Enactment. Punishment of persons in employment of telegraph company for misconduct respecting messages. Message defined. Procedure. message may No. 9.-1886. AN ORDINANCE for the Protection of Property in Tele- Whereas it is expedient to provide for the protection of property in telegraphic messages: Be it enacted by the Governor of the Colony of Lagos, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1. Any person shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, who, being in the employment of a telegraph company, shall improperly divulge the contents or purport of any message, or any information relating to the despatch or receipt of any message, or shall wilfully or negligently omit or delay to transmit or deliver any message, or shall by any wilful or negligent act or omission prevent or delay the transmission or delivery of any message; and every such person shall, upon conviction, be subject to a penalty not exceeding One hundred pounds, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months. In this section the term "message" means "matter entrusted to the telegraph company for transmission by telegraph." 2. In any proceeding in respect of an offence alleged to have been committed in connection with any matter entrusted to a telegraph company for transmission by telegraph it shall be sufficient, in the information or charge, to lay the property in such matter in the company; and it shall not be necessary to allege or prove that be presumed. such matter was of any value. company. Value of message shall Short Title. 3. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Telegraphic Messages (Protection of Property) Ordinance, 1886." No. 2.-1887. AN ORDINANCE to promote the Maintenance of Discipline on board Her Majesty's ships. [20th May, 1887. Whereas it is expedient that the conveyance of strong drinks on board any of Her Majesty's ships be subject to the control of the officers commanding the same; And whereas it is also expedient to provide for the punishment of persons guilty of complicity in desertion from Her Majesty's ships: Be it enacted by the Governor of the Colony of Lagos, with Enactment. the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: the consent of 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to convey on board any Strong drinks of Her Majesty's ships or vessels any spirituous or fermented not to be liquor of any description without the previous consent of the officer conveyed on board any commanding the same; and any person who shall convey on board Her Majesty's any such ship or vessel as aforesaid any spirituous or fermented ships without liquor of any description without such previous consent as afore- of the comsaid, or shall approach, or hover about, any such ship or vessel for manding the purpose of conveying any spirituous or fermented liquor of any description on board the same without such previous consent, or for the purpose of delivering, without such previous consent, any spirituous or fermented liquor of any description to any person on board the same, shall be guilty of an offence, and, upon conviction thereof before a District Commissioner, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, or, in default of payment, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding six months. officer. Penalty on offenders. stances. 2. It shall be lawful for any officer in Her Majesty's service, or Power to warrant or petty officer of the navy, or non-commissioned officer of search boats marines, with or without seamen or persons under his command, to for, and seize, strong drinks search any boat or vessel approaching, or hovering about, or under certain having approached, or hovered about, any of Her Majesty's ships circumor vessels, under circumstances giving rise to a reasonable suspicion of an offence under the first section of this Ordinance being intended, and, if any spirituous or fermented liquor of any description be found in or upon such boat or vessel, to seize such spirituous or fermented liquor, and the same shall be forfeited to Her Majesty. desertion from 3. Whosoever shall by any means, directly or indirectly, pro- Penalty for cure, move, command, persuade, incite, counsel or aid, or attempt complicity in to procure, move, command, persuade, incite, counsel or aid, any Her Majesty's officer, seaman or marine in Her Majesty's service to desert, or ships. improperly absent himself from, his ship or vessel, or shall approach, or hover about, any of Her Majesty's ships or vessels for the purpose of assisting any such officer, seaman or marine as aforesaid to desert, or improperly absent himself from, his ship or vessel, or shall receive, harbour or maintain any such officer, seaman or marine, knowing him to have deserted, or improperly absented himself from, his ship or vessel, and intending to assist him to escape being punished for such desertion or absence, shall be guilty of an offence, and, upon conviction thereof before a District Commissioner, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, or, in default of payment, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding three months. Power to arrest offenders. Rewards to informers. Costs of prosecution. Short title. 4. It shall be lawful for any officer in Her Majesty's service, or any such warrant or petty officer, or non-commissioned officer, as aforesaid, or any constable or peace officer, with or without warrant or other process, to apprehend or cause to be apprehended, any person offending against any provision of this Ordinance, and to forthwith bring him, or cause him to be brought, before a District Commissioner to be dealt with according to law, or secure him, or cause him to be secured, in an ordinary lock-up house, until he can be brought before a District Commissioner for the purpose aforesaid. 5. The Governor may award a portion, not exceeding one-half, of every sum recovered as a penalty from any offender under this Ordinance to any person who, by giving information or otherwise, shall have conduced to the conviction of such offender; and, subject to any such award, every sum of money recovered as aforesaid shall be paid to the Colonial Treasurer as part of the general revenues of the Colony. 6. Every person convicted of an offence under this Ordinance shall be liable to pay the costs of the prosecution. 7. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Navy Discipline (Drink and Desertion) Ordinance, 1887." Enactment. Short title. Interpretation of terms. No. 3.-1887. AN ORDINANCE to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the promotion of Education. [30th May, 1887. Whereas it is expedient to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the promotion of Education: Be it enacted by the Governor of the Colony of Lagos, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Education Ordinance, 1887." 2. In this Ordinance, except where and in so far as something in the subject or the context requires some different connotation or meaning: "The Inspector of Schools," or "The Inspector," means the Inspector of Schools appointed under this Ordinance; Sub-Inspector of Schools," or "Sub-Inspector," means Sub- "The Board" means the Board of Education established by this "Board Rules" means rules, made under this Ordinance, for the time being in force; Managers" includes trustees and governing body, whether consisting of several individuals or of only one, and their respective representatives under the Board Rules; "School" means private school, that is to say, school which is not under the entire control of the Government, in the Colony; "Assisted school" means school assisted under this Ordinance and the Board Rules; "Infant school" means school, or department of a school, at or in which the highest standard of education is not so high as is requisite for the lowest standard of examination fixed for primary schools by the Board Rules; 66 Primary school" means school, or department of a school, at or in which the standard of education of the highest class is higher than is requisite for the highest standard of examination fixed for infant schools by the Board Rules, and not higher than is requisite for the highest standard of examination fixed for primary schools by the Board Rules; "Secondary school" means school, or department of a school, at or in which the standard of education of the highest class is higher than is requisite for the highest standard of examination fixed for primary schools by the Board Rules; "Industrial school" means school at which, either all the pupils, or a proportion of them fixed by the Board Rules, devote not less than ten hours a week to manual labour, that is to say, to some handicraft, manufacturing process or agricultural work, or, in the case of females, to domestic economy, on a plan approved by the Board; and "Training institution" means college, school or institution in the Colony, not being a college, school or institution under the entire control of the Government, at which teachers are specially trained. tion officers. 3. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty to appoint an Inspector of Appointment, Schools for the Colony, and also a Sub-Inspector of Schools for the &c. of educa Colony, and such other educational officers as may be requisite for the purposes of this Ordinance and the Board Rules, or for any of them respectively; and likewise to remove any such officer, and to fill, by either promotion or fresh appointment, any vacancy that may occur in the office of any such officer through death, incapacity, removal, absence or other cause. 4. There shall be paid, out of the public funds of the Colony, Salaries of to the educational officers appointed under this Ordinance, such education officers. Constitution of Board of Education, Meetings of Quorum. President's Secretary to Power to Board to salaries as the Legislative Council shall from time to time by resolution determine, subject to disallowance by Her Majesty. 5. There shall be a Board of Education for the Colony, which Board shall consist of the Governor, the Members of the Legislative Council, the Inspector of Schools and such other person or persons, not exceeding four in number, as the Governor shall nominate in that behalf. Every nomination of a member of the Board by the Governor shall be for a period of not more than three years. 6. The Board shall meet as often as the Governor shall think fit to convene it. The Governor, or, in his absence, such other member of the Board as he shall appoint in writing, shall be president of the Board. The president and four members of the Board, two of whom shall be members of the Legislative Council, shall form a quorum. When the opinions of the members of the Board present at a meeting are equally divided, the president, in addition to his vote as a member, shall have a casting vote. The Sub-Inspector of Schools shall act as Secretary to the Board. 7. It shall be lawful for the Board from time to time to employ employ occa- fit and proper persons to perform, temporarily or occasionally, the sional deputy duties of educational officers appointed under this Ordinance. education officers. Remuneration of such deputies. Annual grant for educational purposes. Power to Board, out of grant: 1. to assist private schools and training institutions; and 2. to establish scholarships. Power to Board to make rules. 8. There shall be paid to persons so employed by the Board such remuneration, from the public funds of the Colony, as the Legislative Council shall in each instance by resolution determine, subject to disallowance by Her Majesty. 9. It shall be lawful for the Legislative Council to grant annually for educational purposes, from the public funds of the Colony, such sum as it shall deem expedient; and the Colonial Treasurer shall in every year, out of the public funds of the Colony, place at the disposal of the Board the amount granted by the Legislative Council for such purposes. Payments of salaries under Section 4, and of remuneration under Section 8, of this Ordinance shall not be deemed to be educational purposes within the meaning of this section. 10. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and of the Board Rules, it shall be lawful for the Board, with and out of the moneys so placed at its disposal, first, to assist schools and training institutions, and, secondly, to institute scholarships for the purposes mentioned in the 21st section of this Ordinance. *11. The Board may, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, from time to time make, alter and revoke rules for regulating applications for, and the allowance of, grants in aid of schools; for Rules made 2nd April, 1891. |