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Power given to the Gov- ernor to appropriate a certain amount of fines for the payment of rewards to the Police

and to inform-

CTS.

[* Sic in original.]

Power given to the Gov- ernor to frame regulations.

Section 12 of Ordinance No.

6 of 1862

amended.

Section 21 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1832 amended

Juvenile offenders to be privately whipped in

certain cases,

ORDINANCE No. 9 or 1867.

Order and Cleanliness.

2. It shall be lawful for the Governor to apply a certain proportion not exceeding three-fourths, of all fines and penalties recovered in any Court to payment of such rewards, bounties and gratuities as he may* from time to time to any member of the Police Force or to any constable, for meritorious conduct, zeal displayed, or injury sustained in the execu- tion of his duty, or to such private persons or informers, as the Governor may deem deserving of being rewarded for assisting in the detection of crime, or the apprehension of offenders.

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to time, to frame such regulations to be enforced by such fines and penalties as to him shall seem fit, for the removal of night soil and the depositing of rubbish and for the more effectual carrying out of this Ordinance. Such regulations shall be duly published in the Gazette, and froin and after such publication to have the same force and effect as if the same had been enacted by an Ordinance duly passed to that effect.

4. Section 12 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 is hereby amended by the addition of the words, "with or without hard labor" immediately after the words "three- months" in the fifth line of the said section. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 16 of 1875.]

5. Section 21 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1862 is hereby amended by substituting, for the words "three months" at the end of the said section, the words "six months with or without hard labor. "

6. Every male person who, subsequently to the commencement of this Ordinance shall be charged with having committed, or having attempted to commit, or with having been an aider, abettor, counseller, or procurer, in the commission of any offence which now is or hereafter may be by law deemed or declared to be simple larceny, or punishable as simple larceny, and whose age at the period of the commission or attempted commission of such offence, shall not, in the opinion of the Court before whom he shall be brought or appear, exceed the age of sixteen years, shali on conviction thereof [whether summarily or otherwise: Repealed by Ordinance No. 16 of 1875] be liable by the sentence of such Court to be once or twice privately whipped, either instead of, or in addition to any other punishment which may now be inflicted for such offence: Provided that such sentence shall specify the number of strokes. which shall in no case exceed twenty, and provided that the instrument used shall be a rattan.