Nelson Provincial Gazette – 1860 – No. 4

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✨ Provincial Government Notices

NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE
(PROVINCE OF NELSON).

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, 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. VIII. NELSON, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1860. No. 4.

Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson,
March 14, 1860.

HIS Honour the Superintendent directs it to be notified for general information, that the Order of the Justices of the Peace, dated the 20th day of February, 1860, for the Alteration of certain Roads in the Takaka district, as described in the notice of Thomas Brunner, Chief Surveyor, and John Blackett, Provincial Engineer, dated the 29th day of December, 1859, and published in Gazette, No. 22, of the 31st December, 1859, has been confirmed by the Superintendent and Executive Council.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Provincial Secretary.

Provincial Secretary's Office, Nelson,
March 17, 1860.

HIS Honour the Superintendent directs it to be notified that the undermentioned By-Law (having been published by the Board of Works in the local newspapers for one calendar month) has been confirmed by the Superintendent and Executive Council, and will therefore come into operation on and after the 18th day of April next.

ALFRED DOMETT,
Provincial Secretary.

"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 tendance 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 every such horse, mule, ass, sheep, swine, or other beast or cattle, shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of a breach of this By-law, and shall for every such breach 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 name of the owner of any such animal so depasturing as aforesaid cannot be ascertained, such animal 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 trespassing upon enclosed land. But, for the purposes of this present By-law, the term 'owner' shall include any person for the time being having the charge, care, or custody of the animal so depastured as aforesaid."

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