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the Provisions of this Ordinance, or shall wilfully conceal or falsify or Infringement of any
of the Clauses of this
the Particulars of any Information required of him for the purposes Ordinance.
of this Ordinance, or shall give a False Name or Description, or
shall transfer or lend his Registration Ticket to any other Person,
or shall wear or shew the Registration Ticket of another as his own,
for the purpose of evading the Provisions of this Ordinance, or shall
in any way infringe the Provisions of this Ordinance, he shall, where
no other Penalty is hereinbefore specially provided, be liable to a
Penalty not exceeding Fifty Dollars for any and every such Offence :
Provided that nothing herein contained shall apply to any Trader or
other Person coming to or going from this Colony for any lawful
Occasion, should he be able to give a respectable Reference if required .
XV. And be it further enacted and ordained , That any Person Recovery of For-
who may enter into any Security to be taken by the Registrar- feitures and Fenalties.
General or by any Police Magistrate under this Ordinance which
shall become forfeited in its Conditions, such Person shall by such
Forfeiture be considered to have incurred a Penalty of not more
than the Amount of such Security, which Penalty shall be recovered
with all or any of the other Penalties mentioned in this Ordinance
in a Summary Manner, before any Police Magistrate, under the
Provisions of Ordinance No. 10 of 1844 ; Provided always that the
Penalty of Imprisonment shall not in any case attach to the Violation
of any of the Provisions hereinafter contained respecting the Returns
to be made by any Householder for the purpose of any Census so
required as hereinafter mentioned .
XVI. And be it further enacted and ordained, That for the Census.
purposes of the Census, the said Registrar-General or such other
Officer so to be appointed as aforesaid shall, when and so often as he
may be directed by the Governor and Executive Council, cause to
be delivered or left at the Residence or Place of Business of any or
every Householder or Householders, being Europeans, Natives of
India, or otherwise, a blank Return to be filled up before a certain
Day to be therein named , with the Names and Number of Persons
in his or their Employ, or residing within his or their House or
Houses, or in his or their Premises, and shall in every such Return
distinguish and describe the Name, Sex, Country, and Occupation
of every Person so resident, and also whether any and which of
them be either Aliens or resident Strangers ; and that on or after Returns to be made
by Householders.
the said Day named in the said blank Return, the said Householder
or Householders is and are hereby required to transmit the said
Return or deliver the same on demand within Five Days after its
being left at such Residence or Place of Business as aforesaid, so
filled up, to the said Registrar-General, or such other Officer so to be
appointed as aforesaid, and on failure to do so, the said Householder
or Householders shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Fifty
Dollars.
XVII. And be it further enacted and ordained, That for the Interpretation Clause.
purposes of this Ordinance the term Householder shall be taken to
mean the Person acting as Master of the House for the time being,
or should he not be found after due Enquiry made, the Owner of
the House, or the Agent or Person acting for the Owner of the
House, being Chinese, and where a House is tenanted by several
Individuals