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to keep always in good repair any door,
railing, or cover to or about such entrance
or opening.

6. No person shall make any writing or printing
   upon any house, building, wall, fence, gate,
   door, bridge, or post of any kind, or shall
   place thereon and affix thereto any placard,
   document, or thing, or shall in any way
   deface the same without the consent of the
   owner or occupier thereof.

7. No person shall throw or place in or upon any
   street or private street any bottle, or other
   glass (whether whole or broken), filth,
   dust, rubbish, or other offensive, annoying,
   obstructive, or inconvenient solid matter of
   any kind.

8. No person shall convey night soil along any
   street or private street between the hours of
   six o'clock in the morning and eleven o'clock
   at night.

9. No person having the charge of, shall permit
   any bull, stallion, or entire animal to cover
   within public view.

10. No person shall keep, or act, or behave, as
    master or mistress of, or as having the care,
    government, or management of any disorder-
    ly house, or house of ill-fame, or shall
    knowingly permit any other person to keep
    the same, or to act or behave as master or
    mistress thereof, or as having the care,
    government, or management thereof, or shall
    knowingly let any house or any part there-
    of, for the purpose of being so kept or used.

11. No person shall wilfully destroy or damage
    any building, wall, fence, or paling, or any
    fixture or appendage thereto, or any seat in
    any park, plantation, or garden, the same
    several things or places respectively, being
    under the control, management, or super-
    vision of the City Council.

12. No occupier of any private yardway, avenue,
    or passage shall so neglect to keep the same
    properly cleansed as that any nuisance may
    arise therefrom.

13. No person shall destroy, obstruct, pollute, or
    cause to be or remain in or upon any water-pipe, water-
    channel or course, reservoir, or fountain,
    whether public or private.

14. No owner or occupier of any premises shall
    suffer any waste or impure water, or liquid
    matter, to be or remain in or upon any place
    under or above ground, situate therein, so
    as to become a nuisance.

15. Any owner or occupier having a term of not
    less than five years to run of any premises in
    the City of Nelson, allowing any gully or
    hollow place situate thereon to remain unfilled
    up, or any drain thereon to remain unfilled
    up or cleansed (as the case may be), for
    more than one week after notice to that
    effect from the Council shall be liable to a
    penalty not exceeding 40s, (forty shillings)
    for every day thereafter during which such
    gully, hollow place, or drain, shall remain
    not filled up or cleansed to the satisfaction of
    the Council: Provided no penalty on any one
    conviction shall exceed the sum of Five
    Pounds.

16. The word cattle shall, for the purpose of this
    bye-law, be deemed to include horses, asses,
    mules, sheep, goats and swine of all ages,
    and of either sex, and to apply to any one
    of such animals alone, as well as to a mob
    or herd.

17. The word street shall mean a public street
    and highway, and shall extend to and include
    every road, square, court, alley, and thorough-
    fare within the City of Nelson, used by
    carts or foot-passengers, not being a private
    street.

18. The word "private street" shall mean any
    road, street, or place within the City of
    Nelson, used by vehicles, and either accessi-
    ble to the public from a public street, or
    forming a common access to lands and
    premises separately occupied, and which has
    not been maintained as or declared a public
    street.

All Bye-laws or Regulations, or parts of Bye-laws
or Regulations, heretofore in force in and for the said
City of Nelson, which are inconsistent with or repug-
nant to this Bye-law, are hereby repealed.

Passed by the said Council this the 4th day of
September, 1874. The Common Seal of the
City has been affixed thereto, this 4th day
of September, 1874, pursuant to a Special
Order of the Council.

JOSEPH REID DODSON,
Mayor.

THOMAS YOUNGER,
Town Clerk.

Approved, 20th October, 1874.
OSWALD CURTIS,
Superintendent.

REGULATIONS FOR HACKNEY CARRIAGES.

1. For each license for any hackney carriage there
   shall be paid to the Town Clerk the sum of £1
   annually and such license shall be available only until
   the next general licensing day which shall be on the
   first day of July in each year or the first day there-
   after upon which such license can be granted.

2. For each license for any driver of any hackney
   carriage there shall be paid to the Town Clerk the
   sum of 1s. annually every such license to be available
   only until the next general licensing day.

3. The owner of every hackney carriage before
   plying for hire with the same shall cause the number