not exceeding forty shillings, for every day while such default is continued.

21. That no slaughter-house 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 township 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 Chairman 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 erections.

REGULATION NO. 2.

Streets, 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 fifty 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.

3. It shall not be lawful for any person to make, or to place, or to keep, or continue any fence of brushwood, furze, or other like material, within the limits of the township. Every owner or occupier of any premises who shall make or place such fence or cause such fence to be made or placed; and every owner or occupier of any premises who, after fourteen days’ notice from the Board to remove any such fence thereto appertaining, or who shall suffer any such or any part thereof to remain, shall forfeit on conviction for such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds, and in every such case a sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day after any such conviction during which such fence shall continue.

REGULATION NO. 4.

Hawkers.

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 Commissioners to any person applying for the same, on the payment of one pound one shilling (£1 1s), and such application 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 Commissioners 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 Pedlars’ License.

Carterton Local Board.

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

Dated ... day of ... 1876.

Chairman.

I hereby certify that the foregoing Bye-Laws were passed by the Commissioners of the Carterton Local Board, on the aforestated dates.

R. FAIRBROTHER,
Chairman.

I hereby, with the advice and consent of my Executive Council, approve of the foregoing Bye-Laws and Regulations, this seventh day of August, 1876.

HENRY BUNNY,
Deputy-Superintendent.

Printed under the authority of the Government of the Province of Wellington, by THOMAS M’KENZIE, at the office of “The New Zealand Times” Company, (Limited), Printers for the time being to such Government.