[Extracts from "County of Westland Act, 1868."]

130. All tolls payable under this Act shall be paid to the respective Collectors thereof to be appointed by the Council, in such several amounts for the respective animals or vehicles as shall be directed by the Council, and if any person liable to the payment of such toll, other than those exempted from toll as hereinafter provided, shall, after demand thereof, neglect or refuse to pay any such toll, the Collector thereof may seize and distrain any horse, beast, cattle, carriage, or other vehicle in respect of which any such toll is payable, or the goods and chattels of such person so neglecting or refusing to pay, and if such toll, with reasonable charges for such seizure and distress, shall not be paid within five days, the animals, goods, or chattels seized may be sold, after due notice by advertisement has been given, and the proceeds applied in payment of such tolls, and the charges occasioned by such seizure, distress, and sale, and the surplus (if any) of such proceeds shall paid on demand to the owner of such animals, goods, or chattels, or such toll may in lieu of such distress be recovered before any Justice.

131. No toll shall be demanded or taken by virtue of this Act for any horses or carriages conveying, or attending, or going to convey or attend, or returning from having conveyed or attended the Governor, or of or from any of Her Majesty’s officers or soldiers, being in proper staff or regimental or military uniform dress or undress, for any horse ridden, or any horse or carriage then employed by such officer or soldier upon or for Her Majesty’s service, or returning from such employment, or for any horses or carriages conveying Her Majesty’s mails, or from the person in charge of the same, or from any member of any corps of Volunteers going to or returning from exercise as such, or for any horse ridden by such member, or for any gun-carriage, waggon, or other vehicle belonging to any such corps or then being employed exclusively for the purposes of the same or returning from such employment and not otherwise employed, or of or from any member of the Police Force being on actual duty, or prisoners under the charge of such member of the Police Force, or from any horse or carriage exclusively employed in carrying such member of the Police Force or prisoner or their baggage respectively, or returning from such employment and not otherwise employed, or of or from any minister of religion or any other person attending at a funeral, or for any horse or private vehicle ridden or driven by such minister or person or of or from any inspector of sheep being on actual duty as such, for any horse or vehicle ridden or driven by such inspector, neither shall any toll be demanded or taken for any animal or vehicle solely employed in carting manure. Provided always that every such member as aforesaid of any Volunteer Corps or of the Police Force shall have his dress and accoutrements according to the regulations of such corps or force for the time being.

132. If any person shall claim or take the benefit of any exemption from toll hereinbefore mentioned not being entitled to the same, he shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay for every such offence a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, and the proof of such exemption shall be upon the person claiming the same.

133. It shall not be lawful for any person to ply with for hire any boat, punt, or other vessel for the carrying across any river or creek at the place where any ferry shall or may be established under this Act, or within half-a-mile of any such place any passengers, beasts, or vehicles, or to employ or hire any boat, punt, or other vessel with which any person shall regularly so ply for hire at or within half-a-mile of any such place under a penalty in every such case not exceeding five pounds. Provided that this section shall not apply to persons plying for hire with any boat, punt, or vessel for carrying cattle or stock, or any person hiring or employing the same if the ferry so established under this Act be unsuitable for such carrying.

134. If any person shall with any horse, cattle, beast, or carriage go off or pass from any road through or over any land or ground near or adjoining thereto (not being public highway and such person not being the owner or occupier or servant or one of the family of the owner or occupier of such ground) with intent to evade the payment of any tolls payable under this Act, or if any owner or occupier of any such land or ground shall knowingly or wilfully permit or suffer any person (except as aforesaid) with any horse, cattle, beast, or carriage whatsoever to go or pass through or over such land or ground with intent to evade the payment of any such tolls or if any person shall give or receive from any person other than the Collectors of the tolls or forge, counterfeit, or alter any note or ticket hereby directed to be given with intent to evade the payment of the tolls or any part thereof, or if any person shall fraudulently or forcibly pass through by or over any toll-bar, toll-gate, toll-house, or ferry, with any horse, cattle, beast, or carriage, or