of the police or peace officer, or any member of a recognised volunteer corps, or any special constable, or any person actually in pursuit of any felon or offender.

XIX. Any person laying out or opening any street or building therein, and omitting during the operations necessary for forming such street or building thereon, to take all such precautions for guarding against injury to the passengers along such street as may be necessary, or as may be directed by the Board.

XX. Any person placing any obstruction upon any street line whereby life or limb is likely to be endangered.

XXI. Any person neglecting or omitting to keep in good repair any rail, gate, fence, or cover, over or about any area or entrance to any cellar or other place, or keeping open for more than a reasonable time, for taking in or out any articles, any entrance to any area, cellar, or other place, such area or entrance opening into or upon or near any public street, road, thoroughfare, or other public place.

XXII. Any person throwing any offensive matter, or any animal, with the intention of drowning it, into any watercourse or other place from which a supply of water for the use of the inhabitants of the said district is obtained.

XXIII. Any carter riding on any cart, dray, or waggon, without having and holding proper and sufficient reins, and no competent person having charge of the animal or animals drawing the same.

XXIV. Any person driving any vehicle whatsoever, or riding any animal, and when meeting any other vehicle or animal not keeping on the left or near side of the street, or when passing any other vehicle or animal going in the same direction, not going or passing, or not allowing any person desirous so to do, to pass when practicable on the right or off side of such other vehicle or animal.

XXV. Any driver of any horse or vehicle injuring any person or property whatever by negligence, or by driving on the wrong side of the road, or by being away from his horse or cattle, so as to be unable to have the full control over them.

XXVI. Any person driving any dog or goat harnessed, or attached to any vehicle, through any public place.

XXVII. Any person who shall act as driver, or have the sole charge of more than one vehicle on any public road or street, unless in cases where two of such carts and no more shall be drawn each by one horse only, and the horse of the hinder of such carriages shall be attached by a sufficient rein to the back of the foremost of such vehicles.

XXVIII. Any person turning loose any horse or cattle upon any public street, or allowing any animal or animals to wander in any public street or thoroughfare within the district.

XXIX. Any person leaving upon any public street or thoroughfare any plough, harrow, cart, or other vehicle, without any horse or animal harnessed thereto, unless in consequence of some accident having occurred.

XXX. Any person slaughtering or skinning any beast upon any public street or thoroughfare, or permitting any slaughtered beast or skin to remain there, or leaving any dead beast on such street or thoroughfare.

XXXI. Any person having any iron, timber, or boards laid across any vehicle, going along any street or thoroughfare, so that either end should project more than two feet beyond the wheels or side of such vehicle.

XXXII. Any person destroying, damaging, polluting, or obstructing any aqueduct, dam, sluice, pipe, pump, watercourse, or fountain.

XXXIII. Any person suffering or allowing any waste or impure water, or other matter, to remain in any cellar or place, within any building or premises, in the district, or allowing any waste or impure water, or other matter, to run or flow from any such building or premises, upon or over, or be on any carriage road or footway, or other place, whether public or private, within the district, or shall allow the contents of any watercloset, privy, or cesspool, to overflow or to soak therefrom, so as to be offensive.

XXXIV. Any person ringing a bell or bells, or blowing any trumpet or horn, or beating any drum, tambourine, or going in any street or public place within the district for the purpose of crying or calling any matter or thing whatsoever.

XXXV. Any person being the owner or tenant of any building abutting on any street where the footpath has been formed who, by omitting or neglecting to secure and maintain the foundation of such building, causes or allows the formed footpath to fall in or be otherwise damaged.

XXXVI. Keeping any disreputable house, or house of ill-fame, or having the control or management of the same, or being a reputed occupier or an inmate of any such house.

XXXVII. Any person who shall obstruct any officer or other person employed by the Board in the performance of any thing which such officer or other person is or may be required, or authorised to do by or on behalf of the Board.

Passed by the Board this thirty-first day of October, 1873.

W. G. WATT,
Chairman.

By and with the advice of the Executive Council, I hereby approve of these Bye Laws, this twenty-second day of December, 1873.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Bye Laws of the Board of Commissioners of the Local District of Marton.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the 73rd section of "The Local Boards Act, 1873," the Board of Commissioners