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Moenial staff
entitled to,
and bound to
give, one
month's
notice.
45. (1) In the absence of a written contract to the
contrary, every maistri, peon, watchman, cooly, scavenger or
other menial servant employed to do duty in connection with
plague shall be entitled to one month's notice before dis-
charge, or to one month's wages in lieu thereof, unless he
is discharged for misconduct or was engaged for a specified
term and discharged at the end of it.
(2) No such maistri, peon, watchman, cooly, sca-
venger or other menial servant in the absence of a written
contract authorizing him so to do, and without reasonable
cause, shall resign his employment, or absent himself from
his duties without giving one month's notice, or neglect or
refuse to perform his duties or any of them.
Mode of
disinfection.
46. Whenever disinfection is prescribed by any of these
regulations, it shall be carried out in accordance with the
general principles laid down by Government and such subsi-
diary instructions as may be issued by the Sanitary Com-
missioner or, in respect to management of hospitals, by the
Surgeon-General with the Government of Madras.
Compensa-
tion.
47. When in the exercise of the powers conferred by or
under these regulations, any damage or loss is caused, no
person shall be entitled as a matter of right to claim any
compensation, but the Collector of the district or any person
authorized by him may, in his discretion, award compensation
at the cost of local, municipal or provincial funds as the case
may be, and shall do so when the loss would fall upon people
in very poor circumstances, to whom it would be a great hard-
ship to bear it, or he may, in such cases, arrange for providing
other necessary articles in the place of those destroyed or
damaged and debit the charge to the proper funds.
Contents of
certificates,
passes, &c.
Their im-
proper use
prohibited.
48. Any certificate or passport or pass granted under
these regulations shall contain an accurate description of the
person named in it to prevent, so far as possible, its being
used by another person; nor shall such a certificate or pass-
port or pass given to any person to enable him to go from one
place to another or for any purpose shall be used by any
other person or for any other purpose.
Segregated
or detained 
persons
bound to obey
directions
givea to
them.
49. Every person segregated or detained under any of
these regulations shall obey the directions issued to him by
the officer in charge of the place of segregation or detention
and shall not leave such place except with the written permis-
sion of the said officer, who may take such steps as may be
necessary to enforce this prohibition.