and for preventing obstructions of the Public Highway by means of such Processions, and for securing the due maintenance of the Public Peace and Tranquillity during such Festivals and Processions. may be either 3. Such Regulations as regards the said Processions, may be Regulations either general and apply to every Plantation or Public Highway of general or the Colony, or special, and apply only to a particular Plantation special. or Highway to be specified in the Regulation to which it relates; and the Governor may from time to time, alter or vary such Regulations or any of them, or make new Regulations, as occasion shall require. 4. Every such Regulation shall be published in the Official Gazette, Regulations to be published and shall thereupon be binding upon the parties interested in the sub- in the Official ject matter thereof in the same manner as if such Regulation formed part of this Ordinance. Gazette. 5. Every Immigrant, or other person, who shall wilfully dis- Penalty for disregarding regard any such Regulation while in force, or shall wilfully disobey any such Re the same or fail to conform himself thereunto, shall be guilty of an gulation. offence, and shall be liable on conviction to be imprisoned with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding Six Months, or to pay a penalty not exceeding Ninety-six Dollars. tion for 6. All prosecution for offences under this Ordinance may be How prosecu instituted and carried on by the Inspector General of Police or any offences to be District Inspector, Police Officer or Constable, before any Stipen■ carried on. diary Justice, in a summary manner, according to the Rules and Procedure, and subject to the Review and Appeal provided by the Ordinance No. 10, of the year 1856, and Nos. 3 and 5, of the year 1868, and any Ordinance amending them or either of them. 7. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on Commencethe publication thereof. ment of Ordi. nang. No. LXII. No. LXII. No. LXII. [Ord. 17 anno AN ORDINANCE TO CONFIRM CERTAIN SALES OF LOTS OF 1869.] LAND HERETOFORE MADE BY THE MAYOR AND TOWN COUN. CIL OF GEORGETOWN UNDER THE CUMINGSBURG NORTH. Pressible. Enacted 25th October, 1869, published the 30th following, came into operation on publication. JOHN SCOTT, Governor.] WHEREAS by section 24 of "The Cumingsburg North-West District Improvement Ordinance, 1866," it is enacted that the terms of payment of the purchase money of the Lots of Lands thereby authorised to be sold by the said Mayor and Town Council shall be as follows, that is to say-One-fourth in cash, and the residue in three equal instalments at Two, Four, aud Six Years from the taking effect of the said Ordinance with Interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the date of purchase, payable yearly: And whereas several of the said Lots have been sold by the said Mayor and Town Council, but through inadvertence, the dates of payment of the unpaid Instalments of the Purchase Money thereof with luterest have been fixed at Two, Four, and Six Yer rs from the day of sale, instead of from the taking effect of the Baid Ordinance: Aud whereas it is expedient to confirm the said Sales, and to provide for the payment in future by the like instalments of the purchase money with Interest, payable yearly of all other of the said Lots which may be hereafter sold by the said Mayor and Town Council: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy thereof as follows :~~~ [Ord. 17 anno 1869.] No. LXII. 1. So much of the said section 24 of the said Ordinance No. 20, Repeals part of the year 1866, as specifies the times at which the purchase of Sec. 24, Ordinance No. money with interest of the lots sold under that section shall become 20, anno 1866. due and payable, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. 2. The conditions of sale of the said several lots heretofore sold Conditions of by the said Mayor and Town Council, whereby the respective ale of lots al ready sold ra instalments of the purchase money remaining unpaid are made tified. payable at two, four, and six years from the dates of such sales, with interest payable yearly, shall be and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed; and the said several unpaid instalments, are hereby declared to be payable at the times fixed by the aforesaid conditions of sale instead of at the times fixed by the said Ordinance, and in. terest at the rate of six per cent. per annum is hereby declared to be payable yearly from the dates of such sales, respectively, until the whole of such instalments shall be paid. be sold in fu. ture. 3. The purchase money of every Lot hereafter to be sold uuder Conditions on the provisions of the said Ordinance shall be payable as follows, which lots to that is to say, One-fourth of the principal money shall be paid in cash at the time of the purchase, and the residue shall be paid in three equal instalments at two, four, and six years from the date of purchase, and interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from the date of purchase shall be payable yearly until the whole of such instalments shall be paid. Ordinance No. 4. This Ordinance shall be construed with, and shall form part This Ordinance of, Ordinance No. 20, of the year 1866, and all p rts of the Ordi- to form part of nance No. 20, of the year 1866, which are applicable to the pur- 20, anno 1866. chase money of Lots as provided to be paid under that Ordinance, shall be applicable to the purchase money, as provided by this Ordinance to be paid, of the Lots heretofore sold, and of the Lo's hereafter to be sold, under the provisions of Ordinance No. 20 of the year 1866, and of this Ordinance. 5. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on Commence the publication thereof. ment of Ordi nance. No. LXIII. No. LXIII. No. LXIII. [Ord. 18 anno AN ORDINANCE TO PROHIBIT THE IMPORTATION INTO THIS 1869.] COLONY OF CATTLE SUFFERING FROM CONTAGIOUS OR INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Preamble. Enacted 19th November, 1869, published the 20th following, came into operation on publication. [JOHN SCOTT, Governor.] WHEREAS it is necessary to prohibit the importation into this Colony of cattle suffering from contagious or infectious disease: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy thereof, as follows: I. That it shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever it shall Power given to appear to him expedient so to do, to declare by Proclamation any declare places Island or place to be infected with the Cattle Disease. infected. Governor to portation of cattle from places declared 2. That no Cow, Bull, Ox, Steer, Heifer or Calf, shall be Prohibits im imported into this Colony from any Island or place so declared by such Proclamation to be infected with the Cattle Disease; and no Cow, Bull, Ox, Steer, Heifer or Calf brought from any such Island or place shall be permitted to be landed in this Colony, and if any Such cattle to such Cow, Bull, Ox, Steer, Heifer or Calf, shall be so landed, it be slaughtered. shall thereupon be immediately slaughtered. infected. 3. Every animal slaughtered under the provisions of the last Burials of cat preceding section shall be buried as soon as possible in its skin in tle so imported some proper place, and shall be covered with a sufficient quantity of quick lime or other disinfectant, and with not less than four feet of earth. The carcases not to be 4. It shall not be lawful to land in this Colony any carcase, or any part of the carcase, of any Cow, Bull, Ox, Steer, Heifer or Calf brought from any Island or place which shall have been so declared to be infected with the Cattle Disease, and any such carcase, or any part of any such carcase which shall be so landed, shall thereupon be immediately buried with a sufficient quantity of quicklime and not less than four feet of earth. [Ord. 18 anno 1869.] No. LXIII.-LXIV. 5. Any person landing or attempting to land, and all persons Penalty. concerned in the landing of any Cow, Bull, Ox, Steer, Heifer, or Calf, or of any carcase, or of any part of any carcase of any Cow, Bull, Ox, Steer, Heifer, or Calf brought from any Island or place which shall have been so declared to be infected with the Cattle Disease, shall be guilty of an offence, and on conviction thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ninety-six Dollars for each such Cow, Bull, Ox, Steer, Heifer, or Calf, or for each such carcase or part of such carcase landed contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, to be recovered in a summary manner before the Police Magistrate of Georgetown, or any Stipendiary Magistrate, under the provisions of Ordinance No. 19 of 1856, and Ordinances No. 3 and No. 5 of 1868. officers to 6. Every Officer of Colonial Customs, and every Police Constable Power given to shall have full power to seize, destroy, and slaughter, all such Cows, slaughte cat. Bulls, Oxen, Steers, Heifers, or Calves, and to bury the carcases the landed from places declared thereof, and to seize and bury all such carcases of all such Bulls, infected. Oxen, Steers, Heifers, or Calves, as may be landed in this Colony contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance. 7. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on Commencethe publication thereof. ment of Ordinance. No. LXIV. AN ORDINANCE TO ENABLE THE INTERNATIONAL OCEAN [Ord. 19 anno Enacted 19th November, 1869, published the 8th Janu- [JOHN SCOTT, Governor.] WHEREAS the International Ocean Telegraph Company is Preamble. chartered under the Laws of the State of New York, in the United States of America, for the purpose of connecting, by means |