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Secretary, in Her Britannic Majesty's Consular Court at Hankow, by any person who may deem himself injured by any act of the Committee or its officers, and should the plaintiff obtain damages in any such suit, said damages and the costs of such suit shall be summarily recoverable by Her Britannic Majesty's Consul, and paid out of the funds levied under the authority of these local Regulations.

Bye-laws annexed to the Land Regulations for the Foreign Settlement, Hankow.

1. The entire control and management of all public sewers and drains within the limits of these Regulations, and all sewers and drains in and under the roads, and all the works and materials thereunto belonging, whether made at the time of the passing of these Regulations or at any time thereafter, and whether made at the cost of the Council or otherwise, shall vest in and belong to the Council.

2. No sewer or drain shall be made, or any building be erected over any sewer belonging to the Council, neither shall any branch drain be carried into any of the sewers or drains above vested in the Council, without the consent of the Council first obtained in writing. And if, after the passing of the Land Regulations, any sewer or drain be made, or any building be erected, contrary to the provisions herein contained, the Council may demolish the same, and the expenses incurred thereby shall be paid by the person so offending, and shall be recoverable as damages.

3. All sewers and drains within the limits of these Regulations, whether public or private, shall be provided by the Council, or other persons, to whom they severally belong, with proper traps or other coverings, or means of ventilation, so as to prevent stench.

4. The expense of maintaining and cleansing all sewers not hereinbefore provided for shall be defrayed out of the rates and taxes to be levied under Article 1 of the Land Regulations.

5. It shall not be lawful to erect any house in the Settlement, or to rebuild any house in the Settlement, without at the same time constructing a covered drain or drains of such size and materials, and at such level, and with such fall as to the Council shall appear necessary and sufficient for the proper and effectual drainage of the same and its appurtenances, in terms of Bye-laws Nos. 1 and 2: the drain or drains so to be constructed shall communicate with such sewers as the Council may direct. And whosoever erects or rebuilds any house or other building, or constructs any drains

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ontrary to this Bye-law, shall be liable for every such offence to a enalty not exceeding 250 taels.

6. The Council, and none other, shall be surveyor of all highays within the limits of the aforesaid Regulations, and within ose limits shall have all such powers and authorities as any rveyors of highways are invested with in England.

7. The management of the streets, bunding, and jetties, and the ying out and repairing thereof, shall be vested in the Council; and I materials, implements, and other things provided for laying out ad repairing said streets, bunding, and jetties, shall belong to the 'ouncil.

8. The Council may stop up any streets, and prevent all persons om passing along and using the same during the construction, teration, repair, or demolition of any sewer or drain in or under

uch street.

9. Every person who wilfully displaces, takes up, or makes ny alteration in the pavement, flags, or other materials of any reet, bunding, or jetties under the management of the Council, ithout their consent in writing, shall be liable to a penalty not xceeding 25 taels.

10. When any building materials or other things are laid, or ay hole made in any of the streets, whether the same be done by rder of the Council or not, the person or persons causing such hole o be made shall, at his own expense, cause a sufficient light to be ixed in a proper place on or near the same, and continue such light very night from sun-setting to sun-rising while such materials or ole remain; and such person shall, at his own expense, cause such naterials or other things and such hole to be sufficiently fenced and nclosed until such materials or other things are removed, or the hole filled up, or otherwise made secure. And every such person who fails so to light, fence, or inclose the same shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding 25 taels.

11. If any building, wall, or hole, or other place near any street be, for want of sufficient repair, protection, or inclosure, dangerous to the passengers along such street, the owner shall repair the same, or, in default, the Council shall cause the necessary repairs to be made, and the expenses of the same shall be recoverable as damages

from the owner.

If the owner cannot be found, or any agent who will undertake to act for him, within the limits of these Regulations,

the Council, after giving twenty-eight days' notice of their intention to do so, by posting a printed or written notice in a conspicuous place on such building, or on the land on which such building stood, or other place, may take such building or land and sell the same by public auction under Consular injunction, and from and out of the proceeds of such sale reimburse themselves for the outlay incurred,

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and shall restore any overplus arising from such sale to the owner of such property on demand; but should the proceeds of such sale not cover the expenses incurred, the Council shall have the same remedies for compelling the payment of the balance as are herein. before given to them for compelling the payment of the whole of the said expenses.

12. The Council may give notice to the owner or occupant of any house or other building to remove or alter any porch, shed, projecting window, step, or any other obstruction or projection erected or placed against, or in front of, any house or other building within the limits of these Regulations, and which is an obstruction to the safe and convenient passage along any street; and such owner and occupant shall, within fourteen days after the service of such notice upon him, remove such obstruction, or alter the same in such manner as shall have been directed by the Council, and in default thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 10 taels; and the Council in such case may remove such obstruction or projection, and the expense of such removal shall be paid by the owner or occupant so making default, and shall be recoverable as damages.

13. No person shall obstruct the public roads or foot-paths with any kind of goods or building materials, under a penalty of 10 taels for every twenty-four hours of continued obstruction; and after the first twenty-four hours that notice of removal shall have been given to the owner of the same, or the person using, employing, or having control over the same, or in the absence of any such person, or inability on the part of the agents of the Council to find him, the Council shall remove and retain the same until the expense of such removal shall have been repaid, or may recover the expense of such removal as damages, or may sell the same to recover such expenses, holding the balance, if any, after payment of penalties, expenses, and costs, to the use of the person entitled to the

same.

14. In the case of any stagnant pool, ditch, or pond of water, pig-stye, cow-house, stable, privy, or any other building, construc tion, or thing, being proved a nuisance to the occupiers of adjacent lots, or to the public, the Secretary of the Council shall forthwith give notice to the owner, or reputed owner, or agent, that such nuisance must be removed; and if the same be not removed within a time considered reasonable by the Council, the Council may abate such nuisance at the expense of the owner of such property, the same being recoverable as damages.

15. That no spirit-shop, or house of entertainment of any kind, shall be opened within the limits of the Settlement, without a licence first obtained from the Council, counter signed by Her

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Britannic Majesty's Consul (charges for such licence to be hereafter rranged), under a penalty not exceeding 100 taels, recoverable from he person committing such offence.

16. All persons causelessly creating a noise or disturbance, and Il persons guilty of furious and improper riding or driving, or the ading of horses up and down the bund for exercise, or who shall ommit any act which may legitimately come within the meaning f the term nuisance, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding O taels.

17. All Chinese passing through or in the Settlement after 5 P.M. in the winter and 8 P.M. in summer, until daylight, must be provided with lighted lanterns, under a penalty of being handed to Her Britannic Majesty's Consul for transmission to the native uthorities.

18. It shall be lawful for any officer or agent of the Council, and all persons called by him to his assistance, to seize and detain any person who shall have committed any offence against the provisions of these Bye-laws, and if he be a Chinese subject, or a foreigner belonging to some nationality not represented by a Consul, to hand him to Her Britannic Majesty's Consul to be disposed of according to law. If the offender be a citizen or subject of some nationality duly represented, he shall be handed over to his own Consul for adjudication.

19. Nothing in these Bye-laws contained shall be construed to render lawful any act or omission on the part of any person which is, or would be, deemed to be a nuisance at common law from prosecution or action in respect thereof, according to the forms or proceeding at common law, nor from the consequences upon being convicted thereof.

20. Every penalty or forfeiture imposed by these bye-laws, made in pursuance thereof, the recovery of which is not otherwise provided for, may be recovered by summary proceedings before Her Britannic Majesty's Consul, and, upon conviction, the offender shall pay the penalty or forfeiture incurred, as well as such costs attending the conviction as such Consul shall think fit.

ORDINANCE of the British South Africa Company, consolidating and amending the Law relating to Oaths, Affidavits, and Solemn Declarations.

[No. 3.]

[September 11, 1893.]

In pursuance of the power for making Ordinances conferred on the British South Africa Company by or under Her Majesty's

Charter of the 29th day of October, 1889,* and of every other power enabling the British South Africa Company in this behalf:

It is hereby ordained by the British South Africa Company as follows:

1. The limits of this Ordinance shall be Mashonaland, that is to say, Fort Tuli and an area of 10 miles round that fort, and the territories north of the South African Republic, but excluding the territory known as the "Disputed Territory," lying between the Shashi and Macloutsie Rivers, and all territories belonging to the Chief Khama of the Bamangwato, and the territory known as the district of the Tati.

2. The Ordinance of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope No. 6 of 1845, the 7th section of the Ordinance of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope No. 72 of 1830, the 7th section of the Ordipance of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope No. 14 of 1846, the 10th section of the Act of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope No. 4 of 1861, and so much of any other law as shall be repugnant to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be and the same are hereby repealed.

Of Oaths.

3. It shall not be lawful for any Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, or other person authorized to administer an oath to administer or cause or allow to be administered any oath, affidavit, or affirmation touching any matter or thing whereof such Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, or other person has not or does not believe himself to have jurisdiction, cognizance, or authority under or by virtue of some law in force at the time being.

4. Any Justice of the Peace may, within the district in which jurisdiction is conferred on him, administer an oath or swear any deponent to the truth of an affidavit in any of the cases or proceedings following:

(a.) In any action or proceeding pending or about to be brought in any Court of Law within the limits of this Ordinance or elsewhere. (b.) In any proceeding before Arbitrators.

(c.) In any proceeding in the nature of a judicial proceeding under the Insolvent Ordinance of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope No. 6 of 1843.

(d.) For the proof of the due execution of any will, or other document, required by the law, usage or practice of any other country to be proved or authenticated by affidavit.

(e.) In any inquiry or proceeding in which by this Ordinance, or any other law the taking of an oath or affidavit is directed. authorized, or permitted.

* Vol. LXXXI, page 617.

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