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Waikato Times, Volume x, Issue 913, 30 April 1878, Page 3

BY-LAW No. L; '-^- i mfr«agf>4 a A BY-LAW TO PROVIDE FOR THE BETTER RULE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE BOROUGH OF HAMILTON. BY-LAW of the Council of the Borough of Hamilton, made under special order of the said Council, dated this 29fch day of April, 1878 to be confirmed the Bth day of May, 1878, and to be sealed with tho common seal of the Council of the said Borough, the 9th day of May, 187*8, and after 1878 to be brought into force the Ist day of June, 1878. In pursuance of Section 339, Part XII., of the •« Municipal Corporations Act, 1870," the Council of the Borough of Hamilton ordain as follows, that is to say : — Any person guilty of any of the following offences, omissions, or neglects within the Borough of Hamilton, shalloon being convicted of any such offence, neglect or omiiiiou, be liable to pay any penalty not exceeding Five pounds (£5). . 1. Throwing or sweeping any glass, tilth, dirt, rubbish, orange-peel, or other matter of a similar nature, upon or into any street, channel, footway, court, alley, or public place whatsoever. 2. Loading or riding any horse or other animal, or drawing, wheeling or driving any cart, carriage sledge, truck, or barrow upon or along any footpath without permission from the Borough Council so to do. i ■ ■ . ■ 3. Burning any shavings, straw, pr other materials or matter upon any footpath, channel, surface drain, I or carriage road, without such permission as aforesaid. i 4. Drawing or trailing any sledge, timber or other material upon any footway to the injury thereof. 5. Allowing nightsoil or other offensive matter to be spilled or otherwise cast on to orupon any road, street ' footway, public place, or thoroughfare. 6. Leaving any raifcerial or matter m any public street or place, or on any open space near J any building without such permission as aforesaid. 7. Placing any placard, or other document, writing, or painting on or otherwise defacing any house . or building, or any wall, fence, lamp-pos', or gate without the consent of the occupier or owner thereof. i 8. Opening any drain or sewer; or removing the surface of any footway or carriage road, without * authority from the Borough Council so to do. 9. Neglecting to clean auy private yard, way, passage, or avenue, by which neglect a nuisance by offen- i sive smell or otherwise is caused. 10. Rolling any cask, beating any carpet- breaking m any borae, flying any kite, using any bows and \ arrow 3, or playing at any game to the annoyance of auy person ia any public place, or obstructing any foot-path or carriage-road, whether by allowing any cart or animal to remain across such foot-path or carriage-road, or by. placing goods thereon or otherwise. I 11 Throwing or discharging any stone or other missile, to the damage or danger of any person or property. . 12. Having any awning on or over any footway m any public street or thoroughfare not being nine feet t clear above the footway or obstructing the footway by the supports of such awuing or verandah. 13. Furiously or negligently riding or driving through any public place, stieet, or thoroughfare. 14. Making any cellar-door or opening from the footway of any street or public thoroughfare, without the consent, or not m accordance with the directions of the Borough Council. 15. Any person laying out or opening any street, or building therein, and omitting during the ope- a rations necessary for forming such street, or for building therein, to take all such prcautions for guarding f against injury to the passngers along such street as may be necessary, or as may be directed by the Borough , Council. c 16. Any person placing any obstruction upon any street line, whereby life or limb is likely to be endangered. Any person neglecting or omitting (o keep m good repair any rail, gate, fenca, or cover over or about an area or entrance tp any cellar or other place, or keeping open for more than a reasonable time, for taking m or out any article any entrance to any area, cellar or other place (such area or entrance opening into or upon or near any public street, road, thoroughfare, or other public place.). 18. Any carter riding on any cart, dray, or waggon, without having and holding proper and sufficient reins, and no competent person having charge of the animal, or animals, drawing the same. 19. Any person driving any vehicle whatsoever, or riding any animal, and when meeting any other vehicle pr animal, not keeping on the left or near side of the road or street, or when passing any other vehicle or animal sroing m the same direction, not going or passing, or not allowing any person desirous so to do to pass, when practicable, on the right or off side of such other vehicle or auimtl. 20. Any driver of and horse or vehicle injuring any person or property whatever by negligence, or by driving ou the wrong side of the road, or by being away from his horse or cattle so as to'be unable to have full control over them. 21. Any person leaving upon any public stroct or thoroughfare any plough, harrow, cart, or other vehicle, without any horse or animal harnessed thereto, unless m consequence of some accident having occurred. 22. Any peison slaughtering Oi' skinning any beast upon any public street or thoroughfare, or permitting any slaughtered beast or skin to remain there, or leaving any dead beast ou S'icli street or thoroughfare. 23. Any person having any iton, timber, or boards, laid across any vehicle going along any street or ~ thoroughfare so that either end should project more than two feet beyond the wheels or side 3of such vehicles ' without permission of the Borough Council. - 1 . •■ ■ i•• . - - • ' . - I 24. Any person destroying,, damaging, polluting or obstructing any aqueduct, dam, sluice, pipe, pump, . j j watercourse, or fountain. '.'"..'.-■'-. . ' r \ 25. Any person suffering or allowing any waste or impure water or other matter to remain m any cella or place within any building or premises m the Borough, or allowing any waste or impure water or other matte 1 ' to run or flow from any such building or premises upon or over, or ba on any carriage or footway, or other place, whether public or private, within the Borough, or shall allow the contents of any water-closet, privy, or ' cesspool to overflow or to soak therefrom so as to be offensive. 26. Any person, being tho owner or tenant of any building abutting on any street where the footpath has been formed, who, by omitting or neglecting to secure and maiutain the foundation of such building, causes or allows the footpath to fall m, or be otherwise damaged. To be passed by the said Council the Bth day of May, 1878, ■ » I. R. ViALOtj, Mayor. .;;;,.. J. M. Gelling, Town Cleak. '„.;.... BY-LAW No. 2. FOR THE REGULATION OF THE BOROUGH OF HAMILTON ABATERS. TO prohibit the Slaughtering of Cattle, Sheep, Goats, or Swine, m such places within the Borough as the Council may think proper, and to grant Licenses for Slaughter-houses and regulate, fix the fees to be paid to the Borough Council Fund for such Licenses, and regulate the Slaughtering of Animals therein m such manner as the Council thinks fit. 1. On and after the Ist day of June, 1878, no person shall keep a slaughterhouse or place foslaughtering cattle intended for, sale, barter, or exportation, except such house or place be duly licensed for that purpose m the manner hereinafter provided. :.-.'■''' 2. Every person who shall. slaughter, or cause to be slaughtered, any cattle, sheep, or pigs, as afore said, m any bouse or place within the Buroagh of Hamilton, not beiug a duly licensed slaugh.ter>house or place contrary to the pronsions of thesa By-laws, -shall forfeit and pay the sum of Five pounds for e\7ery such offence. 3. Every peison desirous of obtaining a license for a slaughter-house or place for slav ghtering cattle, shall, before the monthly meeting of the Council, give to tlie. Clerk of the Cjuncil a notice (m writing) of his intention to apply for a license, and shall describe m said notice the honsjor place intendei to bj licensed, and the Council (a quorum being present) shall cousider sncli application, and if they lind tho appli suit to be a person of unexceptional character, and tho placj proposed to be licensed iv a convenient and desira. *te situation, they shall grant to such person a license unler tho, baud of the Mayor and Town Clerk. 4. Every lioanse shall be m force from the date thereof until the Ist diy of June next fo' lowing, or such other date as the Council nny, determine, an I tha parson to whom the same sliall be granted si. wll pay to the Tosvu Clerk the sum of Two shilling* aud sixpence f\>r every such license. 5. For the purposa of preserving cleanliness m licensed slaughter-lioine3 or places, it shall be lawful -^ for any coustnble authorise! by writing uuder the hand of a councillor, or under the hand of tin Town Clerk, to visit and inspect any .slaughter-house or pUca for slaughtering cattle wkhii the Biroigh, aud to £ five such directions concerning the cleansing of such slaugh'er-house, or place for slaughtering "cattle, both w ithiu and without, as, to himself shall seem needful. G. If any butcher) or the owner dr bscupiur of any such slaughter-house, or placa for -sla Pghtertng cattle, shall obstruct or molest such constable m tbe inspection thereof, or shall refuse- or neglect, to' £° m pty