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with a further penalty of Twenty Shillings for every succeeding week after the expiration of the said fourteen days, during which he shall refuse or neglect to comply with the terms of such notice.
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No cesspool shall be made within the town after the proclamation of this Bye-law in the Provincial Government Gazette, nor shall any cesspool be allowed to remain on any such premises after the expiration of two calendar months next following such proclamation, unless in either case the owner or occupier shall have obtained a written authority, signed by the Chairman of the Council, to construct a cesspool in accordance with the requirements of the Council, and shall have complied with the terms of such authority. Any person contravening these provisions shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds.
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Any person who shall throw or lay, or cause to be thrown or laid, any nightsoil upon any street, road, or way, or on any place within the Borough not appointed for that purpose by the Council, shall, upon conviction for every such offence, pay a sum not exceeding Five Pounds; nevertheless, any person having a garden containing not less than one eighth of an acre of land, may use nightsoil thereon, provided no public nuisance be committed thereby.
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Any person who shall throw or lay, or cause or suffer to be thrown or laid, any ashes, dust, dirt, rubbish, offal, dung, soil, blood, house-slops, or other filth or annoyance, on the carriage or footway of any street, roadway, or other public place within the Borough, or shall permit any offensive accumulation thereof upon the premises in his occupation, shall, upon conviction, be liable to a penalty, for every such offence, of any sum not exceeding Five Pounds.
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The Town Scavenger shall go round the town at such times as the Council may appoint, to collect night-soil, rubbish, &c.; and all night-soil shall be collected and thrown into such place as the Council may, from time to time, appoint, between the hours of eleven p.m. and six a.m. only. Any person other than the occupier, or the said Town Scavenger, or labourers employed by him (unless authorised by the said Council), removing such night-soil, rubbish, &c., shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Two Pounds.
Passed by the said Council this twenty-third day of November, A.D. 1868.
Borough Council Office,
Lyttelton, 24th November, 1868.
This is to certify that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the foregoing Bye-Laws are in compliance as regards the Borough of Lyttelton with Clause 184 of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."
H. C. LANAUZE,
Town Clerk.
CHRISTCHURCH:
Printed, under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Canterbury, at the Lyttelton Times Office, Gloucester street, by Chos. Waud and William Reeves, Official Printers for the time being to the said Government.
Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1868, No 60
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🏘️ Provincial & Local Government24 November 1868
Bye-laws, Sanitation, Waste Management, Lyttelton
- H. C. Lanauze, Town Clerk