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ORDINANCE No. 6 of 1857 . 373


Registration and Census.


Ordinance, to procure and retain in his possession one such ticket from the said Re
gistrar General for the purposes of this Ordinance ; and every Chinaman not so pro
curing, or not so retaining such ticket, or not producing the same whensoever required,
shall, unless he shall make proof of some reasonable justification or excuse, be deemed
a vagrant.

8. Every Chinaman occupying a house, or auy boat or vessel as aforesaid, shall Numbers to be
painted, lists of
cause the number thereof to be painted and affixed to such house, boat or vessel in inmates to be
exhibited, and
tickets to be de
such wise as the Registrar General shall direct, and shall cause to be inscribed in such livered to them.
wise as he shall direct, upon a board exhibited in some conspicuous part of such house,
boat or vessel, a true and full list of all the inmates thereof, distinguishing in the
case of a house the inmates of the upper and lower floors thereof, for the time being ;
and shall deliver to every such inmate a ticket, stamped by the Registrar General, and
containing such particulars, and in such form, as he shall also direct ; and every such
ticket shall from time to time, and when the holder thereof shall cease to be such
inmate, be obtained back from him by the said occupier and cancelled .

9. Possession by a Chinaman of any of the tickets mentioned in sections 7 and Possession of
tickets to be pri
8 shall be prima facie evidence of the delivery thereof to him as an inmate by the ma facie proof of
delivery.
Chinaman therein mentioned as occupier.

10. Every Chinese occupier shall be held responsible as surety for the good con The occupier to
be responsible
duct of every inmate to whom he shall have delivered any such ticket unless the said for the inmates.

occupier shall show some matter of justification or excuse .

11. Every such occupier is hereby commanded to furnish at all times to the Re Statistical infor
mation to be
furnished by
gistrar General whatsoever information the said Registrar General shall, for the purposes occupiers.
of this Ordinance, require of him ; and every occupier of a house is further commanded,
upon the occurrence of any marriage, birth, death, arrival, or departure of inmates
within his house, forthwith to report the same to the proper Chinese officer of his
district.

12. Within ten days next after the commencement of any future hiring by an Registration
tickets in case
of Chinese
European of a Chinaman as a servant to reside within the hirer's house or place of servants resident
with Europeans.
business, or (in case of any such hiring which hath already commenced ) within ten days
from the passing of this Ordinance, such Chinaman shall apply to the said Registrar
General for a registration ticket, and shall at the same time produce unto the said Re
gistrar General a certificate of his hiring under the hand of the said hirer, and ( if so
required by the latter) satisfy the said Registrar General that he hath obtained sufficient
security after Chinese custom for the indemnity of the said hirer against his acts and
defaults ; and thereupon it shall be the duty of the said Registrar General to make out
under his hand the said registration ticket, inserting therein such particulars as to him
shall seem meet, and to deliver the same unto the said Chinaman .

13. All Chinese houses shall be divided into tithings or káp of ten houses each, Chinese tithings
or káp.
wherein every occupier of a house shall answer to Her Majesty for the good conduct
of the occupiers of the other nine ; and over every tithing or káp one of the occupiers