ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1857.
Registration and Census.
intending emigrants, in or upon any tenement within this Colony, or on board of any boat or vessel lying within the same or the waters thereof, and not being at the time actually and bona fide engaged in or for the lawful voyage of the labourers, coolies or emigrants then on board thereof, unless such person shall have first obtained from the said Registrar General his licence in writing in that behalf, which licence the said Registrar General is hereby empowered to grant for such term and upon such conditions as he shall think fit, upon proof first made of the fitness of such person to receive the said licence, and upon payment by him to the said Registrar General advanced and made for the same of such yearly or other fee, as in the schedule hereto is expressed, and he may from time to time call in and revoke or alter the same so often as he shall deem expedient.
31. The Registrar General is charged especially for the purposes of this Ordinance to visit, inspect, and approve of any tenement, boat, or vessel, in respect whereof application shall be made to him for a licence, under section 30, before he shall grant or renew the same; and it shall be at all times during the continuance of any licence by him so granted or renewed, his duty to enforce the observance of good order, decency, and morality, and the prevention or punishment of nuisances and other abuses among the inmates thereof, and whether by them or by any other person committed, and to secure to the said inmates the enjoyment of their personal rights, as British subjects whether permanently or for the time being.
32. No private person shall occupy or erect any building or other thing soever upon land not being under lease from the Crown, without the licence of the Registrar General, nor with such licence, if the same could not have been lawfully occupied or erected before the passing of this Ordinance.
33. Any Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may cause any Chinese person to find reasonable security for his appearance in any Court for any purpose and at any time within twelve months, and every adjudication to that effect shall be reported forthwith to His Excellency; and such Chinese not finding such security shall be deemed a person dangerous to the peace of the Colony, within the meaning of Ordinance No. 2 of 1857.
34. Written licences under the hand of the Governor or Registrar General, for the holding of meetings to consider in a lawful way the redress of supposed grievances, or for religious or theatrical entertainments, or for any other purposes of public interest, may be granted to any Chinese occupiers applying for the same; and without such licences, no Chinese people shall hold or be present at any meetings soever of a public nature, not convened by the Governor or sheriff, and not being solely for the purposes of religious worship.
35. Mendicancy in the public highways or streets is hereby forbidden.
36. The Governor in Council is empowered to direct the census of population to be taken within this Colony from time to time as to His said Excellency in Council shall seem meet, and every such direction may be addressed to the Registrar General.
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Visitation, inspection, and approval of tenements, &c., for the purpose and prevention of abuse.
Residing or building, &c., on Crown land.
Security to appear within twelve months.
Licences for public meetings.
Mendicancy forbidden.
The power to direct census-
ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1857.
Registration and Census.
intending emigrants, in or upon any tenement within this Colony, or on board of any boat or vessel lying within the same or the waters thereof, and not being at the time actually and bona fide engaged in or for the lawful voyage of the labourers, coolies or emigrants then on board thereof, unless such person shall have first obtained from the said Registrar General his licence in writing in that behalf, which licence the said Registrar General is hereby empowered to grant for such term and upon such conditions as he shall think fit, upon proof first made of the fitness of such person to receive the said licence, and upon payment by him to the said Registrar General advanced and made for the same of such yearly or other fee, as in the schedule hereto is expressed, and he may from time to time call in and revoke or alter the same so often as he shall deem expedient.
31. The Registrar General is charged especially for the purposes of this Ordinance to visit, inspect, and approve of any tenement, boat, or vessel, in respect whereof appli- cation shall be made to him for a licence, under section 30, before he shall grant or renew the same; and it shall be at all times during the continuance of
any licence by him so granted or renewed, his duty to enforce the observance of good order, decency, and morality, and the prevention or punishment of nuisances and other abuses among the inmates thereof, and whether by them or by any other person committed, and to secure to the said inmates the enjoyment of their personal rights, as British subjects whether permanently or for the time being.
32. No private person shall occupy or erect any building or other thing soever upon land not being under lease from the Crown, without the licence of the Registrar General, nor with such licence, if the same could not have been lawfully occupied or erected before the passing of this Ordinance.
33. Any Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may cause any Chinese person to find reasonable security for his appearance in any Court for any purpose and at any time within twelve months, and every adjudication to that effect shall be re- ported forthwith to His Excellency; and such Chinese not finding such security shall be deemed a person dangerous to the peace of the Colony, within the meaning of Or- dinance No. 2 of 1857.
34. Written licences under the hand of the Governor or Registrar General, for the holding of meetings to consider in a lawful way the redress of supposed grievances, or for religious or theatrical entertainments, or for any other purposes of public in- terest, may be granted to any Chinese occupiers applying for the same; and without such licences, no Chinese people shall hold or be present at any meetings soever of a public nature, not convened by the Governor or sheriff, and not being solely for the purposes of religious worship.
35. Mendicancy in the public highways or streets is hereby forbidden.
36. The Governor in Council is empowered to direct the census of population to be taken within this Colony from time to time as to His said Excellency in Council shall seem meet, and every such direction may be addressed to the Registrar General.
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Visitation, inspection, and approval of tenements, &c4 for the purpose and prevention
of abuse.
Residing or building, &c., on Crown land.
Security to appear within twelve months.
Licences for
public meetings.
Mendicaney forbidden.
The power to direct census-
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