Temple not liable for expenses of survey if it possesses an authenticated plan and there is no dispute as to boundaries. Powers of the commissioners may be exercised by any one of them. Penalty for obstructing commissioners or surveyor. Temple Lands (Kandyan Provinces). admeasurement, and plan shall be defrayed by the person in charge of the lands surveyed, and shall be a charge upon such lands, and the other moiety of such expense shall be defrayed out of the Public Treasury. 26 If the person in charge of any temple land shall have in his possession and shall produce to such commissioners, prior to such survey being made, a plan of such land, authenticated by the Surveyor-General of this island, and if it shall not be necessary in the opinion of such commissioners for the settlement of any dispute respecting the boundaries of such land that the same should be surveyed, then and in such case the expense of any survey of such land which may be made under the authority and for the purposes of this Ordinance shall be defrayed out of the Public Treasury. 27 All the powers and duties hereby vested in or imposed upon such commissioners shall and may be exercised and discharged by any one of such commissioners. 28 The said commissioners, surveyors, and all persons acting under their orders, shall at all times be entitled to enter upon the lands of any person or body corporate, for the purpose of ascertaining any boundaries, or putting up any landmarks, or making any survey, or for any other purpose contemplated by this Ordinance; and any person who shall wilfully resist, obstruct, hinder, or molest, and any person who shall incite, procure, or assist any other to resist, obstruct, hinder, or molest any commissioner, surveyor, or other person acting in the discharge of any duty or the performance of any act which they or any of them shall be authorized or required to perform under any of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be guilty of an offence, and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding three months. Carts. Form B. Certificate of Registration. We, the undersigned, Commissioners appointed under "The Temple Lands Registration Ordinance, 1856," hereby certify that the following lands have been registered by us under the provisions of the said Ordinance as the property of the Temple at district of in the Reference to Register. To prevent the leaving of Carts on the Colombo and WE Kandy Road. HEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the prevention of obstructions to the traffic upon, and of injury to, the road from Colombo to Kandy, arising from the practice of leaving carts thereon: It is enacted as follows: 1 Any person who shall leave, or permit to be left, on the road between Colombo and Kandy, or on the side of such road, any cart or other carriage whatever, without the oxen, horses, or other animals being yoked or harnessed thereto, unless such cart or carriage shall have been accidentally broken down there, and in case of such accident for a longer time than may be necessary for its removal, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten shillings, anything contained in the 13th clause of the 63rd section of the Ordinance No. 8 of 1848,* entitled "To make provision for the formation and improvement of the means of communication in this Island," to the contrary notwithstanding. 2 Every offence against this Ordinance may be inquired into, tried, and determined either by the police court of the district in which the offence was committed, or by the nearest police court on the line of road in the direction such cart or carriage may have been travelling. 3 It shall be lawful for any inspector of police, police headman, or other constable, and for any overseer of the road appointed by the Governor, to take charge of any cart or other carriage which may have been left on the said road * Repealed by No. 10 of 1861. Preamble. Penalty for leaving carts, &c., on the Colombo and Kandy road. Offences in what courts cognizable. Carts, &c., of offenders may be detained and sold. Ordinance may be applied to other public roads. Limitation of prosecution. Informer's share of fine. Ordinance when to come into operation. Ceylon Savings Bank. contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, and of the oxen, horses, or other animals belonging thereto, and to deposit or keep the same in some place of safe custody until the penalty to which the person having had charge thereof may become liable has been paid; and if such penalty, and any expenses incurred in feeding and watching such oxen, horses, or animals, shall not be paid within ten days from the day of the conviction, it shall be lawful for the police court before which the case shall have been heard to order that such cart, carriage, oxen, horses, or other animals shall be sold for the purpose of satisfying such penalty and expenses aforesaid. 4 It shall be lawful for the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, by any Proclamation to be by him from time to time for that purpose issued and published in the Government Gazette, to declare that the provisions contained in this Ordinance shall extend to any other public road in this colony, whenever it shall appear to the said Governor and Council that a sufficient number of halting places have been constructed along the same; and thereupon its several provisions shall apply and extend to and may be enforced in reference to any public road mentioned in such Proclamation, as fully to all intents and purposes as if such road had been specially mentioned in this Ordinance. 5 No prosecution shall be instituted against any person for an offence against this Ordinance unless the same shall be commenced within one month from the commission of the offence. 6 It shall be lawful for the court before which any conviction under this Ordinance shall take place to award to the person who may have given information of the offence such share of any penalty actually recovered, not exceeding the half of the sum recovered, as the court may deem fit. 7 This Ordinance shall come into operation on the First day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Fifty-seven. 22nd November, 1856. Preamble. Repeal of No. 12 of 1859. For the better Regulation of the Ceylon Savings Bank. (As amended by No. 12 of 1892 and No. 7 of 1895.) WH HEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to the management and regulations of the Ceylon Savings Bank: It is enacted as follows: 1 The Regulation No. 4 of the year 1833, intituled “A Regulation for the protection of the Ceylon Savings Bank, and the fund thereby established"; the Ordinance No. 1 of the year 1847, intituled "To amend the Regulation No. 4 of 1833"; and the Ordinance No. 13 of 1857, intituled "For Ceylon Savings Bank. making further provision for the investment of the Funds of the Ceylon Savings Bank," shall be and the same are hereby repealed. 2 This Ordinance shall come into operation on such day as the Governor shall by Proclamation appoint. 3 This Ordinance may be cited as "The Ceylon Savings Bank Ordinance, 1859." 4 In interpreting this Ordinance The words "the bank" shall mean the Ceylon Savings Bank. The word "Governor" shall mean the officer executing 5 The bank shall be under the management of a board of 8 The president shall appoint the times for the meetings of the board of directors for the transaction of business. At such meetings two directors shall be sufficient to form a quorum. 9 The Treasurer of the colony for the time being shall be the treasurer of the said bank. 10 The board of directors may, with the approval of the Governor, acting with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, order the treasurer to pay out of the funds of the bank such sums of money as to them shall seem fit, by way of salary or fees, to the secretary, auditor, accountant, clerks, and other officers and servants employed in the business of the bank, and may from time to time order the treasurer to advance to the secretary out of the said fund such sums of money as the Governor shall determine for the current purposes of the bank. 11 A general meeting of the depositors of the said bank shall be held once a year, on or before the 31st day of March, at which meeting the board of directors shall submit a statement of the affairs of the said bank for the preceding year. 12 The board of directors may call special general meetings when they think proper; and, on the requisition of any two directors delivered in writing to the secretary, it No. 13 of 1857. Commencement. Short title. Interpretation. Management. [§ 3, 12 of 1892] Board how constituted. [§ 4, 12 of 1892] Meetings. [§ 5, 12 of 1892] Treasurer. Board of [§ 2, 12 of 1892) [§ 6, 12 of 1892] [§ 4. 7 of 1895] General meeting. [§ 2. 12 of 1892] Special meeting. [§ 7, 12 of 1892] Notice of general meetings. Board of directors to make Regulations when valid to be kept in a book. Regulations on Printed copies of regulations to be furnished. [§ 2, 12 of 1892] Depositors. Charitable societies may become depositors. [$ 9, 12 of 1892] Discharge for payments made to charitable societies. Ceylon Savings Bank. shall be obligatory on him to call a special general meeting within fifteen days from the date of the delivery of such requisition. 13 Seven days' notice of every general meeting shall be published in the Government Gazette and in all the local newspapers. 14 The board of directors may from time to time make rules and regulations touching the business of the said bank, which said rules and regulations shall not come into operation until they shall have been approved of by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council. 15 Such rules and regulations shall be entered in a book to be kept at the office of the said bank, which book shall be open at all reasonable hours to the inspection of the depositors. 16 The said rules and regulations so made as aforesaid shall be binding on the board of directors and officers of, and all depositors in, and all borrowers and other persons having dealings with, the bank, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, assigns, and agents, without further notice thereof. 17 The board of directors, and all officers, depositors, borrowers, and other persons having dealings with the bank, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, assigns, and agents, shall, on demand, be entitled to be furnished by the secretary of the said bank with one printed copy of the said rules and regulations, as often as the same are altered and amended, free of expense, and any additional copies on a reasonable payment for the same. 18 No depositor shall be allowed to deposit in the said bank any sum less than fifty cents at any one time or more than rupees one thousand in any one year, nor shall any depositor be allowed to have at any one time in the said bank a larger sum than rupees three thousand of principal. 19 Any charitable society or institution may deposit funds in the said bank to the amount of rupees two thousand five hundred per annum until such deposits, including interest, shall amount to rupees seven thousand five hundred, after which the said deposits shall not bear interest at a higher rate than three per cent. per annum : Provided that the said bank may at any time refuse to receive any sum of money from any such society or institution, and may give thirty days' notice to the treasurer, trustees, or officers thereof to withdraw from the Savings Bank all such sums as may have been deposited therein on behalf of such society or institution, together with the interest which may have accumulated thereon, and from and after the expiration of such period no further interest shall be payable on such deposits. 20 The receipt of any such treasurer, trustees, or officers for the time being of any such society or institution, for money withdrawn by or paid to such society or institution, shall be a sufficient discharge to the said bank in that behalf. |