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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 918, 11 May 1878, Page 3

BY-LAW No. i. — ♦ 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 29th day of April, 1878, to be confirmed on the Bth day of May, 1878, and to be sealed with the common seal of the Couacil of the said Bjrough, the 9th day of May 1878, and to be brought into force the Ist day of June, 1878. In pursuance of Section 339, Part XII., of the " Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," 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, Bhall on being convicted of any such offence, neglect or omission, be liable to pay any penalty not exceeding Five pound (£5). 1. Throwing or sweeping any glass, filth, dirt, rubbish, orange-peel or other matter of a similar nature, upon or into any street, channel footwayi court, alley, or public place whatsoever. 2. Leading 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. 3. Burning any shavings, straw or other materials or matter upon any footpath, channel, surface drain or carriage road, without such permission as aforesaid. 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 or upon any road, street, footway, public place, or thoroughfare. 6. Leaving any inflammable material or matter m any public street or place, or on any open space near any building without such permission as aforesaid. 7. Placing any placard er other document, writing, or painting on or otherwise defacing any house or building oi any wall, fence, lamp-post, or gate without the consent of the occupier or owner thereof. 8. Opening any drain or sewer, or remiving the surface of any footway or carriage road, without authority from the Borough Council so to do, 9. Neglecting to clean any private yard, way, passage, or avenue, by which neglect a nuisance by offensive smell or otherwise is caused. 10. rolling any cask, beating any carpet, breaking m any horse, flying any kite, using any bows and arrows, or playing, at any game to the annoyance of any person m any public place, or obstructing any foot-path or cArriage-road, whether by allowing a?y cart or animal to remain across such foot-path or carriage-road, or by placing goods thereon or otherwise. 11. Throwing or discharging any stone or other missile, to the damage or danger of any person or property. . • . 12. H&riag any awning on or over any footway m any public street or thoroughfare not being nine feet clear above the footway or obstructing the footway by the supports of such awning or verandah. 13. Furiously or negligently riding or driving through any public place, street, or thoroughfare. 14. Making any cellar-door or opeuiug from the footway of any street or public thoroughfare, without the consent, or uot m accordance with the directions of the Borough Council. 15. Any person laying out or opening any straet, or building therein, aud omitting during the operations necessary for foiming such street, or for bui diug therein, to take all such precautions for guarding against injury to the passengers along such street as may be necessary, or as may be directed by the Borough Council. 16. Any person placing apy obstruction upon any street lius, whereby life or limb is likely to be endangered 17. Any "person neglecting or omitting to keep m good repair any rail, gate, fence, or cover over or nbout an area or entrance to 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, withou 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, aad when meeting any other vehicle or animal, not keeping on the left or near side of the road or street, or when passing any other vehicle or animal going m the same direction, not going or passing, or not allo.ving any person desirous so to do to pass when practicable, on the right or offside »f such other vehicle or animal. 20. Any driver of and horse or vehicle injuring any person or property whatever by negligence, or by driving on 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. jv •; 21. Any person leaving upon any public street or thoroughfare any plough, harrow, cart, or other without any horse or animal harnessed thereto, unless m consequence of some accident havin" occurred. ° 22. Any person slaughtering or Bkinning any beast upon any public street or thoroughfare, or permitling any slaughtered beast or skin to remain there, or leaving any dead beast on such street or thorough 23. Any person having any iron, 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 sides of such vehicles without permission of the Borongh Council. 24. Any person destroying, damaging, polluting or obstructing any aqueduct, dam, sluice, pipe Damn watercourse, or fountain. ' '"' l-"^F, "~ 25. Any person suffering or allowing any waste or impure water or other matter to remain m auv celhr or place within any . building or premises m the Borough, or allowing any waste or impure water or other matter <o run or flow from any such building or premises upon or over, or be on any carriaoe or footwiv or other place, whether public or private, within the Borough, or shall allow the contents ofany witer oIW privy or cesspool to overflow or to soak therefrom to as to be offensive. 26. Any person being the ownsr or tenant of any building abutting on any street where the footpath has been formed, who, by omitting or neglecting to secure and maintain the foundation of such buildin« causes or allows the footpath to fall m, or be otherwise damaged. b> *""**** To be passed by the said Council the Bth day of May, 1878. I. S. VIALOU, Mayor. ..;.. J. M. GELLING, Town Clerk. BY-LAW No. 2. ■■ - ♦ FOR THE REGULATION OF THE BOROUGH OF HAMILTON ABATTOIRS. TO prohibit the Slaughtering of Cattle, sheep, Goats, or swine., m succh places within the Borough as the Council may think proper, aud to grant Licenses for Slaughter-housßS and regulate, fix the fees to b paid to the Borough Council Fund for such Licenses, aud regulate the Slaughtering of Animals. therein m such maunor as the Council may thtnk fik 1. On and after the Ist day of June, 1878, no parson shall keep a slaugkter.liouaer or place for alaughteciug 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 causeJ to be slaughtered, any cattle, sheep, or pigg as aforesaid, m any house or place within the Borough of Hamilton, not being a duly licensed slaughter-house or place contrary to the provisions of theso Bj-l a ws, shall forfeit and pay the sum of Five pounds for evety such offence. 3. Every person desirous of obtaining a license for a slaughter-house or place for slaughtering cattle, Bhall, before the monthly meeting of the Council, give to the Clerk of the Council a notice (m writing) of his intention to apply for a license, and shall describe m said notice the house or place intended to be licensed, and the Council (a quorum being present) shall consider such application, aud if they find the applicant to be a peason of unexceptionable character, and the place proposed to be licensed m a convenient and desirable situa tion, they shall grant to such person a license under the hand of the Mayor and Town Clerk. 4. Every license shall be m force from the date thereof until the first day of Juno nexfc following, or eueh other date as the Council may determine, and the person to whom the isame"shall be granted shall pay to the Town Clerk the sum of Two Shillings and sixpence for. every such license. 5. For the purpoS3 of preserving cleanliness m licensed slaughter-houses or places, it shall be lawful for any cons ..ble authorised by writing underfthe hand of a council or for, or under the hand of the Town Clerk, to visit and inspect any slaughter-house or place for slaughtering cattle within the Borongh, and to give -such directions concerning the cleansing of such slaughter-house, or place for slaughtering cattle both within and without, as to himself shall seem needful. D 6. If any butcher, or the owner [or occupier of any such slaughte r-hoase, or place for slaughtering cattle, shall obstruct or molest such constable m the inspection thereof; or shall refuse or neglect to comply with such directions within a reasonable time, every such person shall, upon oonviction upon the information of such constable, forfeit and pay for eyery such offence or neglect, any sum. not exceeding Five pound?.