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372 ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1857.


Registration and Census.


Appointments of 3. The several persons now being the Registrar General, officers and assistants
officers.
of the said office, shall continue to discharge the said duties and business at their
present salaries during His Excellency's pleasure ; and upon any vacancy, His Excel
lency may from time to time nominate and appoint such person or persons to be such
Registrar General, officers, and assistants respectively, and at such salary and salaries
as to His Excellency shall seem meet, and also remove him or them at His Excellency's
discretion from time to time, and nominate and appoint another or others in his or
their room ; yet so as that Her Majesty's pleasure shall be taken as to every nomina
tion, appointment, and removal of a Registrar General, and as to every new limitation
of salary under the provisions of this section.

Powers and du 4. The Registrar General is, by virtue of his office, and for the execution of this
ties ofthe Regis
trar General. Ordinance, and not otherwise, a Justice of the Peace, a joint Superintendent of Police,
and the Protector of Chinese inhabitants within this Colony, and as such is bounden
to use his best endeavours to prevent the commission of crime, and, if committed, to
discover and apprehend the parties guilty thereof, and generally to watch over and
protect the said Chinese inhabitants ; and for the purposes aforesaid he is empowered
and required to use and exercise all the authorities of a Justice and Superintendent
of Police, and also to enter at any time or times, as he shall find meet, any building
soever within this Colony, or vessel or boat soever within the waters of the same or
adjacent thereto, if such building , vessel, or boat shall then have any Chinaman within
or on board of the same.

Duties of the
other officers 5. The other officers and assistants in the said Census and Registration Office
and assistants.
shall be obedient and assisting unto the said Registrar General in the execution of
this Ordinance.

The Chief Ma 6. The powers and authorities which by the said Ordinance No. 12 of 1844 were
gistrate's author
ity to devolve vested in the Chief Magistrate of Police, are from henceforth vested in and shall be
upon the Super
intendent and
Registrar Gene exercised by the Superintendent of Police for the time being constituted under the
ral.
said Ordinance, in all matters wherein any of the provisions for the census registration
and protection of Chinese people are not concerned, and by the Registrar General in
all matters wherein any of the said provisions are concerned ; and the same obedience
shall be rendered by the Police Force of this Colony to the orders of the said Superin
tendent of Police and Registrar General respectively, and to all rules and regulations
to be by them respectively made under section 3 of the said Ordinance No. 12 of
1844 and this section, with the approbation of the Governor ; due regard being had to
the respective matters to which such powers and authorities, rules and regulations,
respectively shall relate.

Divison into dis 7. The Registrar General, with the approbation of the Governor, shall divide
tricts, and num
bering. this Colony into districts, and cause every house therein , whether occupied by a
Chinaman or by an European, to be numbered , and tickets to be prepared and issued
for the purposes of section 8 ; and it shall be the duty of every Chinese occupier
or inmate of a house, or of a boat or vessel having a certificate or licence under this