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104 ORDINANCES Nos. 18 AND 19 OF 1844 .


Registration and Census. Harbour Regulation.


transfer or lend his registration ticket to any other person or shall wear or show the
registration ticket of another as his own for the purpose of evading the provisions of
this Ordinance, or shall refuse or fail to comply with any provisions of this Ordinance
he shall where no other penalty is hereinbefore specially provided be liable to a penalty
not exceeding fifty dollars.
Power to 17. And be it further enacted and ordained that in order to provide for the
Governor in
Council to vary
by proclamation changing circumstances of the said Colony it shall and may be lawful from time to
the provisions
of this time for the Governor and Executive Council by proclamation made in the usual
Ordinance.
manner to alter or vary the several provisions of this Ordinance.
Recovery of 18. And be it further enacted and ordained , that all penalties enforced by this
penalty.
Ordinance shall be recovered in a summary manner before any Police Magistrate and
that one moiety thereof shall go and be paid to the informer and in default of payment
and on failure of any sufficient distress the party shall be liable to imprisonment with
hard labor for any time not exceeding two calendar months.

Provided always that the penalty of imprisonment shall not in any case attach to
the violation of any of the provisions hereinbefore contained respecting the returns to
be made by any householder for the purpose of any census, so required as hereinbefore
mentioned and it is hereby further ordained and provided that in the interpretation of
this Ordinance every word importing the singular number only shall extend and be

General applied to several persons as well as one person and every word importing the mas
interpretation. culine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male unless
when such rule of interpretation shall be inconsistent with the context of this Ordinance.

[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1846. ]




No. 19 of 1844.

Title . An Ordinance for the better regulation of the Harbour and surrounding
Waters of the Island of Hongkong .

[ 26th November, 1844. ]
Preamble. HEREAS from the vicinity of the said Island to the mainland and from the
W circumstance of a considerable portion of the Chinese dwelling in boats and
the general necessity of introducing harbour and police regulations into the surrounding
waters of the said Island it is expedient and necessary that concerning the same present
and future regulations should be made :

Powers to Gov Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong with the
ernor in Council
from time to time advice of the Legislative Council thereof that it shall and may be lawful to and for the
to make laws and
regulations for said Governor with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Island from time
the harbour and
surrounding to time after the passing of this Ordinance to publish and declare such laws rules and
waters ofthe