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ORDINANCE No. 18 OF 1844. 101


Registration and Census.


1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Registration
office to be
established.
Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof for the several purposes
aforesaid that the said Ordinance No. 16 of the year 1844 be hereby repealed and that
there be established in some convenient locality in Victoria an office to be entitled
"The Census and Registration Office," and that the duties and business of this office be
discharged by a Registrar and such other officers and assistants and at such salaries as
the Governor in Council may be pleased to appoint subject to Her Majesty's pleasure.
2. And be it further enacted and ordained that from and after the 1st day of Persons required
to appear
personally before
January next, all male inhabitants of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, or capable Registrar.
ofearning a livelihood , resident in the Colony of Hongkong, with the exception of persons
employed in the civil, military, or naval services of Her Britannic Majesty, or the
Honorable East India Company, members of the learned professions, merchants,
shopkeepers, householders , and tenants of the Crown paying an annual rent of not less
than two hundred and fifty dollars for houses or lands, or persons possessing a means
of livelihood amounting to the annual sum or value of not less than five hundred dollars
a year shall be required once in every year to appear personally at the said office or at
such branch offices as may be from time to time established by the Governor and
Executive Council, to be there registered in manner hereinafter mentioned unless where
it shall appear advisable to the said Registrar General to dispense with the said
personal appearance of any one hereby required to be registered.
3. And be it further enacted and ordained that if upon enquiry it shall appear to Ticket to be
granted or
the Registrar General or such other officers so to be appointed as aforesaid that the otherwise.

said applicant is a fit and proper person to be permitted to reside in the said Colony it
shall be lawful for the said Registrar General or such other officers to be appointed as
aforesaid to grant him a registration ticket without any fee or charge whatsoever :
Provided, also, that if upon enquiry it shall appear to the said Registrar General or
such other officers so to be appointed as aforesaid that the said unregistered person is a
vagabond or bad character or without visible means of subsistence the said Registrar
General or such other officers as aforesaid shall have full power and authority to pro
hibit him from residing in the said Colony, unless such person shall have been born
within the Colony in which case he she or they shall be dealt with according to law
provided in such cases.

4. And be it further enacted and ordained that it shall and may be lawful to and Registrar by
direction of
for the said Registrar General, for the more effectual discharge of his duty, by and with Governor in
Council to divide
the direction of the Governor in Council , to divide the said Island into districts for the the Island into
districts, and
register one or
purpose of registry and to proceed to register one or more of such districts on such days more at different
periods.
and at such hours as shall appear fitting for such purpose.

5. And be it further enacted and ordained that the said registration ticket shall Ticket.
contain the name of applicant and the number of the ticket and the date at which it is
granted and such other particulars as to the aforesaid Registrar General may seem fit,
and that in the exercise of such discretion the said Registrar General shall have regard
to the particulars requisite to the formation of the returns of population required from