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TREES PRESERVATION . [ 14 OF 1888. ] 1039
RATING . 15 OF 1888.


No. 14 OF 1888.
An Ordinance entitled The Trees Preservation Ordinance,
1888.
[ 4th April, 1888. ]
WHHEREAS great damage is done to trees and plantations Preamble.
Ein the neighbourhood of the respective villages of this
Colony, and whereas it is frequently difficult or impossible to
discoyer the persons who have committed such damage:
1. Whenever it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the village rates
may be to
Governor in Council that trees or plantations belonging to increased
Government in the neighbourhood of any village in this Colony make good
have been felled, cut, mutilated, lopped , barked , or otherwise damages to
damaged or destroyed, and that there is sufficient reason to
believe that such damage or destruction was committed by the
inhabitants of the said village or by any of them , it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council , by order under his hand ,
to levy a special rate assessed upon such village to an amount
sufficient to cover the damages done, and such increased assess
ment shall take effect from the earliest day after such order on
which it can be brought into force, and shall continue until the
Governor in Council, by a further order under his hand, shall
revoke or alter the original order, which the Governor in Council
shall do when he is satisfied that the injuries to trees on account
of which the original order was issued have ceased, or that they
were not committed by the inhabitants of such village.
2. Every such order shall be read as forining part of the Orders to be
Municipal Rates Ordinance No. 21 of 1885 , or of any ordinance Rating
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which may be substituted for that ordinance . nance.


3. Nothing in this ordinance shall operate to prevent any Not to
person from being prosecuted for injury or cutting down trees penalties.
prevent other
or for stealing or for the unlawful possession of wood under any
enactment under which, before the passing of this ordinance ,
he might have been so prosecuted.


No. 15 or 1888 .
An Ordinance entitled The Rating Ordinance, 1888.
[ 5th May, 1888. ]
Prcamble .

1. In this ordinance the following words and expressions Definitions.
shall have or shall include the meanings respectively set against