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23. Any person neglecting or omitting to keep in
    good repair any rail, gate, fence, or cover over or about
    any area or entrance to any cellar or other place, or
    keeping open, for more than a reasonable time for
    taking in or out any articles, any entrance to any area,
    cellar, or other place (such area or entrance opening
    into or upon or near any public street, road, thorough-
    fare, or other public place).
24. Any person throwing any offensive matter, or
    any animal with the intention of drowning it, into
    any watercourse, or other place from whence a supply
    of water for the use of the inhabitants of the said
    town is obtained.
25. Any carter riding on any cart, dray, or wagon,
    without having and holding proper and sufficient
    reins, and no competent person having charge of the
    animal or animals drawing the same.
26. Any person driving any vehicle whatsoever, or
    riding any animal, and when meeting any other
    vehicle or animal not keeping on the left or near side
    of the road or street; or when passing any other
    vehicle or animal going in the same direction, not
    going or passing or not allowing any person desirous
    so to do to pass, when practicable, on the right or off
    side of such other vehicle or animal.
27. Any driver of any horse or vehicle injuring
    any person or property whatever by negligence, or
    by driving on the wrong side of the road, or being
    away from his horse or cattle so as to be unable to
    have full control over them.
28. Any person driving any dog or goat harnessed
    or attached to any vehicle through any public place.
29. Any person who shall act as driver or have the
    sole charge of more than one vehicle on any public
    road or street, unless in any cases where two of such
    carts and no more shall be drawn each by one horse
    only, and the horse of the hinder of such carriages
    shall be attached by a sufficient rein to the back of
    the foremost of such vehicles.
30. Any person turning loose any horse or cattle
    upon any public street, or allowing any animal or
    animals to wander in any public street or thorough-
    fare within the Town of Napier.
31. Any person leaving upon any public street or
    thoroughfare any plough, harrow, cart, or other
    vehicle without any horse or animal harnessed
    thereto, unless in consequence of some accident
    having occurred.
32. Any person slaughtering or skinning any beast
    upon any public street or thoroughfare, or permit-
    ting any slaughtered beast or skin to remain there,
    or leaving any dead beast on such street or thorough-
    fare.
33. Any person having any iron, timber, or boards
    laid across any vehicle going along any street or
    thoroughfare, so that either end should project more
    than two feet beyond the wheels or sides of such
    vehicle.
34. Any persons destroying, damaging, polluting,
    or obstructing any aqueduct, dam, sluice, pipe, pump,
    watercourse, or fountain.
35. Any person suffering or allowing any waste or
    impure water or other matter to remain in any cellar
    or place within any building or premises in the
    borough, or allowing any waste or impure water or
    other matter to run or flow from any such building
    or premises upon or over or be on any carriage or
    footway or other place, whether public or private,
    within the town, or shall allow the contents of any
    water-closet, privy, or cesspool to overflow or to soak
    therefrom so as to be offensive.
36. Any person being the owner or tenant of any
    building abutting any street where the footpath has
    been formed, who, by omitting or neglecting to secure
    and maintain the foundation of such building, causes

or allows the formed footpath to fall in or be other
wise damaged.
37. Keeping any disreputable house, or house of
ill-fame, or having the control, conduct, or manage-
ment of the same, or being a reputed occupier or an
inmate of any such house.

Passed by the said Council, this fifteenth day of
July, 1876.
(L.S.)
ROBERT STUART,
Mayor.
M..N. BOWER,
Town Clerk.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 31st August, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
issue Letters of Naturalization under "The
Aliens Act, 1866," in favour of the under-mentioned
persons, viz.,—

DANIEL POLLEN.

Justice of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th August, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
ARTHUR JOHN BURNS, Esq.,
of Dunedin, to be a Justice of the Peace for the
colony.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Chairman of Licensing Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th August, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
JAMES NELSON WILLIAMS, Esq., J.P.,
to be Chairman of the Licensing Court for the Dis-
trict of Ngaruroro, vice T. Tanner, Esq., J.P., resigned.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Members of Licensing Courts appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th August, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint
WILLIAM HENRY SIMCOX, Esq., J.P.,
to be a Member of the Licensing Court for the Dis-
trict of the Bay of Islands, vice S. H. Ford, Esq.,
J.P., deceased;

REES POWELL WILLIAMS, Esq.,
to be a Member of the Licensing Court for the Dis-
trict of Ngaruroro, vice J. N. Williams, Esq., appointed
Chairman; and

ALEXANDER MCNAB, Esq., J.P.,
to be a Member of the Licensing Courts for the Dis-
tricts of Onetree Point, Myross, Mabel, New River,
Winton, Wallace Town, Waikewi, Waihopai, Town