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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 Alexandra, unless 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 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 kerb 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 underside 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 Alexandra.

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 Alexandra, 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 Alexandra:—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.
Robert Finlay, Mayor.
Passed by the Council of the Town of Alexandra, the twenty-sixth day of February, 1868.
J. L. Henderson, Town Clerk.

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In the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Otago and Southland District.

In the matter of the Bankruptcy Act 1867, and in the matter of the Arrangement by Deed of William Royse, John Bell Mudie, and Matthew Robertson Miller, carrying on business together as commission agents at Oamaru, under the firm of “Royse, Mudie & Miller,” with their creditors.

NOTICE is hereby given that an application will be made to the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Otago and Southland District, at the first sitting of the Supreme Court in banco next after the publication of this notice, at the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon, or so soon thereafter as counsel can be heard for a Declaration of the complete execution of the abovementioned Deed of Arrangement.

Dated this 14th day of December, 1868.

Kenyon and Maddock,
Dunedin.
(Agents for Julius and O’Meagher, of Oamaru, Solicitors for the said Royse, Mudie, and Miller.)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Partnership between the undersigned, John Francis Herbert, Edward Herbert, Archibald McKinlay, and Thomas Edward Ochiltree, in the trade and business of General Merchants, at Lawrence, under the firm or style of Herbert & Co., in so far as concerns the said Thomas Edmond Ochiltree only, and not otherwise, was this day dissolved by mutual consent; and, in future, the business will be carried on by the said John Francis Herbert, Edward Herbert, and Archibald McKinlay, on their own account, as the continuing members of the said firm of Herbert & Co.; and the said continuing parties will pay all debts owing by and to the said partnership in the regular course of trade.

Witness our hands this eleventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

John F. Herbert,
Pro Edward Herbert,
John F. Herbert,
Archibald McKinlay,
T. E. Ochiltree.

Witness to the Signatures—
John Mouat,
Articled Clerk to Mr. B. C. Haggitt, Solicitor, Dunedin.

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