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for a term which may extend to six months or fine which may
extend to one thousand rupees or both.
14. The President of the Municipal Commission is em-
powered to direct the evacuation of houses in the neighbourhood
of an infected house or of a block of houses or a particular
locality, and to prohibit re-occupation of such houses or locality
without permission. The President shall give notice for such
period as he may deem necessary, and shall provide temporary
accommodation for those removed from the houses evacuated.
The President may require the evicted persons to reside in
any place which he may appoint under such restrictions as he
may deem necessary for a period not exceeding ten days, after
which, provided no further sickness has occurred, any one who
wishes to depart may, after necessary precautions, be allowed
to depart.
15.  The President of the Municipal Commission or  any
officer specially authorized by him in this behalf is empowered
to close places used for the supply, preparation  or storage of
articles of food  and   drink  in infected   localities   or  in  the
immediate neighbourhood of infected houses, and to direct the
removal of all articles of food and drink found in such places.
16.   (1) The President of the Municipal Commission, when
and to the extent he may deem necessary, may make Regula-
tions-
(a) for prescribing the route which shall be taken by
a funeral procession from the place of death to
the grave-yard, burning ground or other place
for final disposal of the corpse, and the places, if
any, at which such procession may halt on its
way for funeral prayers, ceremonies or other
purposes;
* (b) for enforcing   burial   in   certain  places   or at  a
certain depth.
(2) He may also prohibit the burial or burning of corpses
of persons reasonably supposed to have died of the plague in or
upon ground other than ground specially assigned by him for
such purpose.
* As amended by G.O., No. 429-P., dated 4th May 1898; Notification No. 377, Fort
St. George Gazette, dated 10th May 1898, Part I-A, page 124.
Note.-Any Regulations which the President may find necessary to frame under
this clause should provide that when the burial of a person who has died of plague
takes place in proximity to habitations or sources of water-supply, the corpse shall
be wrapped in a cloth soaked in a solution of corrosive sublimate and be buried six
feet deep. (G.O., No. 429-P., dated 4th May 1898.)