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rules and regulations contained in this Chapter, shall be liable, under Clause
XI., Section XIX. of Act I. of 1866, to a fine not exceeding fifty Rupees, or to
imprisonment not exceeding eight days, with or without labour.
II. DEPOSITING DIRT IN PUBLIC ROADS, &c.—No person shall throw or
put, or permit his servants to throw or put any dirt, refuse, rubbish, or filth
of any description, in any road, street, or public place, or on any waste or
unoccupied public ground, or into any sewer or drain, except in such places
and in such manner and at such times as shall be fixed under the orders
of the Cantonment Committee.
III. ALLOWING SEWAGE TO FLOW ON PUBLIC ROAD, &c.—No person shall
cause or allow the water of any sink, sewer, privy, urinal, cess-pool or drain,
or any other offensive liquid matter belonging to him, or being upon his pre-
mises, to run, drain, or to be thrown or put upon any road, street, or public
place, or into any surface drain in any road, street, or public place.
IV. REMOVAL OF NIGHT SOIL ALONG PUBLIC ROADS.—Except within such
hours and by such route as may, from time to time, be fixed by public notice
by order of the Cantonment Committee, no person shall remove any night
soil or any other noxious or offensive matter along any road or thoroughfare
within the limits of the Cantonment, and whether such hours have been fixed
or not, no person shall use for any such purpose any cart, carriage, or other
receptacle or vessel not having a covering proper for preventing the escape of
the contents thereof, or of the stench therefrom. If, in the course of remov-
ing night soil or other noxious or offensive matter, any such matter shall fall
upon any road or thoroughfare, the person or persons who are engaged in
effecting such removal shall well and carefully sweep and cleanse the place
on which such matter shall have fallen, and shall effectually remove such
sweepings therefrom. No person shall suffer to stand or remain, or shall
place or set down in any public place or thoroughfare any cart, carriage, re-
ceptacle, or vessel for the removal of night soil or any other noxious or
offensive matter, for any longer time than shall be necessary.
V. CONSTRUCTION OF PRIVATE LATRINES.—The owner of any house, build-
ing, or premises within the limits of the Cantonment, to which, in the opinion
of the Cantonment Committee, this rule may properly be applied, shall cause
to be constructed, within a reasonable time after a due notice has been given
to him by order of the Cantonment Committee, for the use of the persons
residing upon the ground appertaining thereto, a latrine or latrines accord-
ing to such plans as may be prescribed or approved by the Cantonment
Committee.
VI.
REMOVAL OF DIRT FROM PREMISES, AND PROVISION OF RECEPTACLES.—
Every owner or occupier of any house, building, or promises, within the limits
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of the Cantonment, shall cause to be removed therefrom, with such precau
-tions, and at such times, as shall from time to time be ordered, all dirt, filth,
refuse, rubbish, or noxious or offensive matter, and shall provide receptacles
for the temporary deposit of such dirt, filth, refuse, rubbish, or matter, in
such manner and in such places as may be prescribed or approved by the
Cantonment Committee.
VII. KEEPING DIRT ON PREMISES.—NO owner or occupier of any house,
building, or premises, within the limits of the Cantonment, shall allow to be
kept for more than twenty-four hours, or otherwise than in some proper recep-
tacle, any dirt, filth, refuse, rubbish, or noxious or offensive matter, in or
upon the roof of any such house or building, or in any out-house, yard, or
ground attached to, and occupied with, such house, building, or premises,
or shall suffer such receptacle to be in a filthy or noxious state, or shall
neglect to employ proper means to remove the filth therefrom, and to cleanse
and purify the same.
VIII. FILTHY PREMISES, &c.—No owner or occupier of any house, building,
premises, or land, within the limits of the Cantonment, whether tenantable
or otherwise, or of any private drain, privy, or cess-pool, shall suffer the
same or any part thereof to be in a filthy or unwholesome state, or over-
grown with rank and objectionable vegetation, or shall suffer any offensive
smell to proceed from the same, and every such owner or occupier shall
cleanse, white-wash, or purify the same as the case may require, when called
upon to do so by order of the Cantonment Committee.
IX. PRIVIES TO BE SHUT OUT FROM PUBLIC VIEW.—The owner or occupier of
any house, building, or laud, having a privy on his premises, shall have such
privy shut out by a sufficient roof, wall or fence, from the view of persons
passing by, or residing in, the neighbourhood, and except with the permission
of the Cantonment Committee, when no nuisance will be caused thereby, no
owner or occupier shall keep any privy with a door or trap-door opening on
to any street.
X. HOUSES UNFIT FOR HUMAN HABITATION.—If, in consequence of the
want of proper means of drainage or ventilation or privy accommodation, or
other sufficient reason, any house, building, or premises shall be declared by
the Cantonment Committee unfit for human habitation, and the Committee
shall prohibit its use for such purpose, no owner or occupier of such house,
building, or premises shall use or suffer the same to be used for such pur-
poses until, in the opinion of the Cantonment Committee, the causes render-
ing it unfit for human habitation have been removed.
XI. SPREADING INFECTION OF ANY DISEASE.—NO person shall do, within
the limits of the Cantonment, any act which he knows or has reason to
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believe to be likely to spread the infection of any disease. This rule shall
not apply to persons performing or causing to be performed the operation
of vaccination.
XII. CULTIVATION OF PROHIBITED CROPS.—NO person shall cultivate within
the limits of the Cantonment any crop which is prohibited by the Cantonment
Committee, or by the Officer Commanding the Cantonment, on sanitary or
other grounds.
XIII. TRIMMING HEDGES AND TREES, AND DESTROYING TREES.—Every owner
or occupier of any ground, within the limits of the Cantonment, shall trim or
prune the hedges and trees thereon in such manner as the Cantonment Com-
mittee may from time to time prescribe and no person shall cut down or
destroy any trees of mature growth, whether on private premises or other-
wise, without the sanction of the Cantonment Committee.
XIV. KEEPING SWINE.—No person shall keep any swine within the limits
of the Cantonment, except with the permission, signified in writing, of the
Cantonment Committee, and under such restrictions as the Committee shall
think fit to impose.
XV. KEEPING ANIMALS SO AS TO BE A NUISANCE.—NO person shall keep any
animals so as to be a nuisance or injurious to health, or in any place in which,
in the opinion of the Cantonment Committee, such animals cannot be kept
without danger to the public health or convenience.
XVI. KEEPING UNLICENSED PUBLIC LATRINES.—No person shall keep any
latrine or urinal for public use within the limits of the Cantonment, unless
he shall have received permission in writing from the Cantonment Committee,
nor unless he shall observe all rules laid down regarding the construction
and management of public latrines and urinals.
XVII. PERFORMING OFFICES OF NATURE IN PLACES OTHER THAN THOSE APPOINT-
ED.—When, in the opinion of the Cantonment Committee, a sufficient number
of latrines and urinals has been provided for the use of the inhabitants of the
Cantonment, and due notice of the intention to enforce this rule has been
given by order of the Committee, no person shall perform the offices of nature
in any other places within the limits of the Cantonment than such as may
be appointed, whether on public or private ground.
XVIII. COMMITTING NUISANCE ON PUBLIC GROUND.—No person shall commit
a nuisance by easing himself in or by the side of, or near to, any public road, or
thoroughfare, or place, or by indecently exposing his person.
XIX. BATHING IN PROHIBITED PLACES.—NO person shall bathe in any public
place, within the limits of the Cantonment, the use of which for such purpose
has been prohibited by the Cantonment Committee, or at times at which
bathing in such place has been prohibited by the said Committee.
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XX. BATHING IN PLACE SET APART FOR OTHER SEX.—NO person Of one sex
shall bathe in any public bathing place, within the limits of the Cantonment,
if such place has been set aside by the Cantonment Committeee for the use
of persons of the other sex.
XXI. DISEASED PERSONS NOT TO BATHE IN PUBLIC BATHING PLACES.—NO
person suffering from any contagious disease shall bathe in any public bathing
place within the limits of the Cantonment.
XXII. DEFILING THE WATER USED FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES.—No person shall
construct or keep any latrine, urinal, or place for the deposit of filth
or refuse, in the vicinity of any river, spring, tank, reservoir, well, or other
source from which water is derived for public use, within the limits of the
Cantonment, or shall do any act which shall corrupt or foul such water so as
to render it less fit for the purpose for which it is ordinarily used.
XXIII. WASHING ANIMALS, CLOTHING, &C., IN PROHIBITED PLACES.—NO
person shall wash or cleanse, or cause to be washed or cleansed in any public
road or thoroughfare, or in, or upon, or by the side of, any river, spring, tank,
reservoir, well, or other source from which water is derived for public use,
within the limits of the Cantonment, any animal, of any wool, cloth, or
wearing apparel or any utensil for cooking or other purposes, or leather, or
skins of any animals, or other foul or offensive thing, in any places the use of
which for such purposes shall be prohibited by the Cantonment Committee.
XXIV. KILLING ANIMALS EXCEPT AT PUBLIC SLAUGHTER-HOUSE.—No person
shall kill, within the limits of the Cantonment, any animal for public sale,
except at the public slaughter-house, or at such other place as may be allowed
with the sanction of the Cantonment Committee.
XXV. ALLOWING SLAUGHTER-HOUSES OR MARKETS TO BE IN A FILTHY STATE.—
No owner or occupier or farmer of any place used as a slaughter-house or
market, within the limits of the Cantonment, shall keep or allow the same to
be kept in a filthy or unclean state, or suffer any offensive smell to arise
therefrom, or shall neglect to carry out any of the rules laid down for the
management of slaughter-houses or markets.
XXVI. SLAUGHTERING DISEASED ANIMALS.—NO owner or occupier, of any
place used as a slaughter-house, within the limits of the Cantonment, shall
slaughter or suffer to be slaughtered therein any diseased or unsound animal,
and every owner or occupier of such place, in case of any diseased or unsound
animal being brought thereto, shall forthwith give information thereof to
the Cantonment Committee.
XXVII. ALLOWING NUISANCE IN MARKET.—NO owner, occupier, or farmer
of any market, within the limits of the Cantonment, shall knowingly allow the
commission of any nuisance within such market.
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XXVIII. MARKETS TO BE PROVIDED WITH PROPER PLACES OF RETIREMENT
.—Every owner, occupier, or farmer of any market, to which, in the opinion of the
Cantonment Committee, this rule ought to be made applicable, shall, within a
reasonable time, to be fixed by the Cantonment Committee, after he shall have
received notice to do so, provide such places of retirement for the purposes of
nature as in the opinion of the said Committee may be necessary for the clean-
liness and health of the said market.
XXIX. ALLOWING EXPOSURE IN MARKET OF UNWHOLESOME ARTICLES OF FOOD
.—No owner, occupier, or farmer of any market, shop, or stall, within the limits
of the Cantonment, shall permit to be exposed for sale, or admit or permit
to remain therein, any article intended for food or drink for man, which is
noxious or unfit for use as food or drink for man, and he shall forthwith cause
any such article to be removed.
XXX. SALE OF UNWHOLESOME FOOD OR DRINK.—NO person shall knowingly
sell as food or drink for man, or offer or expose for such sale, or keep in his
possession for the purpose of such sale, any article which is noxious or unfit
for use as food or drink for man.
XXXI. ADULTERATING FOOD OR DRINK.—NO person shall adulterate any
article of food or drink so as to make such article noxious as food or drink,
intending to sell such article as food or drink, or knowing it to be likely that
the same will be sold as food or drink.
XXXII. SELLING PORK.—No person, within the limits of the Canton-
ment, shall sell any pork, except under such conditions as may be prescribed
by the Cantonment Committee.
XXXIII. BURYING OR BURNING CORPSES IN PROHIBITED PLACES.—NO person
shall bury, or cause to be buried, or shall burn, or cause to be burned, any
corpse in any place within the limits of the Cantonment, if the use of such
place as a burial or burning-ground has been prohibited by lawful authority.
XXXIV. DEPTH OF GRAVES.—NO person shall bury, or cause to be buried,
any corpse in any burial-ground, within the limits of the Cantonment, in a
grave not constructed of masonry which shall be less than six feet deep, or in
a grave constructed of masonry which shall be less than four feet deep.
XXXV. DISTANCE BETWEEN GRAVES.—No person shall make or cause to
be made a grave in any such burial-ground at a less clear distance than three
feet from any other existing grave.
XXXVI. GRAVES TO BE MADE ONLY IN PRESCRIBED LINES OR SITUATIONS
.—No person shall make or cause to be made a grave in any such burial-ground
in any other lines or situations than those which may be marked out by com-
petent authority for that purpose.
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XXXVII. CORPSES TO BE REDUCED TO ASHES.—No person when burning,
or causing to be burnt, any corpse in any burning-ground, within the limits of
the Cantonment, shall permit the same or any part thereof to remain without
being completely reduced to ashes or to be removed until the same be so
reduced.
XXXVIII. CORPSES TO BE BURNED WITHIN FOUR HOURS AFTER ARRIVAL AT
BURNING-GROUND.—Every person who shall bring, or convey, or cause to be
brought or conveyed, any corpse to any such burning-ground, shall burn or
cause the same to be burned within four hours after its arrival at the said
burning-ground.
XXXIX. THROWING CORPSES INTO RIVERS.—No person shall throw any
corpse into any river, within the limits of the Cantonment, when such practice
shall have been declared by the Cantonment Committee, with the approval of
the Magistrate of the District, to be a public nuisance.
XL. OFFENSIVE OR OBNOXIOUS TRADES.—No person shall use any place
within the limits of the Cantonment for any of the following purposes, if such
use of such place has been declared by the Cantonment Sanitary Officer to be
a nuisance, and has been prohibited by the Cantonment Committee, as such,
namely, as a butcher's shop, or for melting tallow, or for boiling offal or blood,
or for making soap, oil-boiling, dyeing, or as a tannery, brick-pottery, or
lime-kiln, or for any manufactory or place of business from which offensive
or unwholesome smells arise, or as a yard or depôt for hay, straw, wood or
coal.
XLI. QUARRYING STONE AND CUTTING WOOD OR GRASS ON PUBLIC GROUND.—
No person shall quarry stone or kunkur, or dig up bricks, or cut wood or grass,
on any public ground, except in places which may be set apart for such pur-
poses by the Cantonment Committee.
XLII. DEPOSITING BUILDING MATERIALS, OR MAKING EXCAVATIONS IN PUBLIC
ROADS.—NO person shall deposit any building materials, or make a hole or
excavation, in any road, thoroughfare, or public place without the permission
in writing of the Cantonment Committee, or under its authority, and when
such permission is granted to any person, he shall, at his own expense, when-
ever the Cantonment Committee may so direct, cause such materials or such
hole or excavation to be sufficiently fenced and enclosed, until the materials
are removed, or the hole or excavation is filled up, or otherwise made secure,
and shall cause the same to be sufficiently lighted during the night.
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L. RE-BUILDING HOUSES AND HUTS.—Every person intending to build or
re-build any house or hut, within the limits of the Cantonment, shall give pre-
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vious notice in writing to the Cantonment Committee, and shall obey all
rules and regulations which may be laid down by the Cantonment Com-
mittee, with respect to the sufficiency of the space to be left about such build-
ings or huts to secure a free circulation of air, or with respect to their ventila-
tion or drainage.
LI. ERECTING BUILDINGS IN OBJECTIONABLE SITUATIONS.—No person shall
make any new permanent or temporary building, hut, shed, enclosure, awning,
or chubootra, in any situation in which such building or other construction
shall be declared by the Cantonment Committee to be objectionable on sanitary
grounds, or on account of causing encroachment or obstruction to a public
thoroughfare.
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CHAPTER IV.
Provisions for the enforcement of the Rules and Regulations of the Cantonment.
I. OFFICER COMMANDING CANTONMENT, CANTONMENT COMMITTEE, AND CAN-
TONMENT MAGISTRATE, TO SEE TO THE ENFORCEMENT OF RULES AND REGULATIONS
.—It will be the duty of the Officer Commanding the Cantonment, of the Can-
tonment Committee, and of the Cantonment Magistrate, to take all lawful
measures for causing the enforcement of the rules and regulations contained
in the preceding Section.
II. ACTUAL EXECUTION OF RULES AND REGULATIONS TO BE THE DUTY OF THE
CANTONMENT MAGISTRATE.—Except when it shall be otherwise provided, the
Cantonment Magistrate will be responsible for the actual execution, in the
manner provided by law, of all the rules and regulations laid down for ensur-
ing the maintenance of the Cantonment in proper sanitary condition, and for
the prevention of nuisances.
III. OR OF OTHER OFFICER INVESTED WITH POWERS UNDER SECTION 20 OF
ACT XXII. OF 1864.—All of the present Rules which refer to the duties and
responsibilities of the Cantonment Magistrate will be applicable, unless it be
otherwise ordered by Government, to any person invested under Section 20 of
Act I. of 1866, with powers to try breaches of the rules and regulations of
the Cantonment.
IV. GENERAL CONSERVANCY ESTABLISHMENT.—The establishment main-
tained in each Cantonment, under the Cantonment Magistrate, for the general
conservancy and sanitary administration, will vary in strength according to
circumstances. It will ordinarily consist of one or more Conservancy Ser-
jeants, or Inspectors of Nuisances, with the necessary sanitary Police and other
subordinates.
V. ESTABLISHMENT TO BE PAID FROM CANTONMENT FUND.—The cost of the
General Conservancy Establishment will be defrayed from the Cantonment Fund.
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VI. GENERAL EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT RESTS WITH THE CANTONMENT MAGIS-
TRATE.—Except when it shall be otherwise provided, the Cantonment Magis-
trate will be the executive Head of the establishments entertained at the
charge of the Cantonment Fund, and the management of the general conser-
vancy and executive sanitary administration of the Cantonment will rest
with him, subject to the general control of the Officer Commanding the Can-
tonment, and of the Cantonment Committee.
VII. DUTIES OF THE GENERAL CONSERVANCY ESTABLISHMENT.—The duties
of the general Conservancy Establishment consist in—the carrying into effect
all arrangements connected with the conservancy of the Bazaars, and of every
part of the Cantonment, the conservancy of which is not provided for by
means of Regimental or other special establishments the removal, to the
places set apart for the purpose, of all filth and rubbish from the public roads
and streets, from public latrines, slaughter-houses, and other places, and from
receptacles provided for filth and rubbish from public or private premises
; and generally the execution of all the rules and regulations laid down by
lawful authority for the protection of the public health.
VIII. GENERAL DUTIES OF CANTONMENT MAGISTRATE.—It will be the duty
of the Cantonment Magistrate personally to inspect all parts of the Cantonment
at least once in every month, especially those parts of which the Sanitary super-
vision is important, and to require his subordinates frequently to do the same
to enforce strictly in every part of the Cantonment the observance of all
Sanitary rules and regulations that have been laid down to carry into
effect all necessary measures within his own authority, and to make to the
Officer Commanding the Cantonment, and to the Cantonment Committee, an
immediate report of every case in which the orders of superior authority may
be required.
IX. ESTABLISHMENTS TO BE APPOINTED, &C., BY CANTONMENT MAGISTRATE.—
Except when otherwise provided, all servants belonging to the general Con-
servancy Establishment of the Cantonment will be entertained, suspended, or
dismissed under the orders of the Cantonment Magistrate alone.
X. USE OF COMMISSARIAT CATTLE FOR CONSERVANCY PURPOSES.—The use
of Commissariat cattle, if any are available at the station, will be allowed
for any Conservancy purposes on which the Executive Commissariat Officer
may consider their employment unobjectionable. The expenses of tending and
feeding the cattle when thus employed will be chargeable to the Barrack
Department or to the Cantonment Fund, as the case may be.
XI. PROVISION TO BE MADE FOR DAILY CLEANSING OF STREETS, &C.—The
Cantonment Magistrate shall provide, in such manner, as may be approved
by the Cantonment Committee, for the daily surface cleansing of all streets,