Taranaki Provincial Gazette – 1854 – No. 9

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✨ Ordinance regarding cattle impounding



NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

FOR THE

PROVINCE OF NEW PLYMOUTH.

Published by Authority.

VOL. II.] NEW PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1854. [No. 9.

IN THE SEVENTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY
QUEEN VICTORIA.

SESSION I. No. 8.

AN ORDINANCE
TO AUTHORISE AND REGULATE THE IMPOUNDING OF CATTLE AND
TO PROVIDE FOR THE SUMMARY RECOVERY OF COMPENSATION
FOR DAMAGE DONE BY CATTLE TRESPASSING.

Analysis.

Title.
Preamble.

  1. Repeal of Cattle Trespass Ordinance (Session 7, No. 17) and Impounding Ordinance (Session 8, No. 6).

I. POUNDS, POUNDKEEPERS, AND POUND FEES.
2. Power to Superintendent to establish Pounds.
3. And to appoint Poundkeepers.
4. Who shall give security.
5. Notice of appointment of Poundkeepers to be given in Gazette of Province.
6. Pounds to be securely fenced and divided.
7. Pound fees and charges.

II. THE IMPOUNDING OF CATTLE.
8. Occupier of lands trespassed upon may impound on his own lands, for a limited time, cattle found trespassing.
9. Occupier of lands trespassed upon may impound cattle found trespassing thereon in the Public Pound.
10. Penalty for cattle wandering in streets and roads which penalty may be recovered by impounding.
11. Penalty for impounding otherwise than as authorised by this ordinance.
12. Notice to be given to owner of cattle impounded.
13. If not released, cattle to be sold.
14. Time of sale.
15. Place of sale.
16. Impounded cattle to be sold by auction.
17. Proceeds of sale how to be applied.
18. If proceeds of sale insufficient to satisfy damages &c., the owner of cattle to pay difference.
19. Rescuing cattle from Pound, &c., a misdemeanour.

III. DAMAGES FOR TRESPASS AND PROCEDURE:
20. Damages for Trespass at a fixed rate to be recoverable for trespass of cattle without proof of actual damage and payment enforced either by impounding or by summary proceeding.



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🏛️ An Ordinance to authorise and regulate the impounding of cattle and to provide for the summary recovery of compensation for damage done by cattle trespassing

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Ordinance, Cattle, Impounding, Trespass, Compensation, New Plymouth