CITY AND SUBURBAN COMMISSIONERS BILL.

New Zealander, Volume 12, Issue 1116, 27 December 1856, Page 3

CITY AND SUBURBAN COMMISSIONERS BILL.

(t'onclu<le<l from our last.) Bye Laws. ft!), riu-miid Beard shall have power from time to time, to make, ordain, alter, or repeal H.V ,! lo^ Hi- (Too I u.d r, heallli, and convenience of iheeanl District, anil *'or the government, cleansing, and maiiaeeineii to! the said Harbour, and o‘ any ducks, pieis, or wateri .g j laces already or hereafter to be constructed I herein, (JO. Such Bye Laws may be so made especially (or all or any (a nongst oiler-’) for the several objects followin'.;, tli it i to say,— 1. Lor t:,C making and maintaining of any highways oi other internal communication from .one p i it of the District to the other part thereof ; and for regulating the Hugging paving, and repairing the same. ‘2. Fur the erection and repair ot public buddings for miv corporate purpose, and for the protection of public property.

3. For the purchase or sale of any property for any corporate purposes. 4. For suppressing ami retraining Sabbath-break-ing, anil enforcing the due observance of the Lord’s Day. 5. For braining, paving, lighting, watching, repair-• ing, and cleansing any highways within the District. 6. For maintaining and regulating market places, and for imposing market tolls and dues. 7. For the licensing, regulation, and government of hawkers nud pedlars, and for fixing the amount sf I icons’) fees to he paid. ti. For the inspection, licensing, and regulation of | lodging-houses, and for promoting the cleanliness and ventilation of the same, and for fixing the amount of license fees to be paid. 9. For regulating bathing in the waters adjoining the District. 10. For the suppression and restraint of disorderly houses and houses of ill-fame and repute. 11. For the licensing, regulation and government of theatres and billiard tables, and other places of public amusement, and fixing the amount of license (eos to be paid. 12. For compelling the owners or occupiers of cellars, tallow-chandlers’ shops, soap factories, tanneries, privies, sewers, slaughter-houses, and other houses and places which may he in an unwholesome or offensive state, to cleanse the same from time to time and in such manner as the said Hoard may think necessity ami proper; and for regulating the dimensions, form, mode of construction, and materials lor pipes, drains, and Other means of communication with public sewers and drains. 13. For providing for the demising, whitewashing, and purifying of Houses and Buildings in a dirty and tin wholesome stale. 14. For the prevention of the sale, or the exposure or offering for sale, of Meat, Fish, or Vegetables unfit for human food, and for the seizure, condemnation, and destruction of the same, 15. For the licensing, regulation, and government of carters, carriers, porters, and drivers, and fixing tfi • a nmint of licen-e fees to be paid. 10. For the regulation and government of persons having charge of cattle, and for the prevention of horses being trained in, and entire horses led about streets. 17. For regulating ibe sale of arsenic and other poisons. 18. For suppressing and restraining noisome and offensive trades, and the prevention cf damage from smoke. 19. For the prevention of (Ires, and the regulation and government of persons present at fire. 20. For repressing *nnd restraining Gambling of every description. 2). For carrying out and enforcing the Law relative to weights and measure-. 22. For preventing obstructions and encumbrances upon highways. 23. For preventing the defacing of walls and other places exposed to public view, by placards, writing, or otherwise. •24. For the prevention of cattle wandering at large on highways. . 20. For the suppression of all nuisances within the City prejudicial to the health, comfort, or convenience of the inhabitants thereof. 26. For the relief of Sick and Destitute Persons, and for the recovery of the amounts advanced for such purposes from the husbands, wives, fathers, ,no - hers, and children respectively of such destitute persons, as the case may he. 27. For securing the application of all lolls, rates, assessments, fines, penalties, repayments, and oihcr receipts in discharge of all expenses of and incidentflo the execution of all or any of the objects of this Act. 28. For determining the amount of salaries or other remuneration to he assigned to any officer or person employed hv the said Board. 29 For regulating, altering, and improving the levels of Highways, and lor making cotnpensastttion to the owners of land allested theieby. AO. For regulating the use of Docks and Piers. ol- For conferring powers and Authority on the Harbour Master, or on any Officers appointed by the Board. 32. For re minting the duties and exercise of the powers ?es ed in the Harbour Master, or such othei Officers. 3.1. For regulating the duties and conduct of all persons, as well the servants of tic 1 Board as others fexcept the Officers of Customs), who shall he employed within or on any Dock or Pier, or on the premises belonging to the Board. 34. For regulating, with the consent of the Collector of Customs, the hours during which the gates, or entrances, or outlets to the Haroour, Docks, ot Piers, shall he open for the landing of goods. .35. For regulating the admission of ships and boats into or near any Docks or 1 iers. 36. F;ir regula'ing the landing, warehousing, storing, "depositing, and removing of nil goods within any Docks, or any Piers, subject to the approval of the Collector of Customs. 37. For the appointment of meters and weighers, and for regulating their duties, government, and remuneration. ,10. For regulating the mss of cranes and weighing machines, and weights and measures belonging to the Board, am! the duties and conduct of all weighers and meters employed by them. 39. For regulating the shipping and unshipping of goods. 40. For regulating the use of tires and lights within the Harbour,or within any Dock.or ator near any Piers 41. For the protection of Docks and Piers, and of ships and boats therein and in the Harbour, from injury by fire, and from otlmr damages of nil kind's, and for enabling the Officers of the Board to search for and extinguish any lights or fires, and to remove any combustible or daltperous substances. 4 2. For regulating tlin packing, landing, deposit, and temoval ot gunpowder, and other dangerous subsume-s ; and the rent to be charged tor storage of the same. 43. For preventing damage or injury to ships, boats, goods, or oilier projierty within the Harbour or Docks, or at or in ar any Pier. 44. »■ or securing the safe ami commodious navigation of the said Harbour, and the good order and management of vessels resorting thereto. 45. For regulating the removal of obstructions, nuisances, and annoyances from the Harbour, Docks, aud Piers, ami for keeping the same chair from such obstruction*, nuisances, and annoyances, and prohibiting the same. 46. For the regulation aud management of ferry Boats. 47. For the licensing, regulation, and government of Cargo Boats, and fixing the amount of liceuso fees 48 For the licensing, regulation, and government of Watermen and Boatmen plying for hire, and fixing the amount of license fees. 49. For the regulation and management of the Landing ot Cattle. 50. t’or the regulation and government of all Signa 1 Stations connected with the Port ot Auckland, and of the persons in charge of the same. 51. For regulating the watering of ships and boats, and the watering places appropriated lor the same. 52. For regul iting the ballasting and discharging of ballast of or from ships or hj dts. 53. All such Bye Law’s shall he mad-, a nd ail other Corporate Acts shall he done, by l he Board ; ami ’he Common S nil of the said Board shall he attached to all such Bye Laws and Acts, by the authority and in the presence of the Board. 54. Tim Board may from lime to time, as they shall think lit, rejieal or alter any such Bye-Laws. 55. All such Bye-Laws which shall be rejmguant to any act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, or of the Provincial Council of the Province of Auckland, sh ill lie mill and void. 56. The Board may, by tin- Bye Laws so to be made hj y t In ’in, i ooosf such reasonable j:e mil ties as they may think li'. not exceeding pounds lor every breach of such Bye Laws: Provide i always that such live Laws shall lie so framed at.. allow tin? Justice, before whom any penalty imposed ihetehy is sought tube recovered, to onler th” whole or any potion of such penalty to he paid 57. No Bye Laws made under the authority of this Ac (except such as relate solely to the said Board, their officers, or servants) shall come into opeiation unless the same shall have been approved of by the Superintendent. 61. No Mich Bye-laws shall come into operation until they shall iiave received t he assent of the Superintendent, and until the expiration of one month after a copy thereof, accompanied by the signification of such assent, shall have been published in the JAuckland Provincinl Government Gazolto. 62. All Byo lnws made and approved according to the provisions of this Act, when so published, shall he binding up m and observed hv all persons, and shall be sufficient to justify all persona acting under the same. 63. A writ ten or printed copy of the Bye-laws requiring confirmation, authenticated hv the signature of the Superintendent and by the Common Seal ot t-m

Board, and a written or printed copy of the Bye-laws not requiring such confirmation, authenticated by the said Seal alone, shall he evidence of the existence and duo making of such Bye-laws, without proof of the signature of the Superintendent or of the Common S<*al ; and the production of tire Auckland Provincial Government Gazette containing such Bye-laws shall bn sufficient to prove the publication of the same. 64. No such Bve-laws as aforesaid which shall relate to the said Harbour, or to any dock, pier, or water ing place, already or hereafter to be constructed therein, shall continue in force lor anv period exceeding two years from the making thereof, unless in the mean time the same shall receive the confirmation of the Governor and such confirmation shall have been published in the Auckland Provincial Government Gazette. The production of the sail Gazette, containing the publication of such confirmation, shall be sufficient to prove such confirmation aud that the same has been published as aforesaid. 65. All fines and penalties to be imposed by any Bye-laws made in pursuance hereof sliaM be recoverable in a summary way, aud shall be jiaid over to the Treasurer of the said Board as part of the funds to be expended by them. Officers. 66. It shall be lawful for the Board, from time to time, to appoint fit persons, not being members thereof, to be Clerk and Tr< usurer, and such other officers, servants, and workmen as the said Board shall think fir, who shall bold their respective offices and employments during pleasure. 67. The Board shall from time to time pay such officers, servants, and workmen such salaries, remuneration, and wages respectively as the Board shall think fit; Provided always that no member of the said Board shall either directly or indirectly receive any salary or be either directly or indireatly concerned or interested in any contract to be entered into by the said Board. Meetings of the Board. 68. All Acts whatsoever authorized or required to bo done by the said Board, and all questions that may come before such Board, shall lie done and decided, and the disbursement of ad money voted, bv the majority of the members of the Board who shall be present at any meeting thereof; the whole number present at any such meeting not less than three. 60. The said Council shall at their first meeting, to take place nt the Hall of the Mechanics’ Institute on the first Wednesday of the month of 1857, elect some one of their hodv to be the Chairman (or the ensuing year, and shall, at their first meeting after the last Wednesady in the month of in every subsequent year, elect the same or some other person (in either case being a member of the said Board) to be the Chairman for the ensuing vear. 70. The Board shall have ordinary meetings periodically, monthly or otherwise, on such days and at such time and place as shall be fixed by a Bye Law to be made for that purpose, 71. The Chairman of the Board shall have power to call an extraordinary meeting of the Board at any oth-r time, as often as be shall think proper. 72- The Chairman shall cause a noticeof the time or jilace of every such extraordinary meeting, specifying the business proposed to ho transacted thereat, and signed bv him, to he left at the usual place of abode of every member of the Board three days at least before such meeting, unless it shall appear to the said Chairman that such delay in the holding of,any such meeting would be attended with danger to ’he welfare of the said District. 73. At every meeting of the Board the Chairman, or in liis absence some oilier member selected for that purpose by the meeting, shall preside, and such Chairman shall not have an original, but only a casting vote. 74. Every meeting, whether ordinary, extraordinary,or adjourned, may be adjourned by the majority ; and if the prescribed number of members do not attend any such meeting, those present may adjourn to another time of the same day, or to some future day. 75. Minutes of the proceedings of every meeting shall be entered in a book to bn kept for that purpose aud shall be signed by the Chairman, of snob meeting. 76 Every inhabitant shall be at liberty to inspect and make extracts from the books so to be kept, at ail reasonable times, upon payment of a fe" of one shilling for each inspection. 77. All meetings of the said Council shall be open to the Public. Accounts. 78. Th j Treasure r shall, in bo iks to be kept by him for that purpose, enter tum accountsof all sums ot money by him received and paid, and all such other accounts as the Board shall direct ; and all such accoan s, with all vouchers audpapers relating thereto, together with a full abstract or balance sheet thereof, shall yearly, at such time as the Bua r d may appoint, be submitted by such Treasurer to Auditors to he appointed in that behalf (not being members r f the Board,) tor the purpose of examining and Auditing the same; and such abstract or balance sheet if found correct, shall be signed by the Auditors, and shall be forthwith pub lisbed by the Treasurer in the Auckland Provincial Government Gazette. 79. The service of any notice, writ, or other legal proceeding, and of every document whatsoever requiring to be served on th-* said Body Corporate, or on the said Board, may be made on be Chairman of the said Board, or on the Clerk thereof. 80. The word “ D ick’’ and “Pier,” throughout this Act, shall be construed to mean Baiains, Locks, Slips Wharves, and Jetties, and all other works of a like descrijition. 81. The Harbour of Auckland, for the purposes of this Act, shall be deemed to include all below highwater mark for the time being, situate between a straight line drawn from the Bastion to the outer pan of the North Head, and a line drawn across the River Waitemata at the Falls, and including all the creeks between the said boundaries, as far as the same are na vigable f«>r boats. 82. Nothing in this Act contained shall be deemed in any way to affect any right or prerogative of her Majesty, her heirs, and successors.