10. Driver must be in attendance upon Carriage and upon Pack Horses.

The driver of every licensed vehicle shall be constantly attendant upon same when plying on a public stand or public place, or otherwise engaged for hire, and the owner or driver of any pack horses shall in a like manner be in constant attendance on the same.

11. Lamps at Night.

Every licensed vehicle plying for hire, or any private carriage of whatsoever description, shall, after sunset, or before sunrise, be provided with proper carriage lights, and the driver shall cause the same to be kept lighted after dark, and while engaged in driving such vehicle or otherwise plying for hire.

12. Vicious Horses to be Muzzled, &c.

The driver of every vehicle and of pack horses, shall place upon the heads of any vicious horses employed by him a muzzle, and keep the same thereon whilst engaged plying for hire on a public stand or place, or whilst loading, and such pack-horses if dangerous from their kicking propensities shall not be loaded, left standing, or ply for hire on a public stand, place, or street.

13. Pack Horses after being loaded not to remain in Public Streets and Places.

As soon as the owner or driver of any pack-horse shall have completed the loading of his animals, he shall within a reasonable time remove the same from the public streets, and in no wise suffer said horses or animals to loiter about the streets or be fastened up therein.

14. Owners of Pack Horses to Register their Horses.

The owner or owner or driver (or drivers in charge of pack horses plying for hire within the limits of said town, shall register with the Town Clerk for the time being thereof, once at least in every year, the number of horses employed by them, and shall obtain a copy of said registry and a permission under the hand of the Mayor, or of two (2) councillors to so ply for hire, and for every such permit or license to so ply for hire a fee of One Shilling shall be paid for same, provided always that in such permit or license any number of horses or other animals used for pack hire purposes and belonging to one owner may be registered therein at said rate of One Shilling for each animal.

15. Articles left in Carriages or with Packers.—How disposed of.

The owner or driver of any licensed vehicle wherein any property whatsoever shall be left by any person using or otherwise travelling in said vehicle, or any property left with any packer unclaimed, shall, within forty-eight hours after the same has been so left, restore the same in the state in which the same shall have been found to the owner thereof; or, if the owner cannot be traced, he shall deposit such property in the Town Clerk’s Office, or other building as may be directed; and if any owner or driver shall make any default herein, he shall be liable to a fine for each offence against the provisions of this bye-law. And when any such property shall be deposited as aforesaid, the officer receiving the same shall give an acknowledgment to the depositor, and make an entry and record thereof, and the property so recovered shall be returned to the person who shall prove ownership to the satisfaction of the Town Clerk or of the Mayor, such person previously paying first all expenses incurred, together with such hire or freight as may be lawfully due thereon; and, with reference to the value of said property, charges or any other matter connected therewith the said Council shall decide and award.

16. How property to be disposed of.

If any property so found and deposited as provided by Clause No. 15, remain unclaimed one year after the date of such deposit, the property shall be sold by public auction, after being advertised in such manner as the Council may direct, and the proceeds thereof paid over to the Town Clerk, in aid of the city fund, after deducting such sum as the Council may award to the person who shall have been actually driving the vehicle or pack horses, and who having found the property shall deposit the same as directed by Clause 15.

17. Copy of Bye-law to be given to Owner.

Every owner licensed under the provisions thereof shall be able to obtain, without charge, one copy of this bye-law, and upon said copy shall be written the particulars of said owner’s license, and said owner shall be compelled to produce such bye-law, or some other legal copy thereof, upon demand of any person hiring him.

18. Inspector of Licenses, Carriages, &c.

Such person or persons as the Council may from time to time appoint in that behalf shall be inspector or Inspecters during the pleasure of said Council, and said Inspector or Inspectors shall at all times see that, as far as possible, this bye-law is duly observed.

19. Inspector not to be obstructed.

No owner or driver of any vehicle, or of any pack or pack horses, shall obstruct any such Inspector in the execution of his said duties.

20. Penalties.

For any and every offence against the provisions of this bye-law, the offender shall, upon conviction, be liable to and shall pay any penalty not less than One Shilling, and not exceeding Ten Pounds (£10) sterling for each and every offence and said penalty shall be recoverable under the provisions of the "Otago Municipal Corporation Empowering Act, 1865."

21. Interpretation Clause.

The words Town Clerk where used in this bye-law, shall be understood to mean the Town Clerk of the Town of Queenstown; the word Owner shall signify every person possessed of a beneficial interest in any hackney carriage, vehicle, or pack horse; and whenever in this bye-law with reference to any person, animal, matter or thing, any word or words is or are used importing the singular number, or the masculine gender only, yet such word or words shall be understood to include several persons or animals, females as well as males, bodies corporate or politic, as well as individuals, and several matters and things as well as one matter or thing, unless it be otherwise specially provided or there be something in the subject or context repugnant thereto.

22. What is a Public Vehicle.

Nothing in this bye-law shall apply or be held to apply to vehicles which shall never be permitted to ply for hire in a public place or street, or which do not run as stage-coaches, but clauses 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12 shall apply to all private vehicles of whatever kind.

Passed by the Council of Queenstown (second) 2nd May, 1867.

(L.S.) J. W. ROBERTSON, Mayor.

H. MANDERS, Town Clerk.

BYE-LAW No. 2.

A Bye-Law for the Licensing and Regulating Wagons and other Vehicles, and the Owners and Drivers thereof; and for Regulating the Sale and Exposure for Sale of Hay, Straw, Coal and Firewood within the town of Queenstown.

1. Carters, Names to be Registered.

Every carter or other person who shall be desirous to ply with or to the town of Queenstown, except carriers from a long distance, or to keep or let for hire within the said town any waggon, dray, cart, or other vehicle for the carrying of goods and merchandise, shall, on being approved of by the Mayor or one Councillor, register his name and place of abode in the office of the Town Clerk of said town, and shall thereupon receive a license, on which shall be written his name and general place of abode, and the number of the license, and for such license he shall pay to the Town Clerk the sum of not more than One Pound (£1) annually, and a further sum of not more than One Pound (£1) annually for renewal in every succeeding twelve months.