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Board may if they shall see fit remove such house or part and recover the expenses of so doing from the said owner.

7. If any cattle shall be found upon any land not being a common, and such that there is no fence whether upon the same land or any other dividing such first mentioned land from the streets, whether public or private of the district, or any of them, without any person having charge of such cattle, the owner of such cattle shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty shillings for every head of such cattle, and the proper officer of the Board may seize such cattle and place the same at some neighboring place of safe custody, and any Justice, if such owner be not known, upon proof of the issue of a summons in the usual form addressed to such owner as "owner" only, without otherwise naming or describing him, such cattle and the place of seizure being truly described therein, and of the publication of such summons in some newspaper commonly circulating in the district, may after the expiration of twenty-four hours from such publication, proceed with respect to such owner not appearing as if personal service of a summons stating his name had been effected, or if such owner appear then as in other cases, and the Justice may order the cattle to be sold, and the money arising from the sale after deducting the said penalty and the costs awarded and the reasonable expenses to be estimated and assessed by the Justice of seizing keeping and selling the said cattle shall be paid if demanded within one month to the owner of the cattle, and if not so demanded then to the Treasurer of the Board on account of the said Board, and if the said money shall not be sufficient for all the purposes aforesaid the amount whereby the same falls short, or if no such sale be ordered, the whole of the said amount may be recovered from the said owner if and when known, in like manner as other penalties, and sums adjudged or ordered to be paid by Justices are recovered.

8. If any cattle be at any time found in any street without any person having the charge thereof the owner of such cattle shall forfeit for every head of such cattle a sum not exceeding twenty shillings, and if such cattle shall by reason of having been so found at large have been impounded by the Board the amount of such penalty and the costs if adjudged respectively before the release or sale of such cattle shall be added to the pound fees and charges payable in respect of 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 the 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.

9. 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.

PART II.

Clause 6.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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 slaughter-house, 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