BYE-LAWS OF THE CITY OF DUNEDIN

BYE-LAW No. XI.

XI.—A Bye-law to regulate the Sale by Weight or Measure of marketable commodities within the City of Dunedin, and to define the Hours during which certain of such commodities may be exposed for sale.

And whereas with a view to prevent fraud and unjust dealing, it is necessary to provide regulations in reference to the sale or disposal of marketable commodities within the said city: Be it therefore ordered and directed by the Council of the said city, by virtue of the authority in them vested, that from and after the date of this Bye-law coming into operation, the following shall be the regulations in force:—

1. Penalty for using illegal weight.
   The owner or reputed owner, or vendor of any marketable commodities or produce brought into the said city for sale by weight or measure, or offered or exposed therein for that purpose, and reported on by a duly appointed officer of the said Council as being of unjust or illegal weight or measure, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding Ten Pounds for each and every load or other quantity so brought for sale, or offered or exposed as aforesaid.

2. Penalty for selling under weight.
   Any person within the said city selling or delivering, or causing or permitting to be sold or delivered, any goods, wares, or merchandise, of any kind whatever, under the weight at or for which such goods, wares, or merchandise shall have been sold, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding Ten Pounds.

3. Certain hours during which Hay, &c., may be exposed for sale.
   It shall not be lawful for any person to expose for sale upon any of the said public stands, provided by the said Council, any hay or firewood, excepting during the hours following, that is to say—during the months of October, November, December, January, February, and March, between the hours of five o’clock in the morning and seven o’clock in the evening; and during the months of April, May, June, July, August, and September, between the hours of six o’clock in the morning and five o’clock in the afternoon. And any person exposing or offering for sale the said goods, or either of them at any other time, or not clearing the stands at the hours respectively, lastly above-named, shall forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding Ten Pounds.

BYE-LAW No. XII.

XII.—A Bye-law to restrain the keeping of Houses of Ill-fame in the City of Dunedin.

Whereas it is necessary for the peace and comfort of the inhabitants of the City of Dunedin that houses of ill-fame and repute within the said city should be restrained, and, if possible, suppressed: Be it therefore ordered and directed by the Council of the said city, by virtue of the authority in them vested—That from and after the date of this Bye-law coming into force, any person keeping any such house, or being the reputed proprietor and occupier thereof, or having the chief control, or conduct or management of the same, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds for every such offence, and all Inspectors of Nuisance of the said Council, or other officer thereof, being special constables, are hereby required to lay and prefer informations for a breach of this Bye-law, at the instance or on request of any two respectable householders resident in the neighbourhood of such reported house of ill-fame and repute.

BYE-LAW No. XIII.

XIII.—A Bye-law compelling all Vehicles to Carry Lights when Travelling at Night.

Whereas it is expedient and necessary for the public convenience and safety that all carriages and vehicles of whatsoever description the same may be, should be provided with proper carriage lights when travelling at night:

Be it therefore ordered and directed, from and after the date on which this Bye-law shall come into operation—

1. That every carriage, of whatsoever description, travelling within the limits of the City of Dunedin after sunset and before sunrise, shall be provided with proper carriage lights, and the driver shall keep the same properly lighted.

2. That for each offence against this Bye-law the person so offending shall be liable to any penalty not exceeding £10.

Bye-Laws passed on 1st December, 1865, rescinded.
The Bye-Laws of the Corporation of the City of Dunedin passed by the Council of the City of Dunedin on the first day of December, 1865, are hereby rescinded.

W. MASON,
Mayor.

(L.S.)

Passed by the Council of the City of Dunedin, the fifth day of December, 1866.

HENRY P. MORSE,
Town Clerk.

The foregoing Bye-laws having been laid before the Provincial Council of this Province for fourteen days, have been submitted to me for confirmation, and it having been made to appear to me that none of the said Bye-laws are repugnant to the “Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865,” or to the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” or to the “Otago Municipal Councils Empowering Act, 1865, Amendment Act, 1866,” or to an Ordinance intituled “An Ordinance to Amend the Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance, 1865,” or to the “Otago Municipal Corporations Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1866,” or to the general spirit and intendment of the laws in force within the Colony and the Province, I do hereby, with the advice and consent of my Executive Council, confirm the said Bye-laws.

As witness my hand, at Dunedin, this sixteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

THOMAS DICK,
Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

In the Supreme Court of New Zealand,

Otago and Southland District.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of this Court, for Criminal and Civil Business, will be held at the Court House, Dunedin, on Friday, the 1st day of February next, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, at which time and place all persons under Recognizance to appear as Prosecutors, Defendants, or Witnesses are hereby requested to give their attendance.

ROBERT CHAPMAN,
Registrar.

Supreme Court Office, Dunedin,
20th February, 1867.

NOTICE. To the owners of Sections 21, 26, and 27, Block IV, Dunedin and East Taieri Survey District, that I am about to fence in Sections 22, 23, and 25, in the said Block.

DOUGALD GILCHRIST.

NOTICE.
WILLIAM WILSON, of Black’s No. 1, Publican, hereby give notice that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between myself and Robert Clarke is this day dissolved, and that I do not hold myself responsible for any debts which may be incurred in the name of the firm of “Clarke and Wilson” from this date.

(Signed) WILLIAM WILSON.

Black’s No. 1, 9th February, 1867.

Witness—W. T. BAILEY, Clyde.

GAZETTE. There was a GAZETTE published on Monday last, without a Supplement.

Printed under the Authority of the Provincial Government of Otago, by Mills, Dick & Co., of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Printers to the said Provincial Government for the time being.