Payment of officers.
Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars; and any person who wilfully makes, signs, or delivers, or causes to be made, signed, or delivered, any false return as to any of the matters specified in this Ordinance; or who wilfully obstructs any enumerator or person engaged in the execution of duties required of them under this Ordinance, shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Any enumerator appointed under this Ordinance who knowingly makes a false return of any of the matters specified herein, shall be liable, on conviction before a Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
Fines imposed under this section shall be recoverable in the same way as fines imposed on convictions under Ordinance 16 of 1875.
VIII. The Governor in Council shall award such remuneration as he thinks fit to officers and enumerators appointed under this Ordinance.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 14th day of March, 1881.
Arathorn Seth.
Acting Clerk of Councils.
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accompanying Ordinance entitled the Census Ordinance 1881, and am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.
This Ordinance makes provision for the taking of the Census of Hongkong from time to time.
March 29th, 1881
(signed) Edward Lornalley