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down or be burned or buried in the manner prescribed in section 
16 , and the Penghuiu of the mufcS-m wherein such tree is situated 
shall see.that such order is carried out. 
^ ( 3 ) The duties assigned by this section to penghulus of 
mukims shall in any mukim for which there is no penghuiu be 
performed by such native officer as may be directed bv such 
Collector or Assistant Collector as aforesaid to perform the said 
duties. 
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18 . The Governor may from time to time make such 
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tructionof c< .mpensadon as he luniks ht to any owner of a coconut tree 
coconut trees, who, being'in needy circumstances, is required to destroy such 
Spction 6 of tree: provided that the compensation in respect of any one tree 
OrdmanceJV shall not exceed five dollars and that the compensation given in 
Destruction 
one } r ear to any one person shall not exceed one hundred dollars. 
19 . AnvnPRfin whn lopnc nn tire ,‘c.qc —.. i. i. _ 
likely to bar- or s * um P s > coconut timber, rubbish heaps, accumulations of dung, 
hour beetles, vegetable refuse or other matter likely to harbour or become 
Section 4 of breed!ng places for rhinoceros beetles or red beetles and neglects 
of r iS 9 c nCeIV ° r rcluses t0 remove or destroy the same, when required so. to do 
uy a nonce m writing irom any such officer as is in section 17 
referred to, shall be liable to fine not exceeding one hundred 
dollars, and any such officer as is in section 17 referred to may 
Access to 
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cause such trees, stumps, timber, rubbish heaps or other accumu¬ 
lations to be removed or destroyed and may recover the cost of 
such removal or destruction by civil suit horn the person so 
neglecting or refusing as aforesaid. 
20 . A 1 1 District Officers, all Collectors and Deputy Collectors 
of Land Revenue and all officers appointed by the Resident of 
any Settlement by notification in the G&zette to exercise any 
Section 5 of powers under section 17 shall within the areas over which their 
oU 89 o nCelV P owers extend have access at all reasonable times into and upon 
an y land whereon any coconut tree is growing for the purpose of 
inspecting such tree and also into and upon any land or premises 
^Compensa¬ 
tion. 
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where there is reason to suppose that there are kept any such 
things as in section 19 are referred to. 
21 .—( 1 ) Subject to the provisions of section IS, no owner 
or occupier of land or other person shall be entitled to compensa- 
non lor any expense incurred or damage occasioned by any order 
given or act done in pursuance of the provisions of this Ordinance- 
or any rule thereunder unless such damage were occasioned by 
negligence or maliciously and without reasonable cause; but the 
Governor may, in his discretion, order that such compensation as 
he thinks fit be paid to the owner or occupier of any land who 
is required to destroy as a measure of precaution any plant 
thereon not being diseased. 
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