156 ORDINANCE No. 14 OF 1845 .
Good Order and Cleanliness.
construed and extend to any religious procession or festival, for
[ * See Ord. the due celebration of which the consent of the * Chief Magistrate of
No. 6 of
1862.] 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 [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 9 of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 in
habitant 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or [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 8 of 1882 ; see also Ordinance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 com
mit 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.
Prohibiting 3. And be it further enacted and ordained , that every person who
other
nuisances, &c. shall within the said Colony be guilty of any ofthe following offences
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds : -