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WEST

INDIAN

COLONIES.

Enclosure 2

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No. 21.

Occupiers

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LAWS IN FORCE IN THE COLONIES AS TO TRESPASS,

Enclosure 2 in No. 21.

VIRGIN ISLANDS,

POUND ORDINANCE IN THE YEAR 1863.

No. IV.

CONTENTS.

1. Occupiers of land may impound stock trespassing thereau,

2. Stock found loose in public roads may be imponn lesd.

3. Swine and goala nung be destroyed instead of impoundel.

4. Stock to be delivered up on payment of caption fee.

5.

il for unlawfully imjounding stock or rescuing

stock

6. Governor to license pound kvepers.

7. Pound-koupons to provide pounds, and clean them and

notify them.

S. Impounded stock to be provided with food and watar.

9. Cruelty to stock prohibited.

10. Dangerous stock may be tetherod.

11. Persons impounding stock to make declarations.

12. Impounded stook to ho advertised in distriot.

13. Stock impounded in Tortols to be advertised in Itond Town.

14. Penalties on pound-k-pers.

15. Fea

16. Unredeemed stock to be sold.

17. Dipal of diseased stock.

18. Interpretation of word “strek."

19. Existing pounds and pound-keepers continued.

20. Schedules to form part of Ordinance schedules.

BE it enacted, by the Governor and Legislative Council of the Virgin Islands, as fol- lows:-

1. It shall be lawful for every occupier of land in the Virgin Islands by himself or of land his agents or servants to impound stock trespassing thereon: Provided that no occupier of less than two acres of land shall be entitled to a caption fee in respect of stock impounded by him for trespassing thereon unless such land be enclosed.

impound stock tresping thereon.

Stock found

loose input

lie na may

Ex imporum f. Swine and

may be

instend of in- panded.

Stuck to be

delivered up

un payment

2. It shall be lawful for any person to impound any stock found in any public road without any person being in charge thereof.

3. In any case where swine or goats may lawfully be impounded the same may be destroyed in lieu of impounding, and the destroyer shall place the head of the animal in the public road opposite the place of destruction, and may take the rest of the carcass to his own use.

4. Every person shall within twelve hours after the capture of any stock cause the same to be led or driven to the nearest pound, and any person proceeding to impound of the caption stock shall upon tender of the caption fee deliver up such stock to the person requiring

the same. Penalty for unlawfully

fri.

stock or re- ching im

5. If any person shall by himself, his agents, or servants, unlawfully impound or pounding attempt to impound any stock, or abuse, ill-treat, or ride any animal while proceeding to impound it, or shall neglect to take it to the pound as herein required, or shall make any false statement to the pound-keeper, or shall attempt to rescue any animal lawfully caught to be impounded, or after it is impounded, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two pounds, and shall make such compensation to the party injured not exceeding five pounds as the Justice before whom the case is heard “shall direct.

pounded

stock.

Governor to

Lisette pod kujira.

Pont-

6.- The Governor may grant a licence, in the form in the Schedule A annexed, to any person to keep a public pound at any place in these islands where it has been cus tomary to keep a public pound, or where the Governor may hereafter deem it neces- sary and may revoke any such licence.

7. Every pound-keeper shall within seven days after his appointment provide a kept sufficient enclosure as and for a public pound in which all stock may be safely kept without being tied; and shall cause such pound to be properly cleansed at least once a week, and shall near the gate thereof set up a board with the words "Public Pound" painted thereon in legible characters.

vie pounds, cha al notify the tn.

Impounded stock to be

*. Every pound-keeper shall upon or before the expiration of twenty-four hours after psided with any stock has been impounded provide sufficient food and water for the same, and

shall continue to provide daily for such stock while impounded.

foul and

Cruelty L

stock pre Libile.

Dangomis

9. No pound-keeper shall suffer any stock in his charge to be abused, ill-treated, or injured in any way.

10. Every pound-keeper may at his discretion cause any stock brought to him to be stock may be impounded to be tethered apart either in or out of the pound as and when he may deem

such precaution necessary,

tethered.

Persetus inpoan ting

artock to make doclarations,

11. Every pound-keeper shall demand from the person bringing stock to be impounded a declaration of his name and place of abode, or the name and place of abode of the person sending the stock to be impounded, with the lawful cause and date of the impounding, and shall enter all such particulars in a book which shall be signed by him, and which book shall be open to the inspection of persons concerned at all reason-

AND ALSO AS TO PRESERVATION OF GAME.

able hours; and no pound-keeper shall receive any stock unless such declaration shall

be made.

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INDIAN COLONIES.

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Hilvertise Et district,

Buck im in

12. Every pound-keeper shall within twenty-four hours after receiving any stock into his charge cause an advertisement thereof to be put up in some public place at or near his pound, which advertisement shall specify the colour, gender, marks, and brands stark to be of the impounded stock, and the name of the reputed owner, if known.

13. The keeper of every pound in the island of Tortola shall also cause a copy of every such advertisement to be affixed (within forty-eight hours after the receipt of any role to stock into his charge) to a board to be provided by the Treasurer at the public expense advertised in for that purpose, and set up for public inspection in some conspicuous place in the Houd Town. Treasurer's Office.

Penalties

on pound-

14. Every pound-keeper who shall neglect to keep any of the regulations herein- before prescribed shall for every offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding one pound, ko and shall make such compensation to the party injured, not exceeding five pounds, as the Justice before whom the case is heard shall direct.

15. Every person impounding stock, save as hereinbefore excepted, shall receive to his own use from the pound-keeper the caption fees named in Schedule B; and every pound-keeper shall receive to his own use the fees specified in the said Schedule, to be paid before the stock shall be released.

16. Every Saturday at noon every pound-keeper shall sell at public auction in front of his pound all stock which shall have been impounded before noon on the preceding Saturday, and shall deliver the same to the highest bidder on receiving the amouut of his bid, and after deducting therefrom the fees payable in respect of such stock shall hold the balance in his hand for thirty days, and if then unclaimed, shall deposit the same in the public Treasury, to be paid to the former owner of the stock at any time. And every pound-keeper who shall neglect to comply with the provisions of this clause shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

Feen.

Unredeemed

stook w be

Disposal

stock.

17. If any pound-keeper shall knowingly receive into any public pound any stock labouring under any contagious disease, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding of diseased twenty pounds. Any such stock brought to be impounded shall be tethered outside of the pound separately and apart from any other stock; and if any stock shall be brought to the pound which, in the opinion of the pound-keeper and two disinterested witnesses, shall be affected with farcy or glanders, the same shall be forthwith destroyed, and the owner of such diseased stock shall be liable to treble the ordinary fees in respect of such animal so destroyed, together with the expense of the destruction and removal thereof, which shall on demand be forthwith paid by the owner thereof, or in default of payment shall be recovered by the pound-keeper summarily in such manner as penalties under this Ordinance are recoverable.

18. The word "Stock" shall include horses, mares, asses (and foals of either), mules, bulls, oxen, cows and calves, sheep and lambs, goats and kids, and swine.

19. The pound-keepers and public pounds appointed in pursuance of any Ordinance heretofore in force shall be deemed to be pound-keepers and public pounds under this Ordinance.

20. The Schedules hereunto annexed shall be deemed to be part of this Ordinance.

SCHEDULES.

A.

FORM OF APPOINTMENT OF POUND-KEEPER.

Virgin Islands. By His Honour A. B.

President, &c., &c., &c.

By virtue of the Pound Ordinance No. IV., 1863, I hereby license you, C. D., to keep a public pound at

in the Island of Given under my hand and Seal at

this year of our Lord

day of

in the

•

Interprete.

tion of word "stock."

Existing pounds and pound- keeper

con

tinued. Schedules

to be part of this Ordi-

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