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152 ORDINANCE No. 13 OF 1845 .


Ghaut Serang- Lascars.


No. 13 of 1845.

Title.
[See Ord. No. 2 An Ordinance to establish a licensed Ghaut Serang in the Colony of
of 1848.]
Hongkong, and for the better Regulation of Lascars resorting thereto .

[ 25th October, 1845. ]

Preamble. HEREAS it is expedient that lascars resorting to the said Colony should have,
[Por interpreta
tion of"Lascar," W according to usage, the aid and superintendence of a ghaut serang, and also
See Ord. No. 4
of 1846.]
that Legislative provision should be made as respects them and such serang :—

No person to act 1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of Hongkong , with the
as ghaut serang,
or lodge or ship advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that from and after the passing of this Ordi
lascars without
licence.
nance no person shall act as 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 licence 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 licence, and that every
person acting as ghaut serang, or lodging, or shipping, or contracting for the shipping
of any lascar, without such licence, shall be liable, for each offence, to a penalty not
exceeding one hundred dollars.


Serang to 2. And be it further enacted and ordained, that every such licensed serang shall
establish
boarding-houses, establish, for the use of said lascars, one or more boarding-houses , for each of which
and cause
registry of their
inmates to be houses he shall take out and procure a separate licence from the said Colonial Secretary,
made.
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 serang shall receive into any of said
houses, as a boarder or lodger, any lascar or other seaman, he shall , within twenty
four hours after the period of reception , cause the name of such lascar or seaman to
be recorded in the office of the Registrar General, together with the fact of his having
become such boarder or inmate of said house, and whereupon the said Registrar shall
Ghaut serang to issue a certificate of such circumstances : Provided always, that previous to or upon
furnish, for
approval ofthe said serang obtaining such licence, he shall submit, for the inspection and approval of
Government in
Council, a scale of
charges, and the said Governor and Legislative Council, a table or scale of all the charges which are
expose same for
public inspection . to be made against every such lascar, for boarding , lodging, or shipping ; and that no
greater sum shall be received or demanded, on the foot thereof, by such serang ; and
that a true copy or translation , in Hindostanee, of such approved table, shall be hung
up in some conspicuous part of each of the boarding-houses herein mentioned , as also
in the Harbour Master's office : And it is further provided, that in the event of such
serang not complying with any of the directions or provisions of this section, he shall
be liable to a penalty not exceeding the sum of fifty dollars for each offence.

Penalty on the 3. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the said serang shall be liable to
serang for
knowingly a penalty not exceeding the sum of twenty- five dollars when and so often as he shall
shipping an
inefficient lascar.
knowingly ship or supply an inefficient lascar as a seaman on board any ship or vessel,