until the thirty-first day of December One thousand eight hundred and Given under our hands [or as the case may be] at now next this Registered by A.B. day of Clerk of Petty Sessions. Secretary of Shire or Town Clerk or 18 Preamble. Repeal of sec. 40 of "Abattoirs Statute." Fee for inspection of neat cattle or skins of cattle. No charge in re An Act to amend an Act intituled "An Act to amend WHEREA HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Act passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of Her present Majesty intituled "An Act to amend the Laws relating to Abattoirs and the Slaughtering of Cattle:" Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows:— 1. The fortieth section of the said Act shall be and the same is hereby repealed. 2. Any inspector of abattoirs and slaughter-houses may ask demand and receive the sum of one penny for each and every head of neat cattle or every skin of same inspected by him under the authority of the said Act; and such sums shall be paid by the keeper of any abattoirs or licensed slaughter-house and may be recovered before any justice. 3. Notwithstanding anything in said Act contained no charge spect of sheep &c. shall be made by such inspector in respect of any calf ram ewe wether lamb goat kid or swine. Title of Act. 4. This Act shall come into operation immediately on the passing thereof and may be cited as "The Abattoirs Amending Statute.” An Act to provide for the Protection and Manage- E it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say): 1. Save where there is something in the context repugnant Interpretation. thereto or inconsistent therewith the following words shall have the respective meanings hereby assigned to them (that is to say): The word "Governor" shall mean the person administering The word "Minister" shall mean the responsible Minister of The word "Board" shall mean the board for the protection of the aborigines. 2. It shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to Regulations. make regulations and orders for any of the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and at any time to rescind or alter such regulations (that is to say): (1.) For prescribing the place where any aboriginal or any (II.) For prescribing the terms on which contracts for and on 33 VICTORIA, No. 349. Board of aborigines. Officers. Bedding &c. not to be sold. Offences. (III.) For apportioning amongst aboriginals the earnings of aboriginals under any contract, or where aboriginals are located on a reserve, the net produce of the labor of such aboriginals. (IV.) For the distribution and expenditure of moneys granted by Parliament for the benefit of aborigines. (v.) For the care custody and education of the children of aborigines. (VI.) For prescribing the mode of transacting the business of and the duties generally of the board or any local committee hereinafter mentioned and of the officers appointed hereunder. And every such regulation or order shall be published in the Government Gazette, and any publication purporting to be a copy of the Government Gazette and containing any such regulation or order signed by the Minister shall be received in all courts of justice as evidence thereof. 3. There shall be in and for Victoria a board to be styled the "board for the protection of the aborigines," consisting of the Minister and such and so many persons as the Governor shall from time to time appoint to be members thereof, and the persons who at the passing of this Act shall be members of the board for the protection of the aborigines are together with the Minister hereby appointed the first members of such board. The Governor may from time to time appoint other persons either as additional members of, or to supply any vacancies in the said board, and may remove any member whether by this Act appointed or hereafter to be appointed: Provided that in the absence of the Minister such member as shall be annually elected by the board as vice-chairman shall preside at the meetings of the board. 4. The Governor may from time to time appoint a local committee consisting of three persons to act in conjunction with the said board, and also officers to be called local guardians of aborigines, and may also at any time abolish such local committee or remove any such member of a local committee or a local guardian; and such local committee or guardians shall perform the duties assigned to them respectively by this Act or any of the regulations to be made thereunder. 5. All bedding clothing and other articles issued or distributed to the aboriginals by or by the direction of the said board shall be considered on loan only and shall remain the property of Her Majesty, and it shall not be lawful for the aboriginals receiving such bedding clothing and other articles to sell or otherwise dispose of the same without the sanction of the Minister or such other person as the said regulations may direct. 6. If any person shall without the authority of a local guardian take whether by purchase or otherwise any goods or chattels issued or distributed to any aboriginal by or by the direction of the said board (except such goods as such aboriginal may be licensed to sell); or shall sell or give to any aboriginal any intoxicating liquor except such as shall be bona fide administered as a medicine, or shall harbor No. 349. any aboriginal unless such aboriginal shall have a certificate or unless 33 VICTORIA, a contract of service as aforesaid shall have been made on his behalf and be then in force, or unless such aboriginal shall from illness or from the result of any accident or other cause be in urgent need of succour and such cause be reported in writing to the board or a local committee or local guardian or to a magistrate within one week after the need shall have arisen, or shall remove or attempt to remove or instigate any other person to remove any aboriginal from Victoria without the written consent in that behalf of the Minister, every such person shall on conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds or in default to be imprisoned for any term not less than one month nor more than three months. Obstructing 7. If any person shall violate the provisions of any regulation Breach of made under or in pursuance of this Act, or shall obstruct the board regulations. or local committee or any local guardian of aborigines or other officer officers. in the execution of his duty under this Act or the said regulations, every such person shall on conviction forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding twenty pounds. deemed abori. 8. Every aboriginal native of Australia and every aboriginal who to be half-caste or child of a half-caste, such half-caste or child habitually associating and living with aboriginals, shall be deemed to be an aboriginal within the meaning of this Act; and at the hearing of any case the justice adjudicating may, in the absence of other sufficient evidence, decide on his own view and judgment whether any person with reference to whom any proceedings shall have been taken under this Act is or is not an aboriginal. 9. All penalties under this Act may be enforced by summary Recovery of proceeding before any justice. penalties. |