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except those who undertake the necessary duties of preparing
it for the funeral. Such persons shall disinfect themselves
according to the orders which may be issued by the Collector in
this behalf.
26. A canal boat shall be subject to all the Regulations
applicable to buildings; and passengers by a canal boat shall be
subject to interrogation, inspection and detention in the same
manner as passengers by railway.
In order to prevent the spread of the infection of the plague
either by or to a canal boat, the Collector of the district or any
officer generally or specially empowered by him in this behalf
may require such boat to alter its moorings or to stop during its
passage and moor in such position as such officer may indicate,
or direct that it desist from plying until such time as may be
stated in a notice placed on a conspicuous position of the boat.
27. The Collector of the district may prescribe that no
dhobies within an infected area to which he may extend this
Regulation shall wash clothes except at such places and at such
times and under such conditions as may be prescribed.
* 28. (1) In the absence of a written contract to the
contrary, every maistri, peon, watchman, cooly or scavenger
employed to do duty in connection with plague, shall be
entitled to one month's notice before discharge, 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 or sca-
venger 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.
29. Officers specially appointed by the District Collector for
this purpose are authorized to prevent the passage of suspicious
persons from or into, as the case may be, any town, village or
local area to which this rule may be applied by the Govern-
ment, unless such persons have been detained in a place of
observation for a period prescribed by the Government, and, if
arrangements for disinfection of their clothing, baggage, &c.,
have been made under the Collector's orders, unless such dis-
infection has been effected. Such officers shall have the widest
discretionary power, subject to the general or special orders of
* As revised by G.O., No. 604, dated 26th April 1899; Notification No. 389,
published in the Fort St. George Gazette, dated 2nd May 1899, Part I-A, page 179,