DUNEDIN CATTLE TRESPASS ORDINANCE 1858.

Otago Witness, Issue 362, 6 November 1858, Page 6

DUNEDIN CATTLE TRESPASS ORDINANCE 1858.

J£E it enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof' as follows : — 1 . If any owner of any cattle shall suffer such cattle to stray, or shall turn out, keep or depasture such cattle anywhere within the limits of the Town of Dunedin, as laid down in the public map or plan thereof, every such owner shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding Five pounds. 2. It shall be lawful for any constable to take any such cattle found so straying or depasturing, the owner of which is unknown to him, into his custody, and to drive or take them to and lodge them in the nearest Public Pound, or to cause them to be so driven, taken, and lodged ; and the keeper of such Public Pound is hereby authorised to act with respect to such cattle conformably to Law. 3. Provided that nothing contained in this Ordinance shall be construed to apply to cattle kept within any enclosure sufficiently fenced for preventing the straying of such cattle. 4. In the interpretation of this Ordinance the word "Owner" shall be held to include any person having the charge, control, or management of any such cattle, and the word " Cattle " shall be taken to include horned or neat cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats, and swine, and the singular as well as the plural number, and the feminine as well as the masculine gender. 5. Every Law or Regulation having force in this Province repugnant to the provisions of this Ordinance is, in so far as it would otherwise impede the operation of this Ordinance, hereby repealed. 6. This Ordinance may be cited and referred to as the " Dunedin Cattle Trespass Ordinance, 1858."