ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1846.
Registration and Census.
obtained Chinese security to his or their satisfaction, be furnished with a registration ticket by the Registrar General containing such particulars 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 workman liable to a fine of twenty dollars.
9. And be it further enacted and ordained, that every such Chinese domestic servant, artificer, or workman having obtained 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 shall expire: Provided always that if such domestic 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 registration ticket to the Registrar General, with the cause of such domestic servant, artificer, or workman leaving his service endorsed thereon.
10. And be it further enacted and ordained, that after the date of the passing of this Ordinance it shall not be lawful for any person or persons 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, unless specially permitted to do so by the said Registrar General, who shall enquire into the character and receive proper security for the good conduct of such hawker, before such permission shall be so granted, and that the said permission may at any time be forfeited on conviction of any offence before a Police Magistrate.
11. And be it further enacted and ordained, that every Chinese boat, or vessel plying for hire within the waters of this Colony, or carrying passengers between this Colony and the neighbouring ports, shall obtain from the Registrar General a certificate of such form and under such security as to him shall seem fit, upon payment of a fee according to size as in the schedule hereunto annexed marked A; and while in the waters of this Colony such boat or vessel shall carry on each bow and on the stern the number of its register ticket, painted on wood or tin, which number shall be supplied by the Registrar General; and if any person, being owner or master of such boat or vessel, shall let to hire or ply, or cause to be let to hire or plied, any such boat or vessel within the waters of this Colony, without having first applied for and obtained such certificate of registry, or having obtained such certificate, shall not have affixed the number thereof on the bows and stern of such boat or vessel as aforesaid, or shall shew a false certificate of registry, or one granted to another vessel, or shall permit or connive at the said certificate being made use of for any other vessel, or shall paint or exhibit a false number on the said boat or vessel, or shall refuse to shew such certificate of registry to any person when so required, he or they shall in any or either of such cases for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and be liable to confiscation of the boat on non-payment of the fine; Provided that these provisions shall in no case apply to vessels visiting the Colony for the purposes of trade.
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Domestic servants, &c., to deliver their registration tickets to their employer, &c.
Prohibition of unregistered hawkers.
Chinese boats, &c. to be registered.
[See Ordinance No. 8 of 1847.]
Number of registry ticket to be affixed to each boat.
Penalty on boat owners.
ORDINANCE No. 7 or 1846.
Registration and Census.
obtained Chinese security to his or their satisfaction, be furnished with a registration ticket by the Registrar General containing such particulars 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 workman liable to a fine of twenty dollars.
9. And be it further enacted and ordained, that every such Chinese domestic servant, artificer, or workman having obtained 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 shall expire: Provided always that if such domestic 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 registration ticket to the Registrar General, with the cause of such domestic servant, artificer, or workman leaving his service endorsed thereon.
10. And be it further enacted and ordained, that after the date of the passing of this Ordinance it shall not be lawful for any person or persons 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, unless specially permitted to do so by the said Registrar General, who shall enquire into the character and receive proper security for the good conduct of such hawker, before such permission shall be so granted, and that the said permission may at any time be forfeited on conviction of any offence before a Police Magistrate.
11. And be it further enacted and ordained, that every Chinese boat, or vessel plying for hire within the waters of this Colony, or 'carrying passengers between this Colony and the neighbouring ports, shall obtain from the Registrar General a certificate of such form and under such security as to him shall seem fit, upon payment of a fee according to size as in the schedule hereunto annexed marked A; and while in the waters of this Colony such boat or vessel shall carry on each bow and on the stern the number of its register ticket, painted on wood or tin, which number shall be supplied by the Registrar General; and if any person, being owner or master of such boat or vessel, shall let to hire or ply, or cause to be let to hire or plied, any such boat or vessel within the waters of this Colony, without having first applied for and obtained such certificate of registry, or having obtained such certificate, shall not have affixed the number thereof on the bows and stern of such boat or vessel as aforesaid, or shall shew a false certificate of registry, or one granted to another vessel, or shall permit or connive at the said certificate being made use of for any other vessel, or shall paint or exhibit a false number on the said boat or vessel, or shall refuse to shew such certificate of registry to any person when so required, he or they shall in any or either of such cases for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and be liable to confiscation of the boat on non-payment of the fine; Provided that these provisions shall in no case apply to vessels visiting the Colony for the purposes of trade.
209
Domestic 'servants, &c., to
deliver their registration tickets to their employer, &c.
Prohibition of unregistered hawkers.
Chinese boats, &c. to be registered.
[See Ordinance No. 8 of 1847.]
Number of registry ticket to be affixed to each boat.
Penalty on boat
owners.
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