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such cattle, and the amount thereof or
such lesser amount (if any) as after the
sale of the cattle may remain in the hands
of the poundkeeper shall be paid over by
him accordingly, and if the proceeds of
any sale of such cattle shall not be sufficient after paying the lawful fees and
charges aforesaid to satisfy such penalty
and costs, or if such penalty and costs
shall have been adjudged after the release
or sale of the cattle, the same or so much
thereof as remains unpaid shall and may
be recovered from the owner of the cattle
in like manner as other penalties and
costs adjudged by Justices are by law to
be recovered, and if in the case of any
information under this section the owner
be not known then the provisions of the
last preceding section, so far as necessary
to give the adjudicating Justice jurisdiction, shall apply.
- If any goat shall have been sold
under the provisions of the two last preceding sections, or under the provisions
of "The Local Boards Act 1873," relating to the impounding of cattle for
trespass in the streets, and shall after
the expiration of twenty-four hours be
found in any place whatsoever within
the district, any Justice may by warrant
under his hand directed to any
constable, authorize the destruction of
such goat, and the same may be destroyed
accordingly.
Page II.
CLAUSE 6.
- Whosoever shall obstruct or damage
any culvert, sewer, or drain belonging to
or under the control of the Board shall
forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds,
and shall pay to the Board, by way of
compensation, for any such damage such
further sum not exceeding ten pounds as
the convicting Justice shall order.
PART VII.
- Every person who shall light any
bonfire, tar-barrel, or firework upon or
within sixty yards of any public or private
street, or any public place, shall forfeit a
sum not exceeding five pounds.
PART VIII.
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It shall be lawful for the Board of
the District, if the Board shall not as yet
have provided within such district, and
duly notified the same as ready for public
use to license upon payment of such sum
not exceeding two pounds as shall be appointed by regulation in that behalf, such
slaughter-houses as they from time to
time may think proper for slaughtering
cattle within the District, and every such
license shall be in force for a year from the
time of granting the same and no longer. -
Every person who, without having
such a license as aforesaid in force, uses as
a slaughter-house any place within such
District as in the last preceding section,
mentioned other than a slaughterhouse
which was in use at the time of the issue
of the Proclamation by which such district
was constituted under the provisions of
"The Local Boards Act, 1873," shall for
each such offence forfeit, on conviction, a
sum not exceeding five pounds, and a like
penalty for every day after such conviction
upon which he shall so offend.
Every place which at the time of
the issue of such Proclamation as aforesaid
was in use as a slaughter-house, and has
so continued ever since, shall, within one
month after coming into operation of this
sub-division in any District, be registered
by the owner or occupier thereof at the
office of the Board, and on application to
the Board for that purpose, and on
payment of such sum not exceeding twenty
shillings as shall have been appointed by
regulation in that behalf, they shall from
time to time cause every such slaughter-
house to be registered in a book to be kept
for that purpose, and such registration
shall be of effect for one year after the
making thereof and no longer, and every
person who after the expiration of such
period of one month uses or suffers to be
used any such place as a slaughter-house
without its being so registered shall forfeit,
on conviction, a sum not exceeding five
pounds for such offence, and a further sum
not exceeding ten shillings for every day
after such conviction during which such
offence shall be used as a slaughter-house
without having been so registered.
- It shall be lawful for the Board
from time to time to make regulations for
all or any of the purposes following, that
is to say:
For the licensing (where the Board
are empowered to license) and for
the registering and inspecting of
the said slaughter-houses.
For appointing, subject to the limits
herein prescribed, the fees for
licenses and registration.
For preventing cruelty in such
slaughter-houses.
For keeping the same in a cleanly
and a proper state, and for removing the filth at least once in
every twenty-four hours, and requiring them to be provided with a
sufficient supply of water.
For confining the use of licensed
slaughter-houses to the slaughter
of any particular kinds of animals.
And every person offending contrary to
any such regulation shall forfeit on conviction a sum not exceeding five pounds,
and in the case of a continuing offence a
further sum not exceeding ten shillings
for every day during which such offence
shall continue after such conviction.
- The Justice before whom any person
is convicted of any offence against
this subdivision, in addition to any
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1874, No 34