Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1858 – No. 9

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  1. Every person who shall wilfully fire any litter, shavings,
    or other combustible matter, so as to endanger any
    house or other building.
  2. Every person who shall ride or drive in a public tho-
    roughfare, so as to endanger the lives or limbs of pas-
    sengers and others.
  3. Every person who shall in a public thoroughfare, suffer
    any ferocious dog to be at large and unmuzzled or
    shall wantonly set on any dog to attack, worry, or put
    in fear any person or animal.
  4. Every person driving cattle in a public thoroughfare,
    who shall wilfully or negligently cause any injury or
    damage to be done by such cattle to any person or
    property, or shall in anywise misbehave in the driving
    of such cattle.
  5. Every person who shall wantonly hurt or harrass any
    cattle passing along or being in a public thoroughfare.
  6. Every occupier (and where there is no occupier every
    owner) of a house or other building, accommodated by
    an opening in the public footway or roadway, giving
    access or light to any cellar or sunk casement, who
    shall neglect to keep such opening securely covered
    and constantly closed by a substantial trap door, or by
    substantial rails or bars, or in some other sufficient
    manner, save only at reasonable times in the daytime
    when articles or things stored in such cellar or case-
    ment are in actual course and process of being lowered
    or brought up.
  7. Every person who shall convey night soil along a pub-
    lic thoroughfare after the hour of six o\'clock in the
    morning, and before the hour of ten o\'clock at night.
  8. Every person who shall sell, or expose for sale, or have
    in his possession with intent to sell, any unwholesome
    meat, or who shall have in his possession, for the pur-
    pose of slaughtering, any diseased animal unfit for
    human food.
  9. Every person who (without due authorization) shall
    throw or leave earth, stones, or rubbish, upon a public
    thoroughfare.
  10. Every person who shall leave standing or lying upon
    any part of a public thoroughfare, any waggon, cart,
    carriage, truck, wheelbarrow, or other vehicle, or any
    packing case, crate, casket, cask, barrel or package.
  11. Every person who shall place upon any part of a public
    thoroughfare (without an authority from the Superin-
    tendent or the officer appointed by him) any timber,
    stones, bricks, lime, or other materials for building.
  12. Every person who shall suspend or place any carcase,
    meat, or offal, so as to overhang any part of a public
    thoroughfare.
  13. Every person being the owner or having the custody of
    any article unlawfully placed upon or over any part of
    a public thoroughfare, who shall refuse to remove the
    same within a reasonable time after being thereunto
    requested by a Constable of the Armed Police Force,


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