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(27.) Providing for the setting-aside of areas of land for teaching
children, in co-operation with the missions, the planting and
cultivation of copra and other products:
(28.) Providing for the cultivation of cotton by the Native
inhabitants of villages:
(29.) Providing for any other matters affecting health and good
government in accordance with instructions issued by the
Administrator.

8. The following provisions of this clause shall apply to by-laws
   made by a District Council:
   (a.) No such by-law shall be invalid merely because it deals with a
   subject dealt with by the general law:
   (b.) Any such by-law may be made to apply to part only of a district:
   (c.) Any such by-law may require anything to be done in manner to
   be directed or approved in any particular case by the District
   Council, or by any person having authority from such Council,
   or by any Village Committee, or by any person having
   authority from such committee.

9. No by-law made by a District Council shall have any force or
   effect, unless and until such by-law has been approved by the Administrator.

10. The Administrator shall not approve of any by-law made by a
    District Council unless he is satisfied that such by-law is limited to one
    or more of the purposes for which such by-law may be made as set out
    in clause 7, and that such by-law is reasonable and had been made at
    a sufficiently representative fono of the District Council and is the subject
    of a resolution of such fono carried in accordance with the usage of
    Samoans in fono.

11. The production of a document purporting to be a copy of a
    by-law made by a District Council under the authority of these regulations, signed by the Administrator and sealed with the public seal
    of the Territory of Western Samoa shall be sufficient evidence of the
    contents of such by-law, and that such by-law was duly made by the
    District Council by which it purports to be made, and has been
    approved by the Administrator, and is valid, and came into force on the
    day mentioned in that behalf in such copy of the by-law.

12. No by-law made by a District Council shall provide as the
    penalty for a breach thereof any term of imprisonment or any fine
    exceeding £2.

13. No by-law made by a District Council shall purport to bind
    any person who is not a Samoan, nor shall any such person be liable
    to prosecution under any such by-law.

VILLAGE COMMITTEES.

14. The Administrator may for the more convenient government
    of the villages in any district appoint Village Committees with such
    constitution as he thinks fit, and may, in addition to the executive
    powers conferred on such committees by these regulations, confer on
    them from time to time such further executive powers as he thinks fit.
    Such constitution and further executive powers shall be such as may be
    notified from time to time in the "Savali."

CLEANING OF VILLAGES.

15. It shall be the duty of the owner or occupier of every Samoan
    house and also of any person having control over such owner or
    occupier to secure that the refuse from such house and all rubbish,
    rotting leaves, and other decayed vegetable matter in its vicinity is
    daily collected and burned or otherwise so disposed of that no nuisance
    or unsightliness arises therefrom, and that such house and the kitchen
    and surroundings thereof are kept clean and free from weeds and in