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Grenada, 118.

A. 154. B. 158. C. 236.

A. 149.

B. 153.

C. 238-9. Grenada, 446, 127.

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· 131.—Making unlawful Noise: Drumming, &c.

Any person, being the occupier of any house, building, yard, or other place situated in the town of Z., who without leave in writing from the Chief of the Police or a justice of the peace, permits any persons to assemble and beat or play or lance therein to, any drum, gong, tom-tom, or other similar instrument of music, is guilty of a simple offence, and liable to a fine of two pounds.

It shall be lawful for any peace officer, upon the complaint of any person, to enter any such house, building, yard, or other place, where any persons may be assembled as aforesaid, and to warn them to depart, and to seize and carry away all such drums, tom-toms, or other instruments as he may find there, and they shall be forfeited.

Any person who, after being so warned, and not actually dwelling in the said house or building, does not depart forth- with is guilty of a siraple offence, and is liable to a fine of ten shillings.

132.-Offences connected with Corpses.

Any person who wilfully, and without lawful excuse,

(1) neglects to perform any legal duty imposed on him by law, or undertaken by hini with reference to the dis posal of any dead human body or human remains; or

(2) improperly or indecently interferes with, or offers any indignity to any dead human body or human remains, whether buried or not,

is guilty of a misdemeanour.

133. Selling Food unfit for human Consumption.

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Any person who sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or has in his possession with intent to sell for human food, or with intent that there should be sold for human food, anything which is unfit for human food, or which he knows will be unfit for human food when it is sold, is guilty of a simple offence; but he shall not be sentenced to imprisonment therefore unless he has been previously convicted of an offence under this section; and any person cominitting the foregoing offence after having been twice convicted of an offence under this section within the last preceding three years is guilty of a misdemeanour and also of a simple offence.

For the purposes of this section food includes drink.

134.-Adulteration, &c.

Any person who deals with any article of food, with intent c. 63, s. 3, that it may, to the prejudice of the purchaser, be sold as being of a substance, quality, or amount, which it is not, and any person who knowingly sells, offers or exposes for sale, or has in his possession with intent to sell, any article of food which has been dealt with in such a manner that it is not, to the prejudice of the purchaser, of the substance quality or amount which such purchaser reasonably supposes it to be, is guilty of a misdemeanour; and is also guilty of a simple offence.

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CHAPTER XII.-OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC CONVENIENCE

126.-Nuisance.

Any person who does any unlawful act, or omits to dis. A. 146. charge a legal duty, which act or omission endangers the lives, B. 150 safety, or health of the public, or which injures the person of any.individual, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to one year's imprisonment with hard labour.

He is also guilty of a simple offence.

127.-Bawdy House Defined.

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A bawdy house is a house, room, or place kept for profit 4. 151. for purposes of prostitution.

128.-Definition of Gaming House.

B. 155. C. 231.

A gaming house is a house, room, or place, kept by any A. 152–3. person for gain;

(1) to which persons resort for the purpose of playing at any game of chance, or for the purpose of betting; or

(2) for carrying on a lottery of any kind therein.

A lottery is any scheme or device for the sale, gift, disposal, or distribution of any property, depending on or to be deter- mined by chance, in any manner and to any extent whatever.

129.-Keeping a Bawdy House or Gaming House.

B. 156-7.

C. 232-4.

Any person who keeps a bawdy house or a gaming house is A. 150, guilty of a misdemeanour.

He is also guilty of a simple offence, and on conviction therefore is liable to a fine of £100 in addition to imprison-

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B. 154.

C. 231-5.

On conviction of any person for keeping or resorting to a Grenada, gaming house, any instruments or things for gaming or for 115. carrying on a lottery, and any money and securities for money lawfully seized therein may be forfeited.

Any person who appears acts or behaves as master or mistress, or as the person having the care or management of any such house as in this section mentioned, shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be the keeper thereof.

130.—Resorting to a Gaming House.

Any person being in a gaming house for the purpose of Grenada, therein playing at any game of chance, or betting, or partici. 115. pating in any lottery, is guilty of a simple offence and is liable

to a fine of twenty-five pounds in addition to imprisonment.

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Any person who otherwise than knowingly sells, offers or exposes for sale, or has in his possession any article of food as aforesaid, is guilty of a simple offence, but is not liable to imprisonment unless he has, within the last preceding three years, been convicted of an offence under this section.

For the purposes of this section, article of food includes drink.

135.-Seizure of unwholesome or adulterated Food.

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Any justice of the peace, medical, officer of the Colony, or Grenada, person authorized by any Health Authority, on view of any- 127. thing sold, or offered or exposed for sale, or kept in possession with intent that it may be sold, which it is an offence under the two last preceding sections to sell, or offer or expose for sale, or so to keep in possession, is justified in seizing the same, or causing it to be seized, and may bring it, or cause it to be brought, before a justice, who shall thereupon, if it is unwholesome, cause it to be destroyed, and may order the person selling it, or offering or exposing it for sale, or keeping it in possession as aforesaid, to pay the expenses of destroy- ing it.

136.-False Weights and Measures.

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Any person who knowingly makes, sells, keeps in order that may be sold, or uses or possesses in order to use, for the Vict. c. 49 purposes of trade, any weighing instrument or measure which 98. 25, 27 is false or unjust, is guilty of a simple offence, and the false or 32. unjust weighing instrument or measure and any other false or unjust weighing instrument or measure found in the possession of the offender may be forfeited; and if the offender has been convicted of an offence under this section within the last preceding twelve months he may be fined £50.

any other

A person who makes any mark on, or does thing to a fair or just weighing instrument or measure, so as to cause it to become false or unjust, shall be deemed to make

a false or unjust weighing machine or measure.

A weighing instrument includes a weight.

187.-Fouling Water.

Grenada

Any person who causes or suffers any substance to be brought or to flow into any stream, well, tank, reservoir, or 128. place used or intended for supplying water to man or cattle, or into any conduit communicating therewith, or does any act, whereby the water therein, or any water which may enter therein, is, or may be fouled, is guilty of a simple offence, and on conviction therefore is liable to a fine of five pounds and two pounds for every day during which the offence is con tinued after conviction.

138.-Drunkenness.

Any person who in a public place→

is drunk and disorderly ; or

is drunk and behaves indecently or

Grenada, 130.

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