one ton to any part of Port Chalmers from either of the stands ... 0 2 6
To any part of the town at per mile ... 0 2 6
For any further ton ... ... ... 0 2 6
For further distance by time.

Fares by Time.
For any time not exceeding half an hour ... 0 2 6
Exceeding one half, but not exceeding one hour ... 0 4 0
Subsequent hours, each ... 0 3 0
The whole day of eight hours’ work ... 1 0 0

Removing of furniture to be always paid by time, the carter being bound to use all reasonable expedition. Time or distance to be at option of the employer, except in cases of removing furniture.

The carter shall in all cases assist in loading and unloading.

Carters shall be liable to go to any place within the town boundaries, but not beyond, unless at their own option. Should they agree to do so, and afterwards refuse, or otherwise omit to carry out these regulations, the Town Council will, on complaint made and the offence being proved, either withdraw the license or declare the offender incapable of receiving a license for such time as may be deemed expedient.

BYE-LAW NO. 9.
Crossing over footways and channels.

Every person who wilfully and without lawful excuse rides, drives, or leads any horse or other animal, or drives or wheels any carriage, cart, or other vehicle upon, along, or across any footway, or any water channel or gutter, herein called channel, by the side of any street, save in each such case upon and by, or at some crossing to be made as hereinafter mentioned, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, and shall also pay to the Council such sum not exceeding ten pounds, by way of compensation for any damage done by him to the footway or channel, as the Justice adjudicating upon the information shall on the hearing thereof decide.

BYE-LAW NO. 10.
Hoarding and fence.

Every person who shall intend to build or take down or cause to be built or taken down any building or other structure, whether over or under ground, or to alter or repair or cause to be altered or repaired the outward part of any such structure within any of the cases aforesaid ten feet of any street or footway, or who shall have a license for constructing any stage or scaffolding or depositing any building or other materials or building rubbish upon or across any footway or street shall before beginning to execute such work or to do such act cause to be put up so as to separate from the street and from the remainder (if any) of the footway so much of the premises where the work is to be executed as fronts the site of such work, and the area upon which, according to the license, such stage or scaffolding is to be constructed, or such materials or rubbish are to be deposited, such sufficient hoards or fences, together with such convenient platform or handrail, if there be room enough to serve as a footway for passengers outside of such hoard or fence, as shall be respectively approved by such officer as the Council shall have appointed in that behalf, and shall continue such hoard or fence with such platform and handrail as aforesaid standing and in good condition to the satisfaction of such officer during the time limited as aforesaid in the said license, or the last renewal thereof, and for such longer time as the public safety or convenience requires; and shall in all cases in which it is necessary, in order to prevent accidents, cause the same to be sufficiently lighted from sunset to sunrise, and shall remove such hoard, fence, platform, and handrail, and make good the footway and street within a reasonable time after the provisions of this section have been fulfilled.

Penalty for not putting up Lighting, &c., hoarding.

Every person who executes, or begins or continues to execute, any such work as in the last section mentioned, or who being licensed thereto constructs, or begins or continues to construct any such stage or scaffolding, or deposits, or keeps deposited any such material or rubbish upon or across any footway or street without having in any of the cases aforesaid put up such hoard or fence, or such platform with such handrail as aforesaid, or continuing the same respectively standing and in good condition as aforesaid, during the time aforesaid, or without keeping the said hoard, fence, platform, or rail, and each part thereof respectively, while the same are standing, sufficiently lighted from sunset to sunrise, or without removing the same within such reasonable time as aforesaid, or without making good the footway and street after such removal shall for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, and a further penalty not exceeding forty shillings for every day while such default is continued.

Removal of Scaffolding, &c.

Every person licensed as herein mentioned to construct any stage or scaffolding; or to deposit any materials or rubbish, shall remove within a reasonable time after the time limited as aforesaid in such license, or in the last renewal thereof, all such stage scaffolding, materials, and rubbish, and shall make good the footway and street; and if any such person shall fail in any such case to comply with this section, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, and a further penalty not exceeding forty shillings for every day while such default is continued.

Streets, &c., not to be obstructed, &c.

Nothing herein contained shall render it lawful to construct any stage or scaffolding, or to deposit any materials or rubbish, or to put up any hoarding or fence, platform or handrail as aforesaid, or all or any of them, so that the same shall extend or be across or over or upon any street further from the inner edge of the footway than one-third of the whole breadth of such street, or in any case so as to render the street exclusive of the footways impassable for carriages or so as to obstruct the channel.

Council may remove, &c., in certain cases, and recover expenses.

If any person who ought under this subdivision to remove any matter or thing or to make good any footway or street shall fail so to do, whether or not such person shall have been convicted or not of any offence under this subdivision, the Council may remove such matter or thing or make good such street or footway, and may recover the expenses of so doing from the person so making default before any Justice.

BYE-LAW NO. 11.
Regulation of proceedings of Council officers, &c.

General conduct of business.

1. In all cases not herein provided for resort shall be had to the rules, forms and usages of Parliament, which shall be followed so far as the same are applicable to the proceedings of the Council.

2. At every meeting of the Council the first business thereof shall be the reading and putting a question for the confirmation of the minutes of the proceedings at the preceding meeting, and the reading of the minutes of the proceedings of any committee presented at any such preceding meeting, and no discussion shall be permitted thereon except as to their accuracy as a record of the proceedings, and the said minutes of the proceedings at the preceding meeting shall then be signed as by this Act required; and the rough minutes of the