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DICU DEDIT




HONGKONG ,


ANNO NONO



VICTORIÆ REGINE.


No. 13 of 1845 .


Y His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Baronet, Governor
BY and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its
Dependencies, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superinten-
dent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of
the Legislative Council of Hongkong.


An Ordinance to Establish a Licensed Ghaut Serang in the Colony Title.
ofHongkong, and for the better Regulation of Lascars resorting thereto.
[25th October, 1845. ]


WHEREAS it is expedient that Lascars resorting to the said Preamble.
Colony should have, according to Usage, the Aid and Superintendence
of a Ghaut Serang, and also that Legislative Provision should be
made as respects them and such Serang :

I. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of No Person to act
Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, That as Ghaut Serang, or
Lodge, or Ship Lascars
from and after the Passing of this Ordinance no Person shall act as without License.
a Ghaut Serang, or Lodge, or Ship, or Contract for the Shipping, of
Lascars in the said Island, or the Harbour thereof, without first
having obtained from the Colonial Secretary of said Island an Annual
License for that Purpose, in whose Discretion it shall be to grant or
disallow the same, and that a Sum of Two Hundred Dollars shall be
payable on the issuing of every such License, and that every Person
acting as Ghaut Serang, or Lodging, or Shipping, or Contracting for
the Shipping, of any Lascar, without such License, shall be liable, for
each Offence, to a Penalty not exceeding One Hundred Dollars.

II. And be it further enacted and ordained, That every such Serang to establish
and
Licensed Serang shall establish, for the Use of said Lascars , one or cause Registry of their
more Boarding- Houses, for each of which Houses he shall take out Inmates to be made.
and procure a separate License from the said Colonial Secretary,
which, however, shall be granted on Payment of a Fee of Twenty-five
Dollars ; and that when and so often as any Person acting as such
O Serang