PART VIII.—NUISANCES ETC.

I.—Nuisances of various kinds.

1.—It shall be lawful for the council from time to time to make regulations for appointing Regulation as to keeping swine. any limits to be set forth therein portions of the borough in which it shall not be lawful to keep any swine and if any person shall keep any swine within any such prescribed limits he shall forfeit for every day during which he shall so offend a sum not exceeding five pounds.

2.—Every person who shall empty any privy or load carry remove or deposit any night-soil Removing night-soil etc. or other offensive refuse or matter save between such hours of the night or shall deposit the same save at such places as respectively shall have been appointed by some regulation of the council in that behalf or who shall use for any such purpose any cart or carriage not having a covering proper for preventing the escape of the contents of such cart or of the stench thereof shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds and it shall be lawful for the council from time to time to make regulations for appointing such hours and places as aforesaid.

a.—Private Slaughter-houses.

3.—It shall be lawful for the council of the borough if the council shall not as yet have Licences for private slaughter-houses. provided within such borough and duly notified the same as ready for public use to license upon payment of such sum not exceeding two pounds as shall be appointed by regulation in that behalf such slaughter-houses as they from time to time may think proper for slaughtering cattle not public within the borough and every such license shall be in force for a year from the time of granting the same and no longer.

4.—Every person who without having such license as aforesaid in force uses as a slaughter-Slaughtering in unlicensed places. house any place within such borough as in the last preceding section mentioned other than a slaughter-house which was in use at the time of the passing of this Act shall for each such offence forfeit on conviction a sum not exceeding five pounds and a like penalty for every day after such conviction upon which he shall so offend.

5.—Every place which at the time of the passing of the Act was in use as a slaughter-house Registration of slaughter-houses previously established. and has so continued ever since shall within one month after the coming into operation of this sub-division in any borough be registered by the owner or occupier thereof at the office of the council and on application to the council for that purpose and on payment of such sum not exceeding twenty shillings as shall have been appointed by regulation in that behalf they shall from time to time cause every such slaughter-house to be registered in a book to be kept for that purpose and such registration shall be of effect for one year after the making thereof and no longer and every person who after the expiration of such period of one month uses or suffers to be used any such place as a slaughter-house without its being so registered shall forfeit on conviction a sum not exceeding five pounds for such offence and a further sum not exceeding ten shillings for every day after such conviction during which such place shall be used as a slaughter-house without having been so registered.

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

• For the licensing (where the council are empowered to license) and for the registering and inspection of the said slaughter-houses.
• For appointing subject to the limits herein prescribed the fees for licenses and registration.
• For preventing cruelty in such slaughter-houses.
• For keeping the same in a cleanly and proper state and for removing the filth at least once in every twenty-four hours and requiring them to be provided with a sufficient supply of water.
• For confining the use of licensed slaughter-houses to the slaughter of any particular kinds of animals.

And every person offending contrary to any such regulation shall forfeit on conviction a sum not exceeding five pounds and in the case of a continuing offence a further sum not exceeding ten shillings for every day during which such offence shall continue after such conviction.

7.—The justice before whom any person is convicted of any offence against this sub-division Suspension etc. in addition to any penalty may suspend for a period not exceeding two months the license for revocation of any slaughter-house granted hereunder to such person or the effect of the registration of any slaughter-house of which such person is the owner or occupier and upon the conviction of any person for a second or subsequent like offence may in addition to any penalty declare the license granted hereunder to such person revoked or the registration of any slaughter-house of which such person is the owner or occupier cancelled and no license while so suspended or after such revocation and no registration while the effect thereof is suspended or after the same is cancelled shall exist or avail for any purpose whatsoever.

PART IX.

MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

2.—If any person shall wilfully and without the authority of the council cut break bark root Damaging trees. up or otherwise destroy or damage the whole or any part of any tree sapling shrub or underwood...