LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENTS OF CEYLON. VOLUME II. No. 1 of 1880. An Ordinance to authorize the establishment of a Special W Community. HEREAS certain members of the Mohammedan community have obtained a grant of a parcel of land at Dematagoda for the purposes of a special cemetery, and it is expedient that the same should be established for that purpose: It is hereby enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: The Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, may by Proclamation establish the said parcel of land as a cemetery for the special use of the Mohammedan community, and thereupon the provisions of "The Cemeteries Ordinance, 1862,"† shall apply in all respects to the said special cemetery as if the same were a general cemetery established under the said Ordinance. 13th October, 1880. Preamble. Power to establish special cemetery at Dematagoda for Mohammedan community. No. 3 of 1880. An Ordinance relating to Shipwrecked Colonial Seamen in distress in the United Kingdom. WE WHEREAS it is desirable to make provision for the relief of colonial seamen in distress in the United Kingdom It is hereby enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: The term "colonial seaman " shall mean a seaman who last served in a ship registered in this colony. Preamble. Interpretation clause. Treasurer to pay such reasonable sums expended by Shipwrecked Mariners' Society on relief of colonial seamen in United Kingdom as the Governor by warrant shall order. If any colonial seaman becomes distressed in the United Kingdom by reason of shipwreck, and shall be relieved and sent home by "The Shipwrecked Mariners' Society," the Governor is hereby authorized, on the requisition of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to issue a warrant on the Treasurer in the usual manner for the repayment of any fair and reasonable sum of money which may have been advanced for that purpose, and the Treasurer is hereby directed to pay such sum to the person or persons authorized to receive the same. 13th October, 1880. No. 6 of 1880. An Ordinance for the regulation and government of Boatmen employed in Licensed Boats. (See under No. 6 of 1865, Volume I., page 467.) No. 7 of 1880. An Ordinance to amend "The Police Ordinance, 1865." Preamble. Short title. Repealing Governor in appoint times for No. 9 of 1880. An Ordinance to provide for taking a Census from time to time. WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the taking of a census from time to time, and at convenient times: It is hereby enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1 This Ordinance may be cited as "The Census Ordinance, 1880." 2 The Ordinance No. 5 of 1868 is hereby repealed. 3 The Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, may from time to time by Proclamation appoint that a census be taken at such time as shall be notified in such Proclamation. Census. 4 The Governor may appoint an officer to superintend the taking of any census. 5 The Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, may make such rules as he may deem necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance, and may attach penalties for the breach of any rule so made, to be recovered and enforced in the same and the like manner as penalties imposed by this Ordinance. Provided that no greater or higher penalty shall be imposed by such rules than is imposed by this Ordinance, and such rules shall come into operation upon being published in the Gazette. 6 Unless it shall be otherwise directed by the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, the government agent of a province shall be commissioner of his province, and the chairman of every municipality and local board shall be commissioner within the limits of such municipality and local board. Every such commissioner shall appoint enumerators, and shall assign a division to each enumerator, and shall distribute to every enumerator in his district the schedules which shall have been issued for that purpose. 7 Schedules shall be prepared for the purpose of being filled up by or on behalf of the several occupiers of dwelling houses as hereinafter provided, with particulars of the name, sex, age, profession or occupation, relation to head of family, nationality, and religion of every person who abode in every house at the time appointed for the taking of the census, and also whether any were able to read or write or both, and whether any were blind, deaf, dumb, or insane. Every enumerator shall, previous to the time appointed for the taking of the census, leave or cause to be left at every dwelling house within his division one or more of the said schedules for the occupier or occupiers thereof or of any part thereof, and upon every schedule shall be plainly expressed that it is to be filled up by the occupier of such dwelling house (or where such dwelling house is let or sub-let in different apartments, and occupied distinctly by different persons or families, by the occupier of each such apartment) and that the enumerator will collect all such schedules within his division within twenty-four hours next following the time appointed for the taking of the census; and every occupier of any dwelling house or of any apartment in any dwelling house, with or for whom any such schedule shall have been left as aforesaid, shall fill up the said schedule to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, so far as relates to all persons dwelling in the house or apartment occupied by him or her, and shall sign his or her name thereto, and shall deliver the schedule so filled up or cause the same to be delivered to the enumerator when required to do so: and every such occupier who shall refuse or neglect without lawful excuse, the proof of which shall lie upon such occupier, to fill up the said schedule to the best of his or her knowledge and belief, or to sign and deliver the same as The Governor may appoint superintendent. The Governor. with the advice of the Executive Council, may make rules. Penalties may be imposed. Rules to be published in Gazette. Government agent to be commissioner of province. Chairman of municipality and local board to be commissioner within his limits. Appointment of enumerators. Schedules to be prepared. Particulars to be inserted in schedules. Schedules to be left at dwelling houses by enumerators. What shall be expressed in schedules. Occupiers of dwelling houses, &c., shall fill up schedules and deliver them to enumerators. Penalty for neglect or refusal to fill up schedule, or for |