main any such stack, covering, or materials unlawfully made, placed, or deposited before the coming into force of such Regulation, shall forfeit on conviction of such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds, and in every such case a further sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day after any such conviction during which such stack, covering, or materials, shall so continue.

Setting Fire to Matter without notice.
5. Every person who wilfully sets fire to any inflammable matter whatsoever in the open air without having given notice in writing to the occupiers of the land adjoining to the land upon which such matter shall be, and also to the Town Clerk, of his intention so to do, or within twenty-four hours after giving the last given of such notices, or between the hours of four in the afternoon of any day and eight in the morning of the following day, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

Fireworks.
6. Every person who shall light any bonfire, tar-barrel, or firework upon or within sixty yards of any public or private street, or any public place, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

Brush Fences.
7. It shall not be lawful for any person to make, or place, or keep, or continue any fence of brushwood bushes or other like material within the Borough; and every person who shall make or place any such fence, and every owner or occupier of any premises who for seven days after notice from the Council to remove any such fence thereto appertaining, if lawfully made or placed before the coming into operation of this sub-division, shall suffer any such fence or any part thereof to remain, or who shall suffer to remain any such fence unlawfully made before such coming into operation, shall forfeit on conviction for such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds, and in every such case a further sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day after any such conviction during which such fence shall continue.

Passed by the Council this the Eleventh day of April, 1870.

ANDREW DUNCAN,
Mayor.

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GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.

I hereby certify that the above Bye-Law is in compliance with the 184th section of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867.”

GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.

REGULATION NO. 1.—INFLAMMABLE MATERIALS.

A Regulation of the Council of the City of Christchurch, under part VII. of the 13th Schedule of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867.”

In pursuance of the said Schedule of the said Act the Council of the City of Christchurch make the following Regulation, that is to say :-

1. Excepting in the case hereinafter specified, it shall not be lawful within any part of the City of Christchurch, to make or keep any stack of hay, straw, flax, or other produce of a like inflammable nature within a distance from any building of less than sixty feet, nor within a distance from any public or private street, within the meaning of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,” or from any adjoining land of less than twenty feet.

2. This Regulation shall not apply to any stack made or kept within any building completely covered in by a roof, and enclosed as to all the sides thereof by walls of wood, stone, or brick.

Passed by the Council this the Sixteenth day of May, 1870.

ANDREW DUNCAN,
Mayor.

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GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.

BYE-LAW NO. 9.

Swine.

INDEX.

1. Regulation as to keeping Swine.

A Bye-Law of the Council of the City of Christchurch, made under “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867.”

In pursuance of the 181st section of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867,” the Council of the City of Christchurch ordain as follows :-

The provisions contained in clause 1, of the first sub-division of part VIII. of the 13th Schedule of the said Act are hereby adopted in and for the said City as follows, namely—

1. It shall be lawful for the Council from time to time to make Regulations for appointing, by limits to be set forth therein, portions of the Borough in which it shall not be lawful to keep any Swine, and if any person shall keep any Swine within any such prescribed limits he shall forfeit for every day during which he shall so offend a sum not exceeding five pounds.

Passed by the Council this the Eleventh day of April, 1870.

ANDREW DUNCAN,
Mayor.

[ L.S. ]

GEORGE GORDON,
Town Clerk.