orders and all convictions and orders may be enforced as in such Act is or shall be provided.

8. There shall be an appeal from any conviction by any special Magistrate or Justice, for any offence against this Act, or from any order dismissing any information or complaint, which appeal shall be to the nearest local Court of full jurisdiction; and the proceedings en such appeal shall be conducted in manner provided for appeals to local Courts by the said Act No. 6 of 1850, or any Act for the time being in force regulating such appeals; and the local Court hearing such appeal may make such order as to the payment of the costs of the appeal as it shall think fit, although such costs may exceed 107.

9. Section 25 of "The Justices Procedure Amendment Act, 1883-84," relating to mitigation of punishment, shall not apply to offences committed under section 6 of this Act.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill. T. FOWELL BUXTON, Governor.

ORDINANCE of the Government of Grenada, to restrict the Introduction of Paupers likely to become chargeable to the Colony, and to make provision to restrict the Landing in the Colony of Criminal and Vicious Immigrants.*

[No. 3.]

[February 26, 1896.]

BE it enacted by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Grenada:

1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Infirm Paupers and Immigrants Regulation Ordinance, 1896."

2. This Ordinance shall come into operation upon the publication of the Governor's assent thereto in the "Government Gazette." 3. In this Ordinance

"Visiting Officer" means a Visiting Officer acting under "The Quarantine Ordinance, 1895," or under any other enactment for the time being relating to quarantine. It shall also include the Port Officer of any port, the Chief of Police, any non-commissioned officer of police, and any officer expressly appointed by the Governor to execute the provisions of this Ordinance;

"Colony" means the Island of Grenada and its dependencies;

Amended by Ordinance No. 10 of 1896, page 1057; and that Ordinance and this Ordinance were repealed and re-enacted by Ordinance No. 23 of 1897, which will be given in a subsequent volume.

"Vessel" means any steam-ship, ship, vessel, sloop, boat, or other floating craft;

"Master" means the person, not being a pilot, having or taking the charge or command of any ship;

"Infirm pauper" means a person as to whom notice that he is an infirm pauper is given according to this Ordinance ;

"Destitute immigrant" means any person as to whom notice that he is a destitute immigrant shall be given in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance;

"Pauper charges" means any money expended out of the public funds of the Colony, or the funds of any Corporation, for the relief, maintenance, care, or treatment of any pauper, and the expenses, computed according to a scale prescribed by the Governor, of such relief, maintenance, care, and treatment in any hospital, asylum, house of refuge, or other institution for the relief of sick or destitute persons, if such hospital, asylum, house of refuge, or other institution is maintained out of the public funds of the Colony or the funds of any Corporation;

"Colonial criminal" means any criminal who, having been sentenced by any Court exercising criminal jurisdiction within Her Majesty's colonial dominion to imprisonment or transportation for any crime or offence, shall afterwards come to the Colony either before or after the expiration of his term of imprisonment or transportation.

"Alien criminal" means any alien criminal who, having been sentenced by any foreign Tribunal to imprisonment or transportation for any crime or offence, shall afterwards come to this Colony either before or after the expiration of his term of imprisonment or transportation;

Summary conviction" means conviction before any Police Magistrate proceeding according to the provisions of "The Justices of the Peace Procedure Ordinance, 1879," or of any amendment thereof, or of any enactment for the time being regulating the administration of justice by Magistrates.

4.-(1.) If, on the arrival in this Colony of any vessel, there shall be on board any person who, in the opinion of the Visiting Officer visiting such vessel, is unable, by reason of physical or mental infirmity, to maintain himself by his own labour, and likely, if permitted to land, to become chargeable to the Colony, such Visiting Officer shall give notice that such person is an infirm pauper.

(2.) If, on the arrival in this Colony of any vessel, there shali be on board any person who, in the opinion of any Visiting Officer, is a pauper or destitute, and likely, if permitted to land, to become chargeable to the Colony, such Visiting Officer shall give notice that such person is a destitute immigrant.

(3.) Such notice may be given verbally or in writing to the master or any of the crew of the vessel, or by writing nailed or affixed to any mast or other part of the vessel, but shall, where practicable be given to the master.

5. An infirm pauper or a destitute immigrant shall not, except by permission of the Governor, land in any part of the Colony, unless one of the following conditions is first complied with; that is to say, either

(1.) Some person resident in the Colony, and approved by the Treasurer as sufficient in this behalf, shall by deed (which may be in the form given in the Schedule to this Ordinance) covenant with Her Majesty the Queen, her heirs and successors, to repay to the Treasurer any pauper charges which, within six months from the date of such deed, may be incurred in respect of such infirm pauper or destitute immigrant; or

(2.) The infirm pauper or destitute immigrant shall deposit with the Treasurer the sum of 5., to be applied, in the first place, in payment of any pauper charges incurred in respect of the depositor within one year from the time of the deposit, and the balance, if any, or the whole, if no part is applied as aforesaid, to be repaid to the depositor.

6.-(1.) If any infirm pauper or destitute immigrant lands in any part of the Colony contrary to this Ordinance, the vessel by which such infirm pauper or destitute immigrant arrived shall be subject to a maritime lien in favour of Her Majesty the Queen, her heirs and successors, for a sum of 1007. in respect of each infirm pauper or destitute immigrant who lands as aforesaid, and the amount so charged may be sued for and recovered in the Supreme Court accordingly.

(2.) The Port Officer of any port, or any officer of Customs, or other Government officer, and any officer on full pay in the naval or military service of Her Majesty, may detain, and by force if necessary, any vessel charged with the payment of any sum under this section until 6 of the clock in the evening of the day following the landing of the infirm pauper or destitute immigrant in respect of whom the sum is charged: Provided that such detainer shall cease upon either of the following events; that is to say:

(a.) Upon payment to the officer detaining the vessel, or to the person placed by him in actual charge of the vessel, of all sums charged upon the vessel under this section; or

(b.) Upon the vessel being arrested under process of the Supreme Court issued in any proceedings for recovering the sums last aforesaid.

7.-(1.) Any master of a vessel who knowingly suffers any

infirm pauper or destitute immigrant who arrives in such vessel to land contrary to this Ordinance;

(2.) Any infirm pauper or destitute immigrant who knowingly and wilfully lands or suffers himself to be landed contrary to this Ordinance; and

(3.) Any person who knowingly lands or procures to be landed contrary to this Ordinance, or who aids or assists in landing or procuring to be landed contrary to this Ordinance, any infirm pauper or destitute immigrant;

Shall be guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction, and liable to a penalty not exceeding 501.

8. The master of any vessel arriving in the Colony shall answer all questions which a Visiting Officer shall put to him; and any master who shall either refuse to answer any such questions, or shall give an untrue answer thereto, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance, and, on summary conviction thereof, shall forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding 50l., and, in default of payment shall be imprisoned, either with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months.

9.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Chief of Police, by writing under his hand addressed to any constable, to cause any person whom such Chief of Police may have reasonable cause to believe to be an alien criminal within the meaning of this Ordinance, to be taken into custody and brought before a Police Magistrate.

(2.) If it shall appear to such Police Magistrate that there are reasonable grounds for such belief, it shail be lawful for such Police Magistrate to call upon the person so brought before him to declare his name, the country to which he belongs or is subject, the port or place from whence, the vessel by which, and the day on which he shall have arrived in this Colony; and if such person shall fail to make it appear to the satisfaction of such Police Magistrate that he is not an alien criminal, the Police Magistrate shall adjudge such person to be a suspected person within the meaning of this Ordinance, and subject to the supervision of the police, as hereinafter mentioned, for a period of five years, or such less period as such Police Magistrate shall direct.

(3.) Provided always, that where the Police Magistrate shall be of opinion that any person so brought before him, although an alien criminal, had completed his term of deportation or imprisonment before coming to this Colony, it shall be lawful for such Police Magistrate, on such person, together with two sufficient householders to be approved by such Police Magistrate, entering into a recognizance to Her Majesty, each in the sum of 1007., conditioned for the good behaviour of such person during the term of three years from the day of the date of such recognizance, to forbear from

making any adjudication under this Ordinance, and on such recognizance being entered into such person shall be discharged from custody.

10. Every person adjudged a suspected person under this Ordinance who, during the term for which he shall have been subjected to the supervision of the police, shall, unless prevented by illness or other unavoidable cause, fail to report himself personally, twice in each month, or oftener if required, at such time or place, and in such manner, and to such person as the Chief of Police shall appoint; or shall change his residence from one police district to another without having previously notified such removal, and the place to which he is about to remove, to the Chief of Police or some non-commissioned officer of police, shall, on conviction of any such offence before a Police Magistrate, be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding three calendar months.

11. The Visiting Officer may call upon any person arriving in this Colony in any vessel, whom he shall have cause to suspect to be a colonial criminal, to state

(1.) His name and occupation, and the Colony, parish, city, or town to which he belongs;

(2.) The port, city, town, parish, or place from whence he came. 12. It shall be lawful for any Visiting Officer, by writing under his hand addressed to any police constable, to cause any person coming to the Colony by any vessel, whom such Visiting Officer may have reasonable cause to believe to be a colonial criminal within the meaning of this Ordinance, to be taken into custody and be brought before a Police Magistrate; and thereupon all and every the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply and be applicable to any person so brought as aforesaid before any such Police Magistrate.

13.-(1.) The Governor may by Proclamation, whenever he deems it necessary, prohibit the landing in the Colony of any criminal or vicious class of immigrants designated in such Proclamation, except upon such conditions for insuring their retransportation to the port or place from whence they came with the least possible delay as the Governor in Council prescribes.

(2.) Such conditions may, if the Governor in Council deems it necessary, include the immediate return, or the return with the least possible delay, of the vessel and such immigrants to the said port or place, such prohibited immigrants remaining on board until the return of such vessel.

14. If any criminal or vicious immigrant lands in any part of the Colony contrary to the Proclamation of the Governor, the vessel by which such criminal or vicious immigrant arrived shall be subject to the maritime lien created by this Ordinance.