, 1885-09-19

Whatever tilG ONIcI HdA HuN0 10 PAY d~
impounding fees, fees for disturbance,
costs for feed and damages, as also pay the
owner for want of the animal.
10.
Stray cattle with the exception of foals
and lambs, must not be found on the
public country roads. The right of i'm
pounding is vested with the police, the
quarter officers, the persons authorised by
the policemaster and neighbouring proprie-
tor. The %impounded animals are to be de-
livered to the quarter officer, who is bound
to attend to the feed and the care of the
animals, against receiving the compenSa-
ton fixed in s 4. The rules given concern
ing cattle impOunded on others land,
are in all respects to be applied to such
%impoundcd animals; thus, however, that
the i~mpOunding fees accrue to the police
fund. The quarter-otficer, to whom the
animals are delivered, must attend to the
duties resting on the impounder according
to the preceding articles. Pigs may be
killed if they cannot be i%mpounled. The
damage done to the roads, the trenches or
the fences by the impounded animal, can
be claimed by him, on whom the repairs
of the road rest. The rules contained in
this article shall not be applicable to the
farmer, whose cattle although they else
are under proper guarding, have com
on the public roads. which cross or bound
the fields where the animals feed, when
they are promptly removed by the watch
man.
20.
The tranSgressicns mentioned in s II.
-, Is and 10 are prosecuted as public
police suits. The other offences mentioned
in this ordinance are treated rs public
->J:., -. I.N Mo .-1,. ,o-,. -
the request of the person injured. Suits
for recovering damages and for enforcing
fines according to : - are treated rs pri,
tons according to this ordinance accrue 10
the police fund.
q.
Any person who cuItivates the ground,
may be appointed by the policemaster to
make the estimates, which occur according
to this ordinance, and is entitled in each
instance to a fee of one dollar.
%.
Managers of estates are. without special
power, justified to act in behalf Of the
owners in cases arising from this ordinance.
s %.
BY this Ordinance is abolished .......
4th Member for Frederiksted's Country
District (~RaphaeJi in Introducing the Draft
begged to make a few remarks.
THAT it is we'll known to all parties,
especially to the planters, that a very I'M
satisfactory state of things exist at present
in this island in regard to trespass. Pre-
vi0us to the establishment of squatters, no
need had been found to come forward with
a Draft like the present one; but since
squatterS had established themselves round
about in the country, affairs had taken a
very different and unsatisfactory turn.
The cattle of the large estates were con
tinually, nay could not in their wanderingS,
avoid, treSpassing on these small patches
of | or 2 acres, as held at present by squat
terS and as these patches are not 10 be
found along the boundary lines but very
often in the centre of the large estates it
was almost an impossibiIity to prevent
cattle from trespassing. Furthermore it
would seem as though many of the unprin-
cipled SquatterS, so situated, make a very
decent livingby quietly lying IN ambush and
waiting for the cattle merely to put their
heads across The boundary lines, when
they wouldbe Immediately SEIZED He would
go so far as to say, that MANY have been
known to drive the cattle over mo their
patches in order to gain the amount claim
ed for the trespasS, being more than they
would earn by honest labour. He there
fore thought it absolutely requisite that
it be made compulsory by law, that all
squatters and holders of land, say from
Ia