No.14.—CATTLE TREPASS AMENDMENT ORDINANCE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 6, 16 November 1844, Page 1

No. I4.— CATTLE T REPASS AMENDMENT ORDINANCE.

[Came into operation, October 1., 184.4.]Preamble reciting CxAusEaSxiß Cautx.e Trespass ORpiNAiicE.jT^hereas^by an Ordinance enacted'by theX3over,nQ,£of 2^e ; w Zealand/ with the" advice and^coiisent of the Legislative' Council thereof (Session H.J &o. 16.) intituled/ " An Ordinance to prowfeibr the Summary Recovery "of" OomperfsafcTbli^foV Damaged done by Cattle Trespassing!" ifc'4's enacted that, " JVhenever any cattle ,s.h_alLtre4^ pass uppn the land,o£ any^ersQnj^hicju^hall be substantially fenced, and shall^do <anj damage ";thereon, it 'shall be Tawful^ifor the 'pol&"r^nia^istfatl-'df the'^tstrict/'or'-a^r^wi justices of'the^peafce hiving' juriisaifetidniHerfe'i. in, upon application 'of the peTffon" such damage, to hear; ai>d .d^terjmine the.t<3fts^ in a summary way, and, on satisfied^by the oath of a credible witness as to the amount of such damage, to award to the jparty sustaining the samY'any sifcii sam*ri%ft '"exceeding twenty "p^unds^ -fey w^y of * s cothpensation for the same." ■. , ...r, , n - s — vT*tsf

1. JExiJBNDEJ> „Tp j.Ca^B, OFf^AK^yß Trespassing. on, Land wjjet^r,feisc,ei> or n.6t^— Ana _ whereas it is expedient^ to eitehd'the provisions- of the "said^Ordiii aoce to the- case of cattle ' foiin'cl trespassing Upon any: land, whether- the samte ;sliaiHEl substantially, -fenced ot not : be lit thecefoi^ 'enacted _ by the/- Governor of. Ne,w; With- .the cpngent, of the . Legislative Co^nt^j thereof, as follows :—^Whenever; any cattle 6halltre^ass'ppon ithe land of any person, and shall 5& any damage thereon, it shaH >r ߀ lawful- for the police magistrate of t the r distriefr; or for , any two justices af the peace h«vaig' jurigdicjion, therein, .upon ; , application,. of r th^ person, au^erin^g, shcK. damage, tojjb^r and. determtn«L the caVe"in a sumtnairy way. $*$> ■du^efiff sa'ti&fiea 2 ,8f th> ' oatlr or * <& soleina ftffififeatlorii as" the *cap% i mky require, o&^B&o witß^seiirofia^eterit fr~6ai practical fcttowlef^e 1 or otherwise to estimate' the same, as (0 die amount of da.m^ge t to award to-the par^y> sustainingj the jaqe.any sum uot ,excee4i^. , twenty pounds, T>£ way of cpnrmen<Ba.tio,n fo» theiatee. - >

piirflbse of'XtT&fOhKaaftce a«d j 6f''ttfe &s&'&£ oit^a tordi^6cej..tkt 0rdi^6cej..tke l wordi %c&ttle" 1^ , nauks, asses, .sheep, agofts, AR4 ; swip9^o-,joW

come into operation on the first day of Otto, ber, 1844,