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and it shall be lawful for the City Council to authorise any person or persons to take down and remove any funnel or pipe which shall be set up or kept up contrary to the provisions hereof. And any person obstructing any person or persons so authorised as aforesaid in taking down and removing any such pipe or funnel, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding ten pounds.

16. Every furnace or other fireplace belonging to any factory, kiln, iron works, foundry, smithy, or bakehouse, shall be securely protected from endangering the safety of the building or buildings belonging to or adjoining thereto; and shall have a smoke chimney or flue constructed of incombustible material connected therewith, which shall be carried up to the height of at least six feet above the ridge of the building belonging thereto, or to such other height as local circumstances may require, to be determined by the City Council. And any occupier of any factory, iron works, foundry, smithy, or bakehouse, who shall use, or cause or permit to be used, any furnace, fireplace, chimney, or flue, which shall not be in accordance with the regulation prescribed in this clause, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding five pounds.

17. The occupier of any premises who shall use, or cause or permit to be used, any kiln, or oven, for the burning of coke, which shall not have a chimney for the purpose of carrying off the smoke, at least twenty feet high above the crown of the arch, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds.

PUBLIC WORKS.

1. Any person damaging or destroying any public building, erection, bridge, sewer, drain, fountain, pump, cock, waterpipe, road, footway, tank, or other public work, or property, shall pay for repairing the same, and if the damage shall have been done wilfully, the party offending shall, in addition to paying the cost of repair, forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

2. The City Surveyor may mark upon the walls of any house, or dwelling, or building, the name of the square, street, crescent, or lane, in which such house, or dwelling, or building, may be situated; and any person defacing or destroying any such mark shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding ten shillings.

UNWHOLESOME FOOD.

1. Any person exposing or offering for sale any meat, fish, or vegetable, which after due examination shall be condemned by the Inspector of Nuisances as unfit for human food, shall be fined, for the first offence, a sum not exceeding five pounds, and for every subsequent offence a sum not exceeding ten pounds, and all such meat, fish, or vegetables, shall be seized and disposed of as the Inspector of Nuisances shall direct. And any expense attending the disposal of the same, shall be defrayed by the person exposing the same for sale, and may be recovered by summary proceedings by the Inspector of Nuisances, and the sum so recovered shall be paid by him to the Treasurer of the City as part of the public funds thereof.

HIGHWAYS.

1. Any person permitting any goods, wares, merchandise, empty casks, cases, or any other thing whatever to remain upon any carriage way or footway, for a longer time than may be reasonably necessary in the course of removing the same, or suffering any vehicle to remain upon any carriage way for a longer time than may be necessary to load or unload the same, so as by any such means to obstruct the free passage of any such carriage way or footway, or placing or leaving timber, stones, or building materials on any carriage way or other footway, without having first obtained from the City Surveyor, or any Constable, a written permission for the purpose, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings for every such offence. The Inspector of Nuisances, or any Constable, is hereby empowered to seize, and remove any property causing such obstruction as aforesaid, and to detain the same in some place to be set apart for the purpose, until the expense (to be ascertained and fixed by the City Surveyor or some person authorised by the City Council in that behalf) of removing and detaining the said property shall be paid. If the property seized be perishable, and be not claimed within twenty-four hours, it may then be forthwith disposed of as the Chairman of the City Council, or in his absence any other member of the said Council shall direct. And if the property so seized be not perishable, and be not claimed within one week, after being duly advertised in one at least of the newspapers published in Auckland, at the time, it may forthwith be sold by public Auction. The proceeds arising from the sale of any such property shall be paid to the Treasurer of the City, as part of the public funds thereof.

2. Moveable Awnings may be placed in front of Shops provided, such awnings shall be seven feet high from the footway, and that the posts be placed at the outer edge of such footway, any person offending against this regulation shall be fined a sum not exceeding five shillings for every day such offence shall continue.

3. Any person bathing in the harbour, within the East point of Freeman’s Bay, and Eden-street, between the hours of 8 o’clock in the morning and 7 o’clock in the evening, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one pound.

4. Any person indecently exposing his or her person within the bounds of the City, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding ten pounds. And any person making use of any profane, abusive, obscene, or threatening language, or demeaning himself or herself in any way so as to provoke a breach of the peace, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

5. Any person hauling, or drawing, any timber, except upon a wheeled carriage, or