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380 ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1857.


Registration and Census.


mencement of the said proceedings, and unless the proceedings upon the said certiorari
shall be prosecuted, with effect , in the Supreme Court, within six weeks after the ob
taining thereof. And the costs of such certiorari and proceedings shall be paid to or
by the Crown according to the event thereof.
Construction of 44. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the following terms and words shall be
words.
severally taken, not only in their received sense, but also to extend to and include the
meanings hereinafter specified, that is to say :
*Occupier.' "Occupier," " Person occupying," and " Master of a House or Tenement " or
"of a Boat or Vessel," shall include every person acting as master thereof,
occupant of the groundfloor thereof (if a house or tenement) at a rent ,
and (in the event of a vacant house, tenement , boat or vessel or of no
other occupier thereof being found) owner thereof, or his agent. And
House or build "House," " Tenement," or " Building " shall include any shop, outhouse,
ing.
shed, or roof :

'Europeans.' And " European " shall include all persons other than Asiatics , and also all
such Asiatics ( not being Chinese) as owe or shall owe permanent alleg
iance unto Her Majesty :
And Chinese." And " Chinese " shall include natives of Hongkong and other places out of
the Empire of China, being of Chinese blood or following Chinese
usages :
Exception. Save only and except where by the express letter of this Ordinance a more
limited meaning hath been attributed to any or either of the said terms
and words.

Retrospective. 45. All acts done before the passing of this Ordinance which, if done after the
passing thereof, would have been legal and valid , shall be deemed legal and valid for
all purposes soever.



SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS :
Fee for hawkers, …………….. $ 0.50 Quarterly.
1st Class Boats plying for hire, 99 10.00 Annually.
2nd 92 99 99 ....... 39 5.00 29
3rd 99 19 29 19 3.00 27
4th 19 "" "" "9 0.50 ??
Trading and fishing boats, 99 10.00 29
Undertakers ' Licences,.. 97 10.00 29
Licences of tenements and boats or boats for coolies (for every ten
inmates) if by the year,......... 17 5.00 ""
And if by a lesser term (for every ten inmates ), ......... "9 0.10 per diem.


[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 8 of 1858.]


NOTE.—For the divisions into districts under section 3 see Government Notification—
Gazette 9th May, 1857.