ORDINANCE No. 18 OF 1844.
Registration and Census.
1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof for the several purposes aforesaid that the said Ordinance No. 16 of the year 1844 be hereby repealed and that there be established in some convenient locality in Victoria an office to be entitled "The Census and Registration Office," and that the duties and business of this office be discharged 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 1st day of January next, all male inhabitants of the age of twenty-one 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 Britannic 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 two hundred and fifty dollars for houses or lands, or persons possessing a means of livelihood amounting to the annual sum or value of not less than five hundred dollars 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.
3. And be it further enacted and ordained that if upon enquiry it shall appear to the Registrar General or such 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 without any fee or charge whatsoever : Provided, also, that if upon enquiry it shall appear to the said Registrar General or such other officers so to be appointed as aforesaid that the said unregistered person is a vagabond or bad character or without 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 in which case he, she, or they shall be dealt with according to law provided in such cases.
4. And be it further enacted and ordained that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Registrar General, for the more effectual discharge of his duty, by and with the direction of the Governor in Council, to divide the said Island into districts for the purpose of registry and to proceed to register one or more of such districts on such days and at such hours as shall appear fitting for such purpose.
And be it further enacted and ordained that the said registration ticket shall contain the name of applicant and the number of the ticket and the date at which it is granted and such other particulars as to the aforesaid Registrar General may seem fit, and that in the exercise of such discretion the said Registrar General shall have regard to the particulars requisite to the formation of the returns of population required from time to time.
Registration office to be established.
Persons required to appear personally before Registrar.
Ticket to be granted or otherwise.
Registrar by direction of Governor in Council to divide the Island into districts, and register one or more at different periods.
Ticket.
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ORDINANCE No. 18 OF 1844.
Registration and Census.
1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof for the several purposes aforesaid that the said Ordinance No. 16 of the year 1844 be hereby repealed and that there be established in some convenient locality in Victoria an office to be entitled The Census and Registration Office," and that the duties and business of this office be discharged 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 1st day of January next, all male inhabitants of the age of twenty-one 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 Britannic 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 two hundred and fifty dollars for houses or lands, or persons possessing a means of livelihood amounting to the annual sum or value of not less than five hundred dollars 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.
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3. And be it further enacted and ordained that if upon enquiry it shall appear the Registrar General or such 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 without any fee or charge whatsoever : Provided, also, that if upon enquiry it shall appear to the said Registrar General or such other officers so to be appointed as aforesaid that the said unregistered person is a vagabond or bad character or without visible means of subsistence the said Registrar General or such other officers as aforesaid shall have full power and authority to pro- hibit 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.
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4. And be it further enacted and ordained that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Registrar General, for the more effectual discharge of his duty, by and with the direction of the Governor in Council, to divide the said Island into districts for the purpose of registry and to proceed to register one or more of such districts on such days and at such hours as shall appear fitting for such purpose.
And be it further enacted and ordained that the said registration ticket shall contain the name of applicant and the number of the ticket and the date at which it is granted and such other particulars as to the aforesaid Registrar General may seem fit, and that in the exercise of such discretion the said Registrar General shall have regard to the particulars requisite to the formation of the returns of population required from
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Registration office to be established.
Persons required to appear personally before Registrar.
Ticket to be
granted or otherwise.
Registrar by direction of Governor in Council to divide. the Island into districts, and register one or more at different periods.
Ticket.
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