinance, be shall, where no other penalty is hereinbefore specially provided, be liable to a pen. alty not exceeding Fifty Dollars for any and every Buch offence; Provided that nothing heroin con. tained shall apply to any trader or cher person coming to or going from this Colony for any lawful occasion, should be be able to give a respectable reference if required,
XV. And be it further enact. Recovery of Fur- feitures and Paanities, ed and ordained, That any per- son who may enter into any security to be taken by the Registrar-General or by any Palice Magistrate under this Ordinance which shall become forfeited in its conditions, such person shall by such forfeiture bo considered to have |
penalty of not more than the amount of incurrúd a such security, which penalty shall be recovered with all or any of the other penalties mentioned in this Ordinance in a summary manner, before any Polico Magistrate, under the provisions of Ordi- nance No. 10 of 1844: Provided always that the penalty of Imprisonment 'shall not in any case
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ach to the violation of any of the provisions beremafier contained respecting the Returns to be made by any Householder for the purpose of any Census so required as hereinafter mentioned.
Census,
XVI. And be it further en acted and ordained, That for the purposes of the census, the said Registrar General or such other officer so to be appointed 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 busi- ness of any or every householder or householders, being Europeans, Nuntives of India, or otherwise, a blank return to be filled up before a certain day to bo therein named, with the names and number of persons in bis or their employ or residing within his or their house or houses, or on his or their premises, and shall in every such return distinguish and describe the name, sex, country, and occupa tion of every person so resident, and also whether any and which of them be either Aliens or resident Strangers; and that on or after the said day named in the said Blank Return, the Return to be made said householder or householders is and are hereby required to by fluuseholders. transmit the said return or deliver the same on
on the interests of the colony, by making it ap- pear that the cost of the maintenance of the Island is far beyond its advantages.
Hongkong, it is generally stated, costs the British public half a million Sterling annually: it becomes the duty of every well wisher of the colony to lend his assistance to reduce every needless dollar of this enormous sum.
The part of the Military expense to which we for the present confine our observations, is that of the Military Staff. The Military force in Hongkong hardly exceeds a strong regiment, chiefly quarterd in Victoria-with detachments at two miserable and useless outposts: notwith- standing which, the Staff appointments equal in number those to be found at Jamaica and at Gibraltar, where the military forces are three or four times more numerous than in Hongkong, exceeding, also, what is found to be necessary in New South Wales, the Ionian Islands or Ceylon ; and many other places, in all of which the troops are equal and in most of them greater in number than here.
The following are the particulars of this branch of the public expenditure, with the Staff salaries of each appointment, we do not vouch for the positive correctness of each item-al- though it is believed the sums are sufficiently near the truth.
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SuSalaries Ra. Military Socrotary...................... Assist. Adjt. General...... 500 to Rs 700 per Assist, Quarter Mr..General (mouth: say for
Aide-de-Camp............. Depy Judge Advocate Genl.) the whole.
Rs 150 per month Station Staff Officer.
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Thus the sum of upwards of £10,000 sterling per annum is absorbed by these Individuals, very little of which need be expended. In the first place it is perfectly ridiculous that a ral officer should be here at all. looking at ilm amount of force. The Senior Military Officer, with a table allowance for entertainment, would be sufficient for every purpose of command.
X. And be it further enacted registered Hawkers, and ordained, That after the date of the passing of this Or- dinance it shall not be lawful for any person or per- sons to hawk Goods or Wares of any description whatsoever on the streets or roads of the Colony under a penalty of not more than Twenty Dollars,
The various staff officers drawing 500 or 600 unless specially permitted to do so by the said Re-
Rupees monthly, in addition to their ordinary gistrar General, who shall enquire into the charac. ter and receive proper security for the good con
pay and allowances, are absolutely worse than and ordained, Thai after the duct of such hawker, before such permission shall demand within five days after its being left at such useless, and a clog and trammel upon the
be so granted, and that the said permission may at Residence or Place of Business as aforesaid, ao fil-
execution of the public service. These gentle- passing of this Ordinance, the
men have positively no duties of their own to Registrar-General appointed by Ordinance No ES any time be forfeited on conviction of any offence led up, to the said Registrar-General, or such other officer 60 to be appointed as aforesaid, and on of 1844 or to be appointed under this Ordinager, before a Police Magistrate.
XI. And be it further enacted failure to do so, the said householder or house perform, and therefore, to be doing something, shall, while he continues to act as such Registrar-
and ordained, That every Chi-holders shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding The public departments are amply provided for must of necessity interfere in the duty of others. Genera!, be Joint Superintendent of Police, a Jus
nese Boot, or Vessel plying for Fitty Dollars. tice of Peace, and Protector of Chinese Inhabitants
hire within the waters of this Colony, or carrying Interpretation clause.
XVII. And be it further en by the government at home, and this interfe in the said Colony; and that it shall be his duty to uae his best endeavours to prevent the commission paasengers between this Colony and the neighbour
acted and ordained, That for rence, whilst it is wholly unnecessary and irre- of crime, and to discover and apprehend the perpe.
ing ports, shail obtain from the Registrar-General the purpose of this Ordinance the term Housegalar, tends to increase useless correspondence, a Certificate of such form and under such security holder shall be taken to mean the person acting as
by raising up an intermediate channel of com- trators thereof, and generally to protect the Chinese Inhabitants of this Colony; and for the purposes of
as to him shall serm fit, on payment of a fee ac- master of the house for the time being, or should munication leading to no result, and producing #bis Ordinance the said Registrar General is hereby cording to size as in the Sedule hereunto annexed he not be found after due enquiry made, the owner many other evils, which no where else exist. authorised at any time or times to enter any house marked A. and while in 1 in waters of this Colony of the house, or the agent or person acting for the The sooner then these officers (not one of such at or Vessel shall carry owner of the House, being Chinese, and where a whom is beyond the rank of captain, and of or bear within the Colony or adjacent water wholly
Number of Registry on ene. Bow and on the Stern house is tenanted by several individuals as part or partly inhabited or manned by Chinese.
no great standing even in that rank) return to Tiket to be affixed And be it further enacted
the member of its Register nors or otherwise, then any one of the said part their duties in the marching regiments to which So nach Bos! Registrar-General,
Ticket, painted on wood or tin, gers or individuals. And the term House shall be they belong, the better will it be, on every con- by direction of the Go and ordained. That it shail and
which gamber shall be supplied by the Registrar- understood to mean any dwelling-house, shop, outsideration, for the public service. vernor,mas doble the may be lawful for the said Re- Colony ram Dhutnals. gistrantieneral, with the sanc
General; an if any person being owner or master house, or other building whatsoever, and the term of such beat or vessel shall let to hire or ply, or. European shall be taken to mean all persons other tion of His Excellency the Go
cause to be let to hire or phed, any such boat or than Chinese, and the term Chinese shall be taken remor, or Officer administering the Government
ressel within the waters of this for the time being, to divide the Colony of Hong-
to mean all natives of China or Chinese Natives kong toto districts; and that the Officers appointed
on Boat Colony, without having first of Hongkong or elsewhere, and every word import under Ordinance No. 13 of 1544, and therein call-
applied for and obtained suching the singular number only, shall extend and be ed Paouchong and Paoukea, shall be obedient to the Certificate of registry, or having obtained such cer- applied to several persons as well as one person, and orders of the said Registrar-General, and shad at all tificate, shall not have affixed the number thereof every word importing the masculine gender only times make each Returns and do all other things for on the bows and stern of such boat or vessel as shall extend and be applied to a female as well as the purposes of this ordinance as shall be required aforesaid, or shall show a false Certificate of Regis male, unless where such rule of Interpretation of them by the said Registrar General, under a Petry, or one granted to another vessel, or shall per- shall be inconsistent with the context of this Ordi. nalty of no more than One Hundred Dollars.
IV. And whereas, for the par- Numbering of Chi- Jese Houses, pose of giving greater facility to the carrying out the intentions of this Ordinance, it is necessary and expedient that all the houses in the Colony of Hongkong inhabited by Chinese be numbered: Be it therefore enacted and ordained, That stery Chinese Householder ball cause to be affixed to his house a painted Num. ber of such description, and in queb mannet as the Registar General shall direct, under a penalty not exceeding Forty Dollars,
Tickers to Chinese Householders.
V. And be it further enacted and ordained. That for the be- nefit and protection of the well- pored and honest Chinese Inhabitants of the Co- Bony, every such Householder shall receive a Ticket in English, signed by the Registrar-General, con- taining ruch particulars as the Registrar-General ball dem expedient, which ticket shall be produced required, under a Penalty not exceeding Twenty Dollars.
Penalty Owners.
mit or connive at the said certificate being made use of for any other vessel, or shall paint or exhi- bit a false number on the said boat or vessel, or
nance.
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shall refuse to shew such certificate of registry to Large Fast Bouis- any person when so required, he or they shall in any or eilber of such cases for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum rot exceeding Fifty Dollars, Sampans and be liable to confiscation of the boat on non- payment of the fiue; Provided that these provisions shall in no case apply to Vessels visiting the Co lony for the purposes of Trade.
Sqcallers on Crown Lands
XIL And be it further enact ed and ordained, That from and after the passing of this Ordi- nunce any person who shall reside or continue to reside on the Crown Lands in this Colony without permission from the Registrar General, or shall erect any Dwelling-house, Mat-shed, or other Building thereon, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than Fifty Dolla and the removal of his House or Shed, in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance--No: 14 of 1845, called “An Ordi- VL And be it further enacted "nance to Repeal Ordinance No. 5 of 1844, enti by to all Re and ordained, That every such *ded an Ordinance for the Preservation of good "Order and Cleanliness within the Colony of The Premiaen, Housebolder shall cause to be
Hongkong and its Dependencies, and to make hung up and exhibited in some
"other provisions XIII. And be it further en- conspicuous part of bine house,
In lieu thereof." inscribed wib alrus and accurate Last of Suspicious charec
rein, and shall deliver toters to find security acted and ordained, That it
of living in his house, a
for their appearance shall and may be lawful for any within 12 months Police Magistr uch
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SCHEDULA A.
With respect to the office of Deputy Judge Advocate General, it is unusual we believe to retain such an officer in permanent pay; it is sufficient if he is paid for his days of actual attendance, at a daily rate of pay. The course adopted here however, may be economy, should the commanding officer be an author on Mili- tary jurisprudence, and a greater number than usual of Court's Martial take place, in conse- quence of his partiality to this kind of amuse-
ment.
The Staff salaries to the Engineer Officers $10.00 annually we do not comprehend. We are not aware why they should draw Staff salaries here more than at other places, the enormous amount also leads as to suspect there is something wrong here.
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5.00.50 " J. F. DAVIS, Governor, &c., &c.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this Thirty-first day of December, 1846-
L D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councile,
The scale upon which we conceive the Staff appointments at this place should be modelled, which we are confident from our observations elsewhere, would adequately meet the want of the Military service, and which we would desire to see substituted for the foregoing, is as follows. The Staff pay stated, being in addi- tion to the ordinary pay and allowances, The Senior Military Officer to command;
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THE FRIEND OF CHINA
AND HONGKONG GAZETTE
VICTORIA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2013, 1847.
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An Aide-de-Campy to set also as Military
Secretary, Station Staff Officer,
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