WEST
INDIAN COLONIES,
Animala
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LAWS IN FORCE IN THE COLONIES AS TO TRESPASS,
of the common jail respectively, and any person authorized to act on their behalf respectively, to impound such horned cattle and other animals found trespassing upon the said lands; and all and singular the enactments, powers, and provisions hereinbefore enacted and contained in relation to such trespasses of horned cattle, and other animals, tresping on upon lands which are private property, shall be, and the same are hereby declared to be, may be im applicable and in force in relation to such trespasses of horned cattle and other animals master of poor upon the said public lands.
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house and jail kooper.
Dated at Antigua, the third of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in the twenty-seventh year of Her Majesty's reign.
OLIVER NUGENT,
Speaker. Passed the Assembly the third day of December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
O. HUMPHRYS, Acting Clerk of the Assembly.
Passed the Council this third day of December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
By command,
EDWIN D. BAYNES,
Clerk of the Council. Duly published at Antigua, this fourth day of December, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
AND ALSO AS TO PRESERVATION OF GAME.
No. 19.
MONTSERRAT.
[Not received.]
No. 20.
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WEST INDIAN COLORI.
No. 19.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Unlawfully remaining on land after
to depart.
Persons com mitting dam- age to any property in ADY CRO previously pro- vided for may be committed or tined and cumpelled by a police magie. trate to pay compensation
ANTIGUA.
SECTIONS 39 and 40 of No. 193.
JAMES B. THIBOU.
Provost-Marshal.
AN ACT to consolidate and amend the Statute Law of Antigua, relating to Malicious Injuries to Property.
39. Whosoever shall unlawfully persist in coming or remaining upon any plantation, lands, or premises after being warned not to come thereon, or to depart therefrom shall, being warned on conviction thereof before a police magistrate at the discretion of the magistrate either to be committed to the common jail, there to be imprisoned, only, or be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any term not exceeding two months, or else shall forfeit and pay such sum of money not exceeding five pounds as to the magistrate shall seem meet.
40. Whosoever shall wilfully or maliciously commit any damage, injury, or spoil to or upon any real or personal property whatsoever, either of a public or private nature, for which no punishment is hereinbefore provided, shall, on conviction thereof, before a police magistrate at the discretion of the magistrate either be committed to the common jail, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for any term not exceeding two months, or else shall forfeit and pay such sum of money not exceeding five pounds as to the magistrate shall seem meet, and also such further sum of money as shall appear to the magistrate to be a reasonable compensation for the ng damage, injury, or spoil so committed, not exceeding the sum of five pounds, which last mentioned sum of money shall, in the case of private property, be paid to the party aggrieved; and in the case of property of a public nature, or wherein any public right is Application concerned, the money shall be applied in the same manner as every penalty imposed by awarded. a police magistrate under this Act, and if such sums of money, together with costs, if
ordered, shall not be paid either immediately after the conviction, or within such period as the magistrate shall at the time of the conviction appoint, the magistrate may commit the offender to the common jail there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, as the magistrate shall think fit, for any term not exceeding two months, unless such sums and costs be sooner paid: Provided that nothing herein con- tained shall extend to any case where the party acted under a fair and reasonable tend to certain supposition that he had a right to do the act complained of, nor to any trespass, not being wilful and malicious, committed in shooting, fishing, or in the pursuit of game, but that every such trespass shall be punishable in the same manner as if this 'Act had not passed.
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ST. KITTS AND NEVIS.
COPY 'of a DESPATCH from Administrator WIGLEY to SIR BENJAMIN C, C. PINE. (No. 123.)
SIR,
St. Christopher, 24th September, 1870. I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of the Secretary of State's Circular Despatch, dated the 2nd August, calling for copies of any enactments in force in these Colonies as to Trespass, and also as to the Preservation of Game,
2. I enclose copies of the Trespass Acts in force in these Islands; and have to state, for his Lordship's information, that no Act for the Preservation of Game exists.
I have, &c.,
F. SPENCER WIGLEY.
His Excellency Sir B. C.C. Pine. &c. &c. &c.
(Signed)
Enclosures in 20.
No. 98.
AN ACT to regulate the Impounding of Stock, to give remedies to parties injured by the trespassing of such Stock, and to make other provisions connected therewith,
[Dated 1st April, 1851.]
WHEREAS it is necessary to make further provisions for the prevention and punishment of trespasses by stock: We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Officer administering the Government of your Majesty's Islands of Saint Christopher and Anguilla, and the Council and Assembly of the same, do pray your most excellent Majesty that it may be enacted:
1. [Repeals former Acts.]
No. 20.
Enclosures
in No. 20.
2. And be it enacted, That the several pounds established in the respective parishes of this island, are hereby continued, and declared to be the lawful pounds of the said pounds several parishes respectively.
Continues
already esta- blished.
Also the
3. And be it enacted, That the several keepers of the said pounds are hereby declared pound-keepera to be the lawful keepers of the same, invested with all the powers and authorities, and subject to all the pains, penalties, and forfeitures of pound-keepers under this Act, as hereinafter mentioned.
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4. And be it enacted, That whensoever any of the said several pounds now established Proper pounds in this island shall be discontinued as such pound, and as often as occasion shall from bhed time to time require, there shall be provided within each of the several parishes of this island, at the public expense, a good and sufficient pound for the same.
5. And be it enacted, That every pound-keeper now or hereafter to be appointed, shall