No. 15. Ord. No. 12, 1855. Acts repealed. Construction of the word President. committed by him, but the person aggrieved by such irregularity may recover full satisfaction for the special damage, if any, by an action on the case. XXX. That the following Acts and parts of Acts shall be, and they are hereby repealed, namely, all those Acts known in the printed copies of the Laws of the Bahamas as The 4 William 4, chapter 7; The 4 William 4, chapter 9; The 4 and 5 clauses of the 4 William 4, chapter 11; The 6 William 4, chapter 6; The 4 Victoria, chapter 13; The 8 Victoria, chapter 34; The 11 Victoria, chapter 13; also so much of that Act known as aforesaid as 2 Victoria, chapter 16, as relates to the appointment, duties, and salaries of stipendiary constables and gaolers. XXXI. That the word "President," wherever it occurs in this Ordinance, shall be construed to mean the Officer lawfully administering the Government for the time being. XXXII. That all fines and penalties, when recovered, shall be applied to the use of Her Majesty, her heirs, and successors, to be applied towards the support of the Government of these islands. JAMES MISICK, Senior Member of Council Administering the Government. SCHEDULE A. Chief constable and clerk to the Police Office Constables at Grand Cay; salaries not to exceed, each SCHEDULE B. TABLE OF FEES. For drawing an affidavit in case of misdemeanour intended for prosecution in the Supreme Court Every summons or warrant Every execution Every oath Every recognizance Hearing every case and giving judgment No. 16.-ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1856. An Ordinance to extend the Jurisdiction of the Police and Assistant Police Magistrates of this Presidency. (Passed 29th August, 1856. Confirmed 18th March, 1857.) W1 No. 16. Ord. No. 7, 1856. HEREAS by virtue of certain Acts of the General Assembly PREAMBLE. of the Bahama Islands, extended to and in force within this colony by the Act of the said Assembly passed in the eleventh year of your Majesty's reign, chapter one, known as the Turks Islands Separation Act, exclusive jurisdiction, power, and authority are given to the Stipendiary Justices of the colony for the adjudication of certain offences therein specified, and for other purposes. And whereas an Ordinance No. 3 of 1856 for the Prospective reduction of Salaries to Public Officers of the Presidency of the Turks and Caicos Islands, no provision is made for the salary or stipend of such Stipendiary Justice, it being considered that the duties hitherto performed by such Justice should be discharged by the Police and Assistant Police Magistrates of the colony: And that so soon as a vacancy shall occur in the office of Stipendiary Justice, the Police and Assistant Police Magistrates of the colony should be invested with the jurisdiction, power, and authority hitherto exercised by the said Stipendiary Justices under and by virtue of the Acts hereinbefore mentioned; May it, &c. I. That so soon as a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Stipendiary Justice of the colony, the Police and Assistant Police Magistrates of these islands shall, within their respective districts, be invested with all and singular the same power, jurisdiction, and authorities as are now vested in the Stipendiary Justice of the colony under and by virtue of the following Acts of the General Assembly of the Bahama Islands, extended to these islands, and in force as aforesaid, to wit:-The Act 3 Vic. ch. 1, for Regulating the Relative Duties of Masters and Servants, for Providing for the Apprenticing of Children, and for other purposes; The Act 3 Vic. ch. 2, to Provide Summary Remedy against the Occupation of Land by Persons having no Title to the same; The Act 3 Vic. ch. 3, for the better Suppressing of Vagrancy, and for the Punishment of Idle and Disorderly Persons and Rogues, Vagabonds, and other Vagrants; and under and by virtue of any of the Acts of the said Assembly, passed in amendment of the said three recited Acts, which have been extended to these islands in manner hereinbefore mentioned. II. That in all cases of conviction under this Ordinance, the party or parties convicted shall have the power of appeal to the Supreme Court, subject to the provisions contained in Ordinance No. 16 of 1849, which said Ordinance shall in all respects be held to apply to such cases of conviction. III. That the said Police and Assistant Police Magistrates shall and may, for anything done by them under this Ordinance, take fees according to the scale of fees set forth in Ordinance No. 12 of 1855. IV. That for every contract of service, or agreement, or deed of apprenticeship entered into before any Police or Assistant Police Magistrate, such Magistrate shall be entitled to the sum No. 16. Ord. No. 7, 1856. of two shillings for each labourer hired or apprentice bound, under and by virtue of this Ordinance to be paid by the master or employer. V. That all fees received under this Ordinance shall be subject to the provisions contained in the 28th section of Ordinance No. 12 of 1855. No. 1. CLASS XIII. HEALTH OF TOWNS. No. 1.-ORDINANCE No. 10 of 1852. Ord. No. 10, An Ordinance for securing the Public Health. (Passed Nov. 4th, 1852. PREAMBLE. The Presi Boards of Health. 1852. Confirmed August 1st, 1853.) HEREAS it is of the highest-importance that some effectual tion of the public health; May it, &c. I. That the President or Officer administering the government dent to appoint shall, in the month of November of every year, appoint Boards of Health, to continue and have existence for twelve calendar months, and to consist of not less than five persons for Grand Turk, three for Salt Cay, thrce for East Harbour, three for Lorimer's Caicos, and three for each of any of the other settlements at the Caicos; and it shall be lawful for the President, or other Officer as aforesaid, from time to time, to fill up any vacancy or vacancies which may occur in any such Boards, during the period for which any such Board shall have been appointed as aforesaid. Boards to report to the President. Proceedings on such reports. II. The Board of Health appointed for Grand Turk, and the Board of Health appointed for Salt Cay, and those appointed for the Caicos Islands, shall report in writing to the President or other Officer as aforesaid, from time to time on any cause or causes which in their opinion may exist and be likely to endanger the health of the inhabitants of the colony, and to recommend such measures as may appear to them judicious for the removal thereof; and in case any epidemic disease should prevail in the colony, it shall be the duty of the Boards of Health to report thereon, and to recommend such measures as may appear to them expedient to arrest or diminish it. III. That whenever any such Boards of Health shall report to the President or other Officer as aforesaid the existence of any local cause or causes in any part of the colony, tending to endanger the public health or the health of the inhabitants of such locality, and there shall be no means under the then existing laws of the colony whereby such cause or causes of disease may be removed or guarded against, it shall be lawful for the President or Officer administering the government for the time being, acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council, to adopt all such measures as any of the aforesaid Boards of Health may recommend for removing any such local cause or causes of disease, or otherwise guarding against the probable consequences thereof, and every order issued by the President, or Officer administering the govern No. 1. 1852. The President in Council to make regulations with respect to vessels and merchandise, ment in council, in the exercise of the power hereby vested in him, and all Acts performed in pursuance or under the authority of any Ord. No. 10, such order, shall be held to be, and shall be, as good, legal, and valid, as if the same was or were authorized in express words by some Ordinance of the colony; and every person who shall disobey any such order, or any part of such order, or shall resist, obstruct, or otherwise oppose any person in carrying such order or any part thereof into execution, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour. IV. All vessels arriving at any port of entry within these islands, and all persons, goods, and merchandise whatsoever embarked therein, coming from any port or place where any contagious or malignant disorder shall exist, or from any port or place from whence the President for the time being, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, shall judge it to be probable that infectious distempers may be brought, or having had or then having on board any person ill of any dangerous disease, or on board of which vessel any person shall have died of disease during the passage to either of the said ports, shall, before such vessel be admitted to an entry, and such persons, goods, or merchandise allowed to be landed, be liable to such restrictions or required to comply with such directions as shall from time to time be prescribed by the President for the time being, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, by any order or orders as aforesaid. Pilots. V. The President or Officer administering the government for and for the the time being, in council, shall make such rules and regulations directions of for the direction of pilots on boarding vessels, and for the purpose of enforcing such restrictions and requirements as shall be deemed necessary as aforesaid, which said rules and regulations shall be printed at the public expense, and a copy given to each qualified pilot, and such other persons as the President shall think proper, without any charge therefor. And every pilot or other person who shall be guilty of a violation of the said rules and regulations or any of them, made according to and for the carrying out the provisions of this Ordinance, shall for each offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty pounds, nor less than ten shillings, or in default shall be imprisoned for any term not exceeding six months. same, relative to swamps and low grounds. Swamps, &c., to be filled up by proprietor, or to be sold by consent; or VI. Whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of Provisions the President or Officer administering the government for the time being, in council, to be necessary for the health of the inhabitants of the colony or of any town, that any "fresh-water" swamp, or low ground in any part of or in the vicinity of such town, or in any other part of the colony, should be filled up, and the proprietor or proprietors of such swamp or low ground, or the proprietor of any portion thereof, shall refuse when thereto required to sell the or shall refuse or neglect to have the same filled up to the satisfaction of the civil engineer of the colony, or other person to be appointed for that purpose by the President or Officer administering the government for the time being, to superintend the filling up of swamps and low grounds as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the President or other Officer administering the government for the time being, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, upon being satisfied that it is practicable to reclaim the same, and that the proprietor or proprietors have a good and sufficient title in law, to purchase every such swamp or low ground No. 1. Ord. No. 10, 1852. by precept ⚫ directed to the Provost Marshal to value and appraise. Proceedings on precept. Swamps, &c., when valued, to be taken possession of on behalf of the President. or portion thereof as the proprietor or proprietors thereof shall refuse or neglect to have filled up as aforesaid, and to pay to such proprietor or proprietors, on his or their executing and delivering a good and sufficient conveyance therefor, such sum of money as may be agreed upon as the purchase-money of such swamp or low ground, or a portion of such swamp or low ground, as aforesaid, between the President or Officer administering the government as aforesaid, in council, and the said proprietor or proprietors; all which sums of money it shall be lawful for the President or Officer administering the government for the time being, by and with the advice and consent of the council, to authorize to be paid out of the public treasury by warrant in the usual manner; but if any such proprietor or proprietors shall refuse to sell his or their interest in such swamp or low ground as aforesaid, or shall not agree to accept the price offered by the President or Officer administering the government for the time being, in council, or if any such proprietor be a minor, or be under any other legal disability or natural incapacity to effect such sale and execute conveyances as aforesaid, or shall be absent from the colony without any known attorney or agent, then, and in every such case it shall be lawful for the President or Officer administering the government for the time being, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council aforesaid, to issue a precept to the Provost Marshal of the colony, or to his deputy, commanding either of them to have such swamp or low ground, as aforesaid, viewed and appraised in manner as is hereinafter mentioned. VII. That it shall be the duty of the Provost Marshal or his deputy, upon the receipt of every such precept, to summon five freeholders of Grand Turk, or Salt Cay, or at any of the settlements at the Caicos (according to the locality of such swamp or low ground) to accompany him to view and appraise or value such swamp or low ground or portion thereof as aforesaid, and every person so summoned shall attend at the time and place named in the summons, and having signed a declaration well and faithfully to discharge their duties as appraisers under this Ordinance, shall then accompany the said Provost Marshal or his deputy to the swamp or low ground, or portion thereof referred to in such precept, and having viewed the same, shall forthwith appraise and value the same, and shall afterwards certify such valuation upon the back of the precept, and the Provost Marshal shall thereupon return the precept to the office of the Colonial Secretary at Grand Turk. VIII. Whenever any swamp or low ground, or portion of a swamp or low ground, shall have been valued as aforesaid under the authority of this Ordinance, and the precept shall have been returned to the secretary's office, as provided for by this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the President or Officer administering the government for the time being, to cause possession of the same to be taken by the Crown Commissioner, or by some other person acting for and on his behalf, and all swamps and low grounds so taken possession of shall be dealt with in the same and the like manner as if the proprietor or proprietors had executed and delivered conveyances therefor, under the provisions of this Ordi nance. IX. Every precept issued, executed, and returned under the authority of this Ordinance shall be kept as a record in the office |