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4. Paragraph (1) of clause 3 alters the penalty under section 3 of the principal Ordinance from $50 to $250′ The latter penalty seeins by no means excessive for some of the offences contemplated by the section, and it is the general pecuniary penalty provided by section 80 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, as amended by section 5 of Ordinance 29 of 1915, and provided by section 6 of the latter Ordinance.
5. Paragraph (c) (ii) of clause 3 extends to the whole Colony the provisions for the protection of wells and water courses which at present apply only to the City of Victoria and to streams used for watering ships.
6. Paragraph (c) of clause 3 repeals certain particular words which might be regarded as limiting the general words of paragraph (3) of section 3 of the principal Ordinance. On the other hand it inserts words which recognise the defence of lawful authority.
7. Paragraph (1) of clanse 3 extends paragraph (13) of section 3 of the principal Ordinance to negligent acts. The paragraph refers to discharge of firearms and missiles, etc.
8. Paragraph (u) of clause 3 makes it an offence to loiter in a public place so as to obstruct the same or create a noisy assembly therein.
9. Paragraph (g) of clause 3 creates the following new offences :----
(1) dropping building material, etc., to the danger
of persons passing;
(2) forming, without lawful authority, trenches or other obstructions in public places, and failing to fence off and light trenches or other obstruc- tions;
(3) picking over refuse in any public place;
(4) keeping noisy pets.
10. (lause 4 increases the penalty for stone dressing to $250, and extends the power of prohibition possessed by the Governor in Council from the City of Victoria to the whole Colony, .
11. Clause 5 increases the penalty under section 6 of the principal Ordinance to $250. The latter amount does not seem too large for some of the offences and it is the amount recognised by section 80 of Ordinance 3 of 1890. This same clause amends the cruelty paragraph. of section 6 so as to make it apply to animals and birds of all descriptions.
12. Clause 6 increases the penalty under section 8 of the principal Ordinance to $250. It also creates a further prohibition against depositing building rubbish, etc., ou Crown land without a permit from the Director of Public Works.
13. Clause 7 repeals sub-section (3) of section Ha of the principal Ordinance, which is now to be trans- ferred to section 2 of that Ordinance.
14. Clause 8 makes restaurant keepers liable for the playing of chai mui on their premises within prohibited hours. This liability on the keeper at present applies only in the case of brothels and common lodging-houses.
15. Clause 9 increases from $100 to $250 the penalty for allowing rabid or suspected dogs to be at large and it adds a power of inflicting imprisonment up to three mouths.
Hi. Clause 10 makes the wearing of a current licenco barge the same protection to a stray dog against des- trnction as the wearing of a collar with the name and residence of the owner. It also, for convenience, re- numbers section 17 as sub-section (3) of section 16.
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