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16. Drivers of waggons, carts, or drays, riding on the same without having some person on foot to guide the horse or horses or cattle harnessed thereto, (excepting carts drawn by one horse and guided with reins,) or any such driver remaining at such distance or in such a situation as not to have the direction or control of the horse or horses or cattle harnessed to any waggon, cart, dray, carriage, or other vehicle whatsoever, (whether the same shall be at rest or in motion,) or any driver or rider leaving any horse standing without being secured, or some person in charge of the same, or not keeping on the left or near side of the street when passing any other person riding or driving, or wilfully preventing any other person from passing, or wilfully interrupting the free passage of any other person, shall on conviction, forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

17. Any person negligently, carelessly, or furiously riding or driving through the streets in a manner likely to endanger the safety of any other person, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

18. Any person breaking in any horse or other beast of burden in any street or highway of the City, shall for every such offence be fined a sum not exceeding five pounds; and any person leading an entire horse through the streets or highways of the City, between the hours of six in the morning and nine at night, shall be fined for every such offence a sum not exceeding two pounds.
    The Inspector of Nuisances or any constable may prosecute any person so offending.

CRUELTY OF ANIMALS.

1. Any person wantonly and cruelly beating, illtreating, abusing, or torturing any domestic animal, or any horse, mare, gelding, bull, ox, cow, heifer, steer, calf, mule, ass, sheep, lamb, or other cattle, or improperly driving the same whereby any mischief shall be done to any person or property, shall for every such offence be subject to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

2. Any person keeping or using any house, room, pit, ground, or other place for running, baiting, or fighting any dog, bull, or other animal (whether of a domestic or wild nature or kind,) or for cockfighting, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, for every day he shall so keep and use the same. The Inspector of Nuisances or any constable may lodge information against any person so offending.

CARTERS.

1. The owner of every cart, dray, or waggon plying for hire, shall cause the same to be registered every year at the City Council Chambers, and shall obtain a separate license for every such cart, dray, or waggon, in the form of the Schedule B. hereto annexed, signed by the Chairman of the City Council, and countersigned by the Treasurer.
   The sum of twenty shillings shall be paid for every

such license, and the same shall expire on the 31st day of December next ensuing the date thereof.

2. The owner of any cart, dray, or waggon plying for hire without a license for the same having been first obtained shall pay for every offence a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

3. All persons having licensed carts, shall stand and ply for hire in lower Queen-street from its junction with Shortland-street towards the Wharf on the side of the street next to the water, but so, nevertheless, as not to obstruct the free passage of the street; or in such other street or place as the City Council shall from time to time direct or appoint; and any person contravening this regulation shall forfeit for every such offence any sum not exceeding forty shillings.

4. The name of the owner, and number of license granted for any cart, dray, or waggon, shall be legibly painted on the same in letters at least one inch long, and of a proportionate breadth upon the right or off side. Any person attempting to evade the provisions of this regulation by any means whatsoever, shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding sixty shillings.

PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT.

1. Any person who shall, act or perform for hire, gain, or reward, any interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, stageplay, farce, burletta, melodrama, or pantomime, or any stagedancing, tumbling or horsemanship, or any other entertainment of the stage whatsoever, in any Theatre or other building not duly licensed by the City Council, or who shall receive or take money, goods, or reward for the price of admission, or who being the owner or owners of any such Theatre or building shall wilfully permit the same to be used and applied to such purposes, without such license being first obtained as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence a sum not exceeding ten pounds.

2. The City Council may at anytime license any house or theatre for all or any of the purposes specified in the foregoing section, upon such terms and conditions and subject to any annual or other payment, as to the said Council shall seem meet.

3. Every person who shall keep a public Billiard Table without having first obtained a license from the City Council shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds, for every day such table shall be so kept. A public billiard table license authorising the keeping of one such table or more, shall be granted under the hand of the Chairman of the City Council to any person applying for the same on payment of a fee of ten pounds, and shall be in force for twelve calendar months from the day of the date thereof.

PUBLIC LODGING HOUSES.

1. Any house (except the houses of licensed Publicans) in which travellers, wayfaring