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NEW ZEALAND.

OTAGO PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Vol. XI. DUNEDIN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1867. No. 493.

Published by Authority

[WITH SUPPLEMENT.]

A MEETING will be held in the Provincial Secretary’s office on Thursday, 15th August, 1867, at eleven o’clock a.m., to consider the application of William Hay, Dunedin, for an Auctioneer’s License. The certificate is signed by James Reid, J. M’Landress, H. Campbell, D. R. Hay, E. Bastings, C. J. Levien.

GEORGE DUNCAN.

31st July, 1867.

BYE-LAWS OF THE INCORPORATED TOWN OF CLYDE.

WHEREAS an Ordinance was passed by the Provincial Council of the Province of Otago, in the 28th year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, Session XX, No. 191, intituled "An Ordinance to incorporate the Inhabitants of the City of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, in the Colony of New Zealand, and to enable Towns and Places within the said Province to be incorporated under the provisions of the same." And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly of the Colony of New Zealand, No. 55, 1865, intituled "The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act, 1865," it is, among other things, enacted that all Corporations incorporated under the said Ordinance should be empowered to make Bye-laws and Regulations for the purposes in the said Act specified, and whereas the inhabitants of the Town of Clyde have been duly incorporated with the provisions of the said first-mentioned Ordinance. And whereas it is expedient to make provision by Bye-law for Regulating and Licensing Vehicles plying for hire within the limits of the incorporated Town of Clyde. Be it therefore ordered and directed by the Council of the Incorporated Town of Clyde by virtue of the authority in them vested in that behalf, that from and after the day on which this Bye-law shall come into operation, the following regulations shall be in force within the Incorporated Town of Clyde :

Vehicles to be Licensed.

1. That no vehicle of any description whatever, excepting stage coaches running long distances shall carry passengers for hire within the Municipal boundary, unless the same be duly licensed, and the vehicle, harness, and horses used in drawing the same be, in the opinion of the Council or of their Inspector, in a fit condition for public use, with the number of the License and the number of passengers that the same is allowed to carry, conspicuously and legibly painted thereon, and the driver a sober and competent man.

Number of Passengers.

2. That the number of passengers to be conveyed in each vehicle at any one time shall be determined by the said Council upon the report of their Inspector, and no greater number of passengers than the number so determined on shall at any one and the same time be carried in such carriage on any pretence whatever, but children in arms shall not be counted as passengers.

Names to be Registered.

3. That the owner or owners of all public vehicles carrying passengers for hire shall register their names and addresses at the Municipal Office, and shall submit the vehicle required to be licensed to the inspection of the Council or their Inspector, and shall pay to the Town Clerk in aid of the Municipal fund for the License of each several vehicle a sum to be calculated after the rate of Seven Shillings and Sixpence per annum for each passenger that the vehicle is allowed to carry at any one time, and shall thereupon receive a license in the annexed form, the said License, however, may be taken out or renewed quarterly—on the first day of June, September, December and March—a proportionate sum to the amount aforesaid being paid.

Public Carters to be Licensed.

4. Be it further ordered and directed that every owner of every cart or dray used for hire within the said Municipal district shall register his name and place of abode in the Municipal Office, and shall pay to the Town Clerk, in aid of the Municipal funds, a sum after the rate of one pound per annum, and shall thereupon receive a License, on which shall be written or printed his name and place of abode, the number of his License, and the public places which from time to time the Council may appoint as stands for public carters ; such