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ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1846 . 207


Registration and Census.


No. 7 of 1846.

An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 18 of 1844 , and to establish a Title.

more effectual Registry of the Chinese Inhabitants, and a Census of
the Population of the Island of Hongkong.

31st December , 1846. ]

HEREAS the islands, ports, harbours, coasts, and places near and adjacent to Preamble.
W the Island of Hongkong and its dependencies are infested by pirates and
robbers ; and whereas it is necessary for the protection of the lives and property of the
inhabitants of this Colony, and in order the more effectually to prevent crime, that such
pirates and robbers, and other persons of notoriously bad character , should not be
permitted to resort to or reside in the said Colony, and it is deemed expedient to repeal
Ordinance No. 18 of 13th November 1844, entitled , " An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance
No. 16 of 1844, and to establish a Registry and Census of the Inhabitants of the Island
of Hongkong," and to substitute other rules and regulations in lieu thereof :

1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hong Repeal of
Ordinance No. 18
kong, by and with the advice of the Legislative Council of the said Colony, that the of 1844.
said Ordinance No. 18 of the year 1844 be, and the same is hereby repealed, save and
except that the office thereby established, and therein called " The Census and Regis
tration Office," shall continue for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and the duties
and business thereof shall be discharged and performed by a Registrar General and
other officers and assistants to be nominated by His Excellency the Governor, and
which said Registrar General, officers, and assistants shall receive such salary and
salaries as His Excellency the Governor in Council may be pleased to appoint subject
to Her Majesty's pleasure.

2. And be it further enacted and ordained, that after the passing of this Ordi Duties of
Registrar
nance, the Registrar General appointed by Ordinance No. 18 of 1844, or to be appointed General.
under this Ordinance, shall, while he continues to act as such Registrar General, be
joint Superintendent of Police, a Justice of the Peace, and Protector of Chinese
inhabitants in the said Colony ; and that it shall be his duty to use his best endeavours
to prevent the commission of crime, and to discover and apprehend the perpetrators
thereof, and generally to protect the Chinese inhabitants of this Colony ; and for the
purposes of this Ordinance the said Registrar General is hereby authorised at any time
or times to enter any house or boat within the Colony or adjacent waters wholly or
partly inhabited or manned by Chinese .

3. And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall and may be lawful for the Registrar
General by
said Registrar General, with the sanction of His Excellency the Governor, or Officer direction ofthe
Governor may
divide the Colony
Administering the Government for the time being, to divide the Colony of Hongkong into districts.
into districts ; and that the officers appointed under Ordinance No. 13 of 1844 , and
therein called Paouchong and Paoukea, shall be obedient to the orders of the said