✨ Provincial By-Law Notification
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honour's command,
ALFRED DOMETT, Provincial Secretary.
VOL. VII. NELSON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1859. No. 18.
Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson,
1st October, 1859.
HIS Honour the Superintendent directs it to be notified that the undermentioned By-Law, published by the Nelson Board of Works, on the 18th day of June, 1859, has been CONFIRMED by the Superintendent and Executive Council, with respect to the portion of the City of Nelson contained within the following boundaries, viz :—
St. Vincent-street, from the Mud Flat to Hampden-street; Hampden-street to Kawai-street; Kawai-street to corner of Wellington-street; thence up Waimea-street to Brougham-street; Brougham-street to Alton-street; Alton-street to the river at Bronti-street; Bronti-street to Scotland-street; thence by Manuka-street to its junction with Manuka-road; thence in a straight line to the junction of Nile-street East with the river Maitai; thence the Maitai river to the Mud Flat. The above streets to be included in the operation of the By-Law.
By-Law.
If any horse, mule, ass, sheep, swine, or other beast or cattle of any kind, shall, at any time after this by-law shall come into operation, be found depasturing, whether under the tendence or control of any person or persons or not, in or upon any street or other highway within the limits of the town of Nelson, or upon the sides of any such street or highway, and whether such street or highway, or any part thereof, shall lead or pass through or over any common or waste, or unenclosed ground or not, the owner of any such horse, mule, ass, sheep, swine, or other beast or cattle, shall, for every breach of this by-law, forfeit and pay a penalty of not exceeding ten shillings for the first offence, and not exceeding forty shillings for the second and every subsequent offence; and in case the owner's name cannot be ascertained of any such animal so depasturing as aforesaid, the same may be driven to the nearest pound, and shall be subject to the enactments of an Ordinance passed in Session VIII. of the Legislative Council of New Zealand, intituled "An Ordinance to authorize and regulate the Impounding of Cattle," in respect of cattle upon enclosed lands. But, for the purposes of this present by-law, the term "owner" shall include any person for the time being having the charge, care, and custody of the animal so depastured as aforesaid.
ALFRED DOMETT,
Provincial Secretary.
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