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the District by summary proceedings whether the same shall exceed .£2O or otherwise, before a Resident Magistrate,-or other Justice of the Peace, together with all costs and expenses incident to, or incurred in, recovering the same. 12. In the month of October in every year the several Xnsnectors shall nav the amounts they have respectively collected under the authority of this Act to the Treasurer of this Province. 13. Every owner of any Sheep or Lambs infected with the disease called “Scab” may he fined upon the report of the Inspector, any sum not exceeding sixpence for every such infected Sheep or Lamb, provided that no person who shall have been convicted under this clause shall be liable to any further penalty under the same, on account of such disease in the said Sheep or Lambs, until the expiration of six months after the date of such conviction as aforesaid. 14. It she 1 ! be the duty of every Inspector, who may receive such information as to lead him to suspect that the Sheep on any Station are infected with the disease called “Scab,” or any other infectious or contagious disease, to visit the said Station and examine the Sheep thereon, and report thereon to the Superintendent of the Province.—And further, any Justice of the Peace having reasonable grounds, upon information stated upon oath before him, to suspect any Sheep or Lambs within the Province of Hawke’s Bay, to be infected with any of the said diseases, may order the inspection of any suspected Sheep or Lambs by the Inspector, and such Inspector shall, immediately after such inspection, report the result in writing to the Justice issuing the said order, and also to the Superintendent of the Province as above provided. 15. Every Inspector intending to visit any Station for the purpose of examining the Sheep thereon shall give six days’ notice to the owner or person in charge of the same of the day on which he intends to hold such examination ; and the owner or person in charge thereof shall muster all the sheep on the Station or under his charge at that time for examination by the Inspector, and shall, if required to do so, assist him in such examination. 16. Every person refusing or neglecting to muster the Sheep for examination by the Inspector after such notice shall forfeit and pay a penalty not less than Three pounds nor more than Twenty pounds for every day that he shall refuse or neglect to muster the Sheep on the Station and under his charge and until the same shall be mustered to the satisfaction of the Inspector. 17. Any person on whose Station the Inspector may report that there are Sheep infected with Scab or other contagious or infectious disease may at any time apply to the Inspector to examine again the Sheep on bis Station, and if he shall prove to the satisfaction of the Inspector that all the Sheep on his Station or under his charge are then free from the Scab, or such other disease, may demand a certificate to that effect, which certificate it shall be the duty of the Inspector to give, a copy of which certificate shall, on the original being left at the Superintendent’s Office for the purpose, be published forthwith in the Provincial Government Gazette ; and the party requiring such re-examination as aforesaid shall pay to the Inspector a sum of £1 for every re-examination. 18. It shall be the duty of the Inspector, whenever any Sheep infected with the Scab or other infectious or contagious disease are being driven through his district, to take immediate steps to stay the further progress through his district of such Sheep, and for that purpose not only to lay information of such infringement before the nearest Justice of the Peace, hut to, give notice to the person in charge of such Sheep to return : And in case of non-compliance by the driver to return immediately to the place from whence he started, to detain such Sheep, and to employ such drivers and other assistants at the expense of the ownqr as he (the Inspector) may think sufficient to take back such Sheep to the place whence they started. 19. Every owner or person in charge of such infected Sheep who shall drive the same through any district in the Province of Hawke’s Bay shall forfeit and pay for every day which such Sheep as aforesaid shall be absent from the run on which they were originally depastured any sum not less than £5 nor more than £IOO. 20. Every person driving Sheep into the Province of Hawke’s Bay from any other Province, or landing Sheep from on board any ship, vessel, or boat, in any harbor or upon any part of the coast of the said Province, shall, before landing or passing the boundary or entering the said Province, give notice in writing to the Inspector of the district through which he may purpose to drive any such Sheep : It shall be the duty of the Inspector on receiving such notice to at once visit and examine the said Sheep, and if on examination they prove to he free from Scab, or any other contagious or infectious disease, to grant a driving certificate in the form specified in the Schedule of this Act. 21. Any person so driving or entering Sheep into the Province of Hawke’s Bay without the driving certificate of the Inspector shall be liable to a penalty of £1 per head for every Sheep he may so drive or enter into the said Province. 22. If any person shall slaughter, or have in his possession for the purpose of slaughtering, for sale any Sheep or Lambs infected with either of the diseases called “ Scab””or “ Catarrh,” or shall expose for sale the carcase or any part thereof of any Sheep or Lamb bo infected, he shall be liable for each offence to a fine of not less than Twenty Shillings nor more than five pounds, one half of the fine to be paid to the informer : And such infected carcase or parts thereof shall be destroyed in such manner as any Justice of the Peace may direct. 23. For the purposes of this Act all Sheep that have been dressed for the cure of Scab shall be deemed to be scabby for the period of forty clays thereafter. 24. Every Sheep and Lamb running in any flock, or being on board any ship, boat, or other vessel in which there shall he one Sheep or Lamb infected with the disease called “ Scab” shall he deemed to be infected within the meaning of this Act. 25. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit or deprive any person suffering from loss or damage from the driving, depasturing, or suffering to stray of any such im fected Sheep or Lambs as aforesaid of any action or remedy which he may ha®e at law or otherwise for obtaining redress or compensation for such loss or damage from the person liable thereto. 26. All fines and penalties imposed under the authority of this Act shall be recoverable in a summary way, provided that no penalties to be imposed in any one case shall exceed the sum of £IOO. • 27. In the interpretation of this Act, the words “owner of any Sheep or Lambs” shall be taken to include the person having the control or management of such Sheep or Lambs. 28. The term “Station” shall include all lands on which Sheep are depastured or kept in the Province of Hawke’s Bay. 29. For the purposes of this Act the owner of any Sheep, who may habitually keep or depasture any flock or flocks on any lands that shall be fenced with a good and sufficient sheep-proof fence, shall not he liable in behalf of Sheep so kept, to any of the penalties contained in this Act, other than those provided for the prevention of the disease of the “Scab,” or other infectious or contagious disease. 30. That for the purposes of this Act, the reading of Clause twenty-six shall he held to be in regard to those fines and penalties contained in this Act, which are, shall or may he, within the jurisdiction of Resident Magistrates’ Courts, and shall not be held to refer to, include or interfere with, any fine or penalty contained in this Act, which may be beyond the jurisdiction of such Court. o SCHEDULE. DEI v ING CEETIEICATE. PROVINCE OP HAWKE’S BAY,-) NEW ZEALAND. ) This is to certify that having examined the Sheep owned by, or in the charge of who desires to drive, land or enter the said Sheep into the Province of Hawke’s Bay, I (hereby declare that the said Sheep are free from the disease called “Scab,” or any .other contagious or infectious disease. J fSigned) Inspector of Sheep, Province of Hawke’s Bay.