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See Ord. No. 6 of 1862.]
Prohibiting other
nuisances, &c.
ORDINANCE No. 14 of 1845.
Good Order and Cleanliness.
construed and extend to any religious procession or festival, for the due celebration of which the consent of the Chief Magistrate of Police has been obtained. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 9 of 1886.]
13. Every person who shall wantonly discharge any fire-arms, or throw or discharge any stone or other missile, or make any bonfire, or throw or set fire to any firework, to the damage or danger of any person.
14. Every person who shall wilfully and wantonly disturb any inhabitant by pulling or ringing any door-bell, or by knocking or striking at any door without lawful excuse, or who shall wilfully and unlawfully extinguish the light of any lamp.
15. Every person who shall play at any game or pastime to the annoyance of the inhabitants or passengers.
16. Every person who shall play at any game in any public passage or road so as to obstruct the same, or create a noisy assembly therein.
17. Every person who shall beg, or expose any sore or infirmity to view, for the purpose of exciting compassion and obtaining alms, or [Repealed by Ordinance No. 8 of 1882; see also Ordinance No. 8 of 1876] shall lewdly and indecently expose his person by bathing or otherwise near any public road or dwelling-house. And it shall be lawful for any constable belonging to the Police Force to take into custody, without warrant, any person who shall commit any such offence within view of any such constable; or if such offence shall not have been committed within view of such constable, then, upon complaint of the party who shall have been injured or annoyed by, or been witness to, the commission of any such offence; and in the absence of any such constable, it shall be lawful for the party so injured or annoyed, or who shall have seen the offence committed, to seize and detain the offender until he can be given into the custody of such constable, or until he can be taken before a Magistrate.
3. And be it further enacted and ordained, that every person who shall within the said Colony be guilty of any of the following offences shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds:-