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his person in or within view of a public
thoroughfare or place.

19. Every person who shall use in a public
    thoroughfare or place in the presence or
    hearing of any constable, any threatening,
    abusive or insulting words, or shall demean
    himself so as to proveke a breach of the
    peace.

20. Every person who shall wantonly create
    disturbance by ringing any door bell, or by
    knocking at any door.

21. Every person who shall deface, injure, or
    remove any door plate, bell, knocker, lamp,
    or sign board.

22. Every person who shall tear down, deface,
    conceal, or interfere with any notice or pla-
    card exhibited by order of the Government
    of the Colony or of the Province, or by
    other public authority.

III. Upon complaint of any common
nuisance within the limits hereinafter
named in that behalf (whether by the ex-
ercise of any noisome or unwholesome trade,
or by the keeping of hogs, or of any privy,
stye, or receptacle for filth of any kind or
otherwise : howsoever such nuisance shall
arise ;) and also upon complaint that any
chimney within the said limits is dangerous
to neighbouring buildings (whether by rea-
son of its insufficient construction or eleva-
tion or by want of repair,) it shall be law-
ful for the Resident Magistrate acting with-
in the district, or for two Justices of the
Peace to issue a notice requiring the occu-
pier, or if there shall be no occupier, then
requiring the owner of the land or property
on which such nuisance or defective chim-
ney shall exist to abate such nuisance, or to
alter, raise, or repair such chimney (as the
case may require) within a reasonable time
to be specified in such notice. And the
said Resident Magistrate or Justices
shall cause every such notice to be
forthwith served on such occupier or owner
or to be affixed in some conspicuous situa-
tion on such property, and in case and so
often as any such occupier or owner shall
disobey any such notice he shall for every
such offence forfeit and pay a sum not less
than Two pounds nor exceeding Ten
pounds.

IV. For the purpose of ascertaining the
existence of any such nuisance or the state
of any such chimney, it shall be
lawful for the said Resident Magistrate
or Justices, for either of the said Jus-
tices, to inspect the property whereon the
same shall be alleged to exist, or to cause
such inspection to be made by any officer
or private constable of the Armed Police
Force.

V. The preceding provisions of this Or-
dinance shall be in force wit hin the limits
of the Town of New Plymouth except in
cases in which such provisions are herein-
before expressly confined to and made ap-
plicable within a different limit.

VI. It shall be lawful for the Superin-
tendent on being thereunto requested by a
Resolution of the Provincial Council, by
notice published in the Government Gazette
of the Province from time to time to extend,
contract, or alter the limits within which
the preceding provisions, or any of them
shall be in force.

VII. Every person who shall commit any
of the offences next hereinafter specified
shall for every such offence forfeit and pay
a sum not less than twenty shillings nor
exceeding Twenty pounds (that is to
say)—

1. Every person who shall wilfully destroy or
   damage any Public Building, Erection,
   Bridge, fence, post, gate, bench, sewer, cul-
   vert, water-course, road, footway, or other
   public work.

2. Every person who shall wilfully damage or
   destroy any boat, or the furuiture, tackle
   and apparel thereof, spar, oar, sail, rope,
   gun, gun-carriage, flagstaff or other pro-
   perty in charge of the Harbor Master of
   the Port of New Plymouth.

3. Every person who shall wilfully damage or
   interfere with any buoy, beacon, or moor-
   ings in charge of the said Harbor Master.

4. Every person who shall remove without
   due authorization any soil, stone, or other
   material used in the formation of any road
   or footway.

5. Every person who shall dig or excavate
   without due authorization upon or beneath
   the surface of any road or footway.

6. Every person who shall encroach upon the
   limits of any road, street, or public thorough
   fare.

7. Every person who shall wilfully and wan-
   tonly remove any survey mark set up by any
   Government Surveyor or other public au-
   thority.

VIII. All the provisions of an Ordinance
enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of