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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, sigued, 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 speci. fied herein, shall be liable, on conviction before a Magis- trate, 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 Ordi- nance 16 of 1875.

VIII. The Governor in Council shall award such remu- neration as he thinks fit to officers and enumerators ap- pointed 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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(signed) Edward Lomalley