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LAWS IN FORCE IN THE COLONIES AS TO TRESPASS,

the amount of the damages done to be ascertained with the value of the time of the slaves employed in taking of the same as hereinbefore directed, together with the expense of the notice or advertisement, and all expenses attending the sale; such owner, renter, manager, overseer, or other person having charge of such plantation or plantations, or lands, where such beasts or sheep shall have been so taken, shall pay the surplus into the public treasury of this island for the use of the owner or owners of such beasts or sheep anto Treury when he, she, or they, shall appear, and prove their property, and in the meantime shall go to the public uses of the Colony. And in all cases where any wild dangerous horned cattle as aforesaid shall have been shot or killed, the owner, renter, manager, overseer, or other person having charge of any plantation or plantations, or lands on which the same shall have been so shot or killed, shall cause the same to be bled and embowelled, and if he or they know the owner or owners thereof, shall give immediate notice to such owner or owners who, on paying all expenses and charges as is hereinbefore directed, shall be permitted to take the same away; but if the same shall not be claimed and paid for as aforesaid and taken away in two hours from the time the same shall have been so killed or shot, the same may be immediately caused to be sold in manner as aforesaid by such owner, renter, manager, overseer, or other person having charge of such plantation or plantations, or lauds, the proceeds to be disposed of as hereinbefore directed. And the constable shall be allowed for each head of horned cattle, camels, mules, horses, or asses sold, the sum of ten shillings, and for each sheep three shillings, and any constable refusing or neglecting to do his duty in selling the same shall be fined in the sum of five pounds to be recovered on complaint to any Justice of the Peace, who may and is hereby required to commit such constable until he pays his fine. And in case the constable should refuse to sell the same, the person having shot or killed, or caused the same to be killed or shot, may cause the same to be sold by some proper person whom he may direct for that purpose, the proceeds to be appropriated as aforesaid.

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And be it, and it is hereby further enacted and ordained, that whenever any Walrath, ferocious wild and dangerous horned cattle shall be found loose in any of the streets of the towns, or in any of the high roads in this island, to the terror of the inhabitants or with fiat passengers, it shall and may be lawful for any white or free person or persons to kill, or cause the same to be killed, but not with fire-arms in the towns, and the owner or owners thereof may take away the carcase; but if the carcase shall not be taken away within two hours after such horned cattle shall have been killed, then the clerk of the market, or, in his absence, any constable, shall sell the same publicly, and after deducting his fees for sale, as fixed by the second clause of this Act, shall pay the Slave remainder into the public treasury of this island for the use of the owner or owners

thereof proving their property.

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And be it, and it is hereby enacted and ordained, that it shall and may be lawful for all persons either in town or country within this island and for their respective servants or slaves, to kill any hogs or goats trespassing on their land, and any hogs or goats that gauke, shall be killed or disabled while trespassing the owner may have half of the same, if wer take claimed within two hours after such killing or disabling, and it not claimed within that time, the whole may be taken away by any person free or a slave, and shall become the

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in absolute property of the taker, and it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons

to kill, or cause to be killed, any hogs or goats found straying in any streets of the towns or in any of the public roads in this island: provided, it be not with firearms in the

i town- towns, and the owners of any such hogs or goats so killed in any of the streets or public hare dy if roads may have the whole of them, if claimed and taken away within one hour after taway in they shall have been killed, except the head, which shall be the property of the killer, st, both dy and if they shall not be claimed and taken away within that time, then the person or persons having killed, or caused them to be killed, may take or cause the whole of them to be taken away, as his or their absolute property.

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And be it, and it is hereby enacted and ordained, that any negro, or descendant of a negro, who shall wilfully gallop any horse, mare, or mule in any of the streets of any of the towns of this island, he shall, on complaint thereof being made to any Justice of the Peace, if a free person, be fined in any sum not exceeding five pounds, nor less than ten shillings current money, which fine shall be paid into the public treasury of this island for the public uses thereof, and if a slave shall receive any number of lashes not Art, N. exceeding thirty-nine,

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And be it, and it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any stone horse or stone mule shall be found loose or straying in the streets of the towns, or in the roads of this island, the owner or owners thereof shall pay for each stone horse or stone male so found loose or straying a fine of five pounds current money, to be recovered

AND ALSO AS TO PRESERVATION OF GAME.

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upon complaint to any Justice of the Peace, who is hereby authorized and required upon such complaint being made to him of the owner or owners of such stone horse or stone mule, to grant a summons, and to proceed against such owner or owners as is provided by the first clause of this Act, one-half of the said fine to be paid into the public treasury of this island for the public uses thereof, and the other half to the ver person or persons having taken up such stone horse or stone mule: provided always Proviso, if nevertheless, that if it shall be proved upon oath before such Justices that such stone proved that

free or mule horse or stone mule had escaped or broken loose without the will or knowledge of such like hese, owner or owners, and that such owner or owners, or a person or persons employed by him, her, or them, were actually in pursuit of such stone horse or stone mule at the time the same was taken up, then, and in that case, the said fine shall not be levied, and the owner or owners shall pay no more than one dollar to the person or persons having briel taken up such stone horse or stone mule, and the lawful fees of the justice and constable. And be it, and it is hereby enacted and ordained, that an Act of this island entitled "An Act to regulate Trespasses, and for erecting Public Pounds in this Island," and red. By every clause, matter, and thing therein contained, be, and the same is and are hereby repealed, and that all fines laid by this Act, and not hereinbefore appropriated, shall be Feb, 1811. paid into the public treasury of this island for the public uses thereof.

Passed 20th August, 1785.

As Act for the better Preservation of the Game of this Island, and for repealing an Act passed the Nineteenth day of March, One thousand seven hundred and eighty- seven, entitled "

An Act for the Preservation of the Game of this Island."

Preamble: WHEREAS, an Act passed the nineteenth day of March, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act for the Preservation of the Game of this Island," hath not been found effectual, and it has become expedient to repeal the same; We there- fore, your Majesty's most dutiful, loyal, and obedient subjects, the Governor, Council- and Assembly of this your Island of Dominica, do humbly pray your most Excellent Majesty that it may be euacted and ordained:

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And be it, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the publication of this Act, all persons whatsoever shall be and are hereby prohibited and forbid from destroying, from the first day of February to the thirty-first day of August in every ensuing year, any of the following game, to wit, wild pigeon or are deemed ramier, parrots or ciceros, doves, grieves, partridges, or perdrix; and all persons are further prohibited and forbid to have in their possession any of the said game, or any young or eggs of the same, during the period above mentioned; and any white person, or free person of colour, or any slave acting under the orders of any white person or free person of colour, who shall be guilty of any breach of this law, such white person or free person of colour shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds current money, to be recovered on the oath of any white person or free person of colour, before any one

Penalty on Justice of the Peace, one-half to the use of the informer the other half to the uses of the frou perone Colony; and in default of payment thereof such offender shall be committed to the viting this common gaol, without bail or mainprize, for any time not exceeding thirty days, unless he shall sooner pay the same and all fees due to the constable and marshal; and any slave so offending without authority from his or her owner shall be publicly whipped by the order of the magistrate with any number of stripes not exceeding fifty.

And be it &c., That an Act passed on the nineteenth day of March, One thousand seven hundred and eighty seven, entitled "An Act for the Preservation of the Game of this Island," be and the same is hereby declared to be repealed.

Passed 19th May, 1828.

Act.

On slaves.

Clause 2. Former Act repealed.