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BYE-LAW NO. 2.

A Bye-Law to provide for the better rule and
government of the Town of Lawrence, in pursuance
of the powers and provisions of Section 186 of Part
13 of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867." The
Council of the Town of Lawrence ordain as follows:

Any person guilty of any of the following offences,
omissions or neglects, within the Town of Lawrence,
shall, on being convicted of any such offence, neglect,
or omission, be liable to pay any penalty not exceed-
ing (£5) five pounds:

1st.—Throwing any glass, filth, dirt, rubbish, or
any other matter of a similar nature, upon any
street, footway, court, alley, or public place what-
soever.

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

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

4th.—That no person shall light or have any fire
burning within or upon any yard or premises, whether
enclosed or not, for any purpose whatsoever, without
first having obtained license or permission from the
said Council or their duly authorised officer, except
such fire be made in a properly constructed
approved fireplace.

5th.—Leaving any inflammable materials or matter
in any public shed or place, or on any open space
near any building, without such permission as afore-
said.

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 night soil, or other offensive matter, with-
out having a license from the Town Council of Law-
rence so to do.

8th.—Allowing any night soil, 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 to do so.

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, 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 placing any goods thereon, or
allowing any goods, cart, or animal to remain upon
or across such footpath or carriage road longer than
is absolutely necessary to remove them into some
house, stable, yard or building.

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 foot-
way 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.—Exposing in any public street or thorough-
fare any horse or other animal for show, hire, or
sale.

19th.—If any butcher or other person shall kill or
slaughter any animal without having been duly
licensed in that behalf by the Town Council.

20th.—Making any cellar door, or other opening
from the footway of any street or public thorough-
fare, without the consent, or not in accordance with
the directions of the Town Council.

21st.—Exposing for sale any article whatsoever on
any footway, or outside of any shop, window or
doorway abutting on any public thoroughfare or
street.

22nd.—Discharging any firearms, or letting off any
fireworks, or carrying any firearms, sword, dirk,
dagger, or other offensive weapon, within the Town
of Lawrence, 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.

23rd.—Any person laying out or opening any
street or building therein, and omitting during the
operations 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.

24th.—Any person placing any obstruction upon
any street line, whereby life or limb is likely to be
endangered.

25th.—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.

26th.—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
entrance opening into or upon or near any public
street, road, thoroughfare, or other public place.)

27th.—Any person throwing any offensive matter,
or any animal, with the intention of drowning it,
into any water, watercourse, or other place from
whence the supply of water for the use of the in-
habitants of the said town is obtained.

28th.—Any carter riding on any cart, dray, or
waggon, without having and holding proper and
sufficient reins, and no competent person having
charge of the animal or animals drawing the same.

29th.—Any person driving any vehicle whatsoever,
or riding any animal, and when meeting any other
vehicle or animal not keeping on 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 vehicle or animal.

30th.—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 full control of them.

31st.—Any person driving any cart, waggon, or
dray without the name and residence of the owner
thereof being painted in a legible and permanent