THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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two of such carriages, 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.

20th. Driver or guard of public vehicle for con-
veyance of passengers wilfully delaying on the road,
using any abusive or insulting language to any pas-
senger, or, by reason of intoxication, negligence, or
other misconduct, causing injury to or endangering
the safety of the person or property of any passenger
or other person.

21st. Any person turning loose any horse or cattle
upon any public street, or allowing any animal or
animals to wander on any public street or thorough-
fare within the Town of Gladstone.

22nd. Any person leaving upon any public street
or thoroughfare any plough, harrow, cart, or other
vehicle, without any horse or animal harnessed there-
to, unless in consequence of some accident having
occurred.

23rd. Any person having any iron, timber, or boards
laid across any vehicle going along any street or
thoroughfare, so that either end shall project more
than two feet beyond the wheels or sides of such
vehicle, without permission of the Town Council.

24th. Any person suffering or allowing any waste
or impure water, offensive vegetable or animal matter,
or other matter to remain in any cellar or place within
any building or premises in the town, 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 road, or footway, or other
place, whether public or private, within the said
town, or allowing the contents of any watercloset,
privy, or cesspool to overflow or to soak therefrom,
so as to be offensive.

25th. All drains under footways shall be constructed
with iron pipes, drain-tiles, or box-drains, not exceed-
ing three inches in diameter, and shall be laid with a
fall of four inches in the whole width of the footway,
the level at the discharge mouth being the level of
the water-channel.

26th. The kerbing shall be neatly cut with a hole
of the same size as the outside diameter of the pipe
to receive the end of the pipe, and re-laid to line and
level.

27th. The footway opened up for the reception of
the pipe shall be made good with the same material
of which it is constructed, to the satisfaction of the
Town Engineer.

28th. No drain under a footway, and discharging
into the channel, shall be laid or used for any other
purpose than for carrying off surface water, whether
from roofs or yards.

29th. Every drain from a house or building con-
nected with a main or branch drain or sewer shall
be made of flanged earthenware or metal pipes, or
wooden box-drains of six inches in diameter, and
placed at such level or inclination as the Town Sur-
veyor shall direct, and shall have a sunk box at its
source, the bottom of which shall be fixed at a level
of twelve inches below the level of the drain, and
must be made in accordance with a drawing and
specification deposited at the office of the Town
Clerk.

30th. No crossing shall be less than ten feet long in
the direction of the street, nor of greater length,
unless the permission of the Town Surveyor has been
first obtained.

31st. Any crossing laid in any street or part of a
street must be laid with hardwood sleepers, four
inches deep and three inches thick, and twenty-one
inches apart, and the crossing must be laid with
planks of four inches by two inches, in regular courses
one inch apart.

32nd. All crossings, shall be laid the full width of

and level with the footway, and extending not less
than three feet into the street, and shall have such
gradients as the Town Surveyor may direct.

33rd. No materials shall be used in any crossings
which have not first been approved by the Town
Surveyor.

34th. It shall not be lawful to make or keep any
stack of hay, corn, straw, or other agricultural pro-
duce belonging to the class of cereals stored in any
building within the Town of Gladstone attached to or
at a less distance than twenty feet from any other
building, unless the roof of such first-mentioned
building is covered with iron or slates, and the walls
are constructed wholly of bricks.

35th. It shall not be lawful to deposit any timber
shavings in any wooden building at a less distance
than ten feet from any adjoining land, street, public
place, or building.

36th. It shall not be lawful to make or light any
fire in any building within the Town of Gladstone
situate at a less distance than fifty feet from any
other building, save in some properly-constructed
fireplace.

37th. Any building, while used as a stable only, may
be used for the storage of hay, corn, straw, or other
agricultural produce, whether complying with the
foregoing regulations or not, provided that, if built of
wood or iron, its storing capacity shall not exceed
three thousand cubic feet.

38th. It shall not be lawful to keep any swine
within thirty feet of any private or public dwell-
ing, shop, or of any public or private street, or
within thirty feet of any adjoining land. This
regulation shall be construed as meaning the build-
ing line of the said streets or of any such street
respectively.

39th. No person shall empty any privy, or load,
carry, remove, or deposit any nightsoil, offal, filth,
rubbish, or other offensive refuse or matter within
the Town of Gladstone, save between the hours of
seven o'clock p.m. and seven o'clock a.m. of any day.

40th. No person shall deposit any nightsoil, offal,
filth, rubbish, or other offensive matter, or empty the
contents of any privy, within the Town of Gladstone
at any place save and except at the Corporation
Manure Depôt.

41st. For every license for any hackney carriage,
borough stage carriage, or cart plying for hire within
the Town of Gladstone, and for any woodcart, and
for any nightcart, there shall be paid to the Town
Clerk the sum of one pound annually. Every license
to be available only until the 19th day of April after
the date of its issue.

42nd. Every such hackney carriage, borough stage
carriage, or cart, while standing or plying for hire,
shall each evening at and after sunset carry and
sufficiently display two lighted lamps, one on each side
of the splashboard.

43rd. The owner of every licensed hackney car-
riage, borough stage carriage, or cart shall paint on a
conspicuous part of the off-side thereof his name and
the word "licensed," and the number of the license,
in white letters one inch in length on a black ground.

44th. Any person having or exposing for sale any
article in any street or public place without having
first paid to the Clerk the under-mentioned fees:-

Quarterly license fee, 6s.

Annual license fee, 20s.

45th. Any person keeping or having in his follow-
ing any dog not duly registered under any Ordinance
for the time being in force for the registration of
dogs shall be subject to a penalty of not less than
forty shillings nor more than five pounds.

The above by-laws were made by the Council of
the Town of Gladstone at a special meeting held at