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the same on demand to any person in charge of a horse or vehicle drawn by a horse or horses.

23. No person shall drive or cause to be driven any traction-engine or motor for the purpose of heavy traffic along or across any bridge or road within the county unless the same shall have been licensed in pursuance of this by-law:

Provided always that this by-law shall not apply to traction-engines used solely for cutting chaff or threshing grain, or to motors used solely for agricultural purposes.

Application for Licenses.

24. Any person desiring to obtain a license for a traction-engine shall make application in the Form A in the Schedule hereto.

Period of License.

25. Every license issued under this by-law shall be in the Form B, and issued to take effect on the 1st day of June then next following, and shall remain in force for one year; but any person may at any time obtain a license to hold good until the 31st day of May then next ensuing.

Fees.

26. There shall be paid to the County Clerk the following fees in respect of licenses issued under this by-law, namely: For every traction-engine the sum of £1 for every horse-power; provided always that if any person shall desire the issue of a license for a broken part of any year ending the 31st day of May, the County Clerk may issue such a license on the payment of a proportionate amount of the aforesaid fee at the rate of one-fourth part of such fee for every quarter or part of a quarter of a year then unexpired.

Renewal of License.

27. Every license issued hereunder shall be renewed on or before the 31st day of May in each year, and the like fees shall be paid upon the renewal as upon the original issue of a license.

|Receipt.

28. A receipt by the County Clerk in the Form C for the fee payable for the renewal of a license shall be evidence of the renewal of such license for the current year.

Computation of Weight carried.

29. In the event of any doubt or difference arising as to the weight of any traction-engine or wagon, or of any load carried on any traction-engine or wagon, such weight shall be determined by the County Engineer, whose decision shall be final, and in order to arrive at a decision it shall be lawful for the County Engineer to calculate the weight thereof, or the cubical contents, or superficial measurements, and the decision of the County Engineer as regards the standard weight per cubic foot of the materials shall be final.

30. The driver of every traction-engine required by this by-law to be licensed shall have the license for the same in his immediate personal possession, and shall, whenever required by the County Clerk, Road Inspector, or by any other person having a general authority in that behalf signed by the County Clerk, or by any officer or constable of the police, produce such license for inspection forthwith, and any driver who shall on being so required refuse or fail forthwith to produce such license shall be guilty of a breach of this by-law.

31. The driver or other person in charge of any traction-engine within the district, as well as the owner and the person in possession of any such traction-engine, shall be liable for a breach of these by-laws.

Penalties.

32. Every person who shall do, or cause to be done, or knowingly be concerned in doing, or suffer to be done, anything contrary to or otherwise as provided by the foregoing by-law, or who shall omit to do anything hereinbefore required to be done by him, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable to a penalty, not exceeding £5, as the Court inflicting the same shall in its discretion think fit; and in every case in which such offence is a continuing one, then to a penalty, not exceeding £5, as such Court shall think fit for every day or part of a day during which such offence shall continue.

Repeal.

33. By-laws No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3, made by special order on the 14th day of April, 1894, the 6th day of April, 1895, and the 1st day of December, 1904, are hereby repealed.

34. These by-laws shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

Form A.

To the Amuri County Council.

I hereby apply for a license for a traction-engine [or motor], particulars of which are at foot:—
Class of engine, whether traction-engine, motor, or combined engine and wagon: .
Owner’s name and address: .
Maker’s name, and number: .
Motive power: .
Number of cylinders: .
Nominal horse-power: .
Weight unloaded: .
Greatest load to be carried: .
Width of driving-wheels: .
Width of steering-wheels: .
Date of last inspection under “The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908,” and number of certificate granted: .
District in which last inspection took place: .

Form B.

LICENSE FOR TRACTION-ENGINE [OR MOTOR].

The Amuri County Council hereby authorises the use on roads within the County of Amuri, on and from the day of until the 31st day of May, of the traction-engine [or motor], particulars of which are at foot. The number allotted to this license is .
Dated this day of , 19 .
, County Clerk.

Particulars of engine [or motor] above referred to:
Class of engine, whether traction-engine, or motor, or combined engine and wagon: .
Owner’s name and address: .
Maker’s name, and number: .
Motive power: .
Number of cylinders: .
Nominal horse-power: .
Weight unloaded: .
Greatest load to be carried: .
Width of tires, driving-wheels: .
Width of tires, steering-wheels: .

Form C.

RENEWAL RECEIPT.

Received from the sum of £ , being the fee payable for a renewal of the traction-engine [or motor] license No. .
, County Clerk.
£ : : .
Dated this day of , 19 .

Made by a special order duly passed by the Council of the County of Amuri on the 2nd day of October, 1909, and confirmed by the said Council on the 30th day of October, 1909, and given under the common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Amuri, and the said common seal was affixed in the presence of—

D. D. MACFARLANE,
Chairman.
D. RUTHERFORD,
Councillor.

(SEAL.)

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly made by the Amuri County Council, and that all the provisions of the several Acts relating thereto have been fully complied with.

C. SMITH,
County Clerk.

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