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City Council Bye-Law.

PRIVIES AND CESSPOOLS.

A BYE-LAW of the Council of the City of Wellington, made under the "Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

In pursuance of the 186th section of the "Municipal Corporations Act, 1867," the Council of the City of Wellington ordain as follows:

1. All privies, cesspools, and house drains within the City, and as well within as without the premises to which the same may belong, and the cleansing, keeping in order and repair of the same respectively, shall be under the superintendence, government, and control of the Council.

2. Every privy, cesspool and drain, already constructed, which in the opinion of the City Surveyor or such other officer as the Council may appoint, is not so constructed as to provide for the wholesome use of the same, shall be altered, within twenty-one days after notice in writing given by the City Surveyor, or such other officer as the Council may appoint, to the occupier of the dwelling-house or tenement to which the same belongs in such manner as shall be set forth in such notice, and any person failing to effect such alterations within the twenty-one days, or within such further time as shall be granted, as hereinafter mentioned, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5 and to an additional penalty of £1 per day for every day beyond twenty-one days, or beyond such further time as aforesaid, during which such alterations shall remain incomplete.

3. If in the opinion of the City Surveyor, or such other officer as the Council may appoint, due diligence has been shown in the making of such alterations, and by reason of unavoidable circumstances, the same cannot be completed within the period of twenty-one days as aforesaid, the City Surveyor, or such other officer as the Council may appoint, may grant to the person making the same an extension of time for the completion thereof, but in no case greater than an additional period of fourteen days.

4. Whenever any person shall hereafter require to construct any privy, cesspool, or house drain, he shall give three days’ notice of his intention in that behalf to the Council, and every such privy, cesspool, or house drain, shall thereupon be constructed in such manner as shall be approved in that behalf by the City Surveyor, or such other officer as the Council may appoint, by notice in writing given to the person desiring to construct the same. And every person constructing any privy, cesspool, or house drain, contrary to the terms of such notice, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5, and to a further penalty of £1 a day for every day during which the same shall be maintained, contrary to such notice.

5. The Council shall at the cost of the occupier of every dwelling house or other tenement within the city, make provision for the periodical removal at convenient times, of all night soil, dung, ashes, slops, filth, refuse, and rubbish of any kind, and such occupier as aforesaid, shall, on demand, pay to the Council the cost thereof. And unless paid on demand the same may be recovered by the Council in any Court of competent jurisdiction.

6. The Inspector of Nuisances for the time being appointed by the Council, and every other person who may be employed by the Council for the purpose of this bye-law, shall have power at all reasonable hours of the day, to enter into or upon any building or land within the City, for the purpose of examining the condition of any privy, cesspool, or house drain.

7. Any person who shall obstruct the City Surveyor, Inspector of Nuisances, or other person employed by the Council, in the performance of any thing which such City Surveyor or other person is or may be required or authorised to do by or under this bye-law, shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding £5.

The foregoing bye-law was passed by the City Council of Wellington, at a meeting of the Council, held on Friday the 12th day of September, 1873, and confirmed by the said Council, at a meeting held on Monday the 13th day of October, 1873.

J. DRANSFIELD,
Mayor.

E. W. MILLS,
Councillor.

WM. HESTER,
Town Clerk.

I, the undersigned, Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, do hereby approve of the foregoing bye-law.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Signed by His Honor the Superintendent, at Wellington, this 14th day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the presence of

W. JONES,
Clerk to Superintendent.

Highway Board Notice.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, Nov. 19th, 1873.

NOTICE has been received at this Office, under the hand of the Presiding Officer, that

MR. DAVID HUGHEY

has been duly elected a Warden, for Ward No. 8, in the "Manawatu Highway District."

HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

Printed under the authority of the Government of the Province of Wellington, by THOMAS M’KENZIE, Printer for the time being to such Government.