Cattle Trespass Ordinance amendment (1864) (WA)

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WESTERN AUSTRA LIA.

ANNO VICESIMO OCTAVO

VICTORIA, REGINS

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No. Xlv.

if ORDINANCE to amend " The Cattle Trespass

Ordinance, 1857,"

[11th May, 1864.]

HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Ordinance of the Preamble.

mauled " An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Laws relat-	W
Legislative Council the twenty first of Victoria, No. 7 of 1857, ing to Trespasses by Live Stock, and to promote the construction , of Fences;" Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Western. Australia, and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

Land owner may impound

1. THE power to impound all Animals found trespassing, con- Cattle whether committing

ferred by the Second section of the said recited Ordinance, upon any	actual damage or nut.
Person sustaining - damage in his house or land, or in any crop,
Enures, or chattel therein respectively growing or being, shall and

y henceforth be .exercised by any person aggrieved by any such

fiespass, without the necessity of proof of actual damage sustained.

28° V1CTORI2E, No. 14.

Cattle Trespass.

THE Nineteenth Section of the said recited Ordinance shall

gt h Sect. o f 27st V, ie t. 2-

No. 7, repealed -

be and the same is hereby repealed, and the following section is

hereby substituted in lieu thereof.

lateepretation. THE term " sufficient Fence " used in the said recited Ordinance and in all other Ordinances referring thereto, shall be construed to mean any substantial fence, reason- ably deemed sufficient to resist the trespass of great and small stock, including sheep, but not including goats or pigs.

I. S. HAMPTON,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHI

Passed the Legislative Council,

this lltk-day .of July, 1864.

G. E. HAMPTON,

Clerk of the Council.