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Auckland Provincial Gazette – 1858 – No. 9

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✨ Auckland Municipal Police Act regulations

every such refusal to be deemed a separate offence.

Every person who shall train or break horses in a public thoroughfare within any town or village.
Every driver of a vehicle, not driven by means of reins, who shall ride thereupon, there being no person on foot to guide the same, or who shall wilfully remain at such a distance from his vehicle whilst in motion as not to have command of the horses or cattle drawing the same.
Every person who shall wilfully encumber or obstruct a public thoroughfare in any way not before specifically described.
Every person who shall haul or draw any timber, stone, or other load, along any part of a public thoroughfare, otherwise than upon a wheeled carriage or rollers, or shall suffer any load conveyed upon a wheeled carriage or rollers to drag or trail.
Every person who shall permit any stallion, bull, or other entire animal to cover in any paddock, close, or land, being within public view.
Every person who shall use in a public thoroughfare or place, any profane or obscene language to the annoyance of the inhabitants or passengers.
Every person who shall indecently expose his person in or within view of a public thoroughfare or place.
Every person who shall deface, injure, or remove any door plate, bell, knocker, lamp, or sign board.

Persons committing either of the offences mentioned in this clause liable to fine.

Every person who shall commit any or either of the offences next hereinafter specified shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds. That is to say,
Every person who shall discharge any firework in any public thoroughfare, within the Electoral District of the City of Auckland.
Every person who shall wilfully fire the bush, fern, scrub, flax, grass, or other vegetation, on any land within the limits of the Electoral District of the City of Auckland, or the Electoral District of the Suburbs of Auckland.
Every person who shall neglect to keep clean the chimney of any house or other building occupied by him, and situated within the limits of the Electoral District of the City of Auckland, or the Electoral District of the Suburbs of Auckland.
Every person who shall expose or place upon any part of a public thoroughfare within the Electoral District of the City of Auckland, any goods, wares, or merchandise, except fruit or vegetables, or shall make use of any show board projecting on any part of such thoroughfare.

Persons failing to abate nuisances or repair chimneys after notice, liable to fine.

Upon complaint by the Inspector of Police or other person to be appointed by the Superintendent of the existence of any common nuisance within the limits of the Electoral Districts of the City or Suburbs of Auckland (whether by the exercise of any noisome or unwholesome trade, or by the keepir

PDF — Auckland Provincial Gazette 1858, No 9

After Parliament moved to Wellington in 1865, the Auckland Provincial Council sat in General Assembly House (depicted).

It was nicknamed the 'Shedifice' as it was large and drafty, with a leaking roof. First premier Henry Sewell described it as 'a great wooden barnshaped affair, which might serve for a Hospital, a Jail, or a Barrack'.

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⚖️ Auckland Municipal Police Act, 1858 (continued from previous page)

Domain⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
KeywordsAuckland, Municipal Police, Legislation, Offences, Fines, Public Thoroughfare

⚖️ Persons committing either of the offences mentioned in this clause liable to fine

Domain⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
KeywordsAuckland, Electoral District, Fines, Offences, Fireworks, Bush fires, Chimney cleaning, Obstruction

⚖️ Persons failing to abate nuisances or repair chimneys after notice, liable to fine

Domain⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
KeywordsAuckland, Nuisance, Inspector of Police, Superintendent, Chimney repair
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Inspector of Police
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