WORK IN EMERGENCY

(1) Whenever it appears to the divisional canal officer or any officer acting under his general or special orders in this helm", that, unless so work or repair is immediately executed, such am‘iuux damage will happen to any irrigation work as to Cause Muidcu aud extensiVe public injury or irrigation and that labour necessary for the proper execution thereof cannot be obtained in the ordinary manner in time to prevent such injury or interruption or to remedy it within a reasonable time, the divisional canal officer or tiny olliccr acting under the said~orders, may, by public proclamation by heat of drum require any able bodied person, who resides Or owns him! in any village within eight kilometers of the place where the Wurk it to be executed and whose name appears in the list hereafter mentioned to attend in person at such place and to carry out such duties as he may allot to them in connection with the execution Hi the work necessary for the safety of the particular irrigation work. (2) All perSOns so labouring shall be entitled to payment at ‘ rule which shall not be less than the highest rates for the time being paid in the neighbourhood of similar labour.