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the 9th part, 64, 65, 71, 72, 88, 89, and 90 of part 10, and the whole of the subdivisions of part 11 of the 13th schedule to the said Act, are hereby adopted in and for the said Town of Cromwell, and for and on behalf of the said Corporation.

2nd. All Bye-laws heretofore in force, or presumed to be, are hereby expressly repealed.

BYE-LAW No. 2.

Bye-law of the Council of the Town of Cromwell, made under section 186 of the "Municipal Corporations Act 1867."

A Bye-law to provide for the better rule and government of the Town of Cromwell.

In pursuance of the powers and provisions contained in section 186, part 13, of the "Municipal Corporations Act 1867," the Council of the Town of Cromwell ordain as follows, that is to say:—

Any person guilty of any the following offences, omissions, or neglects, within the Town of Cromwell, shall on being convicted of such offence, neglect, or omission, be liable to any penalty not exceeding (£5) Five Pounds:—

1st. Throwing any glass, filth, dirt, rubbish or any matter of a similar nature upon any street, footway, court, alley, or a public place whatever.

2nd. Riding, driving, or leading any horse or wheeling any barrow, cart, dray, or carriage, upon any footpath without permission from the City Council so to do.

3rd. Placing any timber, bricks, stones, or other building materials upon any footway, way, channel, surface drain or carriage-road, without such permission as aforesaid.

4th. Burning any shavings, straw, or other materials or matter upon any footway, carriage-road, or open or public place, without such permission as aforesaid.

5th. Leaving any inflammable materials or matter in any public shed or place, or any open place near any building, without such permission as aforesaid.

6th. Drawing or trailing any sledge, timber or other material upon any footway or carriage-road, to the injury of such footway or carriage-road.

7th. Emptying any privy or cesspool, or carting away any nightsoil, or other offensive matter, without having a license from the Town Council of Cromwell well to do.

8th. Allowing any nightsoil or other offensive matter to be spilt or otherwise cast on to or upon any road, street, footway, public place, or thoroughfare.

9th. Allowing the droppings from the eaves of any house to fall upon any footway.

10th. Placing any placard or other document, writing, or painting on, or otherwise defacing, any house or building, or any wall, fence, lamp-post, railway-post, or gate, without the consent of the occupier or owner thereof.

11th. Opening any drain or sewer, or removing the surface of any footway or carriage-road, without authority from the Town Council so to do.

12th. Neglecting to clean any private yard, way, passage, or avenue, by which neglect a nuisance, by offensive smell or otherwise, is caused.

13th. Rolling any cask, beating any carpet, breaking-in any horse, flying any kite, using any bows and arrows, or playing at any game to the annoyance of any person, in any public place, or obstructing any footpath, or carriage-road, whether by allowing any cart or animal to remain across such footpath or carriage-road, or by placing goods thereon, or otherwise.

14th. Throwing or discharging any stone, or other missile, to the damage or danger of any person or property.

15th. Having any awning on or over any footway in any public-street or thoroughfare, not being eight feet clear above the footway.

16th. Blasting any rock, stone, or timber, in or near any public place, without permission of the Town Council.

17th. Furiously or negligently riding or driving through any public place, street, or thoroughfare.

18th. If any butcher or other person shall kill or slaughter any animal without having being duly licensed in that behalf by the Town Council.

19th. Making any cellar-door or other opening from the footway of any street or public thoroughfare, without the consent or not in accordance with the directions of the Town Council.

20th. Exposing for sale any article whatsoever on any footway, or outside of any shop window or doorway abutting on any public thoroughfare or street.

21st. Discharging any firearms, or letting off any fireworks, or carrying any firearms, sword, dirk, dagger, or other offensive weapon, within the Town of Cromwell, without permission of the Town Council. Provided that the provision last aforesaid shall not apply to any Justice of the Peace, or any person in her Majesty's military or naval service, or any member of the police, or other peace officer, or any member of a recognised Volunteer Corps, or any special constable, or any person actually in pursuit of any felon or offender.

22nd. Any person laying out or opening any street or building therein, and omitting during the operation necessary for forming such street, or for building therein, to take all such precautions for guarding against injury to the passengers along such street as may be necessary, or as may be directed by the Town Council.

23rd. Any person placing any obstruction upon any street-line, whereby life or limb is likely to be endangered.

24th. Any person leaving any hole, excavation, or dangerous formation in or near any public place, street, or thoroughfare, without fencing or enclosing the same or without keeping a light burning upon such formation from sunset to sunrise.

25th. Any person neglecting or omitting to keep in good repair any rail, gate, fence, or cover over or about any area, or entrance to any cellar or other place, or keeping open for more than a reasonable time for taking in or out any articles, any entrance to any area, cellar, or other place. (Such area or or entrance opening into or upon or near any public street, road, or thoroughfare, or other public place.)

26th. Any person throwing any offensive matter, or any animal with the intention of drowning it, into any river, watercourse, or other place from whence the supply of water for the use of the inhabitants of the said town is obtained.

27th. Any carter riding on any cart, dray, or waggon, without having and holding proper and sufficient reins, and no competent persons having charge of the animal or animals drawing the same.

28th. Any person driving any vehicle whatsoever, or riding any animal, and when meeting any other vehicle or animal not keeping the left or near side of the road or street, or when passing any other vehicle or animal going in the same direction, not going or passing or not allowing any person desirous so to do to pass, when practicable, on the right or off side of such other vehicle or animal.

29th. The driver of any horse or vehicle injuring any person or property whatsoever, by negligence or by driving on the wrong side of the road, or by being away from his horse or cattle, so as to be unable to have the full control over them.