ments.

er of a hotel or lodging house shall be deemed to let for hire part of a house to any person admitted as a guest into such hotel or lodging house.

Penalty on per- 13. Any person letting for hire or show. sons letting houses ing for the purpose of letting for hire any making false state- house or part of a house who, on being questioned by any person negotiating for the hire of such house or part of a house as to the fact of there being or within six weeks previously having been therein any person suffering from cholera, yellow fever or small pox, knowingly makes а false

Commissiners of Health may act through their inspector.

Duration of Act,

answer to such question shall be liable on conviction thereof before any police magistrate to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

14. Anything in this Act authorised or required to be done by the commissioners of health of any parish may be done by the sanitary inspector or inspectors of the parish acting under the authority of the commissioners.

15. This Act shall continue in force up to and inclusive of the thirty first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety three,

CAP. X.

(Assented to 23rd September, 1892.) BARBADOS.

An Act to amend the Highways Act, 1891.

BE it enacted by the Governor, Council and Assembly of this Island and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. The following sub-section shall be inserted after sub-section three of section fourteen of "The Highway's Act, 1891" that is to say:

(4) Whenever the Commissioners of High- Commissioners of ways of any parish, or of the rural portion Highways empowof Saint Michael, or of the City of Bridge- ered to acquire land town shall require any land for the purpose for tunnels, drains

of building or constructing any tunnels, drains or sewers, or of continuing, or altering the course of any tunnels, drains or sewers already constructed, it shall be lawful for such Commissioners to proceed in the manner prescribed by the preceding sub-sections of this section to have such land laid off and assessed and upon payment or tender of payment of the money awarded and assessed to the person entitled to receive the same, such land shall thenceforth be for the public use, and such Commissioners shall have power at all times to enter upon any premises of which the land laid off formed part for the purpose of repairing such tunnels, drains, or sewers, or for cleansing the same.

or sewers.

2. In preparing and printing the new edition of the laws of Barbados the Com- in new editions of Printing of Act missioners shall insert the preceding section the laws. of this Act immediately after sub-section three of section fourteen of The Highways Act, 1891, and the Commissioners shall then omit this Act from such new edition of the laws.

3. This Act and The Highway's Act, 1891, shall be read as one Act.

Construction.

Penalty for breach

rules thereunder.

CAP. XI.

(Assented to 23rd September, 1892.)

BARBADOS.

An Act to amend the Quarantine Act, 1880.

E it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly of this Island, and by the authority of the same, as follows;

1. (1.) Every person who is guilty of an es of "The Quaran- offence against any of the provisions of "The tine Act, 1880 or Quarantine Act, 1880," or of any rule or regulation made under it, may be arrested without any warrant and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds or imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months.

Place of impris. onment.

Prosecution of offences.

Guarding of vessels in quarantine.

(2.) Any person convicted and sentenced to imprisonment under this section may, for any offence which has rendered him a possible source of infection to others, by order of the police magistrate be taken to any vessel in quarantine or to Pelican Island and there imprisoned.

(3.) All offences and penalties under "The Quarantine Act, 1880," and this Act may be prosecuted and recovered summarily before a police magistrate on the complaint of any person.

2. Every vessel in quarantine and also the Quarantine Station at Pelican Island and the new Hospital thereon shall be watched by a guard in such manner and so armed as shall be considered necessary by the Board of Health, and it shall be lawful for such guard to fire on any person leaving such vessel or place as aforesaid who fails to return thereto when called on to do so.

Power to quaran

3. Any person authorised by "The Quarantine Act, 1880," or any rule or regulation tine persons entering infected vesunder it who has gone on board a vessel or sels or quarantine

on shore at Pelican Island when there is in such vessel or on that Island any person suffering from any infectious disease may be required by the Board of Health to go into quarantine at Pelican Island for the same period that a fellow passenger of the person who is ill if on board or on shore with him would have been required to remain in quarantine.

CAP. XII.

(Assented to 3rd October, 1892.) BARBADOS.

An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts of this island relating to poor relief. BE it enacted by the Governor, Council,

and Assembly of this island, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited for all purposes "The Poor Relief Act, 1892."

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2. This Act is divided into four parts relating to the following subject matters;

Part I.-To the Poor Law Board and
its officers.

Part II.--To Local Boards.

Part III.-To Medical Officers.

Part IV. To miscellaneous matters

PART I.

The Poor Law Board and its Officers.

3. The Poor Law Board shall be com

station.

Short title.

Division of Act.

Composition of

posed of a president, and four other persons Poor Law Board.

Quorum.

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General duties of Poor Law Board.

Duty of vestry

to be nominated from time to time by the Governor, of whom one at least shall be a member of the Legislative Council, and two at least members of the General Assembly; provided always that the members so appointed from the General Assembly shall continue to act as members of the board after the expiration or dissolution or during the prorogation of the General Assembly, and if returned to serve in any session subsequent to that during which they were appointed, then until such time as the Governor shall make other appointments: provided always that if the president or any member of the board shall be absent from the island without leave of the Governor, for any period exceeding two months, it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint another president or another member, as the case may be, in his place.

4. Any three members of the board shall be sufficient to form a quorum.

5. It shall be the duty of the Poor Law Board, and they are hereby required to satisfy themselves that the provisions of the laws relating to the vestries, and all other acts now or at any time hereafter in force appertaining to the taking care of and maintenance of the infirm, aged, and destitute poor of the several parishes of the island be carried out; and besides the power and authority to this end conferred upon the said Poor Law Board by this Act, they are required if at any time they be so directed by a clear majority of the said board and with the consent in writing of the Attorney General of the island, to apply in the name of their secretary to the court of common pleas for a rule of court to enforce any duty