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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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C.O. 882

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-

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wner or occupier

lowing persas to

cupy and or

emises for tnore

an eight days with-

I declaring, or

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on, or giving kny

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curs penalty not

exceed tul Such

person.

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Provided that no such declaration or notification shall be necessary

with regard to persons in occupation of land or premises as aforesaid in the three following cases:

Firstly. If they be servants duly engaged under a written contract of service entered

into before a stipendiary magistrate. Secondly. If they be domestic servants of the owner or occupier of lands or premises

as aforesaid, employed to work as such on the property on which they reside. Thirdly. If they be labourers actually employed by the owner or occupiers of lands or premises as aforesaid, to perform bodily labour in agriculture on the property on which they reside.

II. Any owner or occupier of land or premises as aforesaid who shall allow any person to occupy his land or premises for a period exceeding eight days without having made the aforesaid declaration or notification, or who shall make a false declaration or notifi- cation or give any false particulars when making such declaration or notification shall incur a penalty not exceeding 101.

Every such declaration shall be made and received without the payment of any fee by claration not liable the person making the same.

any fee

mon fand in oeet-

tion of land or premises

I duly roristered, or

vant or labourer, or iding such land by ae or

treement, or

able to give satisfac

explanations of his

III. Any person who shall be found occupying any land or premises who shall not be a person duly registered, or a servant or labourer as mentioned in Clause 1. of this Regulation, or person holding such land or premises, in virtue of any lease or agreement, and who shall not be able to give any satisfactory reason for occupying such land or premises, may be arrested by any police constable or superior member of the police force and charged with having no means of subsistence, and if such be proved against such person, and such person is able but unwilling to work he may be condemned for a first exceeding a mouth offence to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twenty-eight days, and for a second

or any subsequent offence to imprisonment not exceeding six months.

upation may be ested by police, and

ble but unwilling to

rk may be condemned

25 days imprison.

nt for drst offence,

any subsequent

•hve

by owner or occu-

r of land claiming

* person charged

all satisfy the gistrate of such

im, provided that

he have no ineans

subsistence to be

IV. Any owner or occupier of land or premises claiming a person charged in virtuc of the last preceeding clause as a person duly registered by him, or as his servant or

der this Regulation, lessee, shall satisfy the magistrate of such claim; provided that if the party charged, though he be duly registered as occupying any particular land or premises, have in the opinion of the magistrate no sufficient means of subsistence, and is able but unwilling to work, or if he be the holder of a lease of any land or premises the benefit to be derived from which is in the opinion of the magistrate insufficient for the subsistence of the leases, and is able party charged, and such party is able but unwilling to work and has no other means of subsistence he may be condemned in virtue of the last preceding clause, notwithstanding such registration, lease, or agreement.

ived from land

ich he occupies

unwilling to

rk, he may be idemued.

by owner or occu-

r of land falsely

of police, or

rden, that any

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V. Any owner or occupier of land or premises aforesaid who shall falsely state to any ting to magiert magistrate, member of the police force, or warden, that any person found occupying the land or premises of such owner or occupier, is a servant duly employed by such owner or occupier, for domestic or agricultural purposes when such is not the case, it, or employed by shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 101. or to imprisonment not exceeding three

months.

son found occu-

ng land is a PT-

1, when such in

the case, shall

liable to a penalty

exceeding 101.

y owner of occu-

• allowing a perso

ccupy, or remain

bu land, knowing

same to be a

son duly regis-

-d or employed another, to be

de to a penalty Tod and may be secuted for nages not to

eed 8. per diem

Buch illegal de- tion.

contraventionu

be prosecuted by

mbers of the police

ce before a stipe

ry magistrate.

r person duly sum-

ned to answer any aplaint under this guiation who shall tes or fuil to obey

VI. Any owner or occupier of land or premises who shall allow a person to occupy or remain on such land or premises knowing that such person is a person duly registered by, or a servant in the service of another, shall incur a penalty not exceeding 10%, and may, according to circumstances, incur damages in favour of the person by whom such person was registered, or to whom such servant is engaged, not exceeding eight shillings for each day of such illegal occupation. Such damages may be claimed in the same complaint as is brought against the party charged with the illegal act.

VII. All contraventions against the provisions of this Regulation shall be prosecuted before a stipendiary magistrate by any constable or superior member of the police force.

Provided that any complaint under Clause VI. of this Regulation may be entered and followed up by the owner or occupier of the duly registered person, or by the lawful employer of any servant found occupying land as therein mentioned.

VIII. Any person duly summoned to answer any complaint under this Regulation who shall without lawful cause, refuse, or neglect to obey such summons, shall incur a penalty not exceeding 51., and with or without the infliction of such penalty the stipendiary magistrate may issue a warrant in order that such person be arrested and brought Y IDOSO WEITanit ed before him.

hot lawful cause he

Jl incur a penalty not

Booed 54. Magistrate

31.

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IX. Whenever any fine has been inflicted in pursuance of this Regulation and such fine is not paid the person convicted shall be sentenced to imprisonment at the rate of one day's imprisonment for each shilling of fine and costs pronounced against him.

Provided that in no such case shall the term of imprisonment exceed six months and provided that the stipendiary magistrate may grant, if he think fit, a period not exceeding fourteen days for the payment of such fine and costs.

of

X. The provisions of this Regulation shall not extend to persons in occupation land or premises situate within the town of Port Victoria as defined by Regulation No. 3 of 1874.

remaining und bellable to one

paid, persons convicted day's imprisonment for each shilling of Ane and cost, but imprisonment Magistrate may grant

not exceed six months

not to root of f

days for payment of fine and costs.

Provisions of this

Regulation not to premises in the town

extend to land or

of Port Victoria na defined in Regula tion 3 of 1874.

XI. Nothing in this Regulation shall in any way affect or interfere with any existing Nothing in this Regn- law on vagrancy.

lation to affect or interfere with existing laws on vagrancy.

XII. The male gender in this Regulation shall include the female and the singular The male gender to number the plural.

inalude the female, and the singular number the plural. Regulation to come into force on the st

XIII. This Regulation shall come into force on the 1st day of October 1874. l'assed by the Board of Civil Commissioners for the Seychelles Islands, at Port October 1874. Victoria, Mahé, the twenty-fith day of August one thousand eight hundred and seventy- four.

A. E. HAVELOCK,

Acting Chief Civil Commissioner. Confirmed this twenty-fifth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

ARTHUR H. GORDON,

Governor.

No. 10 of 1874.

A REGULATION of the BOARD OF CIVIL COMMISSIONERS for the SEYCHELLES ISLAND to provide for the REGISTRATION in certain cases of LEASES and AGREEMENTS · Of PROPERTY.

I. Every owner or occupier of land or premises who shall by any written or verbal Leases and agree- lease or agreement lease or let out any portion or portions of land or premises of which wents of property he is the owner or occupier, shall upon such lease or agreement being entered into

to be registered. declare or notify to the warden of the ward wherein such property is situate the name of the person or persons to whom the said property shall be leased or let out, the term for which such lease or agreement has been entered into, the extent of property so leased or let out, the amount of rent or consideration to be paid or given for the same, and, so far as possible, the number of the family of the person leasing or hiring the land or premises. Such declaration or notification shall be entered by a warden in a register to be kept by him for such purpose.

Provided that if the land or premises so leased or let out shall be situate partly in one Proviso, ward and partly in another, it shall be sufficient for such declaration or notification to be made to one warden only.

registered free of

II. Any such declaration or notification shall be received by the warden and entered Declarations to be by him without the payment of any fee by the person making the same, provided never- charge, except in theless that if the consideration to be given for the land or premises leased or let out certain cases. shall be any other consideration than that of money a fee shall be exacted from the person making such declaration or notification; such fee to be at such rate, as shall from time to time, be determined by a resolution of the Board of Civil Commissioners, for each acre or part of an acre of land so leased or let out.

Provided also that whatever be the consideration to be given for such land or Proviso. premises the Chief Civil Commissioner may, he think fit, dispense with the payment of any fee.

III. Every owner or occupier of land or premises leasing or letting out land or Penalty for refusing premises as aforesaid who shall fail, within eight days from entering into in any such omply with the lease or agreement, to make the said declaration or notification, or who shall make a

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foregoing provisions.