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No. S. 344. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 23rd November, 1911 :-

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to make provision for impounding

stray animals and for the dispo-al thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pounds Ordin- Short title. ance, 1911.

ef. 10 & 11

2. Any animal which may be found at large without any Impounding person having the charge thereof and which may in the stray animal, opinion of any police officer appear to have been lost or to Viet c. 89 be doing damage may be seized and impounded by such $ 25. police officer in any convenient place and may be detained therein until the owner thereof shall have paid to the Cap- tain Superintendent of Police the reasonable expenses of imponuding and keeping such animal together with the pound fee.

3. The Governor-in-Council may make regulations fix- Pound fees. ing the pound fees for animals generally or for any parti- cular classes of animal. Provided however that if no such regulations shail have been made, or if the animal im- pounded does not fall within any class in respect of which a pound fee shall have been fixed, the pound shall be one dollar.

4.-(1). If the said expenses and pound fee be not paid Power to sell within three days after such impounping notice of the in- impounded tention to sell the animal shall be published in the Ga-

zette.

(2). If the expenses of impounding and keeping the animal and of the publication in the Gazette and the pound fee are not paid within seven days after the said publicu- tion it shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent of Police to cause the animal to be sold either by private treaty or by public auction as he may think fit and the purchaser thereof shall acquire a good title. If the animal should prove uusaleable or if in the opinion of the Captain Superintendent of Police it should be unsaleable it may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as he

may direct.

(3). The money arising from such sale after deducting the pound tee and the expenses of impounding and keep- ing the animal, of the publication in the Gazette and of the sale shall be paid by the Captain Superintendent of Police on demand to the owner of Such animal. Provided that if such demand is not made within one month after the sale all right to make it shall cease and the money shall be paid into the General Revenue of the Colony.

animals.

Vict. c. 89

5. Every person who releases or or attempt to release Pound any animal from any place where it shall have been im- breach. pounded or who puils down, dumages or destroys such of 10 & 11 place or any part thereof with intent to procure the un- s. 26. lawful release of such animal shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.

Objerts and Reasons.

The law of the Colony as to impounding animals is very vague and it has been considered desirable to bring into force an adaptation of certain provisions of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847.

C. G. ALABASTER, Attorney General,