All moneys received by the Magistrate or the Clerk of the Peace for the Central District on account of license fees under this section shall be paid into the Treasury, and all claims for compensation under this Chapter which shall be proven to the satisfaction of the Magistrate shall be paid at the Treasury, and any balance of said fees remaining shall be applied as in this Chapter provided.

19. Stipendiary Magistrates shall keep a register, in which shall be entered the name of every licensee, the date of the issue of the license, and the description of the dog licensed.

20. It shall be the duty of police constables, and it shall be lawful for any other person, to kill any dog found at large and not within charge, call or control of any owner or other person within the limits of the aforesaid electoral districts.

21. Any person having in possession any dog not licensed as aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars.

22. It shall be the duty of the Magistrates for the Central District, on or before the thirty-first day of December in each year, to make returns to the Colonial Secretary of all damage and loss to sheep or cattle caused by dogs within the said electoral districts which shall have been judicially proved before them, with the names of the persons who have sustained such damage and loss, and the amount of damage and less which such persons have respectively sustained.

23. On and after the first day of February in each year the fund arising from the issue of dog licenses under section 18 of this Chapter shall be divided proportionally among such persons as may have sustained loss or damage to sheep or cattle by dogs within the districts of St. John's East and St. John's West during the preceding year, ending 31st day of December, where such persons have not been otherwise compensated for such loss or damage: Provided that such persons shall have given notice of such loss or damage before said first day of February, and provided that proof of such loss or damage be made to the satisfaction of the Stipendiary Magistrates of the central district: Provided also that no person shall receive a larger sum than the loss he may prove that he has sustained.

24. After providing for the compensation aforesaid, the balance of said fund, if any, shall be handed over by the Clerk of the Peace for the Central District to the Minister of Finance and Customs, and shall be

applied by the Governor in Council to public works or improvements in the said districts of St. John's East and St. John's West.

25. No penalty shall attach in respect to the keeping of any dog under six months old without a license, but dogs under that age shall not be permitted to go at large.

PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION OF THE KEEPING OF

DOGS WITHIN CERTAIN AREAS.

26. It shall be lawful for the duly qualified electors, resident within any area or district within this Colony, to present to the Governor in Council a petition in the form prescribed by the schedule to this Chapter, or as near thereto as may be, setting forth the limits or boundaries within which such area or district is comprised, and the names of the towns, harbors or settlements included therein, and praying for a proclamation prohibiting the keeping of dogs within such area or district.

27. Such petition shall be sent to the nearest resident Stipendiary Magistrate, and shall be by him (after examination and certificate as hereafter provided) forwarded to the Governor in Council.

28. If, upon due scrutiny of such petition, the Stipendiary Magistrate shall find that the same contains the bona fide signatures of a majority of the duly qualified electors resident within the limits or boundaries set forth in the said petition, he shall forthwith make a certificate to that effect, endorsed upon or attached to the petition, and shall forward the same to the Governor in Council.

29. Any Stipendiary Magistrate to whom such petition shall be presented may, before certifying the same to the Governor in Council as aforesaid, require proof to be made before him of the bona fide signature of any of the names subscribed to such petition upon the oath of either the party whose name purports to be signed or of a witness to such signature.

30. Upon receipt of such petition containing the signatures of a majority of the electors resident within any such area or district certified as aforesaid, the Governor in Council shall issue a proclamation or public notice prohibiting the keeping of dogs within such area or district.

31. From and after the date prescribed in and by such proclamation or notice, it shall not be lawful for any person resident within such area or district to keep, or to have in his possession, or under his control, any dog within the area or district to which such proclamation or notice shall relate, under a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars or imprisonment

for a term not exceeding three months. This prohibition shall not apply to any person or persons travelling or passing through such areas or districts and having a dog or dogs, licensed under this Chapter, in his or their possession, charge or control, and not at large.

32. It shall be the duty of all police constables to kill all dogs found by them in any area or district in which the keeping of dogs is prohibited under the next preceding section of this Chapter, except shepherd dogs or collies and those expected under this Chapter, and all such dogs not so excepted may be killed by any person whomsoever; and it shall be lawful for any person to destroy any dog kept in contravention of the provisions of the said section.

33. Notwithstanding any provision in this Chapter, it shall be lawful for the Postmaster General to grant a permit in writing to any mail courier to keep in his possession or under his control in any place in this Colony such a number of dogs as the Postmaster General may consider necessary for the transport of mails, and as shall be named in such permit, and any mail courier who obtains such permit may keep in his possession or under his control the number of dogs in said permit named; and Sections 31 and 32 of this Chapter shall not apply to any dogs kept by mail couriers by permit under the provisions of this section.

34. After such proclamation or notice shall have been issued as aforesaid, no new petition on the same subject shall be presented from such area or district until the expiration of ten years from the date of such proclamation or notice; and if no such petition be presented within three months after the expiration of such proclamation or notice, the operation of such proclamation or notice with reference to any such area or district shall be considered as agreed to by the electors of such area or district, and shall continue without the necessity for the the issue of a new proclamation for ten years from the expiry thereof, and so on in like manner shall be continued in operation and effect for every successive period of ten years without the necessity of the issuing of a new proclamation until a petition is presented in the manner hereinafter provided.

PENALTIES.

35. All fines and penalties under this Chapter may be sued for and recovered in a summary manner before a Stipendiary Magistrate or a Justice of the Peace, and all fines shall be paid to the person who shall give information of the offence and prosecute the offender to conviction.

CHAPTER 144.

Of Preventing the Introduction and Spread of Insects
Destructive to Crops.

SECTION

1.-Governor in Council may make orders to
prevent int oduction of Colorado beetle;
and prohibit landing of potatoes, &c.;
and direct destruction of articles; vio-
lation of order; forfeiture: penalty.
2.-Governor in Council may make orders to
prevent the spreading of Colorado beetle;

SECTION

and direct the destruction of articles; and entry on lands for purposes of chapter; and may prohibit keeping. specimens; violation of order; penalty 3.-Orders to be gazetted.

4. Recovery of penalties; imprisonment.

1. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, make such orders as may be deemed expedient for preventing the introduction into this Colony and its Dependencies, of the insect designated as Doryphora Decemlineata or Chrysomela Decemlineata, and commonly called the Colorado Beetle. Any such order, if the Governor in Council shall think fit, may prohibit or regulate the landing in this Colony of potatoes, or of the stalks or leaves of potatoes, or other vegetable substance, or other article the landing whereof may appear to the Governor in Council likely to introduce the said insect into this Colony, and may direct or authorize the destruction of any article if landed. If any person lands, or attempts to land, any article in contravention of any order under this Chapter, such article shall be liable to be forfeited in like manner as goods, the importation whereof is prohibited by the Acts relating to the Customs, are liable to be forfeited; and the person so offending shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.

2. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, make such orders as may be deemed expedient for preventing the spreading in this Colony of the said insect. Any such order may, if the Governor in Council shall think fit, direct or authorize the removal or destruction of any crop of potatoes, or other crop or substance on which the said insect, in any stage of existence, is found, or to or by means of which the said insect may appear to the Governor in Council likely to spread, and the entering on any lands for the purpose of such removal or destruction, or for the purpose of any examination or enquiry authorized by such order, or for any other purpose of the order. Any such order may, if the Governor in Council think fit, prohibit the keeping, selling, or exposing or offering for sale, or the keeping of living specimens of the said insect in any stage of ex

istence, or the distribution in any manner of such specimens. Any person committing any offence against or acting in contravention of such order, shall incur a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.

3. Every order made under this Chapter shall be published in the Royal Gazette.

4. Penalties imposed by this Chapter may be recovered in a summary manner, with costs, before a Stipendiary Magistrate, and by distress and sale of the offender's goods and chattels; in default of payment of such penalties and costs, the offender may be committed to prison for a period not exceeding three months.