offending, shall be less than as aforesaid by two degrees; the person harboured and concealed shall be liable to the same punishment, and be registered separately in the legal manner, as well as held accountable to the public service conformably thereto.
Nevertheless, such uncles, younger brothers, nephews, and sons-in-law, who had never formed separate establishments, shall be exempted from the obligation of a separate entry, prescribed by this law.
If any person guilty of omitting to register his family, is in the service of government, and registered as such, the omission shall be punished only according to the number of individuals of full age omitted, as the record of any one person is equivalent to the record of the family.
If any head or master of a family omits to enter in the public register any of the males belonging thereto, who have attained the full age of sixteen, or if he falsely represents any individuals thereof to be under age, aged, infirm, or decrepid, so as to evade their liability to the public service, he shall suffer the punishment of 60 blows, when the number of persons does not exceed three, and be punished one degree more severely for every addition of three persons to the number so omitted or falsely represented, as far as 100 blows at the utmost[1].
Moreover, any head of a family omitting to make entry of from three to five males under the aforesaid age, shall be punished with 40 blows, and the punishment shall be increased one degree as far as 70 blows, for every additional five persons under age, who may have been so omitted.
In all cases the individuals found to have been omitted in the register, shall be duly entered, and if of full age, made accountable to the public service.
- ↑ In the Chinese commentary annexed to the text in the original, it is stated that the first entry shall be made of children when they attain the age of four years, but the period of liability to public service appears to be only between the ages of sixteen and sixty. Besides the ordinary registers of the people, one of a more comprehensive nature is occasionally effected, comprising persons of both sexes, and of all ages.
Neglecting
