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manner on the right or off side in letters at least
one inch in length.
32nd.—Any person driving any dog or goat har-
nessed, or attached to any vehicle, through a public
place.
33rd.—Any person who shall act as driver, or have
the sole charge of more than one vehicle, on any
public road or street, unless in cases where two of
such carriages, and no more, shall be drawn each by
one horse only, and the horse of the hinder of such
carriages shall be attached by a sufficient rein to the
back of the foremost of such vehicles.
34th.—The driver or guard of public vehicle for
the conveyance of passengers wilfully delaying on
the road, using any abusive or insulting language to
any passenger, or by reason of any intoxication,
negligence, or other misconduct, causing injury to or
endangering the safety of the person or property of
any passenger or other person.
35th.—Any person turning any horses, cattle,
or geese, upon any public street, or allowing any
horses, cattle, or geese, to wander on any public
street or thoroughfare within the town of Lawrence.
36th.—Any person leaving upon any public street
or thoroughfare any plough, harrow, cart, or other
vehicle, without any horse or animal harnessed
thereto, without any consequence of some accident
having occurred.
37th.—Any person slaughtering or skinning any
beast upon any public street or thoroughfare, or
permitting any slaughtered beast or skin to remain
there, or leaving any dead beast on such street or
thoroughfare.
38th.—Any person having any iron, timber or
boards laid across any vehicle going along any street
or thoroughfare, so that either end shall project more
than two feet beyond the wheels or sides of such
vehicle.
39th.—Any person destroying, damaging, polluting
or obstructing any aqueduct, dam, sluice pipe, pump,
watercourse, fountain, fire plug, stand pipe, lamp or
lamp post.
40th.—Any person suffering or allowing any waste
or impure water, or other matter, to remain in any
cellar or place within any building or premises in the
town, or allowing any waste or impure water or
other matter to run or flow from any such building
or premises upon or over, or be on any carriage or
footway, or other place, whether public or private,
within the said city, or shall allow the contents of
any water closet, privy, or cesspool to overflow, or to
soak therefrom, so as to be offensive.
41st.—Any person selling, exposing, delivering, or
offering for sale any hay, straw, or coals, within the
town of Lawrence, without having weighed or caused
the same to be weighed at the weighbridge provided
or licensed for that purpose by the Town Council of
Lawrence, or any such person refusing or omitting
to produce the weigh note of the load or part of a
load of any such hay, straw, or coals, sold, exposed,
or offered for sale, for the satisfaction of any inspector
appointed by the Town Council of Lawrence in that
behalf.
42nd.—Any carter or other person selling, expos-
ing, delivering, or offering for sale on any cart or
waggon, any hay, straw, or coals, without having the
correct tare weight of such waggon or cart painted
and affixed thereto in some conspicuous place in
letters of not less than one inch.
43rd.—Any carter or other person who shall
refuse or omit, on being requested by any purchaser
or intending purchaser of any hay, straw, or coals,
to proceed with such hay, straw, or coals to the
nearest weighbridge, licensed or provided for that
purpose by the Town Council, and to have the same
re-weighed at the expense of such purchaser or
intended purchaser (the said purchaser in all such
cases taking the said load or other quantity at the
nett re-weight.)
44th.—Any carter or other person who shall
refuse or omit, on being requested by the purchaser
referred to in the last preceding section, to take to
any weighbridge within the town, licensed or pro-
vided for the purpose of this bye-law by the Town
Council, the waggon, dray, cart, or other vehicle
after the delivery of the load for the purpose of such
dray, cart, or other vehicle being re-weighed and the
correct tare weight thereof, when empty, ascertained.
45th.—Any lessee or person in charge of any
weighbridge within the Town of Lawrence who shall
give a false or incorrect weight of any dray, cart, or
other vehicle, or of any load or part of a load of
goods thereon.
46th.—All weighbridges within the Town of Law-
rence shall be duly licensed in writing under the
hand of the Town Clerk of the said town: and any
person keeping any weighbridge within the said town
and not having paid the license fee of £1 annually
and not having paid the license fee of £1 annually
for such weighbridge and being unlicensed.
47th.—Any lessee or person in charge of any
weighbridge within the town of Lawrence who shall
demand or exact any greater rates than those in this
section authorised to be charged from any person
using or desiring to use any weighbridge.
Rate chargeable for each vehicle having two
wheels only—sixpence
Do. do. for four wheels—one shilling.
Provided nevertheless that the Town Council may at
any time by resolution vary the rates herein autho-
rised to be charged, and after publication in the
Provincial Government Gazette of any such altera-
tion, the rates so altered shall be deemed to be the
rates authorized under this bye-law.
48th.—Any person hawking, selling, or exposing
for sale articles in any street or public place within
the said town without having first paid to the Town
Clerk the undermentioned dues, each day during
which such articles may be hawked, exposed, or
offered for sale, or other dues as may be from time to
time fixed and appointed by the said Council.
Dues for any person selling, hawking, or offering for
sale any articles in any street or public place
within the said town—
With cart, per day, 1s. 6d.
With bag, barrow, basket, or box, per day, 6d.
And the onus of proof that any articles being de-
livered about the streets of the town have been
previously ordered, and not being hawked, shall in
each case rest with the vendor or party delivering
said goods. Provided always that quarterly licenses
paid for as under to the Town Clerk, on behalf of
the Town Council, shall entitle the license-holder of
vend or hawk commodities about the streets of the
said town, subject to the several rules and regulations
made, or from time to time to be made in that be-
half.
Quarterly license fee for the sale of milk
otherwise than with a cart ... 2s. 6d.
Quarterly license fee, per cart, for the
sale of milk only ... 5s. 0d.
Quarterly license fee, per cart, for the
sale or hawking of any other
commodity ... 15s. 0d.
Quarterly license fee for bag, barrow,
basket, or box ... 7s. 6d.
49th.—Any person ringing a bell or bells, or blow-
ing any trumpet or horn, or beating any drum, tam-
bourine, or gong in any street or public place within
the town of Lawrence for the purpose of crying or
calling any matter or thing whatever, without paying
to the Town Clerk the quarterly license fee of 5s.
50th.—Any person being the owner or tenant of
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