-■ destruction of eggs or locusts was effected, be recoverable by him 
from public funds. 
( 3 ) Any person who commits a breach of the provisions of 
this section shall be liable to fine not exceeding two hundred and 
fifty dollars. 
15 . Any person, who wilfully drives or abets the driving of 
locusts in the stage in which they are known as hoppers off land 
ownor 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 he proves to the satisfaction of the 
Court that growing crops on the land off 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. 
16 . —( 1 ) 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 Deputy Collector of Land Revenue in 
the place where such trees are situated. 
( 2 ) 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. 
( 3 ) Any person who 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, 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 17 
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. 
17 . —(1) All coconut trees in every mukim shall be periodically 
inspected by the Penghulu of the mukim, who shall report to a 
Collector or Deputy Collector of Land Revenue in the place 
where such trees are situated or to such other officer as the 
Resident of the Settlement may by notification in the Gazette 
appoint in that behalf such trees as are infected with rhinoceros 
beetles or red beetles. 
( 2 ) Any Collector or Deputy Collector as aforesaid or any 
other officer appointed as aforesaid may order that any coconut tree 
infected with rhinoceros beetles or red beetles be cleaned or cut 
Driving of 
locusts'. 
Duty of 
owners of 
coconut trees 
attacked by 
beetles. 
Sections 
2 and 3 of 
Ordinance IV 
of 1890. 
Inspection of 
coconut trees 
by Penghulu. 
