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sum not exceeding five pounds, and a like
penalty for every day after such conviction
upon which he shall so offend.

14. 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
    place shall be used as a slaughter-house
    without having been so registered.

15. 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.

16. The Justice before whom any person
    is convicted of any offence against
    this sub-division, in addition to any
    penalty, may suspend for a period not exceeding two months the license for any
    slaughter-house granted hereunder to such
    person, or the effect of the registration of
    any slaughter-house of which such person
    is the owner or occupier, and upon the
    conviction of any person for a second or
    subsequent like offence may, in addition
    to any penalty, declare the license granted
    hereunder to such person revoked, or the
    registration of any slaughter-house of
    which such person is the owner or occupier cancelled, and no license while so
    suspended or after such revocation and no
    registration while the effect thereof is
    suspended or after the same is cancelled
    shall exist or avail for any purpose whatsoever.

PART IX.
Clause 3.

17. If any person shall without the
    authority of the Board break displace or
    remove the surface or soil of any land
    belonging to or under the control or
    management of the Board, he shall forfeit
    a sum not exceeding five pounds.

I hereby approve of the foregoing
Bye-laws, this 27th day of
July, 1875.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.

Curterton Local Board District.

PROCLAMATION

By His Honor William Fitzherbert,
Esquire, C.M.G., Superintendent of the Province of Wellington, in the Colony of New
Zealand.

WHEREAS by an Act of the Provincial Council of the Province of
Wellington, Session XXIV., No. 5, intituled "The Local Boards Act 1873," it
is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
inhabitants of any locality in the Province
of Wellington, exclusive of the inhabitants
of the towns of Wellington and Wanganui,
to apply by petition to the Superintendent
of the Province, praying that in such
locality a Board of Commissioners may be
appointed with the several powers and
authorities given by the said Act, and that
on receipt of any such petition, the Superintendent of the said Province may issue a
proclamation declaring that the provisions
of the said Act shall come into force within
such locality, and that such locality shall
thereafter be termed a district, and whereas
a petition has been received by me from the
inhabitants of the locality, the boundaries
whereof are described in the Schedule
hereto, signed by the required number of
inhabitants, praying that the land contained
within the boundaries described in the said
Schedule may be constituted a district
under the said Act: Now, therefore I,
William Fitzherbert, Superintendent of the
said Province of Wellington, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the block of
land described in the Schedule hereto,
shall be, and the same is hereby constituted