Saving of certain rights of pathway

(1) No labourer or other person having or occupying any house or cottage, or any room therein on any plantation or settlement, having an open path or road, or way generally used leading from a public way to that house, cottage or room, or his family, relations and visitors, shall be deemed a willful trespasser or willful trespassers, within the meaning of this Act, by reason of his or their passing or re-passing along or upon the open path or road, or way generally used. (2) Nothing in this Act shall be deemed or construed to take away or lessen any existing rights of the owners of cattle, by themselves or their servants, to pass on foot or on horseback on any unenclosed or uncultivated lands in search and pursuit of their cattle, or any existing right of persons to pass in and over such land in pursuit of animals ferae naturae, or any right of a legally qualified surveyor, his labourers and servants, in the discharge of his professional duties, after having given the usual notice of his intention to run lines or define boundaries, or any practice or right of persons bona fide travellers to encamp on the banks of rivers and lagoons and remain there for limited periods; but no such encampment shall take place on enclosed or cultivated lands.