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Burning Stubble, Rubbish, &c.

2. That no person shall be allowed to set fire to any
   stubble, scrub, furze or other inflammable material,
   until notice in writing be given to parties owning or
   occupying property adjacent to the place where such
   fires shall be made, twenty-four hours previous to
   such fire being made, and that no fire shall be made
   and continued, excepting between the hours of eight
   a.m. and eight p.m.

Straw, &c., to be kept under Cover.

3. That no person shall be permitted to keep any
   heaps or stacks of hay, corn or straw on their premises,
   unless the same be under cover of a shed or building,
   of which no exterior part or covering shall be of canvas
   or calico, or other textile fabric, or at a distance of fifty
   feet from any adjoining building, or twenty feet from
   any adjoining property not belonging to or in the occupation of the owner of such heap or stack of hay, corn
   or straw.

Tents, &c., of Calico, to be Thirty Feet from other Buildings.

4. That no person shall erect any tent store or
   dwelling or other building, of calico, canvas, or other
   textile fabric, or renew with the like material, any roof
   or any other exterior part of any tent store or building
   now existing in any of the proclaimed streets of the
   Municipality of Clyde, except the same be situated at
   a distance of thirty clear feet from any other building.

Fire Brigade.

5. That it shall be lawful for this Council to create a
   Municipal Fire Brigade, to be paid at such rates and
   subject to such regulations as the Council may from
   time to time appoint; and the Council may at any time
   at their pleasure discharge any officer or men of the said
   Brigade, and appoint others in their stead; and any
   person or persons obstructing the members of the Municipal Fire Brigade in the execution of their duty shall
   upon conviction forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding five pounds.

Awnings, &c.

6. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to
   erect or cause to be erected any shade, awning, or other
   building, over or across any public footpath within the
   Municipality aforesaid, without having first obtained in
   writing the consent of the Municipal Council aforesaid
   to such erection; and every such shade, awning, or
   building, when such consent to the erection of the same
   shall have been obtained, shall be erected with the
   outside of the posts or pillars thereof in a line with the
   outside of the curb or other boundary of the footpath in front of any shop, dwelling house, or other
   premises to which such shade, awning, or building,
   shall be attached, and no plate, rafter, or tie, of any
   such shade, awning, or building shall be of a less height
   above the surface of such path than eight feet in the
   clear to the under side of such plate, rafter, or tie; and
   it shall be competent for the Municipal Council aforesaid to direct and require the removal of any such
   shade, awning, or building erected across or over any
   public footpath of the said Municipality, except the
   same be in strict accordance with the foregoing directions, whether such shade, awning, or building shall
   have been erected prior to the date of this Bye-law or
   not; and it shall be further lawful for the said Council
   to give notice to remove any such shade, awning, or
   building, by means of the Inspector or other officer of
   such Council, to any owner or occupier by whom or for
   whom such shade, awning, or building shall have been
   erected; and any such owner or occupier who shall
   refuse or neglect to remove any such shade, awning, or
   building, or portion thereof, within forty-eight hours
   from the time of such notice of removal being given,
   shall for every such offence, refusal, or neglect, be liable
   to the penalty hereinafter provided for a breach of this
   Bye-law.

Penalty.

7. Any person or persons committing or causing to
   be committed a breach of any of the clauses of this
   Bye-law, shall, on conviction thereof before any two or
   more Justices of the Peace, forfeit and pay a penalty
   not exceeding Ten Pounds.

Bye-Law No. 13.

Bye-Law for the Prevention of Horse-racing, Furious Riding or Driving through the Surveyed Streets and Roads of the Incorporated Town of Clyde.

Whereas great danger and inconvenience arise to the
public of this Incorporated Town from the existing
practice of horse-racing, furious riding and driving: Be
it therefore ordered and directed by the Corporation of
the Town of Clyde, and from and after the day on
which this Bye-law shall come into operation, the
following regulations shall be in force within the said
Town of Clyde:—That any person or persons engaged
in horse-racing, furious riding or driving, or carelessly
allowing horses to stray unprotected through any of the
surveyed streets or roads within the municipality shall
upon conviction thereof before any two or more Justices
of the Peace for the said district, forfeit and pay for
every such offence a sum not exceeding Ten Pounds.

Certified correct.

J. D. FERAUD,
Mayor.

Passed by the Council of the
Town of Clyde, the 7th
day of May, 1867.

L. W. CARTER,
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 certified 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 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 this twenty-first day of July,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

(L. S.)
T. FRASER,
Deputy Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

LIST of Persons applying for Relief under the Debtors and Creditors’ Act, 1862, 1865, and 1866:

John Switzer, of Princes-street, Dunedin, boot and shoe importer.

Abraham Solomon, of Dunedin, clothier.

George Dempster, of same place, carpenter.

Henry Taylor, of Port Chalmers, butcher.

Anthony St. George White, of Dunedin, actor.

Samuel Howard, of same place, hotel-keeper.

Edgar Ivens, of same place, bank clerk.

James Gardiner, of same place, mariner.

William Blair, of same place, clerk.

George Howorth, of Otakia, farmer and hotel-keeper.

David Kirby, of Tokomairiro, contractor.

James Rae, of Dunedin, out of business.

COMPULSORY SEQUESTRATION.

James Ure Russell, of Dunedin, on the petition of Henry Smythies, of the same place, solicitor, a creditor of the said James Ure Russell.

ROBERT CHAPMAN, Registrar.
Supreme Court Office,
Dunedin, 29th July, 1867.

IMPOUNDED,

on the 19th July, 1867, by Constable McMecken, one bay Horse, Crown brand on off shoulder, for trespassing on Main Road, and in default of being released will be sold, at the Public Pound, Tokomairiro, on Friday, the 23rd August, at 12 o’clock, noon.

JAMES GOODALL, Poundkeeper.