WEST
INDIAN COLONI.
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LAWS IN FORCE IN THE COLONIES AS TO TRESPASS,
In accordance with the Despatch of His Excellency the Governor in Chief, No. 166, dated the 14th June, I assent to this Bill.
HENRY YEATES,
No. 17.
AND ALSO AS TO PRESERVATION OF GAME.
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No. 18.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Duly proclaimed this 27th day of June, 1833.
President Adming, the Govrt.
CHARLES I. LEPLASTRIER,
Provost Marshal General.
God save the Queen.
No. 17.
ST. LUCIA.
Cory of a DESPATCH from the ADMINISTRATOR of the Government to
(No. 49.) SIR,
Governor RAWSON, C.B.
Government Office, St. Lucia,
24th September, 1870.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the Secretary of State's Circular Despatch dated the 2nd of August, 1870, and which was forwarded to me by your Excellency on the 17th instant, requesting to be furnished with copies of any enactments in force in this Colony as to Trespass and also as to the Preservation of Game, and to accompany them with any observations which may be considered necessary in order to render them intelligible.
2. The only enactment in force in this Colony relating to trespass is contained in the Justice of the Peace Ordinance of the 14th of June, 1857, section 10 ("Laws of St. Lucia," We have no loose printed copies of the page 303). A copy of the section is enclosed. Ordinance.
ANTIGUA
KIMBERLEY.
COPY of a DESPATCH from Governor SIR BENJAMIN C. C, PINE to the EARL of
(No. 153.)
MY LORD,
Leeward Islands, Antigua,
5th October, 1870.
With reference to your Lordship's Circular Despatch of the 2nd August on the subject of the laws in force in Antigua as to Trespass, and also as to the Preservation of Game, I have now the honour to transmit printed copies of the following Acts, viz.:
An Act to repress Trespasses of Stock.
An Act to consolidate and amend the Statute Law of Antigua relating to malicious
injuries to property.
2. The 39th and 40th clauses of the latter Act relate to trespasses by persons on Lands.
3. There are no laws in force in Antigua for the Preservation of Game.
I have, &c., (Signed) BENJAMIN C. C. PINE, Governor.
The Right. Hon, the Earl of Kimberley,
&c. &c. &c.
Enclosures in No. 18. ↑
ANTIGUA.
No. 201
An Act to Repress Trespass of Stock.
No. 18.
Enclosures
in No. 18.
[I assent, STEPHEN J. HILL.]
Be it enacted by the Governor, the Council, and Assembly as follows:
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1. The several pounds in use at the passing of this Act shall as public pounds continue to be public pounds, and shall from time to time be repaired at the public pounds in use. expense, under the order and direction of the vestry of the parish in which such pound
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shall be situate.
2. A pound keeper shall be appointed to each by the vestry of the parish in which such pound is situate, with a salary to be paid by the parish: and such pound keeper of pound shall be removable at the discretion of such vestry.
Appointment
keeper,
3. The Acting Attorney-General, to whom I referred for information on this subject, states that a civil action in regard to trespass may be brought before the Royal Court where the damages claimed exceed fifteen pounds, and before the Court of Requests where they are fifteen pounds or under. But that the only fine or penalty existing in the matter is that provided for in the section referred to in the case of wilful trespass in any field, garden, &c., or other enclosure, and only when the person trespassing neglects or refuses to leave such place after having been warned to do so.
4. There is no law in force in this island regulating the preservation of game,
I have, &c.,
MACNAMARA DIX, Administrator of the Government.
His Excellency Rawson W. Rawson, C.B.,
Governor-in-Chief, &c. &c.
Enclosure in No. 17.
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE ORDINANCE, 14TH JUNE, 1851.
Section 10,
And be it enacted, that any person who shall wilfully trespass in any field, garden, pleasure ground, wood, or plantation, or other enclosure, and shall neglect or refuse to leave any such place after they shall have been warned to do so by the owner, or tenant in occupation of any such place, or by the care-taker or servant of such owner, or tenant, or who shall repeat such trespass within one month from the time when such warning shall have been so given to him, shall, on conviction thereof before one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace, be liable to a fine not exceeding Ten shillings, and in default of payment thereof at such time as the said Justice or Justices shall direct, shall be liable to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one week: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall prevent any person from maintaining any civil action or suit for any such trespass, instead of proceeding under this Ordinance.
3. The several pound keepers in office at the passing of this Act shall continue to act for the term of their appointment, as if this Act had not been passed.
Acting pound keepers continued in
4. It shall be lawful for the proprietor, possessor, or person in charge of any plan- office.
Animals tres tation, estate, or other land, to cause any horse, mule, ass, ox, or other cattle, or any sing may sheep, goat, or swine, which shall be found trespassing on such plantation, estate or land, be impounded. to be captured and impounded in the pound of the parish in which such trespass shall be committed.
5. The pound keeper to whose custody any animal shall be committed shall, with all convenient speed, give notice, in writing, of the impounding of such animal to the owner, if the owner be known, and for such notice shall be entitled to the sum of one shilling.
Notice of
pounding to pound keeper.
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Notice fee.
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6. The following fines, exclusive of the notice fee and allowances, shall be payable to the pound keeper, that is to say: for the release of every horse, mule, ass, ox, or other allowances for cattle, a fine of four shillings-three-fourths of which shall be paid by the pound keeper impounded. to the person impounding the same, and one-fourth shall be retained by the pound keeper, as a compensation for securing the same, with an allowance of one shilling per day for feeding the same; and for the release of every sheep, goat, or swine, a fine of two shillings shall be paid, three-fourths of which shall be paid by the pound keeper to person impounding the same, and one-fourth shall be retained by the pound keeper as a compensation for securing the same, with an allowance of four pence per day for feeding the same.
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7. If any horse, mule, ass, ox, or other cattle so impounded, shall not be redeemed within five days after such impounding, or if any sheep, goat, or swine, so impounded mals im shall not be redeemed within three days after such impounding, the same, at the expira- tion of the five or three days, as the case may be, shall be sold by public outery at the
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