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REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE 
REGULATIONS FOR THE CARE, PROTECTION, AND MANAGEMENT 
OF THE BOTANICAL AND DOMAIN GARDEN. 
Whereas by section 108 of The Land Act 1869 it is among other things enacted, 
that the Board of Land and Works shall have power from time to time to make 
and alter or rescind rules and regulations for the care, protection, and manage- 
ment of all public parks and reserves : Now therefore the said Board of Land 
and Works, in exercise of the power conferred as aforesaid, doth hereby make the 
Rules and Regulations following, to be observed and enforced in respect of the 
Botanical and Domain Garden : — 
1. No person shall interfere with the trees, shrubs, flowers, statuary, labels, 
fountains, fish, or birds therein, or step on the beds, borders, seats, or edges of the 
grass plots, or engage in any sport or game, or throw stones, or commit any 
nuisance therein, or leave any bottles, orange peel, paper, cast off clothing, or 
litter therein, or light fires therein, or smoke, or be in the garden at unauthorized 
times, or annoy visitors, or conVey flowers into the garden, or detain the gardeners 
by conversation. Visitors shall leave the garden by the nearest path at the time 
of closing which is notified by the ringing of a bell. 
2. No person shall be allowed to climb or jump over the fences therein, or to 
stick bills on such fences or on the gates, or to cut names, letters, or marks on 
the trees seats, gates, posts, or fences, or to write thereon. 
3. No person shall be allowed to bring any dog into the garden unless led by a 
chain or cord, or to run any goats or poultry therein. 
4. No children under twelve years of age shall be admitted therein unless ac- 
companied by friends or nurses, with whom they shall remain while in the garden. 
5. No person shall be allowed to offer for sale any article therein. 
6. Unless the Minister of Lands and Agriculture shall otherwise direct, the 
gates of the Botanic Garden shall be closed during the summer , from 6 o’clock 
p.m. until 8 o’clock a.m., and in the winter from 5.30 p.m. to 8 a.m. Any person 
found taking or injuring plants, flowers or fruits, will he summarily removed 
from the gardens, or proceeded against by law. 
7. Entrance into plots of ground specially enclosed for plantations and for 
other purposes is prohibited. 
8. No person shall be permitted to enter or remain in the garden who is not 
decorously dressed, and no person shall be allowed to commit any act of indecency 
either by word or action in this garden. The gardens will not be open to the 
public on Sundays until after the hour of 1 o’clock p.m. 
9. If any person offend against any of these rules such person may be forth- 
with removed from the garden by a bailiff or constable. 
Offenders against these regulations shall in accordance with section 108 of 
the Land Act 1869, on conviction before any justice of the peace, forfeit and 
pay a penalty not exceeding £5 for each offence ; and every person who shall 
knowingly and wilfully offend against any such regulation shall be forthwith 
apprehended by such Crown lands bailiff or constable, and be taken before such 
justice of the peace, and shall on conviction, forfeit and pay a penalty not ex- 
ceeding £10. 
