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terests of all the partners, whether registered

or unregistered, in the partnership,

a statement, chopped with the chop of the partnership and signed by the manager or in his absence by one or more of the registered partners, specifying the nature of the change shall within fourteen days be delivered to the Registrar of Companies.

(2.) If default is made in compliance with the require- ments of this section such manager and all the registered partners who cannot prove that they were ignorant of the change shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars for each day during which the default continues. Provided that no person shall be liable to pay a fine exceeding a total sum of five hundred dollars.

10. The statement of the amomut contributed by a re- ad valorem gistered partner, and a statement of any increase in that stamp duty amount, sent to the Registrar for registration nuder this on contri-

butions Ordinance, shall be charged with an ad valorem stamp duty

by registered of $1 for every $500 or portion of every $500 up to partners. $10,000, and $1 for every $1,000 or portion of $1,000 on the next $15,000 and 50 cents for every $1,000 or portion of

$1,000 on sums above $25,00) of the amount so con-

tributed, or of the increase of that amount, as the case may be; and, in default of payment of stamp duty thereon as herein required, the duty with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent. per annum from the date of delivery of such statement shall be a debt to the Crown and shall be recoverable by the Colonial Treasurer from such registered partner in the same manner as is provided for by the Crown Remedies Ordinance, 1875, in respect of rent due to the Crown.

11. Every one who makes, signs, sends, or delivers Penalty for for the purpose of registration under this Ordinance any making false false or incomplete statement known by him to be false returns. or incomplete commits a misdemeanour and shall also be personally liable to an unlimited extent for all debts and obligations of the registered partnership incurred during his partnership therein.

statement

12. On receiving any statement made in pursuance of Registrar this Ordinance the Registrar of Companies shall cause the to file same to be filed, and he shall send by registered post or and issue deliver to the partnership from which such statement has certificate of been received a certificate of the registration thereof. registration.

13. The Registrar of Companies shall keep at his Registrar office, in proper books to be provided for the purpose, a to keep

register and register and an index of all the partnerships registered foder and as aforesaid, and of all the statements registered in relation to advertise to such partnerships, and shall as soon as practicable after registrations. each registration publish in the Gazette and in one Chinese newspaper circulating in the Colony a notification of the name of the registered partnership and of the name of every registered partner therein.

14.-(1.) Any person may inspect the statements filed Inspection of under this Ordinance by the Registrar of Companies, and statements there shall be paid for each such inspection a Tee of one registered. dollar; and any person may require a certificate of the registration of a registered partnership, or a copy of or extract from any registered statement, to be certified by the Registrar of Companies, and there shall be paid for such certificate of registration, certified copy, or extract such fees as the Governor-in-Council may appoint, not exceeding $1 for the certificate of registration, and not exceeding forty cents for each folio of seventy-two words.

(2.) A certificate of registration, or a copy of or extract from any statement registered under this Ordinance, if duly certified to be a true copy under the hand of the Registrar of Companies or one of the Deputy Registrars (whom it shall not be necessary to prove to be the Registrar or Deputy Registrar) shall, in all legal proceedings, civil or criminal, and in all cases whatsoever, be received in evi- dence.