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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 79, 20 April 1877, Page 2

The following appears in a Home paper just to hand:—" An arrangement has been made by the Albion Shipping Company of Glasgow to take over a portion of the fleet of Messrs. Shaw, Savill. and Passengers Line of New Zealand packets, and to work the service to the ports of Middle Island of New Zealand from London, in addition to the service from the Clyde to that Colony. The capital of Albion Shipping Company has been, in consequence, increased to 1,000,000. The service from London to the North Island of New Zealand will be continued by the Passengers Line as formerly."

shall have appointed for the purpose, to make such crossing according to the tenor of such notice ana specification, and not otherwise, and the owner of such land shall afterwards in like manlier maintain the same. Specification. 14. Every such owner who desires, as aforesaid, that any such crossing shall be made, shall, before giving notice to the Council as herein provided, deposit with the Town Clerk a specification describing the proposed work, with respect to each of the several matters hereby, and by any such regulation in force in that behalf, required or provided. Immunity of persons giving irreyular notice. 15. Unless within the period of seven days after the receipt of any such notice as aforesaid, the Council shall give notice to the person giving the same, that (if the fact be so), such notice or the specification referred to therein and deposited, is riot in ■accordance with the provisions of such regulation as aforesaid ; such notice and specification shall thereafter, so far only as affects the liability of such person to any penalty be deemed to be in accordance therewith. Notice of crossing where there is a street Jcirb. • 16. In streets in which, at the site of any proposed crossing there is a kerb of stone or wood along the outer edge of the footway, the crossing so far as the footway extends, shall have on both sides a kerb not higher in any part than the surface of the footway, at that part, and similar in all respects to such first-mentioned kerb, and such kerb shall approach to and join the street kerbing in gentle curves outwards, and such crossing shall be of such width, and the surface thereof, so far as the footway extends, shall have such inclination ■outwards, and be depressed so far below the footway as shall have been respectively appointed by some regulation in that behalf, and shall, with respect to the channel he 30 laid or constructed, as not to raise or obstruct the same or any part thereof. 17. In streets, in which at the site of Notice of crossing where there is no street kerb. ■any such proposed crossing there is no such kerbing as in the last preceding section mentioned, the crossing over the channel shall be such suitable bridge as shall leave a free passage for the water underneath the same, and shall be of such materials form length, size, strength, and fall as have been respectively appointed by some, regulation in that behalf; and the surface of such crossing so far as the footway extends, shall be so made good by paving, macadamizing, gravelling, or otherwise that the necessary traffic by. animals or vehicles over the same, shall not cause any damage thereto but that such crossing shall be as sound and commodious for the passage of persons using the footway as the other portion of such footway adjoining such crossing. Departures from Notice. 18. No person making any crossing shall be deemed guilty of an offence by reason only of some departure in making such •crossing, from the notice or specification relating thereto, unless the officer of the Council, appointed as hereinbefore provided to inspect the making of the crossing, shall have reported in writing such departure to the Council within three days after the same shall have occurred, and unless such person being served by the •Council within three days after such report, with a notice so to do shall, for the space of seven clear days after such ; notice, have failed to correct or supply such departure. Alteration of Improper Crossings. 19. If any crossing shall have been made in any respect contrary to this subdi-. vision or any regulation in force hereunder, it shall be lawful for the Council, if they shall see fit, to cause the same to be altered, so as to conform to this subdivision and to such regulation respectively, and to recover in manner, as in " Municipal Corporation Act, 1876," elsewhere provided the expenses of such alteration from the owner of the land tow hich such crossing shall lead, but they shall not so recover in those cases of departure from the notice or specification which the Council or their officer might respectively have given notice of or reported, but failed to give notice of or report respectively in manner and within the time provided in the preceding sections thereof. Crossing for Private Street. 20. If any private street shall meet at an angle the footway of any public street, and there shall be no crossing upon and across such footway and the channel adjacent thereto from such private street to such public street, it shall be lawful for the Council, if they shall see fit, to make in accordance with any regulation in force in that behalf, a crossing upon and over such footway and channel of the description hereinbefore provided, with respect to other crossings, and to recover from the owner of each of the tenaments abutting on such private street, such portion of the expenses of such making as shall bear to the whole of such expenses the same proportion as the rateable value of such tenement bears to the whole rateable value of all the tenements so abutting. Council may alter Crossing. 21. If any crossing across or over any footway or channel, to any land or way appurtenant thereto or to any private street shall have been made before the coming into operation of this subdivision in the Borough, but shall in any respect not be in accordance with any regulation made hereunder, the Council may, if they shall see fit, cause the same to be altered, so as to conform to such regulation, and if such crossing shall have been made contrray to any Bye-law in force at the time of making the same, the Council may recover the expenses of such alteration in manner in the last two preceding sections mentioned, according as one or the other may be applicable to the case. Repair of Crossings. 22. If any crossing shall be out .of repair, and the person liable hereunder to maintain or repair the same, shall for seven, days after notice from the Council to that effect, neglect properly and completely to repair the same, he shall forfeit for every, day that such crossing shall remain bo unrepaired, a sum of forty shillings,: and the Council may, if they shall see fit, effect such repair and recover the same from such person before any Justice.' Regulations. 23. It shall be lawful for the Council from time to time, to make regulations for all or any of the purposes following, (that is to say),

For 1 regulating the width, depression, and inclination of crossings, across or over footways and channels, and the materials for making and constructing the same, the mode of laying and bedding such materials, the length, width, size, strength, and fall_ of bridge crossings, and the said inclination and fall, either absolutely or with relation to the levels, inclination or fall of the footway orchannel, or otherwise in like manner. (5) Deposit or Discharue of Rubbish - Liquids, &c. on Streets, &c. Clausing flow of offensive Liquid upon Street. | 24. Every person who causes to run I from any manufactory or any establishment for the boiling or preparing of any animal matter, or any brewery, slaughterhouse, butcher's shop, or any dung-hill, or other receptacle, or from any inn, into or upon any street, public or private, or any footway or channel, and every occupier of any land or premises who causes or permits to run from such land or premises into or upon any such street, footway, or channel any offensive liquid or matter, shall, for every day during which any such liquid or matter shall so run, forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds. (6) Depositing Building Materials, Excavations, &c. Unlawful Depositing of Material in Street. 25. Every person who throws or lays any building or other materials or bmlding rubbish, or puts up, constructs, or erects any stage, scaffolding, hoarding, or fence in, upon, across, or oyer any street, footway, channel, or public place, save in lawful execution of the power given by this subdivison, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, and a further sum not exceeding twenty shillings for each day during which such matter or thing of any of it, or any part thereof is suffered to remain in or upon such street, footway channels, or public place. Notice of Intention to Build. 26. Every person intending to build, put up, or take down, or cause to be built, put up, or taken down any building, wall, or other structure, or any fence, or to alter or repair or cause to be altered or repaired the outward part of any such building or other structure, whether in any of such cases, over or under ground, or to make any hole within ten feet ~ of: any street or footway, give notice in writing of such his intention to the Council, and in such notice shall describe the intended work, and the height, depth, and extent and position thereof, and whether or not it be necessary for the execution of the said work that a scaffold or stage be constructed, or that building or other materials, or building rubbish be deposited upon or in the footway or street adjoining, or in front of such structure or hole, and for what time it will be necessary that such stage or scaffolding or such materials deposited be so kept or continued, or that such hole remain open, together with such other particulars touching such intended work as such person shall see fit. Commencing work without Notice. 27. No person shall execute or begin or continue to execute any such work as in the last preceding section mentioned, without having given to the Council such notice as therein provided, until the expiration of forty-eight hours after giving the same, and every person so offending against the provisions of this section, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds for every day upon which he shall so offend. License for depositing Materials. 28. It shall be lawful for the Council, having received any such notice as aforesaid, to grant if shall seem to them fit to the person having given such notice, upon payment by him of the sum of five shillings, a license in the appointed form under the hand of the Town Clerk, authorising such person to construct such stage and scaffolding as the proper officer of the Council to be appointed in that behalf shall require or permit, and to deposit building and other materials, and building rubbish upon or across in each of the cases aforesaid so much of the footway adjoining or in front of the site of the inintended work, and so much of the street | adjoining such footway, and to keep and | continue the said stage, scaffolding and materials or rubbish so constructed or deposited respectively, for such time respectively as shall seem fit to the said Council, and be specified in said licence, and the Council may, if it shall saem fit to renew such license or grant a fresh licence to such person from time to time, and such person may thereupon from time to time do, the said Acts according to the tenor of such license. Hording and Fence. 29. Every person who shall intend to build or take down or cause to be built or taken down any building or other structure, whether over or under ground, or to alter or repair or cause to be altered or repaired the outward part of any such structure within, in any of the cases aforesaid ten feet of any street or footway, or who shall have a license for constructing any stage or scaffolding, or depositing any building or other materials, or building rubbish upon or across any footway or street, shall, before beginning to execute such work, or to do such act, cause to be put so as to separate from the street and rrom the remainder (if any) of the footway so much of the premises where the work is to be executed as fronts the site of such work, and the area upon which, according to the license, such stage or scaffolding is to be constructed, or such materials or rubbish are to be deposited, such sufficient hoards or fences, and shall continue such hoard or fence as aforesaid standing and in good condition, to the satisfaction of such officer as the Council shall appoint in that behalf during tho time limited as aforesaid in the said license, or the last renewal thereof, and for such longer time as the public safety it convenience requires, and shall, in all cases in which it is necessary, in order to prevent accidents, cause the same to be sufficiently lighted from sunset to sunrise, and; shall remove such hoard and fence and. make good the footway and street ,within a reasonable time after the provisions of this section have been fulfilled. -■ - Penalty for not lighting Hording. ■ ' 30. Every person who executes or begins or continues to execute any such work as in the last section mentioned, or who being licensed thereto, constructs or begins, or continues to construct any such stage or scaffolding, or deposits or keeps deposited any such material or rubbish upon or across any footway or street without having in any of the cases aforesaid put up such hoard or fence as aforesaid,

or continuing the same respectively, standing and in good condition as. aforesaid, during the time aforesaid, or without keeping the said hoard of fence and every part thereof respectively, while the same are standing, sufficiently lighted from sunset to sunrise, or without removing the same within such reasonable time as aforesaid, or without.making good the footway and street after such removal, shall, for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, and a further penalty not exceeding twenty shillings for every day. while such default is continued. Removal of Scaffolding. 31. Every person licensed as herein to construct any stage or scaffolding, or to deposit any materials or rubbish, shall remove within a reasonable time after the time limited as aforesaid in such license, or in the last renewal thereof, all such ! stage, scaffolding, materials and rubbish, and shall make good, the footway and street, and if any such person shall fail in any such case to comply with this section, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, and a further penalty not exceeding twenty shillings for every day while such default is continued. Streets not to be Obstructed. 32. Nothing herein contained shall render it lawful to construct any stage or scaffolding, or to deposit any materials or rubbish, or to put up any hoarding or platform as aforesaid, or all or any of them, so that the same shall extend or be across or over or upon any street further from the inner edge of the footy/ay than one-third of the whole breadth of such street, or in any case so as to render the street, exclusive of the footways impassable for carriages, or so as to obstruct the channel. Council may remove Obstructions. 33. If any person who ought under this subdivision to remove any matter or thing, or to make good any footway or street, shall fail so to do, whether or not such person shall have been' convicted or not of any offence under this subdivision, the Council may remove such matter or thing or make good such street or footway, and may recover the expenses of so doing from the person so making default before any Justice. (7) Lighting, &c, of Obstructions Generally. Obstructions to be Lighted. 34. When any building materials, rub" bish, or other things are laid, or any hole made in any street or footway, whether the same be done by order or authority of the Council, the persons causing such materials or other things to be so laid, or such a hole to be made, shall, at his own expense, cause a sufficient light to be fixed in a proper place upon or near the same, and continue such light every night from sunset to sunrise' while such materials or hole remain, and such person shall, at his own expense, cause such materials or other things and such hole to be sufficiently fenced and enclosed until such materials or other things are removed, or the hole filled up or otherwise made secure, and every such person who fails so to light, fence, or enclose such materials or other things, or such hole, shall, for every such offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, and a further sum not exceeding twenty shillings for every day which such default is continued. Penalty for Non-Removal. 35. In no case shall any such building materials or other things or such hole as last mentioned respectively, be allowed to remain an unnecessary time, under a penalty not exceeding five pounds to be paid for every such offence by the person who, whether by order or authority of the Council, for not causing such materials or other things to be laid or such hole to be made, and in any such case the proof that the time has not exceeded the necessary time shall be upon the person so causing such materials or other things to be laid, or causing such hole to be made. (8) Houses, Etc., Encroaching on Street, Etc. Houses encroaching on street. 36. If any person shall erect or place any house or other building, or any part thereof, upon, or across any public street, footway, or channel, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, and a further sum not exceeding five ponnds for every day while the same shall so continue. Previously built Jwuses encroaching on street. 37. If any house or other building, or any part thereof shall, before the coming into operation of this subdivision, shall have been erected or placed in upon, over, or across the public highway or any public street or footway, marked or set out as such in such manner as to be a common nuisance to the highway, or as to encroach on such street or footway, it shall be lawful for the Council to give notice to the owner of such house or building to remove such house or such part thereof as shall so have been erected or placed with such precautions for the safety of passengers, and for the proper securing of so much (if any), of such house or building as is tc remain thereafter, as the Council shall see fit, and such owner shall, within twentyeight days after the service of such notice upon him, remove such bouse or part according to the tenor of such notice, and if such owner shall fail .within the said period of twenty-eight days to remove such house or part, or shall not comply with tho requirements of the said notice, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, and a further sum not exceeding two pounds, for every day while such default is continued, and the Council may, if they shall see fit, remove such house or part, and recover the expenses of so doing from the said owner. (9) Obstructions &c., to Streets, &c, By Cattle, &c. Interpretation. 38. The word "Cattle" shall include horses, asses, mules, sheep, goats, and swine. Cattle at large on Enclosed Land. 39. If any cattle shall be found upon any land not being a Common, aud such that there is no fence, whether upon the same land or any other dividing such firstmentioned land from the streets, whether public or private of the Borough or any of them* without any person having charge of such cattle, the owner of such cattle shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty shillings for every head of such cattle, and the proper officer of the Council may seize such cattle and place the same at some neighbouring place of safe custody, and any Justice if such owner be not known upon proof of the issue of a summons in the usual form addressed to such owner as

" Owner," only without Otherwise naming or describing him such cattle and the place of seizure being truly described therein, and of the publication of such summons in some newspaper commonly circulating in the Borough, may, after the expiration of twenty four hours from such publication, proceed with respect to such owner, not appearing as if personal service of a sum- | mons, stating his name had, been effected, | or if such owner appear then as in such other ' cases, and the Justice may order the cattle to be sold, and the money arising from the sale, after deducting the said penalty and the costs awarded, and the reasonable expenses to be estimated and assessed by the Justice of seizing, keeping, and selling the said cattle, shall be paid, if demanded / within one month, to the owner of the cattle, and if not so demanded then to the Borough Fund, and if the said money shall not be sufficient for all the purposes aforesaid, the amount whereby the same falls short, or if no such sale be ordered, the whole of the said amount may be recovered from the said owner, if and when known in like manner as other penalties and sums adjudged or ordered to be paid by Justices, are to be recovered. Cattle at large in streets. 40. If any cattle be at any time found in any street without any person having the charge thereof, the owner of such cattle shall forfeit for every head of such cattle, a sum not exceeding twenty shillings, and if such cattle shall, by reason of having been so found at large, have been impounded by the Council, the amount of such penalty and the costs, if adjudged respectively before the release or sale of such cattle, shall be added to the pound fees, and charges payable in respect of such cattle and the amount thereof, or such lesser amount, (if any), as after the sale of the cattle may remain in the hands of the poundkeeper shall be paid over by him accordingly, and if the proceeds of any sale of such cattle shall not be sufficient after paying the lawful fees and charges aforesaid to satisfy such penalty and costs or if such penalty and costs shall have been adjudged after the release or sale of the cattle, the same or so much thereof as remains unpaid, shall, and may be recovered from the owner of the cattle in like manner, as other penalties and cost adjudged by Justices are by law to be recovered, and if in the case of any information under this section, the owner be not known, then the provisions of the last preceding section, so far as necessary, to give the adjudicating Justice jurisdiction shall apply. Goats and Swine may be sold or killed. 41. If any goat or swine shall have been sold under the provisions of either of the two last preceding sections or under the provisions of this Act relating to the impounding of cattle for trespass in the streets, and shall, after the expiration of twenty four hours be found in any place whatsoever within the Borough, any Justice may, by warrant, under his hand directed to any constable, authorise the destruction of such goat or swine, and the same may be destroyed accordingly. Regulations. 42. It shall be lawful for the Council to make regulations, from time to time, for appointing the hours during which it shall not be lawful to drive into or through the Borough any cattle intended for sale, slaughter, or shipment, and if any person shall'drive any such cattle contrary to the following regulation, he shall forfeit for every head of cattle so driven, a sum not exceeding twenty shillings. Driving Cattle. 43. In pursuance of the foregoing subdivision, the Council make the following regulations, that is to say :— No person shall drive, assist to drive, or cause to be driven, any goat in harness within the Borough of Akaroa, between the hours of seven o'clock a.m., and eleven o'clock p.m. Excepting in the cases in this clause specified, no person shall drive assist to drive or cause to be driven any other cattle within the Borough of Akaroa between the hours of ten o'clock a.m. and four o'clock p.m. from the first day of October to the thirty first day of March both days inclusive and between the hours of ten o'clock a m. and three o'clock p.m. from the first day of April to the thirtieth day of September both days inclusive. (1) Oxen in yoke and horses in harness may be so driven within the said hours. (2) Cattle found trespassing within the Borough may be driven to the pound within the said hours. (3) The word "Cattle" shall for the purpose of this regulation be deemed to include horses asses mules sheep goats and swine of all ages and of either sex and to apply to any one of such animals driven alone as well as to a mob or herd. BreoMng-in Horses in streets. 44. It shall not be lawful to break in any horse or other animal in any street whether public or private or in any public place save such public places as from time to time may be appointed by some regulation of the Council in that behalf which regulation the Council are hereby authorised to make or by locking the wheels of any cart or other vehicle or otherwise to test or try any horse or other animal so as to obstruct or injure any street or public place and any person offending against this section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds. (10) Miscellaneous. Any person guilty of any of the following offences omissions or neglects within the Borough of Akaroa shall on being convicted of any such offence neglect or omission be liable to pay any penalty not exceeding five pounds. 1. No person shall make or cause any unnecessary obstruction in or upon the roadway or footpath in any street by allowing any vehicle or animal to remain in upon or across the same or by placing thereon any goods or materials of any kind or shall fail to remove such obstructions when thereto required. 2. No person shall take the sole charge in any street or private street of more than two vehicles at tho same time each of which shall be drawn by one horse only and not by any other animal and the horse drawing the rearmost thereof shall be attached by sufficient rein or other fastening to the back of the foremost of such vehicle. 3. No person in charge of any vehicle in or upon any street shall allow any material which may be conveyed on such vehicle to drag or trail behind the same so as to obstruct passage or to project on either side thereef more than a distance of two feet measured horizontally from the outside of the axle of the wheel of such vehicle. 4. Any person riding or driving or otherwise in charge of any horse or vehicle in

or upon any street or private street shall keep to the near side thereof and any person so riding or driving or otherwise in charge of any horse or vehicle as aforesaid shall while he shall so be in charge remain sufficiently near to have the same under complete control. 5. Any person riding or driving any animal or vehicle in any street or private street meeting any other animal or vehicle, shallkeeponthenearorleftsideoftheroad, and passing, shall keep on the off right or side, and shall not in any manner prevent or obstruct any other person from riding or driving as aforesaid, from so meeting or passing. 6. No person shall, furiously or negligently, ride or drive any horse or vehicle, in or upon any street or private street. 7. No person shall, wilfully or negligently, so drive cattle in any street or private street so as to cause damage or danger to any person or thing, or shall, in anywise misbehave in respect of the driving of cattle therein. 8. No person in charge of any vehicle shall ride thereon, without there being, and he then having hold of good and sufficient reins thereto. 9. No person shall, without authority of the Council, expose or offer cattle for sale or exhibition in any street or private street, not being a lawful fair or market. 10. No person shall slaughter or expose, or offer for sale, or have in his possession, with intent to slaughter or sell as fit for human food, any diseased animals or meat, fish, game, poultry, or fruit, which shall be unfit therefor. 11. No person shall, keep open, in or upon any street or private street, any entrance or opening therefrom, for access into any vault, cellar, or other underground place, except for the purpose of taking goods thereout, or storing goods therein, nor for any longer time than reasonably necessary for such purpose, nor during such time as shall be so necessary with- | out providing sufficient protection to passengers from any injury thereby, nor shall any person neglect, or omit, to keep always in good repair, any door, railing, or cover, to or about such entrance or opening. 12. No person shall make any writing or painting, upon any house, building, . wall, fence, gate, door, or post, of any kind, or shall place thereon, or affix thereto, any placard, document, or thing, or shall in any way deface the same without the consent of the owner or occupier thereof. 13. No person shall, throw or place in or upon any street or private street, any bottle or other glass, whether whole or broken, filth, dust, rubbish, or other offensive annoying' obstructive, or inconvenient solid matter of any kind. 14. No person shall convey night soil along any street or private street between the hours of six o'clock in the morning, and eleven o'clock at night. 15. No person shall burn or set a light in or upon any street or private street, to any hay, straw, flax, wood, shavings, gorse, cuttings or other inflammable produce or material. 16. No person shall, in any street or private street, to the annoyance of any person, roll any cask or vessel, or beat any carpet. 17. No person shall wantonly hurt or harass any cattle passing along or being in any street. 18. No person shall wilfully set on any dog to attack, worry, or put in fear, any person or animal in any street, or suffer- any ferocious or mischievous dog of which he may be owner, or have charge, to be at large and unmuzzled. 19. No person shall, without lawful cause or authority, discharge or let off, any firearms or fireworks of any kind whatever. 20. No person shall throw, cast, or discharge any stone, stick, marble, bullet, or missile of any kind, to the damage or danger of any person or thing. 21. No person shall place or leave, in or upon the banks of any river, creek, stream, or watercourse, any dead animal or other noxious or offensive matter or thing or shall throw, cast, or discharge into any river, creek, or stream or watercourse, any dead animal, or other noxious or offensive matter or thing, or any living animal, with intent to drown the same, or shall drown any animal therein. 22. No person shall in any street sing, say, or recite any profane, indecent or obscene song, use any profane, indecent, or obscene language, paint draw, or write any prof ane,"indecent, or obscene representation, figure, or word, or distribute, or expose, or offer for sale, or exhibit any profane, indecent, or obscene book, painting, drawing, engraving, photograph, representation, print, or paper writing. 23. No person shall indecently expose his person, in or within view of any street or private street. 24. No person, having the charge of, shall permit any bull, stallion, or entire animal, to cover within public view. 25. No person shall within the hours of eight o'clock in the morning, and eight o'clock at night, bath near to, or within view of any street or private street. 26. No person shall, whether drunk or sober, create any disturbance in any street or private 'street. 27. No person shall keep, or act, or behave as master or mistress, or as having the care, government, or management of any disorderly house, or house of ill-fame, or shall knowingly permit any other person to keep the same or to act or behave as master or mistress thereof or as having the care government or management thereof or shall knowingly let any house or any part thereof for the purpose of being so kept or used. 28. No person shall wilfully destroy or damage any building wall fence or paling or any fixture or appendage thereto or any tree shrub or plant or any seat in any park plantation or garden the same several things or places respectively being under the control management or supervision of the Borough Council. 29. No occupier of any private yardway avenue or passage shall so neglect to keep the same properly cleaned as that any nuisance may arise therefrom. 30. No person shall destroy obstruct pollute or in any way damage any well pump water-pipe water-channel or course pond reservoir or fountain whether public or private. 31. No owner or occupier of any premises shall suffer any waste or impure water or liquid matter to be or remain in or upon any place under or above ground situated therein so as to become a nuisance. 32. The half of the cost and charge of the construction and materials of all footways

within the Borough shall be a charge upon the owners or occupiers of the lands and buildings fronting on such footways the charge upon each owner or occupier of such lands or buildings shall be in proportion to the length of the footway adjoining such lands or buildings and such charge shall be deemed to be and may be recovered as a separate rate. 33. The word " Cattle" shall for the purpose of this Bye-law be deemed to include horses asses mules sheep goats and swine of all ages and of either sex and to apply to any one of such animals alone as well as to a mob or herd. 34. The word " Street" shall mean a public street and highway and shall extend to and include every road square court alley and thoroughfare within the Borough of Akaroa used by carts or foot passengers not being a private street. 35. The words "Private Streets" shall mean any road street or place within the Borough of Akaroa used by vehicles and either accessible to the public, from a public street or forming a common access to lands and premises separately occupied and which has not been maintained as or declared a public street. 36. The word '• Vehicle " shall include any wheeled carriage or "cart whatever be its form or construction used in carrying persons or goods. PART V. Regulations, &c, of Buildings. Regulations. 1. It shall be lawful for the Council from time to time to make regulations for all or any of the purposes following that is to say For prohibiting or restraining the use of combustible materials in the construction alteration repair or renewal of buildings roofs or chimneys flues smoke-vent or stove-pipes hereinafter in this sub-division called in common " chimneys " or of parts thereof respectively to be specified in the regulation. For regulating the distance from any other building- at which it shall be lawful to construct any building. For regulating the height thickness construction or materials of the party walls of buildings adjoining each other and of the external walls of buildings and of chimneys and the materials for and mode of enclosing the same. For regulating the construction materials and enclosing by building or otherwise of fire-places or furnaces to be used in the working of engines by steam or in any mill brewery bakehouse or gas-works or in any manufactory whatsover although a steamengine be not used therein respectively. For regulating the erection of tents. For limiting a time not less than seven years from the coining into force of the limiting regulation, after which it shall not be lawful, without the consent of the Council to use, keep, orcontinue, or suffer to remain any building, roof, fireplace, furnace or chimney, or the enclosure of any fireplace, furnace or chimney originally constructed or made, without violation of law, and existing at the time of such coming into force, being of any such construction, height, thickness, materials, or description, or within any such distance of other buildings as reare contrary to any regulation existing at the time of such coming into force. For appointing fees not in any case exceeding the sum of two pounds, which may be charged and received on account of the Borough fund by the proper officer of the Council, for any inspection, superintendence, or other service made or performed by him under any such regulation as hereinbein this section provided for. And every such regulation may be made to apply to the whole or separately to a part or parts of the Borough, described by boundaries in such regulation, and may, provide] with respect to the several matters of prohibition, restraint and regulation hereinbefore in this section mentioned, either absolutely or with relation to classes, rates, situations, distances, or other like data, to be laid down or referred to in general terms therein, and with or without relation to a right of approval or disapproval, or inspection, to be vested in the Council or some proper officer of the Council. Improper construction of Buildings. 2. If any person after the coining into force of such regulation as in this subdivision aforesaid, and whilst the same is in force, shall construct, alter or repair, or renew within the Borough, or within the limits prescribed in such regulation, any building, roof, fireplace, furnace or chimney, or put up any tent, or enclose any fireplace, furnace or chimney contrary in any of the cases aforesaid to such regulation, or shall, after the expiration of the time (if any) limited in that behalf, and notice from the Council to remove or alter any building, roof, fireplace, chimney, furnace, or enclosure to which the limiting regulation applies use keep or continue the same or suffer the same to remain or if the case be so to remain unaltered for moie than twenty-eight days after the time when sucli notice has been given him he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds for every day while such building roof chimney fireplace furnace or tent continues so constructed or standing or continues so as unlawfully altered repaired renewed or enclosed or while (if the case be so) the same shall after the expiration of the said twentyeight days be used kept continued or suffered to remain as aforesaid. Buildings hitherto unlawfully constructed. 3. If any building roof fireplace furnace or chimney shall before the coming into operation of this. subdivision or any fireplace furnace or chimney enclosed or left unenclosed in violation of any law or byelaw theretofore in force in the Borough it shall be lawful for the Council to give notice to the owner or occupier thereof respectively to remove or to alter or enclose so as to conform to any regulation in force in that behalf under this subdivision such building roof fireplace furnace chimney and such owner or occupier shall remove or in manner aforesaid alter or enclose the same within twenty-eight days after the service of such notice upon him and if such owner or occupier neglect or refuse within twenty-eight days after such notice so served or in manner aforesaid to alter or enclose such building roof fireplace furnace or chimney he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds and a further sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day during which the same is con-

tinued or if the case be so continues so v n altered or unenclosed after the expiration of fourteen days from the time when he may first be convicted of' any such offence under this section. Buildings improperly constructed without violation of the Law. 41 If any chimney shall have been commenced or constructed before the coming into operation of this subdivision and shall be of other height thickness construction or materials or enclosed otherwise than respectively required by or left unenclosed contrary to the tenor of any regulation in force under this subdivision But shall have been so constructed enclosed or left unenclosed without violation of law and if the proper officer of the Council upon inspection had (which inspection any ratepayer may upon payment of five shillings demand and require) shall deem that such chimney by reason Of want of proper height thickness or enclosure or by reason of its being constructed of inflammable materials causes reasonable danger of fire to any building or causes a nuisance through not properly carrying up the smoke it shall be lawful for such officer to give notice to the owner and occupier of such premises in which such chimney is forewith to take down or alter ~ or enclose such chimney as the case may require for prevention of such danger or nuisance and if such owner or occupier do nqt within seven days after such notice comply with the same then any two Justices if they are satisfied that for the reasons aforesaid such chimney causes such danger or nuisance may order the same to, be removed altered or enclosed as they may see fit by the said officer and reasonable compensation shall be paid out of the Borough fund to all persons who shall be put to expense or suffer damage in complying with any such notice or through the execution of such order. Ruinous or Dangerous Buildings, &c. Notice to owner of Ruinous Buildings. 5. If any building or wall or any thing affixed thereon be deemed by the proper officer of the Council to be in. a ruinous state and dangerous to passengers or to the occupiers thereof or to the neighbouring buildings such officer shall immediately cause a proper board or fence and if he shall deem it necessary props to be put up for the protection of passengers and of such occupiers and shall also if he shall deem it necessary cause the neigh- , bouring buildings to be properly shored up and shall cause notice in writing to be given to the owner of such building or wall or he be known and resident within s the Borough and shall also cause such notice to be put on the door or other con- . spicuous part of the said premises or otherwise to be given to the occupier thereof (if any) requiring such owneroroccupierforthwith to take down secure or repair such building wall or other thing as the case may require. Justices may limit time for Removal. 6. If such owner or occupier do not begin to take down repair or secure such building wall or other thing within the space of three days after such notice shall have been given or put up as aforesaid and complete such taking down repairs or securing as speedily as the nature of the case will admit such officer may make complaint to two Justices and it shall be lawful for such Justices to order the owner or in his default the occupier (if any) of such building wall or other thing to take down re-build repair or otherwise secure, to the satisfaction of such officer the same or such part thereof as appears to them to be in a dangerous state within a time to be fixed by such Justices and in case the same be not taken down rebuilt repaired or otherwise secured within the time so limited or if- no owner or occupier can be found on whom to serve such order the Council shall with all convenient speed cause all or so much of such building wall or other thing as shall be in a ruinous condition and dangerous as aforesaid to be taken down rebuilt repaired or otherwise secured in such manner as shall be requisite and all the expenses of putting up any such fence hoard and props and of shoring up such buildings and of taking down re-building repairing or securing such building wall or other thing shall be paid by the owner thereof and any two Justices may order such payment. Materials may be sold 7. If any such building or wall as aforesaid or any part of the same be pulled down by virtue of the powers aforesaid the Council may sell the materials thereof or so much of the same as shall be pulled down and apply the proceeds of such sale in payment of the expenses incurred in respect of such building or wall and the Council shall restore any overplus arising from such sale to the owner of the building or wall on demand. Lands may be taken and sold.. 8. If such owner cannot be found within the Borough or sufficient distress of his goods and chattels within the Borough cannot be made and the said expenses or any part thereof remain unpaid the Council after giving twenty-eight days notice of their intention to do so by posting a notice in a conspicuous place on such building or wall or on the land whereon such building or wall stood may take such building or land provided that such expenses or so such as remain due be not paid or tendered to them within the said twenty-eight days making compensation to the owner of such building or land in the manner provided by the "Public Works Act 1876" in the case of lands taken otherwise than with the consent of the owners and occupiers thereof and the Council shall be entitled to "deduct out of such compensation the amount of the expenses so unpaid as aforesaid and may sell or otherwise dispose of the said building or land for the purposes hereof. Scale of Fees for the Examination of Stoves Chimneys Flues and other new fireplaces. For the examination or inspection of any stove flue chimney fireplace or furnace by the proper officer of the Council a fee of five shillings for every such examination or inspection shall be payable to the Borough fund. Nuisances. (1) No person shall keep any swine within one and a half chains o of any dwelling house or creek and if any person shall keep any swine within the prescribed limits he shall forfeit for every day during which he shall so offend a sum not exceeding five pounds. (2) Every person who shall empty any privy or load carry remove or deposit any night soil offal or other offensive refuse or matter or shall convey the same along any street or private street save between {For Continuation, see fourth page.)

the hours of eleven o'clock at night and six o'clock in the morning shall forfeit for every such offence a. sum not exceeding five pounds. (3.) Every privy hereafter to be erected in the yard or aroa of any building within the Borough may be erected with walls of wood or iron and must have a door to be properly enclosed screened and fenced from public view and be erected not less than ten feet distant from any adjacent dwelling-house. (4.) Every Inspector of Nuisances shall have full power to visit and inspect all buildings in which any manufactory trade or business is carried on which from its nature may become offensive to the inhabitants of the Borough or injurious to the public health and to visit and inspect the back yards arid premises privies cesspools drains and other receptacles of dirt or rubbish or sewage matter belonging to or used by the inhabitants of any house or building in the Borough. If any person in any way wilfully obstructs any Inspector of Nuisances in the execution of his duty he shall be liable to a penalty of not more than ten pounds. (5.) Allpriviescesspoolsaridhousedrams within the Borough of Akaroa and as well within as without the premises to which the same may belong and the cleansing keeping in order and repair of all such privies cesspools and house drains shall be under the superintendence government and control of the Council. (6.) It shall be lawful for the Council of the Borough if the Council shall not as yet have provided within such Borough and duly notified the same as ready for public use to license upon payment of such sum not exceeding two pounds as shall be appointed by regulation in that behalf such slaughter-houses as they from time to time may think proper for slaughtering cattle within the Borough and every such license shall be in force for one year from the time of granting the same and no longer. . (7.) Every person who without having such license as aforesaid in force uses as a slaughter-house any place within such Borough as in the last preceding section mentioned shall for each offence forfeit on conviction a sum not exceeding five pounds and a like penalty for every day after such conviction upon which he shall so offend. (8.) It shall not be lawful for any person to deposit any dead animal or offensive matter except in such place or places as may be appointed by the Council it shall be compulsory upon the person removing the said animal or offensive matter which removals shall be effected within twentyfour hours to bury the same in or upon such place as directed by the Council at least two feet underground or in such other manner as directed by the Inspector of Nuisances or such other person _as the Corporation may,appoint such animal or offensive matter to be buried within twenty-four hours from its removal to such place. Every person who shall fail to observe the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds. Creeks ato Water-courses Polluting Streams. 1. Whosoever shall bath in any stream creek or natural water-course under the management or control of the Council or shall wash cleanse throw or cause to enter therein any animal whether alive or dead or any rubbish filth stuff or thing of any kind whatsoever or shall cause or permit or suffer to run or be therein the water of any sink sewer drain or other filthy unwholesome or improper water or s-hall do anything whatsoever whereby any water flowing in any of the streams creeks ornatural water-courses within the Borough of Akaroa shall be fouled obstructed or damaged shall for every such offence forfeit on conviction a sum not exceeding five pounds and a further sum not exceeding twenty shilling for each day while such offence is continued after*'written notice in that behalf. Damming-up Water Courses. 2. Whosoever shall without the consent in writing of the Council construct or place any dam or embankment in or across any stream creek or natural water-course shall on conviction forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds and a further sura not exceeding five pounds for every day after such conviction during which such dam or embankment or any part thereof shall continue. Obstructing Culverts, &c. 3. Whosoever shall obstruct or damage ■any culvert sewer or drain belonging to or under the control of the Council shall forfeit a suuTnot exceeding five pounds and shall pay to the Council by way of compensation for any such damage such further sum as the convicting magistrate shall order. PART VIII. Fire Prevention. (1) foul chimneys. Wilfully setting fire to Chimneys. 1. Every person who wilfully sets or causes to be set on fire any chimney flue smoke-vent or stove-pipe herein called in common a " Chimney " shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, provided always that nothing herein contained shall exempt the person so setting or causing to be set on fire any chimney from liability to be informed against or prosecuted before any criminal court for such act as for an indictable offence. Negligently suffering chimneys to be on fire. 2. If any chimney accidentally catch or be on fire the person occupying or using the premises in which such chimney is situated shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings provided always that such forfeiture shall not be incurred if such prove to the satisfaction of the justice before whom the case is heard that such fire was in no wise owing to the omission neglect or carelessness whether with respect to cleansing such chimney or otherwise of himself or his servant. (2) Deposit &o. of Inflammable Materials &c. Regulations. 3. It shall be lawful for the Council from time to time to make regulations for all or any of the purposes following that is to say— ... For prescribing the distance from any adjoining land or from any building within which it shall not be lawful to make "or keep any stack of hay straw corn or other produce if not placed under roof or cover and the like where placed under roof or cover and for prohibiting or restraining the use for such covering of such inflammable materials as shall be described in such regulation.

For prescribing the distance from any a.d- - ---; joining land or from any street or public place or from any building within which it shall not be lawful to deposit such combustible materials as shall be specified in the regulation or save in some properly constructed fireplace within some building to make or light any firo. And every such regulation may be made to apply to the whole or separately to any part or parts of the Borough described by boundaries in such Bye-law and may provide as to' the subject matter thereof either absolutely or with relation to the consent of the Council or of the proper officer of the Council to be given or withheld in any case to be in question under such regulation. . Stacks or Coverings &c. in violation of or otherwise than required by Regulations. 4. Every person who shall make or place stack of hay corn straw or other produce or place as or for the covering of any such stack any inflammable material or deposit any combustible material or light any fire contrary in any such case to any regulation under this subdivision and every occupier of any premises whereon any 'stack or any such covering of any stack shall be or any combustible materials have been deposited if the same though lawfully made placed or deposited before the coming into force of any such regulation shall be there contrary to the tenor of such regulation who shall not within seven days after notice from the' Council so to do remove such stack covering or materials or who shall suffer to remain any such stack covering or materials unlawflly made placed or deposited before the coming into force of such regulation shall forfeit on conviction of such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds and in every such case a further sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day after any such conviction during which such stack covering or materials shall so continue. 5. It shall not be lawful for any person within any part of the Borough of Akaroa to make or keep any stack of hay straw flax or other produce of a like inflammable nature within a distance from any building of less than sixty feet nor within a distance from any public or private street within the meaning of the " Municipal Corporations Act 1876" of less than twenty feet any person who shall so offend shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding five pounds and a further sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day after such conviction during which such stack shall so continue. Setting fire to Matter without Notice. 6. Every person who wilfully sets fire to any inflammable matter whatsoever in the open air without having given notice in writing to the occupiers of the land adjoining to the land upon which such matter shall be and to the Town Clerk of his intention so do within twenty-four hours after giving the last of such notices or between the hours of four in the afternoon of any day aiid eight of the morning of the following day shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds. Fireworks. 7. Every person who shall light any bon-fire tar-barrel squib cracker rocket or any other firework within sixty yards of any public street or private street or any public place shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds. Brush Fences. 8. It shall not be lawful for any person after the coming into force of this Byelaw to plant or place or keep any fence of furze, within the limits of the Borough save and except in or upon suburban sections and every owner or occupier of any premises who shall cause or allow such fence to be planted or made shall forfeit on conviction for such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds and in every such case a sum not- exceeding forty shillings for every day after any such conviction during which such fence shall continue. 9. All fences of furze brushwood or other like material upon suburban sections within the boundaries of the Borough shall be kept thoroughly trimmed to a height not exceeding five feet and every owner or occupier of any premises who after fourteen days notice from the Council shall neglect to trim or caused to be trimmed any fence thereto appertaining shall forfeit on conviction for such offence a sum not not exceeding five pounds and in every such case a sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day after any such conviction during which such fence shall remain untrimmed. 10. No fence of furze brushwood or other like material shall be allowed to remain within forty feet of any building within the Borough and every owner or occupier of any premises who after fourteen days notice from the Council shall neglect to move or cause to be removed any such fence or portion thereof thereto appertaining shall forfeit on conviction for any such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds and in every such case a sum not exceeding forty shillings for every clay after any such conviction during which such fence shall continue. Lighting Fires in Open Air. 11. It shall not be lawful for any perscm to light or make any fire in the open, air within the Borough at a less distance than 100 links from any house or building except as provided in section 6 of this subdi-, vision and every such person who shall so* offend shall forfeit on conviction a sum not exceeding five pounds. ■Storing Gunpowder. 12. No person whether licensed for the sale of gunpowder or otherwise shall keep or store in the same premises a greater quantity of gunpowder or blasting powder than twenty-five pounds at any onetime and every such person who shall so keep or store any greater quantity shall on conviction forfeit a sum riot exceeding five pounds and a further sum "not exceeding five pounds for every day after such conviction he shall so keep or store such greater quantity. Petroleum. 1. For the purpose of this Bye-law " Petroleum" shall include all such Rock oil Rangoon oil Burniah oil and any product of them and any oil made from petroleum coal schist shale peat or other bituminous substance and any .such product of them as gives off an inflammable vapour at a temperature, of less than 110 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer but this Bye-law shall not appjy .to any quantity of petroleum consisting' of not more, than ten gailons,in the. whole kept for private use and not for'sale../, , ~ ~; "'..: ", '.License. . 2. From and-after ,tlie-firs]lj xl ay of April 1877 petroleum, shall not be kept within

fifty yards of any dwelling-house or of any building in which goods are stored except in pursuance of a license granted under this Bye-law nor shall any greater quantity than four hundred gallons ,be kept on the same premises at one and tho same time except in pursuance of a special license to be granted as hereinafter mentioned. Form of Application. 3. Before any license shall be granted an application shall be delivered at the office of the Town Clerk stating the name residence and occupation of the applicant and particularly describing so as to distinguish the same from any other place the premises in or upon which it is intended to keep petroleum and such application shall be signed by the applicant and shall be pursuant to the form contained in schedule A of this Bye-law. 4. So soon as conveniently may be thereafter the Inspector for the time being appointed by the Council shall examine the premises described in such application and shall report in writing to the Council at their next ordinary meeting his opinion whether the license applied for may or may not safely be granted with all such particulars as may be necessary to enable the Council to judge of the expediency or otherwise of granting the license applied for. 5. Licenses shall be in the form or to the effect as near as may be contained in the schedule B to this Bye-law and shall continue in force until 31st day of March next ensuing Licenses may be renewed on application at the Town Clerk's office not later than the fifteenth day of March previous to their expiry the applicant leaving the same with the Town Clerk who shall give a receipt for the same. 6. Licenses shall be signed by the Town Clerk and numbered in such order as shall be determined by the Council. Fees. 7. For the grant or renewal of an ordinary license there shall be paid a fee of one pound and for the grant of or renewal of any special license there shall be paid a fee of two pounds. 8. Subject to any addition modification or repeal thereof from time to time by the Council licenses shall be granted subject to the following conditions. Conditions of License. 9. The nearest distance of such petroleum from any wall of any building or from any other goods which may for the time being be stored or kept in the same or on any other premises shall be not less than two feet and the nearest distance thereof from any beat or flume or from inflammable combustible or explosive material shall not be less than twelve feet. 10. The licensee shall not sell or expose for sale for use within the colony of New Zealand any petroleum as herein defined unless the bottle or vessel containing petroleum have attached thereto a label in legible characters stating as follows— " Dangerous No light to be brought near." Leaky Vessels. 11. The licensee shall cause to be forthwith removed from the premises comprised in his license any vessel containing petroleum leaking therefrom and shall not allow such vessel to be used for the purpose of containing petroleum until the same shall have been completely repaired. Special Licenses. 12. Special licenses shall be granted on such application after such inspection subject to such conditions for such period with or without power of renewal and liable to revocation as the Council shall in each case determine. Penalties. 13. Any person committing any breach of this Bye-law shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding five pounds nor less than ten shillings to be recovered in a summary way before any two Justices of the Peace in the manner provided by the " Municipal Corporation Act 1876." Buildings, &c, for Public Meetings. Public buildings to be Registered. 1. Every occupier of any hall or,'other building used for public meetings or of any such building or any ground in which public amusements are conducted shall in each year register at the office of the Council such building or ground together with the situation and description thereof and the purpose being such as aforesaid for which the same is to be kept and the name of such occupier and every person who causes and every occupier of any such premises who permits any public meeting to be held or any public amusement to be conducted in or on any such premises not being registered for the purpose or without such certificate of registration as hereinafter mentioned having been obtained for the same shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds. Certificate of Registration. 2. The Council upon 'the written application of any such occupier as aforesaid stating the particulars as aforesaid may if upon inspection by the proper officer the premises shall have been found to be secure' and proper for the purpose stated and if the Council shall see fit cause the premises to be'registered in a registry book to be kept for that purpose and shall thereupon grant to the applicant a certificate of such registration of such premises in the appointed form and the Council may at any time suspend for a stated period the effect of or cancel any such registration and shall forthwith give notice of such suspension or cancellation to the occupier of the registered premises and during such suspension or after such cancellation such premises shall be deemed to be unregistered in respect of the purpose mentioned in the certificate of registration and such certificate, shall be of no force or virtue. v.-*' ■■ Inspection. 3. The proper officer of the Council may at all reasonable times enter and inspect any such registered premises as aforesaid. Regulations. 4 It shall be lawful for the Counci from time to time to make regulations for appointing the time and hours during or at which respectively any such registered building or ground shall be used for the purpose for which it is registered or shall be closed and exery occupier of any such premises who permits the same to be used for such purpose during or at or any other time or after any such hour respectively shall for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds. Registration. 5. The registration of any hall or other building required to be registered under part XII of the. "Municipal Corporation ;

, Act 1876 sec. 349' sub sec. -.12 shall be in 1 force from the date thereof until the thirty-first day of March next ensuing and may be renewed on application at the Town Clerk's office not later than the fifteenth day of March previous to its expiry. 6. There shall be payable on every such registration and renewal a fee of one pound. PART XIII. Public Reserves, &c. Conduct in public plades. It shall be lawful for the Council from time to time to make regulations for the proper use and management of all_ public reserves pleasure-grounds gardens libraries museums and all other places of public recreation and enjoyment and to fix the times at which and the restrictions under which the same may be used by the public . and to prevent and punish improper indecent or disorderly conduct or the use of foul or abusive language or any practices calculated to offend or annoy the public in the use and enjoyment of any such public places and every person so aft'ending against any such regulation shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds. PART XV. Pounds. It shall be lawful for the Council from time to time to make such regulations as they shall see fit for fixing the fees and charges to be paid to the Poundkeeper or to the Borough Fund in respect of all animals pounded and for the maintenance of the same whilst in the pound and for regulating the management of Pounds and the conduct of Poundkeepers. PART XVI. Carts and Carters. 1. No carrier's cart shall ply for hire or wait on any public stand within the Borough of Akaroa or within the limits hereinafter prescribed unless and until a license to be called a " Carrier's license" shall have been duly obtained for the same as hereinafter specified and no hawker's cart shall carry any goods for sale within the said Borough or limits until a license to be called a " Hawker's license " shall have been duly obtained for the same as hereinafter specified provided that in case any licensed cart shall be undergoing repair or otherwise unfit for use the owner thereof may let or permit to ply for hire in lieu thereof any other cart which he shall have been permitted by the Town Clerk so to use but for such time only as he shall be so permitted and subject in all respects as if licensed to the jjrovisions of this Bye-law. 2. No carrier's or hawker's cart shall be licensed except on application signed by the owner thereof made in the form specified in schedule A hereunto annexed and delivered at the office of the Town Clerk. 3. Every license for any such cart shall have stated thereon the name and place of abode of the owner thereof and shall be numbered in such order as shall be determined by the Council and shall be in the form specified in schedule B hereunto annexed and shall be signed by the Town Clerk. 4. Every license to remain in force until the 31st day of March next ensuing the date thereof Any license may be renewed for one year from its expiration on application being made at the office of the Town Clerk by the owner of the cart thereby licensed not later than the 15th day of the month of March in which such license shall expire such owner at the same time leaving the same with the Town Clerk who shall give him a receipt for the same. 5. For every carrier's license there shall be paid to the Town Clerk if granted on or before the 31st day of March in any year a fee of twenty shillings if such license be granted after that clay a fee of half the said sum For every renewal of any license the full fee shall be paid provided that there shall be granted without fee to any person now holding a carrier's license granted by the Council under the authority of the Hackney Carriages Ordinance 1864 and surrendering the same on or before the Ist day of October next a carriers license under this Bye-law in lieu thereof and such license shall remain in force until the 31st day of March next. 6. No license shall include more than one cart. 7. The owner of every licensed cart shall before using the same or allowing the same to be used pursuant to such license paint upon a conspicuous part of the off side thereof and upon no other cart in consecutive order in words and figures of not less than two inches in height white upon a ground of black the initials of his christian name and his surname in f ul lthe words Licensed Carrier and the number of the license which shall then be in force for the same and shall keep such painting underfaced legible and conspicuous during all such time as such license or licenses which shall continue in force and no longer. 8. The rates of fare for the transfer or conveyance of goods by any licensed cart shall be according to the scale specified in schedule C. hereunto annexed it being at the option of the hirer whether to hire by time or distance and a copy of such schedule shall be supplied by the Town Clerk together with his license to every owner on whose application such license shall be granted. 9. The Council shall appoint and may from time to time alter the number and places of the public stands for licensed carriers and the number of carrier's carts to be allowed to wait at each stand and the appropriation of any part or parts thereof rerespectively for foot passengers and as soon asconvenientlymaybe thereafter shall give notice of every such appointment alteration or appropriation by advertisement in some newspaper published within the Borough of Akaroa. 10. The owner or driver of any carrier's cart shall not permit the same whether ■with or •without a horse or ' horses to stand elsewhere than on a public stand longer than may be necessary for the loading or unloading-the same. 11. The driver of any carrier's cart shall take his station; on any public stand on which he shall wait for hire in the order of his arrival on such stand and in the event of the station before him being vacated shall immediately hereupon take such station. • . 12. The driver of any carrier's cart shall remain constantly in attendance upon the same while hired or plying for or returning from hire, or waiting on any public stand. 13. No driver shall feed any horse while on any stand otherwise than by means of a nose-bag or shall remove such horses , blinkers while being fed nor shall any driver permit any vicious horse attached to any cart to be or remain unmuzzled. 14. No owner or driver of any carrier's

cart plying for hire or waiting on any public stand between the hours of sunrise and sunset shall refuse or neglect unless then actually hired by some other person to carry a reasonable load or to let out such cart for hire for .any distance within the distance therinafter prescribed. 15. No owner or driver of any carrier's cart having agreed to carry any load at any time to or from any place whether within or beyond the limits hereinafter prescribed shall refuse neglect or delay to fulfil such agreement." 16. The driver of any carrier's cart shall on being required so to do produce to the person hiring or paying for the same the copy of the schedule of the fares with which the owner of such cart shall have been furnished under section 9 of this Bye-law. 17. The driver of any hired cart shallload and unload the same and if he cannot do so without assistance then with such assistance as may be reasonably necessary. 18. The driver of any cart shall not while hired returning from hire plying for fare or waiting on any public stand cause any obstruction or create any disturbance nor shall any owner or driver of any cart use towards any person hiring or having hired such cart or dealing for goods being the loading of such cart with the owner or driver thereof any obscene blasphemous threatening abusive or insulting words or gestures. 19. The penalty for any offence against any provision of this Bye-law shall be a sum not more than £5 nor Jess than 10s to be recovered in a summary way before any two Justices of the Peace in the manner provided by the said Act. 20. If any such offence be committed by any owner the penalty shall and if the same be committed by any driver the penalty may be recovered against such owner provided that any proceeding hereinunder against any owner shall not prejudice or preclude any proceeding against any driver in respect of the same offence. 21. Upon its being made to appear to the satisfaction of the Council that any owner or driver has been convicted of any offence under this Bye-law or of any criminal offence the Council may suspend for any stated time or revoke as they may deem fit any license which such owner may hold under this Bye-law. 22. This Bye-law shall apply to all carrier's carts hereinafter specified within the meaning of the said Act which shall be used in standing or plying for hire or for the conveyance of goods within the corporate limits of the Borough of Akaroa and within any distance as the crow flies of not more than five miles from the principal Post-office for the time being of such Borough. 23. For the purpose of this Bye-law the word " Cart" shall include every waggon dray or other such carriage whatever be its construction drawn by horses or other animals used wholly or chiefly for the carriage of burdens or heavy goods The words " Town Clerk" shall mean the Town Clerk of the Borough of Akaroa. PART XVII. Pedlars and Hawkers. 1. Every person who shall exercise or carry on the business of hawker pedlar petty chapman or any other trading person carrying to sell or exposing for sale any goods wares or merchandise within the district shall be required to take out a license. 2. Such license shall be issued by the Town Clerk to any person applying for the same en the payment of one pound one shilling sterling and such application shall be in writing and signed by any two ratepayers and by the applicant. 3. Every such license shall be in the form in schedule hereto annexed and the same shall be in force for twelve months from tho date of the issue thereof. 4. This regulation shall not extend to prevent any person from selling or offering for sale fish fruit farm or dairy produce in the public streets or thoroughfares or selling or exposing for sale any sort of goods or merchandise in any public market or any other public place set apart for the like purpose. 5. If any hawker pedlar or petty chapman holding such license as aforesaid be convicted of selling stolen goods or merchandise he shall forfeit his license. The Town Clerk shall keep a register of names and places of abode of all persons to whom such licenses shall be issued and such register may be inspected by any person at- reasonable times. PART XX. Firearms. No person shall discharge any firearms or carry any loaded firearm or other dangerous weapon within the Borough provided that the provision aforesaid as to discharging firearms shall not apply to any Justice of the Peace or any person in her Majesty's military or naval service or any member of the police or peace officer or any member of a recognised Volunteer corps or any special constable or any person actually in pursuit of any felon or offender Any person so offending shall forfeit on conviction a sum not exceeding five pounds. PART XXI. Injury to Property. If any person shall wilfully destroy or damage any building wall fence paling or any fixture or appendage thereto or any bridge sewer culvert watercourse road footway or any other public work or property under the control management or supervision of the Council shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds. 2. If any person shall wilfully and without the authority of the Council cut break bark root up or otherwise destroy or damage the whole or any part of any tree sapling shrub or underwood growing in or upon any street or place under the man- i agement of the Council although the injury done shall not be to the amount of one shilling he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds. 3. If any person shall without the authority of the Council break displace or remove the surface or soil of any land belonging to or under the control or management of the Council he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds. SCHEDULE A. ißye-LawNo. — an application for a carrier's license To the Mayor and Councillors of the Borough of Akaroa. I residing in do hereby request that a carrier's license may be granted to me to use employ and let a ply within the said Borough and within a distance of five miles from the Post-office and I hereby undertake to comply with all Bye-laws which may be in force in this behalf so long as such license may continue.