19. 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.

20. When any building materials, rubbish, or other things are laid, or any hole made in any street or footway, whether the same be done by order or authority of the Board or not, the person causing such materials or other things to be laid, or such hole to be made, shall, at his own expense, cause a sufficient light to be fixed in a proper place upon or near the same, and continue such light every night from sunset to sunrise, while such materials or hole remain, and such person shall cause, at his own expense, such materials or other things, and such hole to be sufficiently fenced and enclosed until such materials or other things are removed, or the hole filled up, or otherwise made secure; and every such person who fails so to light, fence, or enclose such materials or other things, or such hole, shall for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds, and a further sum, not exceeding forty shillings, for every day while such default is continued.

21. That no slaughterhouse be allowed within the district.

22. That no beast, pig, or sheep, be allowed to be slaughtered within the district, where the same may be deemed a nuisance.

23. That the footpaths in the townships be nine feet on the chain roads, and five feet on half-chain roads.

24. That all verandahs erected over footpaths be at least eight feet high, and to extend to curbing of footpaths; and that no verandah be erected without permission from the Board.

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

REGULATION No. 1.
Building Regulations.

1. Any person wishing to erect a verandah over any public footpath must, previous to commencing such erection, obtain from the Secretary of the Board a written permission to do so.

2. Any verandah hereafter erected contrary to the regulations and provisions herein contained, shall be deemed a public nuisance, and as such shall be removed at the expense of the party causing such erection.

REGULATION No. 2.
Lanes, Right-of-Ways, and Footpaths.

1. No streets that may be laid off or made for the use of the public through private land within the district, shall be less than one hundred links wide, and no lane or right-of-way shall exceed twelve links wide.

REGULATION No. 3.

1. It shall not be lawful to keep any swine within the limits of two hundred links of a public highway.

2. No privy or cesspool shall be emptied, nor any nightsoil emptied away, nor any offensive liquor or matter of any kind whatsoever, pumped out of, or removed from any house, cellar, premises, within the district, except within the hours of midnight and six (6) o’clock a.m.

REGULATION No. 4.
Hawkers, Streets.

1. Every person who shall exercise or carry on the business of hawker, pedlar, petty chapman, or any other trading person carrying to sell, or exposing for sale any goods, wares, or merchandise, within the district, shall be required to take out a license.

2. Such license shall be issued by the District Clerk to any person applying for the same, on payment of one pound one shilling (£1 1s), and such applications shall be in writing, and signed by any two ratepayers, and by the applicant.

3. Every such license shall be in the form in the Schedule hereto annexed, and the same shall be in force for six months from the date of the issue thereof.

4. This regulation shall not extend to prevent any person from selling, or offering for sale, fish, fruit, farm or dairy produce, in the public streets or thoroughfares, or selling, or exposing for sale, any sorts of goods or merchandise, in any public market, or any other public place set apart for the like purpose.

5. If any hawker, pedlar, or petty chapman, holding such license as aforesaid, be convicted of selling stolen goods or merchandise, he shall forfeit his license.

The District Clerk shall keep a register of names, and places of abode, of all persons to whom such licenses shall be issued, and such register may be inspected by any person at reasonable times.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKERS AND PEDLAR’S LICENSE.

Masterton Local Board.

Know all men by these presents that of having this day paid the sum of is hereby licensed to exercise the business or calling of a hawker and pedlar from this date until the day of ___ next.

Dated day of 187__

R. G. WILLIAMS,
Chairman.

I hereby approve of the foregoing Bye-Laws and Regulations, this 14th day of December, 1875.

WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Superintendent.