AGRICULTURAL TESTS. 5 
13 . (i) Whenever locusts in the stage in which they are known as 
hoppers appear on any land, the occupier or if there be no occupier 
the owner thereof shall, so soon as he becomes aware that such locusts 
have appeared thereon, forthwith 
(a.) give notice thereof in writing or otherwise to an Inspect ing 
Officer or at the nearest Land Office or Police Station, 
with such particulars as may be prescribed by rule 
under this Enactment., and 
(h) use his utmost endeavours immediately to destroy the 
locusts, and 
('■) carry into effect all instructions given to him in that 
behalf by an Inspecting Officer. 
(ii) Any expenditure incurred by an owner or occupier in the 
destruction of locusts which is certified as reasonable by an Inspecting 
Officer shall, subject to the approval of the Resident of the State 
in which such destruction of locusts was effected, be recoverable by 
him from public funds. 
(iii) Every person who shall commit a breach of the provisions of 
this section shall be liable to line not exceeding one hundred dollars. 
14 . Any person who shall wilfully drive or abet the driving of 
locusts in the stage in which they are known as hoppers off land owned 
or occupied by any person* on to other land owned or occupied by a 
different person shall be liable to fine not exceeding five hundred 
dollars unless lie prove to the satisfaction of the Court that growing 
crops on the land oft which the locusts were driven were in danger 
from them and that in driving them off such land he used his utmost 
endeavours to destroy them and did not drive them towards the 
growing crop of any other person. 
15. (i) It shall be the duty of every owner of coconut trees which 
are attacked by beetles to clear the trees of beetles within one month 
from the service upon him of a notice in that behalf signed by a 
Collector or Assistant Collector having authority under “ The Land 
Enactment, 1911,” in the place where such trees are situated. 
(ii) It shall be the duty of the owner or person in charge of every 
coconut tree which is dead or is attacked beyond recovery by the 
rhinoceros beetle or the red beetle forthwith to uproot such tree 
and either to consume it with fire or to bury it in the ground at 
a depth of not less than three feet so that the beetle and all eggs and 
larvae thereof may be totally destroyed and that the tree may not 
serve as a breeding place for rhinoceros beetles or red beetles. 
(iii) If any person without reasonable excuse (the burden of proof 
whereof shall lie on him) neglects or refuses to perform any duty 
imposed upon him by this section, he shall be liable to fine not 
exceeding two dollars for every tree in respect of which such neglect 
or refusal occurs, and any such officer as is in section 16 referred to 
may cause to be performed the duty so neglected or refused to be 
performed and may recover the cost of such performance by civil suit 
from the person so neglecting or refusing as aforesaid. 
16 . fi) All coconut trees in every mukim shall be periodically 
inspected by the penghulu of the mukim. who shall report to a 
Collector or Assistant Collector having authority under “ The Land 
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Locusts. 
Driving of 
locusts. 
Duty of owners 
of coconut trees 
attacked by 
beetles. 
Inspection of 
coconut trees 
by penghulu. 
