ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1857.
Registration and Census.
to ascertain the said rate, and to receive the amount of the said levy when made, and to pay thereout to the tepo his said salary, and to account with the Government, and also with the said town, village, hamlet, or district, for the remainder, if any, of the amount levied; and the provisions of all Ordinances for the enforcement of the payment of Police taxes, shall be extended to the enforcement of the said levy.
21. A tepo shall be permitted to act as arbitrator in disputes of a civil nature only, arising between Chinamen, willing to submit the same to his arbitrament; and his award being reduced to writing, and approved by the Registrar General, shall be received in evidence, and may be carried into effect by any Court wherein the same shall come in question.
22. The hawking of goods or wares in the streets or roads of this Colony without a licence from the Registrar General is hereby prohibited.
23. No licence for such hawking shall be granted by the Registrar General to any person except after proper enquiry into the character of the applicant, and upon due and ample security for his good conduct, and subject to forfeiture on his conviction of any offence before any Justice of the Peace. And every applicant, on receiving his said licence, shall pay therefor to the Registrar General, to the use of the Crown, the fee in that behalf mentioned in the schedule hereunto annexed.
24. The Registrar General shall grant to such fit and proper persons, being Chinamen, as shall make application unto him in that behalf, licences to undertake and perform the burials of Chinese dead in the cemeteries, and after the manner prescribed by law; and every such licence shall be limited in duration to one year, but renewable at the expiration of each year; and there shall be paid to him to the use of the Crown for every such grant or renewal the fee in that behalf specified in the schedule hereunto annexed.
25. No person, not being an undertaker licensed under section 24, shall henceforward undertake or perform any burials of Chinese dead, or dig any grave within any such cemetery as aforesaid.
26. Every licensed undertaker is hereby required to use his best skill and endeavour, to prevent and repress all offences against, and violations of, the laws for regulating Chinese burials, and to apprehend, or cause to be apprehended, all persons accused thereof, and from time to time to report every such offence or violation to the Registrar General with all reasonable speed.
27. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General to grant to such persons, upon such security and in such form as he shall think fit, and upon payment to him made to the use of the Crown of such fee therefor according to size as in the said schedule hereunto annexed is in that behalf specified, certificates of licence of Chinese boats or vessels plying for hire within the waters of this Colony, or carrying passengers between this Colony and the ports on the Chinese Main (other than Chinese boats or vessels visiting this Colony merely for trading purposes); and every such boat or vessel shall carry on each of her bows and on her stern, legibly painted upon wood or tin, the true
Power of arbitration.
Unlicensed hawking prohibited.
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Conditions and fees of hawking licences.
The Registrar General to grant undertaker's licences.
None but licensed undertakers to bury or dig graves.
The undertakers are required to prevent and repress offences against Burial Laws.
Licensing of China boats, &c.
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ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1857.
Registration and Census.
to ascertain the said rate, and to receive the amount of the said levy when made, and to pay thereout to the tepo his said salary, and to account with the Government, and also with the said town, village, hamlet, or district, for the remainder, if any, of the amount levied; and the provisions of all Ordinances for the enforcement of the payment of Police taxes, shall be extended to the enforcement of the said levy.
21. A tepo shall be permitted to act as arbitrator in disputes of a civil nature only, arising between Chinaman, willing to submit the same to his arbitrament; and his award being reduced to writing, and approved by the Registrar General, shall be received in evidence, and may be carried into effect by any Court wherein the same shall come in question.
22. The hawking of goods or wares in the streets or roads of this Colony without a licence from the Registrar General is hereby prohibited.
23. No licence for such hawking shall be granted by the Registrar General to any person except after proper enquiry into the character of the applicant, and upon due and ample security for his good conduct, and subject to forfeiture on his conviction of any offence before any Justice of the Peace. And every applicant, on receiving his said licence, shall pay therefor to the Registrar General, to the use of the Crown, the fee in that behalf mentioned in the schedule hereunto annexed.
24. The Registrar General shall grant to such fit and proper persons, being China- men, as shall make application unto him in that behalf, licences to undertake and per- form the burials of Chinese dead in the cemeteries, and after the manner prescribed by law; and every such licence shall be limited in duration to one year, but renewable at the expiration of each year; and there shall be paid to him to the use of the Crown for every such grant or renewal the fee in that behalf specified in the schedule hereunto annexed.
25. No person, not being an undertaker licensed under section 24, shall hence- forward undertake or perform any burials of Chinese dead, or dig any grave within any such cemetery as aforesaid.
26. Every licensed undertaker is hereby required to use his best skill and endea- vour, to prevent and repress all offences against, and violations of, the laws for regula- ting Chinese burials, and to apprehend, or cause to be apprehended, all persons accused thereof, and from time to time to report every such offence or violation to the Regis- trar General with all reasonable speed.
27. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General to grant to such persons, upon such security and in such form as he shall think fit, and upon payment to him made to the use of the Crown of such fee therefor according to size as in the said schedule hereunto annexed is in that behalf specified, certificates of licence of Chinese boats or vessels plying for hire within the waters of this Colony, or carrying passengers between- this
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visity and the ports on the Chinese Main (other than Chinese boats or vessels
visiting this Colony merely for trading purposes;) and every such boat or vessel shall carry on each of her bows and on her stern, legibly painted upon wood or tin, the true
Power of
arbitration.
Unlicensed hawking prohibited.
375
Conditions and
fees of hawking
licences.
The Registrar General to grant undertaker's Beences.
None but licensed undertakers to bury or dig graves.
The undertakers. are required to prevent and repress offences against Burial. Laws.
Licensing of
China bouts, &c..
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