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416 ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1858.


Regulation of Chinese- Census.


could not have been lawfully occupied or erected before the passing of
this Ordinance.
Security to 21. Any Stipendiary Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may cause any Chinese
appear within
twelve months. person to find reasonable security for his appearance in any Court for any purpose and
at any time within twelve months, and every adjudication to that effect shall be made
in open Court and reported forthwith to His Excellency : and such Chinese not finding
such security shall be deemed a person dangerous to the peace of the Colony, within
the meaning of Ordinance No. 9 of 1857. [ Repealed by Ordinances No. 8 of 1876 and
No. 8 of1882. ]
Licences for 22. Written licences under the hand of the Governor for the holding of meetings
public meetings.
to consider in a lawful way the redress of supposed grievances, or for religious or thea
trical entertainments, or for any other purposes of public interest, may be granted to
any Chinese occupier applying for the same ; and without such licences, no Chinese
people shall hold or be present at any meetings soever of a public nature, not convened
by the Governor [ or sheriff. Repealed by Ordinance No. 22 of 1882] and not being solely
for the purposes of religious worship . [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 9 of1886 , so far as
it relates to religious ceremonies or religious or theatrical entertainments. The whole section
repealed by Ordinance No. 13 of 1888. ]
Mendicancy 23. Mendicancy in the public highways or streets is hereby for
forbidden.
bidden. [ See Ordinances No. 7 of 1859, and No. 8 of 1876. ]
The power to 24. The Governor in Council is empowered to direct the census of population to
direct census.
be taken within this Colony from time to time as to His said Excellency in Council
shall seem meet, and every such direction may be addressed to the Registrar General.
[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887.]
Blank returns to 25. Upon receiving any such direction , the Registrar General shall prepare and
be prepared and
delivered.
cause to be delivered at every dwelling and place of business throughout this Colony,
a blank return, to be filled up before a certain day to be therein named with the names
and number of the occupiers and inmates of every such dwelling or place of business
and the persons in their employment, or residing with them , or within their tenements ,
according to their several names, sexes, occupations, and countries. [ Repealed by Ordi
nance No. 4 of 1887.]
The blank to be 26. Every such blank return shall, according to its tenor and the truth of the
filled up and
returned.
case, be filled up by the occupier of the dwelling or place of business where the same
shall have been left ; and he shall within five days after the day on which the same
was so left, return, or deliver it, so filled up as aforesaid, to the Registrar General.
[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887.]
Disqualification 27. No person acting or employed by any other person acting in the execution
ofcertain persons
in respect of of this Ordinance, and no member of the family of any such person, shall be possessed
interest.
of or interested in any of the boats, vessels, conveyances, or (in cases within section 18)
tenements to which this Ordinance relates, either in his or her own right or in the
right of another, and either at Law or in Equity. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of
1887.]