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or the President of the District Board, as the case may be, or a
person deputed by him in this behalf (if unoccupied without
any notice whatsoever, and if occupied after twenty-four hours'
notice in writing conspicuously posted on such house or build-
ing) and may be used for the purposes of the accommodation
under Regulation 2; and the owner or the lessee of such building
or place shall not be entitled to anything beyond a reasonable
rent for the period during which the ground or building may
remain in the occupation of the Municipal Council or the Col-
lector and President of the District Board, as the case may be:
provided that the Municipal Council or the Collector and Presi-
dent of the District Board, as the case may be, shall be bound
at the cost of the municipality or the district board, as the
case may be, thoroughly to cleanse and disinfect the ground
or building and, if a building, to whitewash it internally and
externally before vacating it.
5. When any building or place is, in the opinion of the
Collector or an officer generally or specially authorized by him
in writing in this behalf, so overcrowded as to make the inmates
or occupiers specially liable to an attack of the bubonic plague,
the Collector or officer authorized as aforesaid may, by a notice
posted on some conspicuous part of the building or place, require
the owner or occupier, if actually residing in the building or
place, or the tenants or the actual occupants thereof, to abate, as
prescribed in the notice, the overcrowding within twenty-four
hours by reducing the number of lodgers, tenants or other
occupants of the said building or place, and, in default of
compliance with the requisition in the said notice, may sum-
marily eject all the inmates or occupants, or reduce the number
of the same in such manner and to such extent as may appear
necessary; and the owner or occupier or the tenants or the
inmates of such building or place shall not be entitled to claim
any compensation on account of such ejection.
6. When a building or place has, in the opinion of an officer
appointed in this behalf, been so infected with the plague as to
render its further occupation a source of danger to the inmates
thereof, the Collector or an officer generally or specially author-
ized by him in writing in this behalf may summarily cause
such building or place to be vacated and thoroughly cleansed
and disinfected; and the said officer may cause the inmates of
such building or place to be detained and segregated in such
place as he may appoint for a period not exceeding ten days
from the date of the occurrence of the last case of plague among
such persons; and the building or place shall not be re-occupied