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Ticket to continue in force for one year.
Headmen contractors, &c. prohibited from employing any person unprovided with a registration ticket.
Penalty for knowingly retaining unregistered persons.
Penalty for neglecting to register.
Exemptions.
Tepos to send in returns when called for.
Census.
ORDINANCE No. 18 OF 1844.
Registration and Census.
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.
6. And be it further enacted and ordained that the said registration ticket shall continue in force for the period of one year from the date thereof and no longer and that on the expiration thereof any person who shall not forthwith apply to be again registered and obtain a fresh registration ticket shall be liable to the penalties inflicted 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 a headman contractor, or other shall hire any or other persons coolies or workmen, not being previously resident in the Colony for the purpose of executing any work or service in the said Colony, unless such person or coolie or workman not hereinbefore excepted shall have previously obtained a registration ticket and shall produce the same to the person so hiring him or them.
8. And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person shall knowingly retain in his or her employment or harbour or suffer to reside in his or her house or on his or her premises any person hereby required to be registered who shall not be duly registered according to the provisions of this Ordinance he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars.
9. And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person liable to be registered under the provisions of this Ordinance 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 twenty dollars: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to persons employed 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 enacted and ordained that all headmen or tepos 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 particulars hereinbefore set forth of all persons residing in their respective villages or districts and an 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 and every such tepo shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars for each and every 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 shall fail after due requisition to make every such return as is hereby required.
11. And be it further enacted and ordained that for the purposes of the census the said Registrar General or such other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid shall
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Ticket to continue in force for one year.
Headmen
contractors, &cj prohibited from employing any person
unprovided with
a registration ticket.
Penalty for knowingly retaining
unregistered persons.
Penalty for neglecting to register.
Exemptions.
Tepos to send
in returns when called for.
Census.
ORDINANCE No. 18 OF 1844.
Registration and Census.
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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6. And be it further enacted and ordained that the said registration ticket shall continue in force for the period of one year from the date thereof and no longer and that on the expiration thereof any person who shall not forthwith apply to be again registered and obtain a fresh registration ticket shall be liable to the penalties inflicted 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 a headman contractor, or other shall hire any or other persons coolies or workmen, not being pre- viously resident in the Colony for the purpose of executing any work or service in the said Colony, unless such person or coolie or workman not hereinbefore excepted shall have previously obtained a registration ticket and shall produce the same to the person so hiring him or them.
8. And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person shall knowingly retain in his or her employment or harbour or suffer to reside in his or her house or on his or her premises any person hereby required to be registered who shall not be duly registered according to the provisions of this Ordinance he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars.
9. And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person liable to be registered under the provisions of this Ordinance 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 twenty dollars: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to persons employed on board vessels of war or government transports under any circumstances, nor to officers or seanien 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 enacted and ordained that all headmen or tepos 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 particulars hereinbefore set forth of all persons residing in their respective villages or districts and an 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 and every such tepo shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars for each and every 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 shall fail after due requisition to make every such return.as is hereby required. 11. And be it further enacted and ordained that for the purposes of the census the said Registrar General or such other officer so to be appointed as aforesaid shall
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