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SUMMARY OFFENCES.

[No. 1.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Summary Offences Ordinance; Short title.

1845.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,—-

“Public Officer'

or “Public Department" extends to and includes the Governor and overy officer or department invested with or performing duties of a public nature, whether under the immediate control of the Governor or not :

Lawful Authority" extends to and denotes any permission which may be lawfully given by a public officer or department or by a private person:

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Where no specifie description is given of the ownership of any pro- perty, the word Property" shall be taken to apply to all such property of the kinds specified, whether owned by the Crown, by a public department, or by a private person :

Any word denoting the singular number and male sex shall be taken to extend to any number of persons or things and fo both sexes,

Nuisances, Trespasses, and Similar Offences.

Interpreta. tion of terms.

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various kinds

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committed in thoroughfare

or public place

or place adja- cent thereto.

3. Every person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars Nuisances of who, within this Colony, in any thoroughfare or public place or adja- cent thereto, commits any of the following offences, that is to say,-

(1.) throws or lays, or canses or knowingly permits to be thrown or laid, any carrion, dirt, soil, straw, or dung, or any other filth, rubbish, or noisome or offensive matter whatsoever, on any of the roads, streets, ways, or public passages, or into any well, stream, or watercourse, ford, or reservoir for water, or any of the drains or sewers made or to be made within the Colony; or permits or suffers any such noisome or offensive substance as aforesaid to remain exposed in any drain, sewer, or elsewhere, opposite to or in the immediate neighbourhood of his house; or allows any accumulation of filth or offensive substances within the premises occupied by him, to the annoyance of the inhabitants or passengers; or in any manner defiles or pollutes any well, stream, or watercourse used by any of the inhabitants of the Town of Victoria, or for the supplying with water of ships resorting to the harbour of the Colony; or (2.) commits any nuisance in the neighbourhood of any house or place

of public passage; or

(3.) sets out or leaves, or causes to be set out or left, any scaffolding, bricks, lime, barrels, bales or cases of merchandise, or any other matter or thing which obstructs, incommodes, or endangers, or may obstruct, incommode, or endanger, any person or carriage in any public road or thoroughfare; or