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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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. The Justice before whom any person
    is convicted of any offence against
    this subdivision, in addition to any


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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Wellington Provincial Gazette 1874, No 34





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🏘️ Lower Hutt Local Board Bye-Laws for Sanitation and Public Health (continued from previous page)

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