ORDINANCE No. 11 of 1856 . 351
Lighting City.
ment for the current year ; and all the provisions of the Ordinances No. 2 of 1845 and
No. 3 of 1851 , touching valuation, assessment, levy, and appeal, shall extend and apply
to the said " Lighting Rate." [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 5 of 1863. ]
2. The Surveyor General shall from time to time cause a sufficient The Surveyor
General to
number of irons or posts for the lighting of the streets, roads, ways, and provide and
fix lamps, &c.,
public thoroughfares of the City of Victoria to be provided , and the same and the Su
perintendent
to be set up, fixed , or erected , in all suitable situations for such lighting , of Police to
keep them
and either in any of the said streets, roads , ways , and thoroughfares , or lighted .
in any close adjacent thereto, or upon or against the wall of any house or
building, or the side of any wall or fence, or elsewhere, as he shall think
proper ; and he shall also from time to time cause to be provided, and put,
and affixed upon the said irons and posts, such a number of lamps , and
of such sizes and sorts respectively, as shall be found requisite for the
lighting of the said streets, roads , ways , and thoroughfares respectively.
And it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Police to light and to
keep lighted the said lamps with oil for any number of hours in every
twenty-four hours, as the said Surveyor General shall from time to time
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direct.
3. The laws relating to the removing, taking, carrying away, or Laws relating
to removal or
stealing of fixtures and chattels respectively, shall be interpreted to apply felony of fix
tures and
to the removing, taking , carrying away, or stealing ofthe said irons , posts, chattels, ex
to
lamps , and oil respectively, by any persons whomsoever ; and the property lamps, irons,
&c.
of and in all such articles shall be deemed to be vested in the Surveyor
General for all the purposes of any action , suit, or information brought
or preferred against any person for or in respect of the same , or for or in
respect of any trespass, injury, misdemeanor, or felony done or committed
in respect of any of the said articles .
4. Ifany person shall wilfully extinguish the light of any such lamp , Wilful dam
age, how pun
or wilfully injure, displace, or damage any such lamp or any other of the ishable.
said articles, every such offender shall , upon conviction thereof before any
Justice of the Peace, forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not ex
ceeding fifty dollars nor less than one dollar, and shall further forfeit and
pay the full amount of the damage by him so done as aforesaid, and all
incidental costs and expenses .
5. It shall be lawful for any person witnessing the commission of an Apprehension
of offenders
offence against section 3 of this Ordinance, to seize the said offender, without war
rant.
and to deliver him to any constable, or to the said Justice of the Peace ;