1356 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXI. 

 No. XXXVII.— CEUELTY TO WILD FOWL IN SIND. 



With reference to the note on this subject by Captain 0. H. Elliot in the 

 last Journal, page 1083, and to the editorial note at the end, the following 

 satisfactory letter has been received by the Society from Mr. A. D. 

 Younghusband, C.S.I., I.C.S., Commissioner in Sind, dated the 27th 

 June 1912 :— 



" I have the honour to refer to correspondence ending with your 

 letter of the 12th February 1912, on the subject of cruelty to water 

 fowl on the Manchur Lake, which has been very fuUy considered and 

 discussed with the local officers. 



2. I find that the question was taken up some years ago, resulting 

 in the extension to the locality of the provisions of Section 62 of the 

 Bombay District Police Act (IV of 1890) and of Section 3 of the 

 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (XI of 1890), which runs as 

 follows : — 



Section 62, Bombay Act IV, of 1890. 



62 (1) Whoever cruelly beats, goads, overworks, ill-treats or tortures, 



or causes or procures to be cruelly 



Punishment for Cruelty to beaten, goaded, overworked, ill-treated 

 animals. ° 



or tortured any animal, shall be punish- 

 ed with imprisonment which may extend to one month, or with 

 fine which may extend to one hundred rupees, or with both. 



(2) Jurisdiction in cases arising under this section shall not be 

 exercised by a Magistrate of lower rank than the first class unless 

 such Magistrate be specially invested with jurisdiction for that 

 purpose by Government. 



Section 3, Act XI, of 1890. 



^ , „ T . 3. If any person in any street or in 



Penalty for cruelty to 

 animals in public places and any other place whether open or closed, 

 for sale in such places of ^^ ^^^^^ ^he public have access, or 

 animals killed with un- 

 necessary cruelty. within sight of any person in any street 



or in any such other place — 



(a) cruelly and unnecessarily beats, overdrives, overloads or other- 

 wise ill-treats any animal, or 

 (6) binds or carries any animal in such a manner or position as to 



subject the animal to unnecessary pain or suflFering; or 

 (c) offers, exposes or has in his possession for sale any live animal 

 which is suffering pain by reason of mutilation, starvation or 

 other ill-treatment, or any dead animal which he has reason to 

 believe to have been killed in an unnecessarily cruel manner, 



