Rules for
Carriages

and Horses.

on the South by the Meat Market, Agarawu Street, and part of Idumagbo Lagoon, on the East by the Marina, from Apena Street, to Guard House, and part of Idumagbo Lagoon, and on the West, by Kosoko Street, and Alakoro.

That portion of the capital town of Lagos which is bounded on the
North by the Marina, from Oke Suna to Governor Moloney's
Bridge, on the South by the Marina from Hamburg Street to
Kokomaiko, on the East by the Race Course, and Oke Suna
Street, and on the West by Hamburg Street, up to Campos
Square, Olushi Street, and the Isalegangan Lagoon.

25th day of June, 1888.

Whereas by the "Towns Police and Public Health Ordinance, 1878," it is provided that the Governor may, by any Order approved by resolution of the Legislative Council, make Rules consistent with the said Ordinance and subject to the provisions thereof for further or better carrying into effect any of the purposes of the said Ordinance and may appoint such penalty as is therein mentioned for any breach of any such rule;

Now, therefore, with the approval, expressed by resolution, of the Legislative Council, I do hereby make the following Rules :1. Any person who

(1) After sunset drives in any street any carriage without a side-lamp or other lighted lamp sufficient to warn persons in such street; or

(2) Leaves any carriage standing in any street without having some proper person to hold any horse which may be attached to the same; or

(3) When driving any carriage or riding any horse in any street fails to keep his carriage or horse on his left side of such street on meeting or being overtaken by any other carriage or horse; or

(4) When driving any carriage or riding any horse in any street fails to keep his carriage or horse to the right of any other carriage or horse which he may overtake; or

(5) Wilfully or by negligence prevents, hinders or interrupts the free passage in any street of any other person or any carriage or horse; or

(6) Draws up any carriage in such a manner as to obstruct the free passage along any street; or

(7) Having blocked or stopped the wheel of any carriage in any street allows the stone or other thing with which he may have blocked or stopped such wheel to remain on the street; or

(8) Removes, destroys, injures or defaces any mile-mark or railing on any street

shall, in addition to any liability for damage at the suit of any person aggrieved, incur a fine not exceeding forty shillings.

2. In the above Rules

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Driving" shall include dragging, pushing, pulling and pro-
pelling;

Carriage "shall include waggon, cart, hand-cart, bicycle,
tricycle and every other kind of wheeled vehicle;
"Horse" shall include mule, ass and ox; and

"Street" shall include any road, alley, thoroughfare or open space, not being the property of a private owner.

3. These Rules shall apply to all places in the Colony of Lagos in which the "Towns Police and Public Health Ordinance, 1878," shall from time to time be in force.

7th day of August, 1888.

1. These Rules may be cited as the "Common Pound Rules, Common 1888."

2. These Rules shall apply to every town or place in the Colony in which the Towns Police and Public Health Ordinance, 1878, shall from time to time be in force.

3. In these Rules, unless the context requires otherwise :-
"Cattle" includes bulls, cows, oxen, heifers, horses, asses, mules
and swine, but not sheep or goats;
"Animal" means head of cattle; and

"Street" includes any road, alley, thoroughfare or open space,
not being the property of a private owner.

4. Nothing in these Rules contained shall be construed to affect the right of any person to summon before a District Commissioner the owner of any cattle found at large in any street without any person having charge thereof.

5. Subject as aforesaid, the police shall seize, and impound in the nearest common pound, all cattle which they shall find at large in any street without any person having charge thereof, and shall detain in such pound every animal so impounded, until the owner thereof shall have paid to the Treasurer all moneys payable to that officer under Nos. 6 and 7 of these Rules, or until sale thereof in manner hereinafter mentioned.

Pound Rules.

6. There shall be paid to the Treasurer, in respect of animals lawfully impounded in any common pound, the following penalties, viz. :

For every head of cattle, except swine, 2s.; and

For every head of swine, 18.

All moneys paid to the Treasurer under this Rule shall form part of the general revenues of the Colony.

7. There shall also be paid to the Treasurer the following sums as and for expenses of keeping such animals as aforesaid while lawfully impounded:

In respect of each head of cattle, except swine, 1s. a day; and
In respect of each head of swine, 6d. a day.

All moneys paid to the Treasurer under this Rule shall be paidby him to the pound-keeper for the latter's own use.

8. No person claiming any cattle impounded under these Rules shall be entitled to delivery of the same, until he shall have paid to the Treasurer every penalty and all expenses hereby made payable in respect thereof.

9. Every pound-keeper shall keep a record, in a book to be kept by him for the purpose, of the following particulars of all cattle impounded in any pound of which he shall have the charge, viz. : a description of the animal impounded, the street where such animal was found at large, the date of the impounding of such animal, the name of the person who impounded it, the name of any person by whom it has been claimed, the date of its delivery to any such person, the amount of penalty hereby made payable in respect of it, and the amount of expenses hereby made payable in respect of its keep.

10. When any animal impounded under these Rules is claimed by any person, the pound-keeper shall give such claimant, if satisfied that he is the owner of such animal, a note to the Treasurer in the Form A hereunto annexed, and shall, on production of the Treasurer's receipt for the amount of penalty and expenses therein named, deliver such animal to such claimant.

11. If the penalty and expenses hereby made payable in respect of any impounded animal be not paid within four days after the impounding thereof, the pound-keeper shall give notice of the fact to the Surveyor, who shall forthwith direct a sale of such animal; and thereupon the pound-keeper, or such other person as the Surveyor shall have appointed for the purpose, shall sell such animal, or cause it to be sold, with all due despatch; but previously to such sale, six days' notice of such sale being intended shall be

given to, or left at the dwelling house of, the owner of such animal, if he be known, or, if such owner be not known, then such notice shall be conspicuously posted on notice-boards, at the pound where the animal was impounded, and at the police-station nearest to such pound.

12. The proceeds of every such sale shall be paid to the Treasurer and shall, after deduction of the penalty and of the expenses both of keeping the animal and of the sale, be by him paid on demand to the owner of the cattle sold.

13. The pound-keeper shall record in his book the date of the sale, the name of the purchaser, the amount realized, the amount of the expenses of the sale and the amount of sale-proceeds paid to the Treasurer.

14. Where an animal is released on payment of a penalty and expenses of keep, the Treasurer shall debit himself with the whole amount of such penalty and expenses and shall submit to the Governor for approval a voucher for payment to the pound-keeper of the amount of the expenses of keep.

15. The whole amount of the proceeds of every sale of impounded cattle shall be paid to the Treasurer, who shall debit himself therewith and shall not make any payment to the pound-keeper, or to any auctioneer or other person, in respect of the expenses of the sale, except upon an approved voucher.

16. Every pound-keeper shall on the first day in every month forward to the Colonial Secretary for insertion in the Gazette a statement in the Form B hereunto annexed as to all cattle which shall have been under his charge as pound-keeper, or have been impounded in any pound of which he was in charge, during the previous month.

B.

Return for the month of

the common pound at

and of payments made in

respect thereof under s. 30 of Ordinance No. 10 of 1878.

Regulations
to prevent the

spread of
Small-pox.

1st day of July, 1891.

Whereas by "the Towns Police and Public Health Act, 1878," it is provided amongst other things that the Governor in Council may from time to time make such regulations as to him may seem fit with a view to preventing the spread of small-pox, and may declare by what authority or authorities such regulations shall be enforced and executed, and that any person wilfully neglecting or refusing to obey or carry out, or obstructing the execution of any regulation made under this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds;

And whereas there is at this time in the town of Lagos a serious epidemic of small-pox;

And whereas it is expedient that measures should be taken and regulations made for the suppression of the said epidemic and the prevention of the spread thereof;

Now, therefore, I, George Chardin Denton, Esquire, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Acting Governor of the Colony of Lagos, with the advice of the Executive Council thereof and by virtue of the authority committed to me by the said Ordinance do make the following regulations :

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1. When any case of small-pox occurs in any house or on the premises of any person resident in the Island of Lagos the person so resident shall, at the latest within 24 hours of the appearance the small-pox rash in the case aforesaid, communicate the fact of such sickness to the Medical Officer of Health; and in case such person be absent, sick or be himself suffering from small-pox, then the person in whose charge for the time being such house and premises may be, shall, at the latest within 24 hours of the appearance of the small-pox rash in the case aforesaid, communicate the fact of such sickness to the Medical Officer of Health.