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roads, and public places of every description, within the limits of the Canton-
ment, for the daily collection and removal of all filth, refuse, and rubbish of
every description, for preventing the deposit thereof in any places not specially
assigned for the purpose, and for regulating the times and manner of such
collection, removal, and deposits.
XII. RECEPTACLES FOR DIRT, &C., TO BE PROVIDED.—Places, or fixed or
movable receptacles will be provided in such situations as the Cantonment
Committee may appoint, in which all filth, refuse, and rubbish of every descrip
-tion from public or private premises, houses, or buildings, is to be periodically
removed, and in which all cattle, carts, and implements required for such re-
moval and for other purposes of conservancy, shall be kept.
XIII. FAILURE OF OWNER OF PREMISES TO CONSTRUCT LATRINES AND RECEPTA-
CLES.—If the owner of any house, building, or premises, shall fail to cause to be
constructed a latrine or latrines, and to provide receptacles for the temporary
deposit of dirt, filth, and refuse in the manner prescribed by these rules, the
Cantonment Committee may cause such latrines or receptacles to be constructed
or provided at the expense of such owner, and may recover such expenses by
distress and sale of his personal property.
XIV. MANURE, REMOVED AT EXPENSE OF CANTONMENT FUND TO BE CON-
SIDERED PUBLIC PROPERTY.—All filth, rubbish, and manure, which shall be
removed at the expense of the Cantonment Fund, shall be held to be public
property, and any sums that may be realized therefrom shall be credited to the
Cantonment Fund.
XV. ENCOURAGEMENT OF VACCINATION.—The Cantonment Committee shall
take such measures as, with the approval of the Local Government, it may con-
sider desirable for the encouragement of vaccination among the inhabitants of
the Cantonment.
XVI. APPEARANCE OF EPIDEMIC OR CONTAGIOUS DISEASE.—It will be the duty
of all Medical Officers, and of all persons residing within the Cantonment, to
make known without delay to the Cantonment Magistrate, for the information
of the Cantonment Committee, the appearance of any epidemic or contagious
disease which may be dangerous to the public health.
XVII. No GENERAL DESTRUCTION OF TREES TO BE ALLOWED.—NO orders shall
be given in the Cantonment for any general destruction of trees, on the
ground of any sanitary advantages which it is supposed will follow therefrom,
without the approval of the Commander-in-Chief. But this rule will not
prevent the trimming, to a moderate and reasonable extent, of trees and.
hedges, or the removal of particular trees or portions of trees, when this is con-
disered necessary by the Cantonment Committee.
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XVIII. PUBLIC LATRINES AND URINALS TO BE PROVIDED.—The Cantonment
Committee shall cause a sufficient number of public latrines and urinals to be
constructed for the use of the Native Troops, camp-followers, and inhabitants
of the Cantonment, according to such plans as may be approved by Government,
and shall take the necessary measures for insuring the maintenance at an times
of such places in a proper state of cleanliness. Unless for special reasons, no
payment shall be demanded from any person making use of a public latrine
and urinal.
XIX. LICENSES TO CONSTRUCT PUBLIC LATRINES, &c.—The Cantonment Ma
-gistrate, with the approval of the Cantonment Committee, may grant, under
any conditions which the Committee prescribe, a license to any person to
construct a latrine or urinal for public use within the limits of the Canton-
ment, subject to the rules laid down in the last preceding paragraph.
XX. PLACES MAY BE SET APART FOR SUPPLY OF DRINKING-WATER, FOR BATH-
ING, &c.—The Cantonment Magistrate, with the approval of the Cantonment
Committee, may set apart any place on the bank of any river, or any tanks,
reservoirs, or wells, within the limits of the Cantonment, not being private
property, for the purpose of being used for the supply of drinking-water, or
for the inhabitants to bathe in, or for washing animals or clothes, or for any
other purpose connected with the health, cleanliness, or comfort of the inhab-
itants, and the Committee may make rules for regulating all matters con-
nected with the use of water for such purposes, and for regulating the time
and places of bathing for persons of each sex, making due allowance for the
habits and customs of the country.
XXI. CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC SLAUGHTER-HOUSES AND MARKETS.—The Can-
tonment Committee shall, wheneverit appear necessary, cause to be constructed,
in accordance with such plans as may be approved by Government, slaughter-
houses and markets for the use of the inhabitants of the Cantonment, or may
grant, under any conditions which the said Committee may prescribe, a
license to any person to construct such slaughter-houses and markets, and
may prohibit the slaughter of any animals for public sale in any places in
which, in the opinion of said Committee, such slaughter is objectionable, and
shall take all necessary measures and lay down all necessary rules for main-
taining at all times all slaughter-houses and markets in a proper state of
cleanliness.
XXII. INSPECTION AND SEIZURE OF UNWHOLESOME FOOD AND DRINK.—The
Cantonment Magistrate and any Officers duly empowered by him, may at all
reasonable times, with or without assistants, enter into and inspect any
market, building, shop, stall, or place used for the sale of food or drink for
man, or as a slaughter-house, mid may examine any food or drink or any
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animal which may be therein, and in case any food or drink or animal appear
to be intended for the food of man and to be unfit for such food, may seize the
same, and if it appear to the Cantonment Magistrate, upon sufficient evidence,
that such food or drink or animal is unfit for the food of man, he shall order
the same to be destroyed, or to be so disposed. of as to prevent its being
exposed for sale or used for such food. Such arrangements shall be made
by the Cantonment Magistrate and by the Cantonment Committee as will
ensure a constant and vigilant inspection of all food and drink sold or offered
for sale within the limits of the Cantonment.
XXIII. BURIAL AND BURNING GROUNDS.— The Cantonment Committee, with
the approval of Government, but not otherwise, may prohibit the use of any
place within the limits of the Cantonment as a burial or burning ground, or,
with such sanction and approval, may provide fitting places to be used for
such purposes.
XXIV. UNWHOLESOME TANKS, EXCAVATIONS, &C., TO BE FILLED UP.—If it ap
-pear to the Cantonment Committee that any private tank or hole, or excavation,
or low marshy ground, or any waste or stagnant water being within any private
enclosure, within the limits of the Cantonment, is injurious to health, or offen-
sive to the neighbourhood, the Cantonment Magistrate may require, by notice
in writing, the owner of the said premises to cleanse or fill up such tank or
hole, or excavation, or to drain off and remove such stagnant water ; and if the
owner fail to comply with the requisition within such time as shall be specified
in the said notice, the Cantonment Magistrate may cause the necessary work
to be executed at the expense of the person upon whom the notice was served,
and may realize such expenses by distress and sale of the personal property of
the person aforesaid. Provided that if the work required be so extensive
that, in the opinion of the Cantonment Committee, it is unreasonable to throw
the whole expense upon the owner or occupier, a portion or the whole of the
expense may be defrayed from the Cantonment Fund.
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XXV. HEIGHT OF BOUNDARY WALLS AND FENCES TO BE REGULATED.—The Offi-
cer Commanding the Cantonment, or the Cantonment Committee, may order
that the boundary walls, hedges, or fences of estates and premises in any part of
the Cantonment shall not exceed a certain specified height, and if the owner
or occupier of such estate or premises neglects, after due notice has been
given him, to carry out such order, the Cantonment Magistrate may order
the necessary work to be performed at the expense of such owner or occupier,
and. may realize such expenses by distress and sale of his personal property.
* * *
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XXXIV.
POLICE MAY ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT FOR BREACHES OF CERTAIN
RULES.—Any Police Officer may take into custody, without a warrant, any
person who within his view commits a breach of any of the rules numbered as
follows in Chapter III, namely, Rules 2, 3, 4, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,
24, 26, 30, 31, 32, 41, 42, 48, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64,
65, 67.
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XXXV.
ISSUE AND ENFORCEMENT OF INJUNCTION.—In any cause arising
under these rules in which the sanction of the Cantonment Committee is declared
necessary to any proceeding by the Cantonment Magistrate, in which such
Magistrate shall consider that immediate measures are necessary to be taken
to prevent imminent danger or injury of a serious kind to the public, it shall
be lawful for him, pending the determination of the Cantonment Committee,
to issue such injunction and order as shall be required to obviate or prevent
such danger or injury, and in default of the person to whom such injunction
or order is issued forthwith taking all necessary measures ordered to be taken,
the Cantonment Magistrate may himself use or cause to be used such means
as may be necessary to obviate such danger or to prevent such injury, and
no suit or action shall be entertained in respect of anything necessarily or
reasonably done for that purpose.
CHAPTER V.
Provisions for the inspection and Controlling of Houses of ill-fame, and for pre-
venting the spread of Venereal disease.
I. Cantonment Committee to supervise. -It shall be the duty of the
Cantonment Committee to supervise the execution of the rules prescribed under
Clause 7, Section XIX. of Act I. of 1866. It shall be competent to the Com-
mittee to form a Sub-Committee for this purpose, and to entrust to such Sub-
Committee all or any of the duties imposed on the Committee by these rules,
provided that the Magistrate of the district shall in every case be a member
of such Committee or Sub-Committee.
II.
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE TO HAVE EXECUTIVE CHARGE.
—Subject to the general control of the Officer Commanding the Cantonment,
and of the Cantonment Committee, the District Superintendent of Police,
or, in his absence, his assistant shall be charged with the actual execution
of the rules made under Clause 7, Section XIX. of the said Act, but it shall
be competent to Government to empower any other officer to exercise the
necessary authority for the execution of any or all of the said rules.
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III. Two CLASSES OF PROSTITUTES.—The public prostitutes in every Mili-
tary Cantonment to which these rules have been declared by Government to
be applicable, shall be divided into two classes, viz., 1st, public prostitutes
frequented by Europeans 2nd, public prostitutes not so frequented.
IV. PROSTITUTES COHABITING WITH EUROPEANS.—Unless it shall be other-
wise ordered by Government, these rules shall be held to be applicable to
public prostitutes of the first only of the two classes mentioned in the last
preceding rule, but it shall be competent to Government to declare any or
all of these rules to be applicable to both of the said classes.
V. Registration.—No woman known to be a public prostitute shall
reside or practice her trade within the limits of the Cantonment, unless she
shall first have her name registered in the manner provided by these rules.
VI. UNREGISTERED WOMEN.—No woman, not being a registered pros-
titute, shall practice public prostitution within the limits of the Cantonment.
VII. TO RESIDE IN CERTAIN PLACES.—No public prostitute shall reside in
any place within the Cantonment in which the Cantonment Committee shall
declare the residence of such prostitute to be prohibited.
VIII. PROSTITUTES TO APPLY TO OFFICER IN EXECUTIVE CHARGE, TO BE
REGISTERED.—Every public prostitute who wishes to be registered shall apply
in person for that purpose to the officer charged with the preparation of the
register.
IX.
REGISTERED PROSTITUTES.—A register of public prostitutes shall be
prepared in the form precribed in Schedule A. of these rules, (see Appendix)
or in such other form as Government may from time to time prescribe, and
shall be kept in the Office of the Cantonment Magistrate or other officer charged
with the execution of these rules. The register shall from time to time be
revised, so that it may at all times show correctly all public prostitutes
residing in the Cantonment.
X.
COPY OF REGISTER TO BE FURNISHED TO LOCK HOSPITAL.—A copy of the
said register and of all entries and alterations, which may from time to time
be made therein, shall be furnished forthwith to the officer in charge of the
Lock Hospital, who shall at all times keep in his Office a register correspond-
ing in all respects with the register prescribed in the last preceding rule.
XI.
ABSTRACT OF RULES TO BE READ OVER TO PROSTITUTE.—When any
public prostitute applies to be registered under these rules, the abstract of
regulations prescribed for her observance, according to the form given in
Schedule C. of these rules, (see Appendix) or in such other form as the
Local Government may from time to time prescribe, shall be read and explained
to her, and if she shall signify her assent thereto, she shall be registered.
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XII.
REMOVAL OF NAMES FROM REGISTER.—Any registered prostitute may
at any time apply to have her name removed from the register, on the ground
that she intends to cease to be a prostitute, and if the Cantonment Magis-
trate or other officer as aforesaid shall be satisfied that she has truly stated
such intention, her name shall be removed from the register.
XIII.
PAYMENTS BY REGISTERED PROSTITUTES.—Every registered prostitute
shall pay monthly to the Lock Hospital Fund such sum not exceeding one
Rupee as may be determined by the Cantonment Committee. In case of
non-payment, the amount may be levied by distress and sale of any moveable
property of such prostitute, which may be found within the limits of the
Cantonment : provided that no such sum shall be payable by any such pros-
titute while she may be under treatment in the Lock Hospital.
XIV.
TICKETS.—Every registered prostitute shall be furnished with a
printed ticket, to be renewed annually, in the form prescribed in Schedule B.
of these rules, (see Appendix) or in such other form as the Local Government
may from time to time prescribe. She shall also be furnished with a printed
copy in English, and in her vernacular language, of the abstract of regulations
prescribed for her observance, and referred to in Rule XI.
XV.
TRANSFER OF TICKETS PROHIBITED.—No registered prostitute shall
transfer or lend her ticket to any other person on any account, or for any
purpose whatsoever.
XVI.
Medical examination. —Every registered prostitute shallpresent
herself, with her ticket, for medical examination, at the Lock Hospital or
other place appointed for the purpose, at such times, not less than once in
every fortnight, as may be appointed by the officer in charge of the Lock
Hospital, unless she shall have been specially exempted by such officer, or
by some person duly authorized by him, or by the Sub-Committee, from so
presenting herself.
XVII.
REGISTER OF MEDICAL EXAMINATION.—A register of all such medi-
cal examinations shall be kept by the officer in charge of the Lock Hospital
in the form prescribed in Schedule D. of these rules, (see Appendix), and such
examinations shall also be recorded in the ticket of each registered prostitute.
XVIII.
DISEASED WOMEN TO BE DETAINED IN LOCK HOSPITALS.—Any regis-
tered prostitute, who, on medical examination, shall be found to be affected
with any venereal disease, shall be detained in the Lock Hospital until dis-
charged as cured, and no such prostitute shall leave the precincts of such
hospital except with the permission of the officer in charge.
XIX.
UNREGISTERED WOMEN MAY BE TREATED.—Any woman, not being a
registered prostitute, who may present herself for treatment on account of
any venereal disease, may, with the permission of the officer in charge of the
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Lock Hospital, be received for treatment in such hospital, and such woman
shall then be subject to the conditions contained in the last preceding rule.
XX.
SUBSISTENCE WHILE IN LOCK HOSPITALS.—No sum on account of
subsistence or treatment shall be taken from any registered prostitute while
under treatment in the Lock Hospital, and such amount of subsistence allow-
ance shall be given to every such patient from the Lock Hospital Fund as
may be determined by the Cantonment Committee.
XXI.
Inspection of Brothels. —It shall be competent to the officer
charged with the execution of these rules to give special authority to any
Police Officer, or other person, to inspect any house inhabited by any regis-
tered prostitute, within the limits of the Cantonment, and every such prosti-
tute shall, when required to do so, exhibit her ticket to such authorized
Police Officer or other person.
XXII.
CLEANLINESS AND CONSERVANCY OF HOUSES INHABITED BY PROSTI-
TUTES.—It shall be competent to the Cantonment Committee to make
special rules for the maintenance in a state of cleanliness of all houses occu-
pied by registered prostitutes within the limits of the Cantonment, and for
the provision therein of a sufficient supply of water, and of proper means of
ablution. When such rules have received the sanction of Government, they
shall be binding upon all such registered prostitutes, and breaches thereof
shall be punished in the manner provided by Rule XXXII.
XXIII.
CHANGE OF RESIDENCE OF PROSTITUTES.—When any registered
prostitute wishes to change her residence in the Cantonment, she shall signify
her intention to the Cantonment Magistrate or other officer as aforesaid, and,
subject to the conditions contained in Rule VII, such change of residence shall
be entered in the register, and in the ticket of such registered prostitute.
XXIV.
LEAVING CANTONMENT.—Whenever any registered prostitute
wishes to leave the Cantonment in which she has been registered, perma-
nently, or for a time, she shall signify her intention to the Cantonment Ma-
gistrate or other officer as aforesaid, and a note thereof shall be made in the
register and in the ticket of such registered prostitute. If she intends to
leave the Cantonment permanently, she shall, before her departure, deliver
up her ticket to the Cantonment Magistrate or other officer.
XXV.
REMOVAL OF NAME FROM REGISTER.—On the permanent departure
from the Cantonment, or the death of any registered prostitute being duly
certified, her name shall be removed from the register.
XXVI.
TICKETS TO HOLD GOOD ONLY IN THE PLACE WHERE ISSUED.—No
registry of any prostitute, nor the possession of a ticket by such prostitute, in
any Cantonment, shall in any way authorize such prostitute to reside or
practice her trade in any other Cantonment, in which she has not been duly
registered.
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XXVII.
PUBLIC SOLICITATION PROHIBITE D.—No registered prostitute, or
other woman, shall publicly solicit any person within the limits of the Can-
tonment.
XXVIII.
It shall be lawful for any Police Officer, specially authorized
for the purpose by the District Superintendent, to take into custody, without a
warrant, any woman who, within his view, commits a breach of the last pre-
ceding rule.
XXIX.
Unregistered Women.—Whenever any Police Officer
shall have reason to believe that any woman, not being a registered
prostitute, practices public prostitution within the limits of the Canton-
ment, in contravention of Rule VI., it shall be the duty of such Police
Officer to report the name of such woman, and the circumstances of the case,
to the District Superintendent of Police, who, if he be satisfied that there
are sufficient grounds for so doing, shall report the same for the orders of the
Cantonment Magistrate.
XXX.
No notice of any report made under the last preceding Section,
or of any report received from any other person to a similar effect, shall be
entered in the Police Diary, prescribed by Section 154 of the Code of Crimi-
nal Procedure, or in any other permanent record, and no such report shall,
in any manner, be made public, unless the Cantonment Magistrate shall con-
sider that sufficient grounds have been shown for taking further proceedings
against such woman for a breach of the said Rule VI. If the District Super-
intendent, or the Cantonment Magistrate, as the case may be, shall consider
that there are no sufficient grounds for further proceedings, such reports and
all records thereof shall forthwith be destroyed.
XXXI. HEAD OF POLICE TO FRAME RULES.—It will be the special duty of
the Inspector General of Police, under Section 12 of Act V. of 1861, to framer,
from time to time, such orders and rules as he shall deem expedient for pre-
venting abuse on the part of the Police, and for rendering it efficient in the
discharge of its duties under these rules.
XXXII.
PENALTY FOR INFRACTION OF RULES.—Any prostitute who shall be
convicted of a breach of any of these rules shall be liable to a fine not exceed-
ing fifty Rupees, or imprisonment for eight days, with or without labour, as
provided in Clause 11, Section 19 of Act I. of 1866.
XXXIII.
MEDICAL OFFICERS OF LOCK HOSPITALS MAY HAVE AUTHORITY TO
PUNISH.—It shall be competent to the Local Government to invest the Officer
in charge of the Lock Hospital with power to punish breaches of Rules XVI.,
XVIII., and XIX., provided that no penalty imposed by such Officer shall exceed
a fine of five Rupees, leviable in case of non-payment, by distress and sale of