616 [ 2 & 3 OF 1881.] CENSUS . — PENAL ORDINANCES AMENDMENT.
officer when required to do so ; or to furnish information to any 1
enumerator, or to permit any enumerator to obtain information
on board his vessel ; or to answer any such question as aforesaid
put to him by any enumerator or other officer, shall, on
conviction before a 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 know
ingly 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 .
Payment of 8. The Governor in Council shall award such remuneration
officers,
as he thinks fit to officers and enumerators appointed under
this ordinance.
No. 3 OF 1881 .
Title, An Ordinance entitled “ The Penal Ordinances amend
ment Ordinance, 1881,”
[24th June, 1881. ]
Preamble . HEREAS it is expedient to amend the penal laws in
W force in this Colony :
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Flogging on
the back
3. It shall not be lawful to award any sentence of flogging
unlawful : on the back ; and every sentence of flogging or whipping shall
floggingrattan
to be provide that such flogging or whipping shall be inflicted with a
on the breech. rattan on the breech , and shall specify the number of strokes or
[ .V0.9 of lashes and shall further provide :-
1884. ]
(a.) Except in the case of a person under the age of 14 years
summarily convicted that the same shall be inflicted in
some prison, and
(6. ) In the case of a person under the age of 14 years sum
marily . convicted that the same hall be inflicted
privately.