meeting of ratepayers, any two ratepayers qualified to vote being entitled to nominate candidates for the position by sending in the names to the Council one week before any meeting of ratepayers; and the Council shall cause the names of all such candidates to be published with the notices of motions for the meeting. Should no name be duly sent in, any qualified candidate may be proposed, seconded, and elected at the meeting. All three Commissioners shall go into office on the day after the annual meeting of ratepayers, and go out of office on the day after the next annual meeting, except as to matters then pending before them which they shall have power to complete. No one who is a salaried official of the Council shall be eligible as a Commissioner. Vacancies occurring during the year shall be filled by appointment or election by the party who appointed the Commissioner whose place shall have become vacant-a special meeting of ratepayers being called if necessary. The Commissioners shall make their award within a month from the time they are applied to, or within such time as they or a majority of them may extend it to. The expenses of the Land Commissioners shall be defrayed out of the public funds, the fees of the Commissioners being either regulated by the Municipal Council in accordance with the time engaged on the duties, or fixed beforehand. Regulation VI (b). Railways. In the event of the Imperial Railway Administration or any other duly authorized person or Corporation desiring to acquire land by compulsory purchase in the Settlement for the purpose of constructing a railway, the said Administration, person, or Corporation, shall deliver to the Municipal Council a plan of the line showing the land required, and showing the manner in which public roads are to be dealt with, and whether they are to be crossed by bridges or on the level, and giving such other information as will enable the Council to see how public rights will be affected; and if the Municipal Council signify their approval of the scheme, the said Administration, person, or Corporation shall be entitled to acquire the land in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as those under which the Municipal Council acquire land for public purposes: Provided that the compensation awarded shall be the fair market value of the property acquired to be ascertained by the Land Commissioners, with an addition of 25 per cent. for compulsory sale and such further sums as the Court may determine to be the amount of damage (if any) caused to the remainder of the property by severance or otherwise, and the amount of the damage (if any) sustained by the owner or occupier for loss of business, expenses of removal, or other like causes. Regulation XXX. Buildings.-The Council may from time to time make rules with respect to the structure of walls, foundations, roofs, and chimneys of new buildings for securing stability and the prevention of fires and for purposes of health, with respect to the sufficiency of the space about buildings to secure a free circulation of air, and with respect to the ventilation of buildings, with respect to the drainage of buildings, to water-closets, earth-closets, privies, ashpits, and cesspools in connection with buildings, and to the temporary or permanent closing of buildings or parts of buildings unfit for human habitation, and to prohibition of their use for habitation; and they may further provide for the observance of such Rules by enacting therein provisions as to notices, as to the deposit of plans and sections by persons intending to construct buildings, and as to inspection by the Council; and the Council may remove, alter, or pull down any work begun or done in contravention of such Rules, or of any bye-law of the Council: Provided always that no such Rules shall come into operation until they have been submitted to the Land Commissioners for their opinion, though they shall not be subject to their veto, and until six months. after publication. BRITISH REGULATIONS respecting the Manufacture and Sale of Rubber in the East Africa Protectorate.—London, June 12, 1899.* QUEEN'S REGULATIONS made by Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General, and allowed by the Secretary of State, under the provisions of Article 45 of "The East Africa Order in Council, 1897."+ Manufacture and Sale of Rubber. 1. EVERY ball of rubber must be cut through the centre, and shall only be offered for sale or exported in half balls. * Published at Mombasa, July 17, 1899. 2. Any person who collects root-rubber, or who extracts rubber from boiled bark, or who sells, purchases, or is found in possession of any root-rubber or rubber extracted from boiled bark, shall be guilty of an offence. 3. Any person who adulterates rubber by mixture with sand, earth, stones, bark-wood, or other foreign substance, or by soaking with water, or who sells, purchases, deals in, or is found in possession of any rubber so adulterated, shall be guilty of an offence. 4. Any Magistrate, if satisfied that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that rubber so collected, extracted, or adulterated, as aforesaid, is in any premises or place within his district, may grant a warrant to search such premises or place, and if any such rubber is so found the person executing the warrant may seize it and any person found in possession thereof, and take it and him before a Magistrate to be dealt with according to law. 5. Any person who commits any breach of these Regulations shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment, which may extend to two calendar months, or to a fine which may extend to 1,000 rupees, or to both, and any rubber in respect of which the offence is committed shall be liable to forfeiture: Provided that a person who has purchased, or is found in possession of any such rubber, shall not be convicted of an offence if the Court is satisfied that he purchased or came into possession of the rubber innocently, and has given such information as he can with respect to the person from whom he obtained the rubber, and any other information in his power which may lead to the detection of the actual offenders. 6. "The Rubber Regulations, 1898," are hereby repealed. 7. These Regulations may be cited as "The Rubber Regulations, 1899." Foreign Office, June 12, 1899. SALISBURY, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. REGULATIONS respecting the Manufacture and Sale of Rubber in the British Central Africa Protectorate.-Zomba, August 24, 1899.* [No. 3 of 1899.] WHEREAS under the provisions of the Africa Orders in Council, 1889 to 1893, Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General for the British Central Africa Protectorate, by the authority of the * Published in the "British Central Africa Cogette" of August 24, 1899. Secretary of State, has power to make Queen's Regulations for peace, order, and good government; And whereas it is expedient that Regulations should be made regulating the manufacture and sale of rubber: It is hereby notified that Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General has, in pursuance of the powers aforesaid, made the following Regulations: Manufacture and Sale of Rubber. 1. Every ball of rubber must be cut through the centre, and shall only be offered for sale or exported in half balls. 2. Any person who collects root rubber, or who extracts rubber from boiled bark, or who sells, purchases, or is found in possession of any root rubber or rubber extracted from boiled bark, shall be guilty of an offence. 3. Any person who adulterates rubber by mixture with sand, earth, stones, bark, wood, or other foreign substance, or by soaking with water, or who sells, purchases, deals in, or is found in possession of any rubber so adulterated, shall be guilty of an offence. 4. Any Magistrate or Judicial Officer, if satisfied that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that rubber so collected, extracted, or adulterated as aforesaid is in any premises or place within his district, may grant a warrant to search such premises or place, and if any such rubber is so found, the person executing the warrant may seize it and any person found in possession thereof, and take it and him before a Magistrate or Judicial Officer to be dealt with according to law. 5. Any person who commits any breach of these Regulations shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment which may extend to two calendar months, or to a fine which may extend to 100%., or to both, and any rubber in respect of which the offence is committed shall be liable to forfeiture: Provided that a person who has purchased, or is found in possession of, any such rubber shall not be convicted of an offence if the Court is satisfied that he purchased or came into possession of the rubber innocently, and has given such information as he can with respect to the person from whom he obtained the rubber, and any other information in his power which may lead to the detection of the actual offenders. 6. These Regulations shall come into force on the 1st September, 1899. Zomba, August 24, 1899. ALFRED SHARPE, Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General. RULE establishing a Table of Fees leviable in Her Britannic Majesty's Court for Zanzibar.-March 1, 1899. WHEREAS, under the provisions of Article 50 (a) of "The Zanzibar Order in Council, 1897,"* the Consul-General may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, and concurrence of the Treasury, make rules imposing fees leviable in respect of any proceedings in, or processes issued out of, any Court established under the said Order, and in respect of the registration of any instrument under the said Order: Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said provisions, I, Basil S. Cave, Acting British Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar, hereby direct, with the approval of Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and with the concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, that the fees specified in the Table annexed hereto shall henceforth be leviable in respect of the several proceedings, processes, and registrations mentioned therein. March 1, 1899. Approved: SALISBURY. BASIL S. CAVE. Table of Fees to be levied in Her Britannic Majesty's Court for Zanzibar. I.-IN CIVIL MATTERS. Amount. Rs. a. F. 1. For service of summons, petition, answer, motion paper, notice, Within 1 mile (English) of the Court issuing the same 1 0 Out of the jurisdiction of the Court 080 300 |