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ISDIAN COLONIES.
No. 22.
Enclosures
in No. 22.
Preamble,
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LAWS IN FORCE IN THE COLONIES AS TO TRESPASS,
B.
LIST OF FEES.
CAPTION FEES TO BE PAID BY EVERY POUND-KÉEPER TO EACÙ PERSON IMPOUNDING STOCK AFTER DECLARATION MADE [SAVE AS HEREINBFORE EXCEPTED].
For every head of Stock, other than Sheep, Goats, or Swine
For every head of Sheep, Goats, or Swine
£
s. d.
0 1 0
0
0 3
TO BE PAID TO EVERY POUND-KEEPER ON REDEMPTION OF STOCK.
For receiving each head of Stock into his charge, other than Sheep, Goats,
or Swine
For Caption Fee on each head of Stock, other than Sheep Goats, or Swine () For Sheep, Goats, or Swine, per head
1 0
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Passed by the Legislative Council this 22nd day of April. 1863.
By command,
24 hours, other than Sheep, Goats, or Swine
For each head of Sheep, Goats, or Swine
For every 24 hours any Stock shall remain in his charge after the first
For Sheep, Goats, or Swine
For each head of Stock when advertised in Treasurer's Office
For each head of Stock when advertised for sale
GEO. H. A. PORTER, Clerk of Council.
Dated at Tortola, this eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in the twenty-sixth year of Her Majesty's reign,
Jos. G. GORDON, Provost Marshal.
Published this 19th day of May, 1863.
(Signed)
No. 22.
DOMINICA.
J. R. LONGDEN.
Copy of a DESPATCH from Lieutenant-Governor FREELING to Sir BENJAMIN PINE.
(No .65.)
Dominica, Government House, Roseau, SIR,
7th October, 1870. In obedience to the Secretary of State's Circular Despatch, dated 2nd August, 1870, I have the honour to forward copies of two Acts of this Island for the Preserva- tion of Game, and Prevention of Trespasses.
I have, &c.,
(Signed)
S. FREELING,
Lieutenant-Governor.
His Excellency Sir Benjamin C. C. Pine, Knt.,
&c. &c. &c., Antigua.
Enclosures in No. 22.
ISLAND OF DOMINICA.
No. 128. Act 12.
Ax ACT to prevent Trespasses in this Island, and to repeal an Act of this Island, entitled
"An Act to regulate Trespasses, and for erecting Public Pounds in this Island."
WHEREAS, an Act of this island, entitled “An Act to regulate Trespasses, and for "crecting Public Pounds in this Island," hath been found very ineffectual: and whereas, trespasses are daily committed, to the great injury of the planters of this island, particularly to those in the neighbourhood of the town of Roseau, frequently by cattle of persons who have not any pasture land to feed them on: Aud whereas, horned cattle brought from the Spanish Colonies are often wild and dangerous: And whereas, it is highly expedient that such enormities should be prevented for the future: We
AND ALSO AS TO PRESERVATION OF GAME.
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Your Majesty's loyal and obedient subjects, the Governor, Council, and Assembly of this Your Majesty's island of Dominica, do humbly pray Your most excellent Majesty that it may be enacted :
Be it therefore, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the authority aforesaid that from and after the publication of this Act it shall and may be lawful for any owner, renter, manager, overseer, or other person, having the charge of any plantation, or ton may take plantations, or lands in this island, to take up and stop, or cause to be taken up and up cutie,
tr -pussing. stopped, cattle, camels, horses, mules, asses or sheep, trespassing in or upon such and detai
them resil plantation or plantations, or lands, or any part thereof, and to detain the same until the paid .. owner thereof shall pay for each head of horned cattle, camel, horse, mule, or ass, the for cattle, de. sum of eight shillings and threepence, and for every sheep three shillings, to the person shop. having taken, or caused the same to be taken up, or stopped, besides the value of the time of the slaves employed to take up the same, and three shillings for each day that the same shall have been detained and fed on such plantation or plantations, or lands, excepting sheep, for which no more than ninepence per day shall be paid, together with rating the amount of the damages which shall have been done by such beasts or sheep, the said Damag time of the said slaves, and the said damages to be ascertained by the oath of the said ped owner, renter, manager, overseer, or other person having charge of such plantation or by on plantations, or lands, before any Justice of the Pence, if not exceeding fifteen pounds en de current money, which oath any Justice of the Peace is hereby empowered and required s to administer, and in case such beast or sheep shall escape, after having been trespassing aping, end and cannot be taken up, then any such owner, renter, manager, or other person making at tale. oath of the value of the time employed in pursuit or detention thereof, and the damage done, and whom he believes in his conscience to be the owner or owners thereof before mons, and pro such magistrate, such magistrate, shall thereupon grant a summons and procced in all t respects against such owner or owners as is directed by an Act of this island entitled, "An Act for the more speedy recovery of small debts, and to empower Judges of His Majesty's Court of Common Pleas and Justices of the Peace for this island to hear, adjudge, and determine, simple contract debts not exceeding the sum of six pounds "twelve shillings current money of this island, or balances of accounts of six pounds "twelve shillings, or under, that never exceeded the sum of fifteen pounds like current "money" in case such person or persons shall not prove that he, she, or they, is, or are Wild not the owner or owners. And in case any horned cattle brought from the Spanish Colonies shall be wild and dangerous, and cannot be taken without risk, it shall and shot may be lawful for such owner, renter, manager, or overseer, or other person having charge of such plantation or plantations, or lands, to shoot, or cause the same to be shot, or killed provided always, that the person having shot, or caused the same to be shot, Proviso or killed, shall make oath before a Justice of the Peace that such cattle so shot or killed that persone
shooting prove could not be taken up and stopped without risk and danger under the penalty of twenty that y pounds current money, to be recovered in a summary manner upon complaint of them with owner or owners thereof before any Justice of the Peace, who is hereby authorized and risk. required to issue a warrant to any constable to levy the same, such penalty to be paid to the owner of the cattle so shot or killed.
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And be it, and it is hereby further enacted and ordained, that when any cattle, camels, Clanru 2. horses, mules, asses or sheep, shall be taken up, the owner, renter, manager, overseer, or to be fed, al other person having charge of the plantation or plantations, or land on which the same notice to shall have been taken up, shall cause the same to be sufficiently fed, and if he or they know, if not
owner, if shall know the owner or owners of the beast or sheep taken, he or they shall give to be adver notice thereof to such owner or owners of such beast or sheep, the expense for doing which, if any,
shall be included in the amount of the time employed in taking the same, and paid for in the same manner; and if such owner, renter, manager, overseer, or other person having charge of any plantation or plantations, or lands on which any cattle, camels, horses, mules, asses or sheep, shall have been taken up, shall not know the owner or owners thereof, then after giving fifteen days' notice, by advertising such beast or sheep, and a description thereof in the public gazette, if the same shall not within that time be claimed and paid for in manner as hereinbefore mentioned (including the expense of the notice or advertisement), then such owner, renter, manager, overseer, and not pail
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or other person having charge of such plantation or plantations, or lands, may cause such days, publ. beast or sheep so having been advertised to be publicly sold at auction for ready gold and silver money in the nearest town or village to the place where such plantation lies by any constable, and after deducting therefrom the said sum of eight shillings and threepence for each beast, and three shillings for each sheep, the amount or value of the time of the slaves employed in taking the same, the said sum of three shillings for each day such beast and ninepence for each day such sheep shall have been detained and fed,
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