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(d) Any Police Officer, 

 to cause such trees, stumps, timber, rubbish heaps, or other 

 accumulations to be removed and destroyed, and any person 

 so authorized may do all acts necessary for the execution of 

 such order and may recover the costs of such removal and 

 destruction from the defaulter in the Court of Kequests. 



5. All Officers of the Government Gardens and Forest 

 Department, and the District Officer and his assistants, and 

 any such other Officer as aforesaid, shall have access at all 

 reasonable times into and upon any land whereon any coco-nut 

 tree is growing for the purpose of inspecting such tree, and also 

 into and upon any land or premises where there is reason 

 to suppose that there are kept any such things as in the last 

 preceding section are referred to. 



6. The Governor may from time to time, out of moneys to 

 be voted by the Legislative Council, make such compensation 

 as he may think fit to any owner of any coco-nut tree who, 

 being in needy circumstances, is required to destroy such tree : 

 provided always that the compensation shall not exceed five 

 dollars for each tree, and that the compensation given in one 

 year to any one person shall not amount to more than one 

 hundred dollars. 



7. A person charged with an offence against this Ordinance 

 may, if he thinks fit, tender himself to be examined on his own 

 behalf and thereupon may give evidence in the same manner 

 and with the like effect and consequences as any other witness. 



Passed this 6th day of March 1890. 



A. P. Talbot, 

 Clerk of Councils. 



In the Federated Malay States the campaign against 

 beetles is carried on under " An enactment for the pro- 

 tection of coco-nut trees from the ravages of certain 

 beetles" (Enactment IV. of 1898). This is patterned 

 after the enactment of the Straits Settlements, from the 

 amended form of which it differs most essentially in 

 giving no authority to the owners of coco-nut planta- 

 tions, but in centering the entire responsibility upon 

 the employees of the Government. For this work the 

 Government of the Federated Malay States employs an 

 Inspector, two European Assistant Inspectors, and six- 

 teen Sub-Inspectors, who are mostly Malays. The best 

 endorsement of Acts of this kind is the results which are 



