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not be lawful to drive into or through the district, or such part thereof as shall by boundaries be set forth in such regulation, any cattle intended for sale, slaughter, or shipment, or travelling from one part of New Zealand or of any other colony to any other place, and to provide if they shall see fit in such regulations separately with respect to Sundays and week days, and if any person shall drive any such cattle contrary to such regulation, he shall forfeit for every head of cattle so driven a sum not exceeding twenty shillings: Provided that nothing herein contained shall apply to horses driven in harness or to oxen in the yoke.

46. It shall not be lawful to break in any horse or other animal in any street, whether public or private, or in any public place, save such public places as from time to time may be appointed by some regulation of the Board in that behalf, which regulation the Board are hereby authorised to make, or by locking the wheels of any cart or other vehicle, or otherwise to test or try any horse or other animal, so as to obstruct or injure any street or public place, and any person offending against this section shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds.

PART 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.

Clauses 1 to 7 inclusive.

1. Every person who wilfully sets or causes to be set on fire any chimney, flue, smoke vent, or stove pipe, herein called in common "chimney," shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall exempt the person so setting or causing to be set on fire any chimney from liability to be informed against or prosecuted before any Criminal Court for such act as for an indictable offence.

2. If any chimney accidentally catch or be on fire, the person occupying or using the premises in which such chimney is situated shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings: Provided always that such forfeiture shall not be incurred if such person prove to the satisfaction of the Justice before whom the case is heard that such fire was in nowise owing to the omission, neglect, or carelessness, whether with respect to cleansing such chimney or otherwise, of himself or his servant.

3. 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 prescribing the distance from any adjoining land, or from any building within which it shall not be lawful to make or keep any stack of hay, corn, straw, or other produce, if not placed under roof or cover, and the like where placed under roof or cover, and for prohibiting or restraining the use for such covering of such inflammable materials as shall be described in such regulation.

For prescribing the distance from any adjoining land, or from any street or public place, or from any building within which it shall not be lawful to deposit such combustible materials as shall be specified in the regulation, or save in some properly constructed fire-place within some building, to make or light any fire.

And every such regulation may be made to apply to the whole or separately to any part or parts of the district described by boundaries in such bye-law, and may provide as to the subject-matter thereof, either absolutely or with relation to the consent of the Council or of the proper officer of the Board, to be given or withheld in any case to be in question under such regulation.

4. Every person who shall make or place any stack of hay, corn, straw, or other produce, or place as or for the covering of any such stack any inflammable material, or deposit any combustible material, or light any fire contrary in any such case to any regulation under this subdivision, and every occupier of any premises whereon any stack, or any such covering of a stack shall be, or any combustible materials have been deposited, if the same, though lawfully made, placed, or deposited before the coming into force of any such regulation shall be there contrary to the tenor of such regulation, who shall not within seven days after notice from the Board so to do remove such stack, covering, or materials, or who shall suffer to remain any such stack, covering, or materials unlawfully made, placed, or deposited before the coming into force of such regulation, shall forfeit, on conviction of such offence, a sum not exceeding five pounds, and in every such case a further sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day after any such conviction during which such stack, covering, or materials shall so continue.

5. Every person who wilfully sets fire to any inflammable matter whatsoever in the open air, without having given notice in writing to the occupiers of the land adjoining to the land upon which such matter shall be, and also to the Chairman