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the day time, when any articles and things
stored in such cellar or basement are in
actual course and process of being lowered
or brought up.

  1. Every person who shall convey night soil
    along a public thoroughfare after the hour
    of six o'clock in the morning, and before
    the hour of ten o'clock at night.

  2. Every person who shall deposit, cast,
    leave, or suffer to flow and run down upon
    or near a public thoroughfare, or into
    any river, stream, or creek, or upon the
    banks of any river, stream or creek, or upon
    such part of the sea-beach as lies within five
    hundred yards of the Huatoki mouth, any
    night soil, ordure, carcass, offal, or other
    animal matter, or any foul water, or any
    other noisome or offensive substance.

  3. Every person who shall sell, or expose for
    sale, or have in his possession with intent
    to sell, any unwholesome meat; or who
    shall have in his possession for the purpose
    of slaughtering, any diseased animal unfit
    for human food.

II. Every person who within the limits
hereinafter named in that behalf shall com-
mit any of the offences next hereinafter
specified, shall for every such offence for-
feit and pay a sum not less than five shil-
lings, nor exceeding two pounds (that is to
say)

  1. Every person who (without due authorisa-
    tion) shall throw or leave earth, stone,
    or rubbish upon a public thoroughfare.

  2. Every person who shall leave standing or ly-
    ing upon any part of a public thoroughfare
    any wagon, cart, carriage, truck, wheelbar-
    row, or other vehicle, or any packing-case,
    crate, basket, cask, barrel, or package.

  3. Every person who shall place upon any
    part of a public thoroughfare (without due
    authorisation) any timber, stones, bricks,
    lime, or other materials for building.

  4. Every person who shall expose or place
    upon any part of a public thoroughfare any
    goods, wares, or merchandise, or shall make
    use of any show board, projecting over any
    part of such thoroughfare.

  5. Every person who shall suspend or place
    any carcass, meat, or offal, so as to over-
    hang any part of a public thoroughfare.

  6. Every person being the owner, or having
    the custody, of any article unlawfully placed
    upon or over any part of a public thorough
    fare, who shall refuse to remove the same
    within a reasonable time after being there-
    unto requested by a constable of the Armed
    Police Force β€” every such refusal to be
    deemed a separate offence.

  7. Every person who shall train or break
    horses in a public thoroughfare.

  8. Every person who shall drive flocks or
    herds of cattle across the Huatoki Bridge,

in Devon-street aforesaid, and back again
within twenty four hours.

  1. Every driver of a vehicle not driven by
    means of reins, who shall ride thereupon
    there being no person on foot to guide the
    same, or who shall wilfully remain at such
    a distance from his vehicle whilst in motion
    as not to have command of the horses or
    cattle drawing the same.

  2. Every driver who in meeting another
    vehicle shall not keep his own vehicle on
    the left or near side of the road, or who in
    overtaking another vehicle shall not keep
    his own vehicle on the right or off side of
    the road, or who shall in any wise wilfully
    prevent, or endeavour to prevent another
    vehicle from overtaking him, or who shall
    by negligence or misbehaviour impede the
    free passage of any vehicle or passenger.β€”
    Persons riding on horseback shall observe
    the regulations by this present provision
    made for the drivers of vehicles, and shall
    be subject to the like penalty for non-ob-
    servance thereof, and shall also have the
    benefit and protection of the same regula-
    tions in like manner as drivers of vehicles.

  3. Every person who shall split firewood,
    or work at any trade or handicraft in a pub-
    lic thoroughfare, or who after the hour of
    eight o'clock in the morning, and before the
    hour of eight o'clock in the evening shall
    beat or shake carpets in a public thorough-
    fare.

  4. Every person who shall wilfully encumber
    or obstruct a public thoroughfare in any
    way not before specifically described.

  5. Every person who shall haul or draw any
    timber, stone, or other load along any part
    of a public thoroughfare otherwise than
    upon a wheeled carriage or rollers, or shall
    suffer any load conveyed upon a wheeled
    carriage or rollers to drag or trail.

  6. Every person who shall publicly bathe
    after the hour of eight o'clock in the morn-
    ing, and before the hour of eight o'clock in
    the evening, in the sea, or in any river,
    creek, or stream, so as to offend against de-
    cency.

  7. Every person who shall turn out any stal-
    lion, bull, or other entire animal to cover
    into any paddock, close, or land, being with-
    in public view, and within half a mile of the
    centre of the Huatoki Bridge in Devon
    street aforesaid.

  8. Every person who shall write or draw in
    or within sight of any public thoroughfare
    or place any obscene word, figure, or repre-
    sentation.

  9. Every person who shall use in a public
    thoroughfare or place any profane or obscene
    language to the annoyance of the inhabitants
    and passengers.

  10. Every person who shall indecently expose



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PDF PDF Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1854, No 6





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🏘️ An Ordinance to regulate the Municipal Police of the Town and Province of New Plymouth (continued from previous page)

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