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S. The Committee may temporarily either rescind, suspend, alter, or modify any bye-law,
rule, or order already made or issued by the Municipality of Karachi or the Karachi Canton-
ment Committee, or by any committee appointed by either of the said bodies, to such extent
as they consider necessary or advisable in order to suppress and prevent the spread of the
plague.
4. The Committee may incur such expenditure out of the funds of the Municipality and
the Cantonment Committee as they may consider necessary for the performance of their duties,
and in order that sufficient funds may be available for plague operations, they may control the
expenditure of the Municipality and the Cantonment Committee on objects unconnected with
the plague.
5. The Committee may cause any building or enclosure to be entered and searched for
the purpose of ascertaining whether any of the inmates or occupants 'are suffering from the
plague, or whether any corpse is concealed therein, and may cause any persons found therein
to be examined in order to ascertain whether any of them are suffering from the plague. They
may further cause any person to be detained for medical examination, and segregate, in such
place as they may appoint for the purpose, any person found or suspected, after examination by
a Medical officer, to be suffering from the plague.
6. If the Committee have reason to believe that any building is or has recently been
Occupied by a sufferer from the plague, or that any death which has not been certified by a
Medical officer holding Her Majesty's Commission, or some other Medical officer empowered
fey the Committee to certify in this behalf, to be due to some cause other than the plague, has
occurred in any building, the Committee may cause the inmates of such building to be segre-
gated in such place as they may appoint for a period not exceeding ten -days, and may prevent
such building from being used as a human habitation in- the meanwhile.
7. If the Committee are of opinion that any building is in such an insanitary condition
as to be unfit for human habitation, they may prohibit the further use of such building as a
dwelling-house.
When such prohibition has been made, no owner or occupier of such building shall use or
suffer the same to be used for human habitation until the. Committee give him permission in
this behalf.
For the purpose of enforcing this regulation:, the Committee may, if necessary, forcibly
remove or cause to be removed any person from such buildings
8. If it shall appear to the Committee that any building used as a dwelling is so
overcrowded as to endanger the health of the inmates thereof, they may, by written order,
require the owner or occupier of the building, within a period to be fixed by the Committee,
to abate the overcrowding thereof by reducing the number of inmates thereof.
For the purpose of enforcing this regulation, the Committee may, if necessary, at the
expiration of the time prescribed in the written order, forcibly remove or cause to be removed
such and so many of the inmates of the building as shall seem to them proper,
9. In the case of any building ordered to be vacated under Rules 6, 7 or 8, and in the
case of any other building or enclosure which may appear to them to be in a filthy or insanitary
condition, the· Committee may require the owner or occupier to carry out, or may of their
own motion carry out, such measures as may seem to them necessary for the purpose of
cleansing, ventilating, or disinfecting such building or enclosure, and for the purpose of such
cleansing, ventilating, or disinfecting may, if -necessary, forcibly break open and enter any such
building or enclosure, and may remove and disinfect or destroy any articles found therein.
10. The Committee are empowered to remove or burn any huts or temporary erections in
which a case of plague is believed by them to have occurred.
It. The Committee are empowered to make regulations, when they deem necessary, for
the purpose of enforcing burial in certain places or at a certain depth, and for requiring that
quicklime be placed with the corpse ; and may prohibit the burial or burning of corpses of
persons reasonably supposed to have died of the plague in or upon ground other than that
specially assigned by them for such purpose.
12. The Committee may., for the purpose of military camps, segregation camps, hospi-
tals, burial-grounds, warehouses or offices, take possession of and occupy any vacaut ground
or building either within or without the limits of the Municipality of Karachi and thé
Karachi Cantonment, such compensation being afterwards made to the owner or occupier
thereof as may be awarded by a ' Panch' constituted as provided in Rule 13.
13. For property destroyed under Rule 9, no compensation shall be payable to the
owner. No property shall be destroyed under Rule 10, until the value of it has been
assessed by a ' Panch,' consisting of the Karachi City Magistrate and two other members
appointed by him. The award of the ' Panch ' shall be final and conclusive.
14. The Committee are empowered to temporarily impress carts or other vehicles
ordinarily let for hire, with the beasts necessary to draw them, and labourers or coolies, and
to make payments for the same ab rates fixed by the Committee,
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