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4. The Governor in Council may, from 

 time to time, make, repeal, alter, and add 

 to rules and regulations, and may do all 

 things necessary for the extermination of 

 Locusts and for carrying out the pro- 

 visions of this Act. 



5. The Governor in Council may, from 

 time to time, appoint some lit person or 

 persons to carry into effect the purposes 

 of this Act, and may delegate to him or 

 them all or any of the powers and au- 

 thorities hereby conferred on the Gover- 

 nor, and may, from time to time, remove 

 any person so appointed and appoint 

 another person in his stead. 



6. The Government shall not be liable 

 nor shall the Governor be personally 

 liable for any loss or damage arising from 

 or caused by anything done under the 

 authority of this Act ; and every officer 

 or person acting under the authority of 

 the Governor, and any other person act- 

 ing in aid or under the orders of any such 

 officer or person, may from time to time 

 enter into and upon the land of any per- 

 son or persons, firm, company, board, 

 society, or corporation, and may cut grass 

 and take brush wood thereon or there- 

 from, and do all other things necessary 

 for the purpose of carrying out the ob- 

 jects of this Act, and shall not be answer- 

 able or chargeable for any act of trespass 

 which they may respectively have com- 

 mitted on such lands for the purpose 

 aforesaid. 



7. Any officer of Government appointed 

 under this Act, may set fire to and burn 

 grass and brushwood within any locust 

 area, on Crown Lands and Lands of the 

 Natal Native Trust and Lands not oc- 

 cupied by Europeans, and also on private 

 lands, having first obtained the consent 

 thereto of the owner or lessee of such 

 private lands or his agent. 



8. If any person is sued or prosecuted 

 for anything done by him in pursuance 

 or execution, or intended execution, of 

 this Act, or of any rules, orders, or regula- 

 tions made thereunder, he may plead 

 generally that the same was done in pur- 

 suance or execution, or intended execu- 

 tion, of this Act, or of rules, orders, or 

 regulations made under authority of this 

 Act, and may give the special matter in 

 evidence. 



9. Where any matter or thing is by this 

 Act, or by any rule, regulation, order, or 



notice made and published under the 

 authority hereof, directed or forbidden to 

 be done, or where any authority is given 

 by this Act to any person to direct any 

 matter or thing to be done, or to forbid 

 any matter or thing to be done, and such 

 act so directed to be done remains undone, 

 or such act so forbidden to be done is 

 done, in every such case every person 

 offending against such direction or pro- 

 hibition shall in the absence of any other 

 special provision of this or any other Act 

 in force be deemed guilty of an offence 

 against this Act. 



10. Every person guilty of an offence 

 against this Act or any regulation passed 

 hereunder shall, for every such offence, 

 be liable to a penalty not exceeding 

 Twenty Pounds Sterling, and in default 

 of payment thereof shall be imprisoned 

 with or without hard labour for any 

 period not exceeding Three Months. 



11. All penalties or other moneys pay- 

 able in respect of any offence against this 

 Act, or any rules or regulations made 

 thereunder, may be recovered before the 

 Court of the Magistrate of the Division in 

 which such offence shall have been com- 

 mitted or in which the offender may be 

 found. 



12. All fines under this Act, or any 

 rules or regulations thereunder shall, 

 when recovered, be paid into the Public 

 Treasury. 



Given at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, this 

 Twenty -fourth day of August, 1895. 



By command of His Excellency the 

 Governor, 



JOHN ROBINSON, 



Colonial Secretary. 



One of our readers informs us that, having 

 seen a statement in some English medical 

 journal to the efEect that sulphur, taken inter- 

 nally, would protect a person against flea bites, 

 it occurred to him to try it as a preventive of 

 mosquito bites. Accordingly he began taking 

 effervescing tablets of tartar-lithine and sulphur, 

 four daily. He provided himself with several 

 lively mosquitoes, and having put them in a 

 wide-mouthed bottle, inverted the bottle and 

 pressed its mouth upon his bare arm. The mos- 

 quitoes settled upon his skin, but showed no 

 inclination to bite him. If this gentleman's ex- 

 perience should be boine out by further trials, 

 it might be well for persons who are particularly 

 sensitive to mosquito bites to take a course of 

 sulphur during the mosquito season, especially 

 in view of the growing opinion that the mos- 

 quito is the common vehicle of malaria. — " New 

 York Medical Journal." 



