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11. POWERS OF THE COUNCIL.

To improve the Borough. — 5. The council shall have power to make and keep in repair all rttads, streets, squares; causeways, and bridges within the limits of the borough ; to excavate; construct, and maintain wells, waterworks, conduits; sewers, and other like works; and to ike order for the prevention of fires, the prevention and abatement of nuisances, the establishment of markets, the construction of market-places, the watching, paving, lighting, and cleansing of the said borough, and for all such purposes as they may deem necsssary for the tfo'od order, health, and convenience of the inhabitants thereof.

To improve Harbours. — 6. Whenever the limits of any borough shall extend to or comprise any harbour on the sea-shore, or any navigable river, the council shall also have power to construct and maintain all such docks, basins, locks, wharfs, quays, piers, and landing-places, and to set and erect all such buoys, beacons, landmarks, and lighthouses, and to execute all such other works and do all such acts as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of rendering the navigation thereof safe, easy, and commodious.

Vesting of Land in Corporation. — 7. For the purpose of enabling the council to carry into effect the objects aforesaid, all lands within the limits of the borough, excepting such lands as have been appropriated for crown reserves, native reserves, and allotments sold or intended to be sold to private persons, and which have been marked accordingly in the plan of the town, signed by the surveyor-general of the colony, and deposited in his office, shall vest in and become the property of the corporation and their successors,, immediately, on the completion of the first election.

Bye Laws. — 8 . It shall be lawful for the council (two-thirds thereof being present at any meeting for the purpose), for the more effectual exercise of the powers hereby given, and for the good rule and government of the borough, to make from time to time such bye laws as may seem meet ; and by such bye laws to impose any fine not exceeding five pounds upon any person offending against the Bame : provided that no such bye laws 6hall be of any force until the expiration of three calendar months after a copy thereof, sealed with a seal of the borough, shall bis sent to the Colonial Secretary, to lie submitted by him to his Excellency the Governor, and until a copy thereof shall have been affixed for the Hke period upon the outside of the Town Hall or place wherein the council shall meet, unless such bye laws shall previously have received the sanction of his Excellency the Governor, and shall have been affixed for one calendar month upon the outside of the Borough Hall. If at any time within such period his Excellency the Governor shall disallow such bye laws, or any part thereof, the same or the part disallowed shall not come into operation. Ill* QUALIFICATION OF ELECTORS AND MODE

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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue I, 30 April 1842, Page 32

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11. POWERS OF THE COUNCIL. Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue I, 30 April 1842, Page 32

11. POWERS OF THE COUNCIL. Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue I, 30 April 1842, Page 32

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