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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 86

5. Every license for a tramway-carriage shall be in the form prescribed in Schedule C to this by-law, and shall be in force from the date thereof until the 31st day of December next ensuing, and renewable annually.

6. All licenses for drivers, guards, and conductors to be issued pursuant to this by-law shall be signed by the Town Clerk and distinguished by a number.

7. No license for any tramway-carriage shall be granted until the owner, or some person on behalf of the owner, shall have delivered at the office of the Town Clerk, Christchurch, an application in writing therefor, signed by or on behalf of the owner.

8. Every license for a tramway-carriage under this by-law shall specify therein the number of such license, the name or names of the promoters or company to whom the same is granted, and the maximum number of passengers which may be carried in the carriage to which such license shall apply, and such maximum number shall be conspicuously painted in letters and figures of not less than two inches in length and of proportionate breadth on the outside, and one inch and a proportionate breadth on the inside, in a colour conspicuously different from the ground-painting of such carriage, immediately above the entrance to the inside thereof, and also on the inside of such carriage on the front end thereof, to the following effect: “Licensed to carry — passengers,” which blank shall be filled in with the number of passengers such carriage shall be licensed to carry.

9. No tramway-carriage shall be driven, or ply for hire, or carry any passengers within the City of Christchurch after sunset and before sunrise without having proper lamps thereupon in some conspicuous place, which shall be kept burning during all such intermediate time as such carriage shall be in use.

10. No driver, guard, or conductor of any engine or tramway-carriage shall by any improper conduct cause any obstruction in any street other than such obstructions as shall be legally authorized or occasioned by the running along any tramway laid along any street, or any reasonable delay necessary for or occasioned by taking up or setting down any passenger or passengers, or luggage of any passenger or passengers; nor shall such driver, conductor, or guard, while acting as such driver, conductor, or guard, respectively do or cause or suffer to be done any damage to any person or property, or be guilty of any misconduct or misbehaviour tending to occasion a breach of the peace.

11. No driver, conductor, guard, or other person having charge of or using or in attendance upon any engine or carriage using a tramway shall drive such engine or carriage or permit the same to be driven furiously, wantonly, or carelessly, or shall be under the influence of liquor, or use any obscene or blasphemous language or any threatening or abusive or insulting words or gestures, or otherwise so misbehave himself as to annoy any persons riding in such carriage.

12. The several places mentioned in Schedule A to this by-law shall be authorized stands or stopping places.

No carriage shall remain upon the several stands particularized in the Schedule A to this by-law for longer periods of time than hereinafter mentioned, that is to say,——

Upon the stands Nos. 1 and 2 respectively in the said Schedule A, for the period of fifteen minutes;

Upon the stands Nos. 3 and 4 respectively in the same Schedule A, for the period of thirty minutes.

13. No carriage shall travel, be propelled, or driven at a speed exceeding a maximum rate of ten miles per hour, and round street-corners and in crowded thoroughfares engines or carriages shall travel only at a reasonable speed, such as the circumstances of the case may require.

14. No carriages attached to an engine or horses using any tramway shall be allowed to follow any other carriages using the same tramway to which any other engine shall be attached at a less distance than a hundred yards: Provided always that nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prevent two engines drawing one train of carriages (places within 250 yards of any stand excepted).

15. The following license fees shall be paid and payable under this by-law: For license in respect of each tramway-car, an annual fee of £2; for each engine-driver, an annual fee of £1; for each guard or conductor, an annual fee of £1.

16. Every engine shall be provided with a sufficient bell, which shall be rung by the driver of such engine at every crossing.

17. Any person offending against or committing a breach of the provisions of this by-law shall be liable to a penalty of £2 for each offence or breach, and to a further penalty for each continuing offence or breach 10s. for every day during which such offence or breach shall continue: Provided always that the Justices inflicting any penalty in respect of any offence or breach or any continuing offence or breach of this by-law may adjudge the payment as a penalty of any sum less than the full amount of the penalty imposed by this by-law.

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SCHEDULE A.

Cathedral Square:

No. 1. The line of rails on the western side of the road passing through the centre of Cathedral Square, being in front of the Godley statue, and extending 126 feet towards the south and 126 feet towards the north, measured from the centre of the masonry supporting the statue.

No. 2. South Belt, on line in front of railway-station building: From 15 feet west of lamp-post standing on the kerb in front of the archway through station-building to 6 feet past the South Belt Tramway crossing, in the direction of Manchester Street, being a length of 86 feet.

No. 3. On the South Belt line: From the west side of Manchester Street, and extending a distance of 100 feet west of that point.

No. 4. On the line east of railway-station building on the South Belt: From the east side of goods-gate entrance, and extending eastwards 100 feet from that point.

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SCHEDULE B.

CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.—BY-LAW No. 4.—1882.

A Requisition for License as a Driver, Guard, or Conductor of any Engine or Tramway-carriage.

To the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Christchurch.

I, residing in , do hereby request that a license may be granted to me as , of a , to ply for hire within the said city.

Dated this day of , 188 .

NOTE.—It is necessary that the applicant should produce satisfactory certificates of good conduct and of his ability to drive, if a driver, if required.

We, the undersigned, certify the applicant , at present residing in , is a person of good character and conduct, and thoroughly competent to act as a License authorized by the Council of the City of Christchurch, this day of , 188 .

License No. .

Mayor.

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CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.—BY-LAW No. 4.—1882.

Tramway-engine or Carriage-driver's, Guard's, or Conductor's License.

No. .

This license to be kept by the driver, guard, or conductor, and produced when required to any person using the carriage, to the Inspector of Tramway-carriages, or to any police constable.

CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH, ) WHEREAS , of , has made a
TO WIT. } requisition to be licensed as the of
a , licensed to ply for hire within the City of Christchurch, pursuant to the provisions of By-law No. 4, 1882: And whereas the issue of the said license has