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Power to grant protection tickets.
Scale of bont fares and coolie hire.
Licences to receive and lodge coolies, &c.
ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1857.
Registration and Census.
number of her certificate aforesaid, which number shall be supplied by the Registrar General for that purpose; and no such certificate or number shall be transferred or lent unto any other boat or vessel, or the persons on board of the same, nor shall any certificate or number other than such as the said Registrar General shall have granted under this section be assumed or exhibited by any such boat or vessel, or the persons on board of the same. And every person having charge of any such boat or vessel is hereby commanded, whensoever thereunto required, to exhibit the certificate granted in respect thereof under this section. And all persons having charge of Chinese boats or vessels, and not having obtained or not having on board such certificate as aforesaid (other than as aforesaid) are hereby forbidden to employ their said boats or vessels in plying here within the said waters, or in carrying passengers between this Colony and the said ports, or to cause, suffer, or connive at their said employment.
28. Upon security given to the Registrar General and to his satisfaction for the character and conduct of the persons concerned, and upon payment made to him by them of such fee therefor as in the said schedule hereunto annexed is in that behalf specified, the Registrar General, when thereunto requested by the said persons, may make out in such form as he shall think fit, and deliver unto the said persons, a ticket under his hand, entitling any Chinese boat or vessel having such certificate as aforesaid to the protection of Her Majesty's Naval Forces against pirates. And it is hereby required, that no such person shall lend any such protection ticket to any other person, and that no person shall use or borrow any protection ticket whereof he is not the grantee.
29. Scales of fares for all licensed boats and vessels within the said waters, and also scales for the hire of all coolies and labourers by the day, hour, or job, with all proper regulations for exceptional cases, shall be prepared and fixed, and, if expedient, from time to time altered and varied, by the Registrar General, subject to the approval of His Excellency the Governor in Council; and every such scale and variation thereof shall, when and as approved, be notified in the Government Gazette, and shall be evidence of the right of the parties concerned to the fares or hires therein mentioned. And a correct and complete copy of every scale of fares for the time being in force shall be furnished by the Registrar General to every such boat or vessel, which copy the persons owning or having charge of the said boat or vessel shall cause to be fixed and exhibited in some conspicuous part thereof. And no person owning or having charge of any such boat or vessel, or being such coolie or labourer, shall demand or receive a greater fare or hire than by the scale for the time being in force and relating thereto is sanctioned; and no such person shall refuse, without reasonable and sufficient cause, to accept employment according to his scale, when soever offered in conformity with this Ordinance, or use any abusive or insolent language to any person soever, so employing or offering him such employment.
30. No person soever, Chinaman or European, shall lodge, receive, or keep any Chinese labourers or coolies, (not being persons in his actual employment as such, or bona fide inmates of his tenement, boat, or vessel), nor any Chinese emigrants, or
376
Power to grant protection tickets.
Scale of bont fares and coolie hire.
Licences to receive and
lodge coolies, &c.
ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1857.
Registration and Census.
number of her certificate aforesaid, which number shall be supplied by the Registrar General for that purpose; and no such certificate or number shall be transferred or lent unto any other boat or vessel, or the persons on board of the same, nor shall any certificate or number other than such as the said Registrar General shall have granted under this section be assumed or exhibited by any such boat or vessel, or the persons on board of the same. And every person having charge of any such boat or vessel is hereby commanded, whensoever thereunto required, to exhibit the certificate granted in respect thereof under this section. And all persons having charge of Chinese boats or vessels, and not having obtained or not having on board such certificate as aforesaid (other than as aforesaid) are hereby forbidden to employ their said boats or vessels in plying here within the said waters, or in carrying passengers between this Colony and the said ports, or to cause, suffer, or connive at their said employment.
28. Upon security given to the Registrar General and to his satisfaction for the character and conduct of the persons concerned, and upon payment made to him by them of such fee therefor as in the said schedule hereunto annexed is in that behalf specified, the Registrar General, when thereunto requested by the said persons, may make out in such form as he shall think fit, and deliver unto the said persons, a ticket under his hand, entitling any Chinese boat or vessel having such certificate as aforesaid to the protection of Her Majesty's Naval Forces against pirates. And it is hereby required, that no such person shall lend any such protection ticket to any other person, and that no person shall use or borrow any protection ticket whereof he is not the grantee.
29. Scales of fares for all licensed boats and vessels within the said waters, and also scales for the hire of all coolies and labourers by the day, hour, or job, with all proper regulations for exceptional cases, shall be prepared and fixed, and, if expedient, from time to time altered and varied, by the Registrar General, subject to the approval of His Excellency the Governor in Council; and every such scale and variation thereof shall, when and as approved, be notified in the Government Gazette, and shall be evi- dence of the right of the parties concerned to the fares or hires therein mentioned. And a correct and complete copy of every scale of fares for the time being in force shall be furnished by the Registrar General to every such boat or vessel, which copy the persons owning or having charge of the said boat or vessel shall cause to be fixed and exhibited in some conspicuous part thereof. And no person owning or having charge of any such boat or vessel, or being such coolie or labourer, shall demand or receive a greater fare or hire than by the scale for the time being in force and relating thereto is sanctioned; and no such person shall refuse, without reasonable and sufficient cause, to accept employment according to his scale, when soever offered in conformity with this Ordinance, or use any abusive or insolent language to any person soever, so employing or offering him such employment.
30. No person soever, Chinaman or European, shall lodge, receive, or keep any Chinese labourers or coolies, (not being persons in his actual employment as such, or bona fide inmates of his tenement, boat, or vessel), nor any Chinese emigrants, or
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