2. Such communication being made the Medical Officer of Health shall and may visit and inspect, or appoint some fit and proper person to visit and inspect, the patient alleged to be suffering from small-pox; and on being satisfied that such case is a case of smallpox he may order that such person remain in the house or premises where he may be at the time of such inspection, or may, subject to the provisions of "the Towns Police and Public Health Ordinance 1878," cause such patient to be removed to the Contagious Diseases Hospital or other suitable place provided for the reception of smallpox patients.

3. In all houses where there has been a case of small-pox since the 31st day of May, 1891, whether the patient has been removed or not, or if the patient have died or recovered or be still in such house, there shall be displayed a small red flag not less than 10 inches by 8 in some conspicuous place on the side of such house nearest to a public street; and such flag shall remain displayed as aforesaid until such house has been cleansed and disinfected to the satisfaction of the Medical Officer of Health.

Such flags shall be supplied by the police at any of the police stations in the town of Lagos to all persons who shall require them for the purposes of this regulation.

4. It shall be lawful for the Medical Officer of Health or any police officer to enter any house to search for any small-pox patient, to inquire whether there is or has been since the 31st of May last in such house any small-pox patient, and generally for the purposes of these regulations. Such police officer shall, on finding that there has been a breach of any of these regulations, report the same to the Medical Officer of Health who shall take such steps as are in accordance with the provisions of "the Towns Police and Public Health Ordinance 1878" or with these regulations.

5. Nothing in these regulations shall be taken to apply to any part of the Colony beyond the Island of Lagos.

31st day of July, 1895.

Whereas by the Towns Police and Public Health Ordinance, Posting 1878, it is provided that the Governor may by any order approved Notices on by resolution of the Legislative Council make Rules consistent with Building, &c. prohibited. the said Ordinance and subject to the provisions thereof for further and 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, I, George Chardin Denton, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Acting Governor of the Colony of Lagos, with the approval

expressed by resolution of the Legislative Council do make the following Rules:

1. Any person who by himself, his servant or Agent

(1) Shall affix to any Government building, wall or property, except upon any space or board specially provided for the purpose, any notice, posting bill, or other paper; or (2) Without the permission of the owner, or occupier, or person or body of persons having control over or management thereof, shall affix any posting bill or other paper against or upon any building, wall, fence or pale, or write upon, soil, deface, or mark any such building, wall, fence, or pale with chalk or paint or in any other way whatsoever:

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

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

Use of Black

12th day of November, 1895.

Whereas by the Towns Police and Public Health Ordinance Mud in Lagos 1878 it is enacted that if any person throws or lays on any street, prohibited. or lot, or parcel of town land, or on any yard or garden, whether occupied or not, or on any place declared an open space (except such places as may be set apart by the Surveyor for such purposes) any carrion, filth, rubbish or any offensive or unwholesome matter; And whereas by the same Ordinance 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 and 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;

And whereas the substance known as "black mud" or 66 mangrove mud" is offensive and unwholesome matter within the meaning of the said Ordinance, and it is expedient that the use thereof in the Town and Island of Lagos should be prohibited;

Now, therefore, I, George Chardin Denton, Acting Governor of the Colony of Lagos, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Ordinance, and with the approval, expressed by resolution, of the Legislative Council do make the following Rule:

Any person who shall by himself, his servant, or agent import or convey into the Town or Island of Lagos, or throw or lay on

any street, or lot or parcel of land, or on any yard or garden, whether occupied or not, or on any other place in the said Town and Island any of the substance or matter commonly known as "black mud" or "mangrove mud" shall be guilty of an offence under the said Ordinance, and upon conviction thereof incur a fine not exceeding forty shillings.

15th day of September, 1897.

Whereas by an Ordinance entitled "Towns Police and Public Rules for the Health Ordinance 1878" it is inter alia enacted that it shall be disposal of

lawful for the Governor by an Order approved by resolution night soil, &c. of the Legislative Council to make such Rules for further or better carrying into effect any of the purposes of the said Ordinance as may from time to time deem necessary;

he

And whereas it is expedient in the interests of Public Health that measures should be taken and Rules made for the disposal of night soil and excrementa;

Now, therefore, I, Major Henry Edward McCallum, R.E., Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Lagos, with the approval of the Legislative Council thereof signified as aforesaid, do hereby make the following Rules:

1. From and after the First day of October 1897, and until a notice to the contrary shall have been published in the Government Gazette, the contents of latrine pans or buckets shall be thrown or discharged into the Lagos lagoon from the farther end of the piers or wharves mentioned in the Schedule hereto annexed and between the hours of 9 p.m. and 12 midnight and at no other time or times.

2. All persons making use of any pier or wharf for the purposes mentioned in Rule 1 shall take every precaution to prevent the deposit or accumulation on the said pier or wharf of any portion of the contents of latrine pans or buckets.

3. Any person who shall fail to conform to the above Rules, or who shall deposit or discharge excrementa or night soil in or into any creek of the Lagoon, or any swamp or any dustbin, or into any place other than those specially appointed for the purpose by these Rules, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

4. Nothing in these Rules contained shall be taken to apply to any part of the Colony beyond the Island of Lagos: nor to any part of the said Island beyond the Districts of Ehin Igbeti, Faji, and Oke Ete, namely, from Appongbon Street to the Petroleum Magazine.

SCHEDULE.

*Lagos Meat Market Rules, 1897.

Short title and

Rules.

Piers or Wharves to be used for the purposes mentioned in Rule 1.

The pier or wharf of the Customs House

Messrs. Holt & Welsh.

Marina

The Lagos Stores & Tomlinson, Ltd.

M. Konigsdorfer & Co.

The Mail Agency

Messrs. Witt & Busch.

G. L. Gaiser (Eastern pier)
The Public Works

Fabre & Co.

15th day of September, 1897.

Whereas by the Towns Police and Public Health Ordinance 1878, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor by an order, approved by resolution of the Legislative Council, to make Rules for further and better carrying into effect any of the purposes of the said Ordinance;

And whereas it is further enacted that whenever the Governor provides any public market he may, by Rules to be made in the manner aforesaid, make regulations for all or any of the purposes specified in the said section, and may annex and appoint penalties for the breach of any of such regulations;

Now, therefore, I, Henry Edward McCallum, Major in the Corps of Royal Engineers, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Lagos, with the approbation signified as aforesaid, do hereby make the following order :

1. These Rules may be cited as the "Lagos Meat Market Rules, application of 1897," and shall apply to the Meat Markets hereinafter declared to be provided as aforesaid, and to such other Public Markets as may hereafter be declared to be provided for the town and island of Lagos for the sale of carcasses intended for the food of man.

Public Meat Markets declared.

Markets, when

to be opened.

2. The following Public Markets are hereby declared to be provided for the town and island of Lagos for the sale of carcasses intended for the food of man, that is to say, Ereko Meat Market, Marina Meat Market, Faji Meat Market.

3. The public Meat Markets provided for the town and island of Lagos shall be open for the sale of carcasses for the food of man every Sunday between the hours of 6 a.m. and 9 a.m., and on every other day in the year between the hours of 6 a.m. and 5 p.m., and at no other time.

* These Rules were made under sect. 41 of the Ordinance, since repealed; but the Rules themselves have been declared to be in force as though made under No. 10 of 1898 (q. v.).

Salesmen.

4. No person shall be permitted to make use of the said markets Licenses to be for the above recited purpose until he has obtained a license in the obtained by form hereinafter set forth, and has paid the following charge, viz., for each stall, table or place in the said market at the rate of five shillings per month for the period respectively during which such licenses are authorized by these Rules and for no other periods.

a

in the first

instance, to

5. All applications for Licenses shall in the first instance be made Applications to the Collector of Customs, and every person applying for for Licenses license shall at the same time pay to the Collector the amount fixed by these Rules to be paid in respect of such license for the use of whom to be such stall, table or place in the said market, and the Collector shall made. in each case give a receipt in the form contained in Schedule A. to these Rules, which amount in case such application shall be refused such Collector of Customs shall forthwith on demand and on production of the said receipt repay to the person who paid the same without any deduction whatsoever.

Licenses.

6. No License shall be granted for a less period than three Duration of calendar months nor for a longer period than six calendar months, and every such License shall continue in force from the date of the granting thereof until the thirtieth day of June or the thirty-first day of December respectively in the case of half-yearly Licenses, or until the twenty-fifth day of March, the thirtieth day of June, the twenty-ninth day of September, or the thirty-first day of December in the case of quarterly Licenses respectively of the year in which any such License shall have been granted.

No person shall be entitled as of right to the use either by himself or by any other person acting for him or on his behalf of more than one such stall, table or place.

to whom to

7. Applications for allotment of such stalls, tables or places shall Applications be made to the Inspector of Nuisances or to such other person as for allotment the Governor shall for that purpose appoint, and the Inspector of of stalls, &c., Nuisances or such other person as aforesaid shall on production by be made. the applicant of the before-mentioned receipt of the Collector of Customs allot, subject in all cases to the approval of the Governor, the available space in the said markets to applicants according to priority of application.

License.

8. Previous to any such allotment as in the last preceding Rule Form of mentioned, the Inspector of Nuisances or such other person as aforesaid shall prepare and submit to the Governor for approval as aforesaid a License in form contained in Schedule B. to these Rules.

9. It shall not be necessary for any person in the occupation of Notice to disany such stall, table or place, to give notice of his intention to continue use discontinue the use thereof.

of Stall, &c.

not required.