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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 79, 20 April 1877, Page 3

other, and the Council may, where more than one street in the Borough is called by the same name, alter the name of any or all such streets, save one (to be described a in the order altering the same) to any * other name which to the Council may seem fit, and before any name is given to any street, notice of the intended name ghall be given to the Council, and if there * be any street in the Borough, called or about to be called by the same name, the Council may, by notice, stating that there . is already a street in the Borough called, or about to be called by the same name, and describing the locality thereof given to the person, by whom notice of such intended name was given to them at any time within fourteen days of the receipt of such last-mentioned notice, object to such intended name, and it shall not be lawful to set up any name to any street in the Borough until the expiration of fourteen days after notice thereof has been given as aforesaid, to the Council, or to set up any name object to as aforesaid. Register of Alterations. 8. The Council of the Borough shall cause to be kept a register of all alterations made by them in the names of streets, and Buch register shall be kept in such form as to show the state of every alteration, and the name of such street previous* to such alteration, and the new name thereof. (3) Spouts and Drains from Houses, &c. Spouts, Drains, &c. ' 9. The owner or occupier of every house or building in, adjoining, or near to any street, within seven days next after service of a notice by the Council for that purpose, shall put up a shoot or trough of the whole length of such house or building, and shall connect the same either with a similar shoot on the adjoining house or building, or with a pipe or trunk to be fixed to the front or side of such first-mentioned house or building, from the roof to the ground, to carry the water thereof in such a manner, that the water from such house, or the shoot or trunk fixed thereto, or from any portico or projection therefrom, shall not fall upon liie persons passing along the street, or flow over the footway, but so that no such pipe or trunk shall be an obstruction to the safe and convenient passage along the footway, and shall construct or lay from, and in continuation of such pipe or trunk, to the water channel or*** gutter, herein called channel at the outer edge of the footway, and through, under, and transversely, to the footway, such covered drain, or trunk, for carrying water to. such channel as shall be authorised or directed by some regulation in that behalf, and shall thereafter keep in good condition every such trough, shoot, pipe, drain, and trunk, and every such drain or trunk, shall be constructed, laid, and repaired, subject to the inspection of such officer as the Council shall have appointed in that behalf, and in default of compliance with any notice within the period aforesaid, or with the provisions of this section, such owner or occupier shall, forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings, for every day that he shall so make default. Drain for discharge of surface water from land. 10. Every owner or occupier of lands in adjoining to, or near any street, if such land Bhallbe so situated that surface or . storm water from, or upon the same overflows, or tends naturally, if not otherwise discharged, to overflow any footway of such street, shall, within seven days next after the service of notice by the Council for that purpose, construct, and lay from such point upon such land being near to the footway as shall be specified in such notice by plan appended or otherwise, and* higher in level than the bottom of the channel at the outer edge of the footway to the said channel, and through, under, and transversely to the footway, and keep in good condition such covered drain or trunk, as and subject to the like inspection as in the preceding section mentioned respectively, and in default of compliance - with any such notice within the period aforesaid or with the provisions of this section such owner or occupier shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day during which he shall make default. 11. It shall be lawful for the Council to make regulations for all or any of the purposes following (that is to say), For regulating the materials and the size, the level and,/the fall of any drain or trunk to belaid or constructed ' under any footway, either absolutely or with relation to the level or fall of the footway or channel, or otherwise in like manner, and so if they please that such size be variable within limits "s ■prescribed in the regulation according to the discretion of such officer as the Council shall thereby direct. (4) Crossing over Footways and * Channels. Crossing footway save by made crossing. • Regulations. 12. Every person who wilfully and without lawful excuse, rides or drives any horse or other animal, or drives or wheels any carriage cart or other vehicle upon along or across any footway or any water channel or gutter herein called channel by the side of any street, save in each such case upon and by, or at some crossing to. be made as hereinafter mentioned,, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding two pounds, and 6hall also pay to the Council such sum not exceeding five pounds, by way of compensation for any damage done by. : him to the footway or channel, as the Justice adjudicating upon the information shall on the hearing thereof order. No tice of making crossing. 13. If any land shall front, join, or abut upon the footway of any street, and if access with horses and vehicles from such street to such land or to some sufficient way appurtenant thereto, cannot be had without riding, driving, or wheeling the same, respectively upon or across the said footway or the channel, if any lying along the outer edge thereof, and if the owner of such land shall desire that a crossing for horses and other animals and for vehicles be made as herein provided, over such/ footway and channel, and give a notice in writing of such his desire to the Council, and in such notice ascribe the land in question, and the proposed work by reference to the specification deposited, as hereinafter mentioned, such specification being in accordance with the „ i provisions hereof, and with such regtila-. ° tion as may be in force ; in that behalf it shall be lawful foi such owner, after seven clear days for the giving such notice, and « not before, (with no unnecessary delay or r obstruction) at his own cost, and under the inspection of such officer as the Council