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Construction of words.

Occupier.

* House or build- ing."

* Europeans,'

And Chinese."

Exception.

Retrospective.

ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1857.

Registration and Census.

mencement of the said proceedings, and unless the proceedings upon the said certiorari. shall be prosecuted, with effect, in the Supreme Court, within six weeks after the ob-. taining thereof. And the costs of such certiorari and proceedings shall be paid to or by the Crown according to the event thereof.

44. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the following terms and words shall be severally taken, not only in their received sense, but also to extend to and include the meanings hereinafter specified, that is to say:-

"Occupier," "Person occupying," and "Master of a House or Tenement" or "of a Boat or Vessel,” shall include every person acting as master thereof, occupant of the groundfloor thereof (if a house or tenement) at a rent, and (in the event of a vacant house, tenement, boat or vessel or of no other occupier thereof being found) owner thereof, or his agent. And "House," "Tenement," or "Building" shall include any shop, outhouse, shed, or roof:

And "European" shall include all persons other than Asiatics, and also all

such Asiatics (not being Chinese) as owe or shall owe permanent alleg iance unto Her Majesty:

And "Chinese" shall include natives of Hongkong and other places out of the Empire of China, being of Chinese blood or following Chinese

usages:

Save only and except where by the express letter of this Ordinance a more limited meaning hath been attributed to any or either of the said terms and words.

45. All acts done before the passing of this Ordinance which, if done after the passing thereof, would have been legal and valid, shall be deemed legal and valid for all

purposes soever.

SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS

Fee for hawkers,

$0.50 Quarterly.

1st Class Boats plying for hire,

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10.00 Annually.

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Undertakers' Licences,.

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5.00 0.10 per diem.

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Trading and fishing boats,

Licences of tenements and boats or boats for coolies (for every ten

inmates) if by the year,.....

And if by a lesser term (for every ten inmates),..

[Repealed by Ordinance No. 8 of 1858.]

NOTE. For the divisions into districts under section 3 see Government Notification– Gazette 9th May, 1857.