( Soec ) I [PAR" I î. NoTIFICATION. . The 16th August 1877–The following Bye-laws, framed by the Municipal Commissioners of Balasore at a meeting, under Section 818, Act V (B.C.) of 1876, having been confirmed by the Lieutenant-Governor under Section 814 thereof, are hereby published for general information : For Regulating the Time and Mode of Collecting the Tazes. 1. Every officer authorized to grant receipts shall be provided with a certificate of his authority to collect, and every such certificate shall bear the seal of the Municipality and the signature of the Chairman. Every collecting officer at the time of demanding payment shall be bound to show this certificate, if required. 2. Every person required in writing to furnish any schedule or return which the Commissioners may lawfully require him to furnish shall send such schedule or return to the office of the Commissioners within one week from the date of the service of the requisition, in the manner described in section 367 of the Act. Any person failing to do so shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Rs. 5 for the omissiou, and to a penalty not exceeding Rs. 2 fyr every day the omission shall, after warning, continue. Any person submitting a false or incorrect schedule or return shall be liable to a penalty of Rs. 20, provided that nothing in this bye-law shall be held to prevent the institution of a criminal prosecution under the Penal Code, should the facts appear to warrant such a proceeding. 3. Payment of purchase-money for property sold, and delivery of the property, shall be made immediately after the sale; and if the purchaser fail to pay the full amount of his bid, it shall be lawful for the distraining officer, at his discretion, to sell the property again on the same or any other day, and the first purchaser shall in such case be respousible to the Commissioners for any loss, which shall be recoverable as a debt due to them. For Regulating the Conduct of Persons Employed by the Commissioners. 4. All persons employed by the Commissioners whose services may be no longer required shall be liable to discharge after the receipt of previous notice or pay in advance for the period of one month; and uo such person shall withdraw from the duties of his office without having given previous notice for the period of one month, on pain of sorfeiture of one month's salary. 5. All persons now holding, or who may hereafter be appointed to, any office under the Commissioners shall, when required so to do, furnish good security to such amount as the Columissioners may from time to time fix; and any person failing to furnish such security within a reasonable time, or within such time as the Commissioners may appoint, shall be held to have thereby forfeited his appointment, and may be removed from office. For Regulating the Disposal of Offensive Matter, Rubbish, and Dead Bodies of Animals. 6. Every person within whose premises any animal may die shall, within four bours after its death, or, if death occurs at night, within two hours after daylight, either remove-at his own expense the carcass to such place as may be set apart by the Commissioners for the receptiou of such carcass, or report its death to the town daroga; and in such latter case, shall pay to the said daroga the expeuse of removing the carcass at such rate as the Commissioners may determine; and in cases where the said person is not the owner of the animal, and the owner is known, the owner shall alone be responsible for the payment of such expense, and such expense shall be recoverable as a debt due to the Commissioners. The daroga, when called upon, shall not ueglect to remove a carcass. Penalty for infringement, Rs. 10. 7. No person shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, any carcass, or any part of a carcase, in any place other than such places as may from time to time be appointed by the o Commissioners for the reception of such carcass. * * Penalty for infringement, Rs. 10. 8. No person shall carry night-soil through the streets otherwise than in a closely covered receptacle of such description and pattern as shall be required from time to time by the Municipal Commissioners, and between such hours as the Municipal Commissioners may from time to timic direct. t i r ' [69vernment Gazette, 4th September 1877.] W’ •
