AN ACT to provide for the Registration of A.D. 1898.
Threshing-machines, and to require the
Proprietors thereof to furnish Returns of
[8 July, 1898.]

all Grain threshed.

BE it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and

with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:-

1 This Act may be cited as "The Statistical Grain Returns Act, Short title. 1898."

2 In this Act, unless the context otherwise determines-
"Threshing-machine" means any machine or implement used
for threshing Grain, except the implement known as
"Flails":

"Grain" means Wheat, Barley, Oats, Peas, Beans, Tares, Rye,
and Artificial Grass Seed:

"District" means any Municipal District or Police District.

Interpretation.

address.

3 The owner of every threshing-machine which is used for the Owners of threshpurpose of threshing grain shall, before using such threshing-machine ing-machines to to thresh grain, register with the Government Statistician his name and register name and address; and if any such owner shall omit to register his name and address as aforesaid, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.

4 The owner of every threshing-machine shall, on or before the Owners of threshFirst day of May in every year, forward to the Government Statistician ing-machines to a Return in the form in the Schedule hereto of the quantity of grain furnish return of

grain threshed.

A.D. 1898.

Penalty for furnishing false information.

Forms to be furnished by Statistician.

Returns for

warded free of postage.

Penalties

recovered under

19 Vict. No. 8.

Statistical Grain Returns.

threshed by him in each district during the preceding Twelve months with such threshing-machine; and every such Return shall contain the several particulars specified in the form in the Schedule hereto.

Any such owner who shall neglect to furnish such Return shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.

In every case in which a threshing-machine shall be let on hire to any person, the lessee of such threshing-machine shall, for the purpose of this Section, be deemed to be the owner thereof.

5 Any person who writes or inserts, or causes to be written or inserted, in any Return required to be furnished by this Act anything knowing the same to be false, shall, for every such offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds.

6 The Government Statistician shall, in every year, forward to the registered owner of every threshing-machine at his registered address the necessary forms to enable such owner to furnish the Returns required by this Act.

7 All Returns forwarded to the Government Statistician in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be transmitted to such officer free of postage, provided upon the outside of the letter or packet containing such Return the sender thereof shall endorse the words "Statistical Information."

8 All offences against this Act shall be heard and determined, and all penalties be recovered, in a summary way, in the mode prescribed by The Magistrates Summary Procedure Act; and every person aggrieved by any conviction under this Act may appeal against such conviction in the manner provided by "The Appeals Regulation Act."

SCHEDULE.

Municipal or Police District in which Wheat, Barley, Oats. Peas, Beans, Tares, Rye,

Grain was grown.

Bushels, Bushels, Bushels. Bushels Bushets, Bushels. Bushels.)

Artificial Grasses (Seed), Bushels.

AN ACT to prohibit the Defacement of A.D. 1898. Property.

[8 July, 1898.]

advertisement and otherwise :

Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

1 This Act may for all purposes be cited as "The Defacement of Short title, Property Act, 1898."

2 No person shall affix, inscribe, print, paint, carve, engrave, or Defacement of otherwise delineate, so as to be visible to any person passing along any property highway, road, footpath, bridle-path, railroad, river, or other place open prohibited. to the public, or authorise or allow to be so affixed, inscribed, printed, painted, carved, engraved, or otherwise delineated to or on any rock, wall, pillar, post, gate, fence, fence-wall, hoarding-board, tree, or any other thing whatsoever, being property vested in the Crown or any Municipal Corporation or Town Board or other public body, or, being private property, without the consent of the owner or occupier thereof, any picture or printed or written matter, or any advertisements or signs any sort whatever.

of

Defacement of Property.

3 The insertion of the name of any person in any picture, sign, advertisement, or other written or printed matter which is affixed, inscribed, printed, painted, carved, engraved, or otherwise delineated in contravention of this Act, shall be prima facie evidence that such person has authorised or allowed such picture, sign, advertisement, or other written or printed matter to be affixed, or inscribed, or printed, painted, or carved, or engraved, or otherwise delineated in contravention of this Act; and the onus of proof shall be on every such person that he did not authorise or allow such picture, sign, advertisement, or other written or printed matter to be affixed, or inscribed, or printed, or painted, carved, or engraved, or otherwise delineated as aforesaid.

4 In the construction of this Act, unless the context otherwise determines

"Pleasure resort" means

1. Any portion of Crown Land which has already been re-
served under the provisions of Section Twenty-four of
"The Crown Lands Act, 1890": or

11. With the consent of the owner any alienated land: or
III. With the consent of the Trustees any Recreation Ground
proclaimed as such under the provisions of "The Public
Recreation Grounds Act, 1888":

which may be made subject,
be made subject, as hereinafter provided, to the
provisions of this Act.

"Tourist road" means any road giving access to a pleasure resort,
and which may be made subject, as hereinafter provided, to
the provisions of this Act:

"Gazette" means The Hobart Gazette:

"The Minister" means the Minister of Lands and Works or other responsible Minister for the time being administering this Act.

5 The Governor in Council may by Proclamation in the Gazette define any road, or any portion thereof, as a tourist road, or define the boundaries of any tract of land as a pleasure resort, and may by any subsequent Proclamation in the Gazette revoke or alter any previous definition: Provided that no Proclamation shall be issued in respect to any alienated land except upon the written request of the owner thereof, or in respect of any recreation ground, except at the request of a majority of the trustees thereof, nor in respect of any road under the care, control, and management of the trustees of any Road District or of any Town Board, without the consent of such trustees or Town Board respectively.

6 Any person who shall do or commit any of the following acts, except by consent of the Minister in the case of Crown land, or the owner in the case of alienated land, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act:

1. Paint or mark with paint or any other substance in any manner whatsoever any tree, fence, rock, or stone in any pleasure resort, or on any tourist road :

11. Disfigure, cut down, pull up, remove, set fire to, or destroy in any manner, any grass, tree, or fern, shrub or plant in any pleasure resort or immediately adjacent to any tourist road.

Defacement of Property.

Regulations.

7 Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Governor in Council is A.D. 1898.
hereby empowered from time to time to make and issue Regulations
for the following purposes, and any such Regulation to alter or repeal:-
1. For the care, protection, and management of all pleasure
resorts and tourist roads, and for the preservation of good
order therein:

II. For the control of fires, and the collection of litter and rubbish
at pleasure resorts, and for the restriction of the use of
tourist roads to certain vehicles, except as may be provided.

8 Any person who shall offend against this Act, or against any Regu- Penalties and lation made under the preceding Section, shall be liable to a penalty not recovery thereof. exceeding Five Pounds for each such offence, to be recovered summarily

in accordance with the provisions of The Magistrates Summary Pro- 19 Vict. No. 8.
cedure Act; and any person who shall continue to offend against this
Act, or any such Regulation, after he shall have been warned by any
bailiff of Crown Lands or any constable, may be forthwith apprehended
by such bailiff or constable and taken before some Justice of the Peace,
and shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding Ten
Pounds.

Every such Regulation shall be posted in every place to which the same is applicable.

9-(1.) All Regulations made by the Governor in Council under Regulations to the authority of this Act shall be published in the Gazette, and shall be published. take effect from the date of such publication, unless otherwise provided in such Regulations; and in all legal proceedings the production of the Legal proGazette containing any Proclamation or Regulation issued under this ceedings. Act shall alone be sufficient prima facie evidence that such Proclamation or Regulation has been duly issued, and the onus of proving the contrary shall in every case lie on the person disputing the validity thereof.

(2.) All such Regulations shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within Fourteen days from the making thereof, if Parliament is then in Session, and, if not, then within Fourteen days after the commencement of the next Session.

10 Any person aggrieved by any summary conviction may appeal Appeal. therefrom in the mode prescribed in The Appeals Regulation Act.

19 Vict. No. 10.

WILLIAM GRAHAME,
GOVERNMEnt printer, TASMANIA.