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TEE AGBI OULTU RAL JOURNAL. 



LoQusis Acts, 



THE following are Acts of this Colony 

 dealing with locust extermination : — 



ACT No. 30, im. 



" To extond the provisions of Act Ao. 33, 

 1895, entituled an ' Act to 2)rovide for 

 the Extermination of Locusts.'' " 



BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's 

 Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the 

 advice and consent of the Legislative 

 Council and Legislative Assembly of 

 Natal, as follows : — 



1. This Act and Act No. 33, 189-5, shall 

 be read and construed together as one 

 Act. 



2. The word " farm " in this Act shall 

 mean and include any rural property 

 other than lands belonging to or used by 

 the Crown. 



3. Where any farm is infested by 

 locusts at that stage of their growth when 

 they are as yet unable to fly, the owner 

 or occupier of any adjoining farm may, 

 by notice in writing, call upon the owner 

 or occupier of the first-mentioned farm 

 to destroy the said locusts, and the latter 

 shall, if called upon to do so, assist, both 

 by himself and by hi^jservants, in effect- 

 ing their destruction.' - 



4. Where any person requested to de- 

 stroy the locusts upon his farm shall 

 neglect or refuse to do so. the person who 

 requested him shall be at liberty to enter 

 upon the farm, together with his servants, 

 for the purpose of destroying the locusts, 

 and while so engaged neither he nor his 

 servants shall be deemed to be trespassers. 



5. Any expense incurred in destroying 

 locusts after notice given in the manner 

 hereinbefore provided shall be borne in 

 equal proportions by both parties, whether 

 the locusts shall have been destroyed by 

 both parties jointly, or by one or other of 

 them, and the party by whom the ex- 

 penses may have been paid shall have a 

 right of action against the other party for 

 his proportionate share of such expenses. 



G. This Act shall extend to, and be of 

 force in, any Magisterial Division which 

 may be brought under the operation 

 thereof, as provided in the next section, 

 but nothing in this section shall be 

 deemed to limit the operation of Act No. 

 33, 1895. 



7. If at any time a memorial shall be 

 presented to the Governor, signed by not 

 less than twenty owners or occupiers of 

 rural lands within any Magisterial Di- 

 vision praying that this Act may be ex- 

 tended to such Division, the Governor in 

 Council shall cause such memorial to be 

 published in two issues of the Natal 

 Goveimment Gazette and not less than 

 two issues in each of two siiccessive 

 weeks in some Colonial newspaper cir- 

 culated in the Division. At any time 

 after the expiration of three weeks from 

 the date of the first publication of the 

 memorial the Governor in Council may, 

 if it appear to him expedient to do so, de- 

 clare by Proclamation that this Act shall 

 extend to and be of force in such Magis- 

 terial Division. 



Given at Government House, Natal, 

 this Fifteenth day of August, 1898. 



By command of His Excellency the 

 Governor. 



HENRY BALE, 



Attorney-General. 



ACT No. 33, 1895. 



" 2'(9 Provide for the Extermination of 

 Locusts.''' 



WHEREAS it is expedient to make 

 provision for the extermination of 

 Locusts : 



Be it thbrbfoee enacted by the 

 Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and 

 with the advice and consent of the Legis- 

 lative Council and Legislative Assembly 

 of Natal, as follows : — 



1. This Act may be cited as the " Locust 

 Extermination Act, 1895." 



2. The Governor may, from time 

 to time, by Proclamation, declare 

 any portion of the Colony to be a locust 

 area within the meaning of this Act. 



3. The Govei-nor may, from time to 

 time, require the inhabitants of any locust 

 area, whether Europeans, Natives, In- 

 dians, or others, being in occupation of 

 land in such locust area, to concur in 

 steps which may be deemed necessary by 

 the Governor for exterminating Locusts. 



