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ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1857. 375


Registration and Census.


to ascertain the said rate, and to receive the amount of the said levy when made, and to
pay thereout to the tepo his said salary, and to account with the Government, and also
with the said town , village, hamlet, or district, for the remainder, if any, of the amount
levied ; and the provisions of all Ordinances for the enforcement of the payment of
Police taxes, shall be extended to the enforcement of the said levy.

21. A tepo shall be permitted to act as arbitrator in disputes of a civil nature Power of
arbitration.
only, arising between Chinamau, willing to submit the same to his arbitrament ; and
his award being reduced to writing, and approved by the Registrar General, shall be
received in evidence, and may be carried into effect by any Court wherein the same
shall come in question .

22. The hawking of goods or wares in the streets or roads of this Colony without Unlicensed
hawking
a licence from the Registrar General is hereby prohibited . prohibited.

23. No licence for such hawking shall be granted by the Registrar General to any Conditions and
fees of hawking
person except after proper enquiry into the character of the applicant, and upon due licences.

and ample security for his good conduct, and subject to forfeiture on his conviction of
any offence before any Justice of the Peace. And every applicant, on receiving his
said licence, shall pay therefor to the Registrar General, to the use of the Crown, the
fee in that behalf mentioned in the schedule hereunto annexed.

24. The Registrar General shall grant to such fit and proper persons , being China The Registrar
General to grant
men, as shall make application unto him in that behalf, licences to undertake and per undertaker's
licences.
form the burials of Chinese dead in the cemeteries, and after the manner prescribed
by law; and every such licence shall be limited in duration to one year, but renewable
at the expiration of each year ; and there shall be paid to him to the use of the Crown
for every such grant or renewal the fee in that behalf specified in the schedule hereunto
annexed.

25. No person, not being an undertaker licensed under section 24, shall hence None but
licensed
undertakers to
forward undertake or perform any burials of Chinese dead, or dig any grave within bury or dig
any such cemetery as aforesaid. graves.

26. Every licensed undertaker is hereby required to use his best skill and endea The undertakers
are required to
prevent and
vour, to prevent and repress all offences against , and violations of, the laws for regula repress offences
against Burial
ting Chinese burials, and to apprehend, or cause to be apprehended, all persons accused Laws.
thereof, and from time to time to report every such offence or violation to the Regis
trar General with all reasonable speed .

27. It shall be lawful for the Registrar General to grant to such persons, upon Licensing of
China boats, &c.
such security and in such form as he shall think fit, and upon payment to him made
to the use of the Crown of such fee therefor according to size as in the said schedule
hereunto annexed is in that behalf specified , certificates of licence of Chinese boats or
vessels plying for hire within the waters of this Colony, or carrying passengers between
this Colony and the ports on the Chinese Main (other than Chinese boats or vessels
visiting this Colony merely for trading purposes ;) and every such boat or vessel shall
carry on each of her bows and on her stern , legibly painted upon wood or tin , the true