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understood when Section 16 of The Police and Lighting State Ordinance 1863 is compared with section 44 of the present Ordinance substituted for it: By the former clause it was competent to the Colonial Treasurer to apply to the Court of Summary Jurisdiction for a Summary Warrant against a party making default to whom he was entitled, upon production of an Affidavit, setting forth certain particulars, whereas by Section 44 of the present Ordinance, the Colonial Treasurer is not only placed in the position of an ordinary Suitor in that Court but must satisfy the judge that four days before the entry of the Plaint-application was made at the Dwelling house of the party making default and that a notice of such application having been made was left for him thereat. The former proceeding being too summary and objected to by many as not giving opportunity to dispute liability.
The present provision is open to no such objection I therefore deem it an improvement.
Section 3 makes a substantial alteration in the law but places in a clearer point of view what was intended by Sections 14 and