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be used for the purpose for which it is registered or shall be closed and every occupier of such premises who permits the same to be used for such purpose during or at any other time after any such hour respectively shall for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding pounds.

PART VII.—FIRE PREVENTION.

1.—Foul Chimneys.

Wilfully setting fire to chimneys.

1.—Every person who wilfully sets or causes to be set on fire any chimney-flue or stove-pipe herein called in common "chimney" shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

Provided always that nothing herein contained shall exempt the person so setting or causing to be set on fire any chimney from liability to be informed against or prosecuted before any criminal court for such act as for an indictable offence.

Negligently suffering chimneys to be on fire.

2.—If any chimney accidentally catch or be on fire the person occupying or using the premises in which such chimney is situated shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings.

Provided always that such forfeiture shall not be incurred if such person prove to the satisfaction of the justice before whom the case is heard that such fire was in no wise owing to the omission neglect or carelessness whether with respect to cleansing such chimney or otherwise of himself or his servant.

2.—Deposit &c. of Inflammable Materials &c.

Regulations.

3.—It shall be lawful for the council from time to time to make regulations for all or any of the purposes following that is to say—

For prescribing the distance from any adjoining land or from any building within which it shall not be lawful to make or keep any stack of hay corn straw or other produce if not placed under roof or cover and the like where placed under roof or cover for prohibiting or restraining the use for such covering of such inflammable materials as shall be described in such regulation.

For prescribing the distance from any adjoining land or from any street or public place or from any building within which it shall not be lawful to deposit such combustible materials as shall be specified in the regulation or save in some properly constructed fireplace within some building or to make or light any fire.

And every such regulation may be made to apply to the whole or separately to any part of the borough described by boundaries in such bye-law and may provide as to the matter thereof either absolutely or with relation to the consent of the council or of the proper officer of the council to be given or withheld in any case to be in question under such regulation.

4.—Every person who shall make or place any stack of hay corn straw or other produce or covering etc. place as or for the covering of any such stack any inflammable material or deposit any other division and every occupier of any premises whereon any stack or any such covering of a stack shall be or any combustible materials have been deposited if the same though lawfully placed or deposited before the coming into force of any such regulation shall be contrary to the tenor of such regulation who shall not within seven days after notice from council so to do remove such stack covering or materials or who shall suffer to remain any stack covering or materials unlawfully made placed or deposited before the coming into force of such regulation shall forfeit on conviction of such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds and in every such case a further sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day after any conviction during which such stack covering or materials shall so continue.

Setting fire to matter without notice.

5.—Every person who wilfully sets fire to any inflammable matter whatsoever in the open air without having given notice in writing to the occupiers of the land adjoining to the land upon which such matter shall be and also to the town clerk of his intention so to do or within twenty-four hours after giving the last given of such notices or between the hours of four in the afternoon of any day and eight in the morning of the following day shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

Fireworks.

6.—Every person who shall light any bonfire tar barrel or firework upon or within sixty yards of any public or private street or any public place shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

Brush fences.

7.—It shall not be lawful for any person to make or place or keep or continue any such fence of brushwood bushes or other like material within the borough and every person who make or place any such fence and every owner or occupier of any premises who for seven days after notice from the council to remove any such fence thereto appertaining if lawfully made placed before the coming into operation of this sub-division shall suffer any such fence or part thereof to remain or who shall suffer to remain any such fence unlawfully made before coming into operation shall forfeit on conviction for such offence a sum not exceeding pounds and in every such case a further sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day any such conviction during which such fence shall continue.