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Superintendent as regards position, size and material, and the 

 expense of constructing such tunnel or covered drain and of 

 replacing the surface earth shall be borne wholly by the owner 

 or owners of the lot from which the drainage conies. 



11. If the Town Superintendent certifies that on the coming 

 into operation of these bye-laws any lot is or was sufficiently 

 drained, these bye-laws shall not be taken or held to recjuire the 

 construction of new drains on such lot, unless the drainage of the 

 lot subsequently becomes defective or insufficient. 



12. Efficient subsoil drainage, to the satisfaction of the Town 

 Superintendent, may be permitted in lieu of the drains described 

 in Bye-laws 2, 3 and 4. 



13. The owner of any lot feeling aggrieved by the action of 

 the Town Superintendent in any manner by these Hve-laws left to 

 his decision may appeal to the Town Authority, whose decision 

 shall be final. 



14. Every person who shall offend against any of these bye-laws 

 shall be liable for every such offence to a penaltv of twenty-four 

 dollars, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further penalty 

 of three dollars for each dav after written notice of the offence 

 from the Town Authority: 



Provided nevertheless that the magistrate, before whom any 

 complaint may be made or any proceedings may be taken in 

 respect of any such offence, may, if he think fit, adjudge the 

 payment as a penalty of any sum less than the full amount of the 

 penalty imposed by this bye-law. 



BARBADOS 



The Public Health Act of 1898, Section 8, contained some 

 up-to-date regulations for the destruction of mosquitos. Good 

 as they were, they w^ere not, unfortunately, rigorously enforced. 



2, The occupier or owner of any premises shall keep such 

 premises free of stagnant water, liable to breed moscjuitos, and the 

 presence of mosquito larvae in any collection of water, wherever 

 situated, shall be sufficient evidence that such water is stagnant. 

 All tanks, fountains, pools, ponds, or excavations made for any 

 purpose whatever, in public or private property, which may 

 contain water, shall be kept stocked with mosquito-destroying 

 ffish, or shall be kept covered with a film of petroleum oil. 



3. The occupier or owner of any premises shall keep his 

 premises free of all articles (bottles whole or broken, old tins, 

 boxes, conch shells, etc.) which may retain Avater and so become 

 the breeding places of mosquitos. 



