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414 ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1858.


Regulation of Chinese - Census.

The Registrar 13. The Registrar General shall grant to such fit and proper persons, being
General to grant
undertaker's Chinamen, as shall make application unto him in that behalf, licences to undertake
licences.
and perform 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. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 21 of 1887.]
None but
licensed 14. No person, not being an undertaker licensed under section 13, shall hence
undertakers to
bury or dig forward undertake or perform any burials of Chinese dead, or dig any grave within
graves.
any such cemetery as aforesaid. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 21 of 1887.]
The undertakers
are required to 15. Every licensed undertaker is hereby required to use his best skill and
prevent and
repress offences endeavour to prevent and repress all offences against, and violations of, the Laws for
against Burial
Laws. regulating Chinese burials, and to apprehend, or cause to be apprehended , all persons
accused thereof, and from time to time to report every such offence or violation to the
Registrar General with all reasonable speed. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 21 of 1887.]
Licensing of
boats, &c. 16. The Registrar General shall grant to such persons, upon such security and in
such form as His Excellency in Council shall think fit, and upon payment 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 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 boats or vessels having British, Colonial, or
Foreign Registers (not being Chinese Registers) ; and also other than market boats or
vessels, or 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 number of her certificate aforesaid , which number shall be
supplied by the Registrar General for that purpose ; and no such certificate or number
shall be transferred or lent unto any other boat or vessel, or the persons on board of the
same, nor shall any certificate or number other than such as the said Registrar General
shall have granted under this section be assumed or exhibited by any such boat or
vessel, or the persons on board of the same. And every person having charge of any
such boat or vessel is hereby commanded, whensoever thereunto required , to exhibit
the certificate granted in respect thereof under this section . And all persons having
charge of boats or vessels, and, not having obtained or not having on board such
certificate as aforesaid (other than as aforesaid ) , are hereby forbidden to employ their
said boats or vessels in plying here within the said waters, or in carrying passengers
between this Colony and the said ports, or to cause, suffer, or connive at their said
employment. [ So much as relates to licensing boats repealed by Ordinance No. 6 of 1866.
The whole section repealed by Ordinance No. 8 of 1879.]

Scale ofboat 17. Scales of fares for all licensed boats and vessels licensed to ply for hire within
fares and chair
and porter hire. the said waters, and also scales for the hire of all public conveyances, chair coolies, and
porters, by the day, hour, or job, with all proper regulations for exceptional cases, shall