The Fortifications Sketching Short title

F ortijications Sketching CHAPTER 126. FORTIFICATIONS SKETCHING. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. :ECTION· .8 1 Short t1tle. 2' Prohibition of sketching on peninsula. 3' Penalty. Forfeiture of sketches. [Cap. 126 4' Intention to evade Ordinance. 5' Liability to penalty of trespassers on naval or military areas. 6: Recovery of penalties. CHAPTER 126. FORTIFICATIONS SKETCHING. An Ordinance to Prevent Sketching, etc., by unauthorised 1 go: 1889. Persons upon the Peninsula and Garrison of the Colony of 32 ~f ~~8~: Sierra Leone. [16TH MAY, 1889.]

Ordinance.

It shall not be lawful for any unauthorised person what- Prohibitionofh h B ' ' h b' l' k sketching on soever, w et era nt1s su 3ect or an a 1en, to rna e any survey peninsula. of any portion of the peninsula of Sierra Leone, other than private property situated therein, or any sketch, photograph, drawing, picture or painting of any battery, fortification, or work or defence of any kind situated upon the said peninsula or of any portion of such battery, fortification, or work of defence thereon.

Ordinance shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds !'~:::~~~~e of or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding three months and all such surveys, sketches, drawings, photographs and paintings shall, at the discretion of the Magistrate, be liable to forfeiture.

Any unauthorised person found in the immediate vicinity Intentionof any battery or field-work in the peninsula aforesaid and with ~r~:~oe. sketching, drawing, photographic or painting materials or Liability to penalty of trespassers on naval or military areas. Recovery of penalties. Cap. 126] Fortifications Sketching apparatus in his possession, with the intention of evading the provisions of this Ordinance shall be liable, upon conviction, to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds sterling and in default of payment to imprisonment for any period not exceeding thirty days; and such sketching, drawing, photographic or painting materials or apparatus shall be confiscated.

Any person not authorised in writing under the hand ofthe Officer Commanding the Troops of the Colony for the time being, found trespassing on any portion or within the boundary of any battery, fortification, or work of defence of any kind, or in or upon any places set apart for naval or military operations or purposes upon the said peninsula, shall be liable upon conviction to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds sterling and in default of payment to imprisonment for any period not exceeding one month.

All penalties imposed by this Ordinance shall be recoverable in a summary manner and all offences hereby madeeognisable shall be enquired into, dealt with, heard and determined by a Magistrate.