10th day of November, 1898. 1. Every applicant for the grant of a license to erect, maintain Fishing and work stakes in the Harbour of Lagos shall in the first instance Stakes Rules. furnish the Harbour Master with particulars of the place and the number of the stakes in respect of which he is applying for a license. 2. Upon being satisfied that the place is available and is a fit and proper site for the erection, maintenance and working of such stakes the Harbour Master shall issue a certificate which shall be in the form A. in the Schedule to these Rules. 3. Upon the presentation of such certificate, and, in the case of persons other than those entitled to a license without payment under Section 49 of the Ordinance upon payment of the fee, if any, prescribed by the Governor in Council, the Colonial Treasurer shall grant a license which shall be in the form B. in the Schedule hereto. 4. No license for the erection, maintenance and working of stakes shall be transferable. 5. No stakes shall be erected, maintained or worked either in (i.) The Channels of the Harbour of Lagos; or in (ii) Any place where water is of greater depth than seven (iii.) Any place where in the opinion of the Harbour Master 6. Rows of stakes shall not be of greater length than 120 yards. Stakes in any row shall be distant one from the other not less than 18 inches. 7. The distance in any direction between rows of stakes shall be not less than 120 yards. 8. If owing to the shifting of a channel or deepening of water or for any other reasonable cause the Harbour Master is of the opinion at any time that the removal of any stakes is expedient, he may by notice in writing, direct the removal thereof within one month from the date of such notice, and the licensee shall remove such stakes accordingly. 9. A licensee shall repair or clean his stakes within one month after receipt of notice in writing signed by the Harbour Master to repair or clean such stakes. 10. Any notice to be served under these Rules shall be served personally, or if the licensee cannot be found, at his last known place of abode upon an inmate thereof, or if an inmate cannot be found, or if such place of abode is unknown, by affixing the notice to the stakes in respect of which the licensee holds a license. 11. No person other than the Harbour Master or a person authorized by him shall interfere with any stakes in respect of which a license has been granted. 12. These Rules may be cited as the "Fishing Stakes Rules, 1898." I hereby certify that the said place is a fit and proper site for the erection, maintenance and working of the stakes aforesaid. Fees for Lagos, the No. License is hereby granted to stakes at day of FORM B. Harbour Master. to erect, maintain and work day of Colonial Treasurer. in the Harbour of Lagos. 10th day of November, 1898. Whereas by the Pilotage and Harbour Ordinance, 1878, it is provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to establish tables of fees to be charged for licenses for fishing stakes. Now therefore, I, George Chardin Denton, Esquire, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Acting Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Lagos, by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Colony, do hereby prescribe the following fees: TABLE OF FEES. On grant of a license except as hereinafter provided £500 - 01 0 No. 10.-1878. AN ORDINANCE for better regulating the Police of towns Be it enacted by the Governor of the Colony of Lagos, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: Preliminary. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the "Towns Police and Short title. Public Health Ordinance, 1878." of certain 2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,— Signification "Street," includes any road, alley, thoroughfare, or open terms. space, not being the property of a private owner; "Cattle," includes oxen, heifers, bulls, cows, horses, asses, "Health Officer," includes every Officer appointed by the "Constable," means a Constable of the Lagos Police Force. * 3. It shall be lawful for the Governor, by Proclamation made Application of by and with the consent of the Legislative Council, to order at any Ordinance. time, as he may think desirable, that this Ordinance, as respects the whole or any one or more of its provisions, shall, from a date mentioned in such Proclamation, apply to any town or place, or part thereof, within the Colony, or within the Protected Territories, or be suspended, in whole or in part, in any town or place, or part thereof, to which it may have been so ordered to apply, and thereupon the said Ordinance shall be applied and in force or suspended in whole or in part, as the case may be, in every town or place or part thereof, according as may be directed by such Proclamation: The Governor may, by any such Proclamation, declare and Definition of define for the purposes of this Ordinance, the limits and boundaries boundaries. of any town or other place to which the same, or part thereof, may be applied; Applied to Town of Lagos by Order of 13th January, 1879, to Eastern and Western Districts by Order of 5th November, 1880, and to the whole Colony by Order of 27th October, 1897. It is, however, open to question whether the two last-mentioned Orders are legal.-ED. Constructive ancillary clauses. Whenever by any such Proclamation, any part of this Ordinance application of is applied in any town or place or part thereof as aforesaid, all penal and other ancillary clauses applicable for the due enforcement of the part of the Ordinance so applied shall, although not mentioned in such Proclamation, be deemed to be applied and be in force in such town or place or part thereof. Streets to be under super vision of Surveyor. Injuring roadway, &c. of streets prohibited; Penalty. Cutting trees, &c. in streets prohibited; penalty; Proviso. Power to pur- Power to regulate line of buildings; Compensation POLICE REGULATIONS. Regulation of Streets and Buildings. 4. All Streets within the limits to which this enactment at any time is applied, shall be under the immediate supervision and control of the Surveyor, subject to such instructions as he may receive from the Governor ; The Surveyor shall from time to time when authorized by the Governor to that effect, cause any such street to be levelled, drained, altered and repaired as occasion may require. 5. Any person who, without the written consent of the Surveyor, wilfully displaces or takes up or injures the pavement stones, or material of any such street, or changes or attempts to change or obstruct any water course, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, and to a penalty not exceeding five shillings for every square foot of pavement stone, or one shilling for every square foot of other paving materials so displaced, taken up, or injured. 6. Any person who, without the permission of the Governor in writing, cuts, breaks down, uproots, lops or in any other manner destroys or injures any tree growing in any street, shall incur a fine which may extend to ten pounds; Nothing herein shall prevent the Surveyor from carrying out such ordinary pruning of the said trees as may be necessary, subject always to such instructions as he may receive from the Governor. 7. The Colonial Secretary, with the sanction of the Governor, and upon making compensation as after provided to the persons entitled thereto, may acquire any lands or premises for the purpose of widening, opening, enlarging, or otherwise improving any street, or for the purpose of making any new street. 8. When any house or building situated in any street, or the front thereof, has been taken or has fallen down, the Surveyor may prescribe the line in which any such house or building, or the front thereof, to be built or rebuilt in the same situation, shall be erected, and such house or building or the front thereof shall be erected in accordance therewith; The Surveyor shall pay or tender compensation to the owner or to owners, &c. other person immediately interested in such house or building, for any loss or damage he may sustain in consequence of his house being set back or forward: any question concerning such compensation or its payment, shall be settled in the manner provided by section twelve. 9. It shall not be lawful without the written consent of the Sur- Buildings not to be brought veyor to bring forward any house or building forming part of any forward, &c.; street, or any part or out-building thereof, beyond the front wall forward, &c.; of the house or building on either side thereof, nor to build or make any addition thereto beyond the front of the house or building on either side of the said first mentioned house, nor to make any paved or other footway of greater or less width or of higher or lower level than the pavement which may be in front of the said house or building on either side of the said first mentioned house; Any person offending against this enactment, shall be liable to Penalty on a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for every day during which contravention. the offence is continued after written notice in this behalf from the Surveyor. to be removed 10. The Surveyor may, with the sanction of the Governor in Projections, writing, give notice to the occupier or owner of any house or build- &c. of houses ing to remove or alter any porch, shed, verandah, projecting window, on notice. step, or pavement, sign post, show board, or any other obstruction or projection erected against or in front of such house or building whilst the same has been within the operation of this enactment, and which is an obstruction to the safe and convenient passage along any street, and such occupier or owner 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 Surveyor, and in default thereof, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, and the Surveyor may Surveyor may then remove such obstruction or projection, and the expense of remove and doing so shall be recoverable as a debt from such occupier or expense of owner. If the obstruction or projection was not made by the occu- doing so. pier and is removed by him, he shall be entitled to deduct the expense of such removal from the rent payable by him to the owner of the house or building. recover 11. If any such obstruction or projection was erected or placed Removal of against or in front of any house or building in any street whilst projections, such house or building was not within the operation of this enact- before Ordiment, the Surveyor may, with the sanction of the Governor in nance applied. writing, cause the same to be removed or altered as he thinks fit, after giving notice of such intended removal or alteration to the occupier, or owner, if the occupier is not found, of the house or building against or in front of which such obstruction or projection shall be, thirty days before the alteration or removal is begun; and if such obstruction or projection shall have been lawfully made, reasonable compensation shall be made out of the Treasury to any person who may suffer damage by such alteration or removal. 12. All questions respecting the amount or payment or distri- Claims of compensation, |