shall deem necessary for the prevention and suppression of such offences." Now we, the mayor, aldermen and councillors, forming and being the council of the said borough of in council met and assembled on the Pday of A.D. 187—, at least two-thirds of the whole number of the council being present, under or by virtue and in pursuance of the powers to us for that purpose given by the said herein before recited act, and of all other acts and powers us enabling in this behalf, do hereby make the following bye-laws, to commence and have effect from the next, namely: Fines for Non-Acceptance of Office. day of 1. That the fine to be payable by any member of the council who shall have been legally elected to the office of mayor, for his non-acceptance of such office, shall be fifty pounds. 2. That the fine to be payable by any burgess who shall have been legally elected to the office of alderman, for his non-acceptance of such office, shall be twenty pounds. 3. That the fine to be payable by any burgess who shall have been legally elected to the office of councillor, for his non-acceptance of such office, shall be twenty pounds. 4. That the fine to be payable by any burgess who shall have been legally elected to the office of revising assessor, for his non-acceptance of such office, shall be ten pounds. 5. That the fine to be payable by any burgess who shall have been legally elected to the office of auditor, for his non-acceptance of such office, shall be ten pounds. General Bye-Laws. 1. No person shall at any time by brawling, fighting, singing, shouting, or (except as hereinafter provided) by offering or exposing animals, goods or articles for sale by auction, or otherwise, in or upon any street within the said borough, obstruct the same, or cause any nuisance or annoyance therein, or impede any person using the same; and no person shall at any time sound, or play upon any musical instrument, or sing, or shout, in any such street near any house, after having been requested by any householder, or any member of the family of such householder, or any servant of and authorized by such householder, or by any police officer of the borough, to depart from the neighbourhood of such householder; and no person shall play upon any musical instrument, shout, sing or brawl, in any such street between the hours of eleven at night and six in the morning; and no person shall any time stand, sit, lie or loiter in or upon any footpath, and refuse to depart therefrom when ordered or requested so to do by any occupier of a dwellinghouse by the side of or adjoining such footpath, or by any police officer of the said borough: provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent any person lawfully offering goods or articles for sale by auction or otherwise, on a lawfully constituted market or fair day, in the usual market places in the said borough, or in or upon any portion of the streets or pavements which may be lawfully assigned on market days for the exhibition or sale of goods, or other articles; and at provided also that it shall be lawful for the mayor, or, during his absence or incapacity, for the deputy mayor, in writing, to permit any goods or articles to be sold. by auction or otherwise, at and during any time and in any specified street within the said borough, but so that such sale be not an obstruction to any person or persons using such street. 2. No person shall draw, inscribe or write, any obscene or indecent figures, representations, words or sentences, upon any house, shop, office or other building, wall, gate, door, pillar, post, fence, pavement, flag, or any other place within the said borough; and no person shall in any street make any indecent gesture to any person, or recite, or read aloud, any profane, indecent or obscene song, ballad or words; and no person shall in any street, within the said borough, curse or swear, or make use of any violent, disgusting or offensive language. 3. No person shall, in any public place within the said borough, use or make use of any provoking, abusive or insulting language, or make any gesture tending to create or provoke a breach of the peace. 4. No person shall within the said borough wilfully, wantonly or mischievously pull down, break, destroy, tear, injure, damage, cover or deface any board put up by authority of the mayor, town council or town clerk, or of the justices having jurisdiction within the said. borough, or of any public officer thereunto lawfully authorized, upon which any bye-law, notice or other matter is inscribed, or any written or printed notice, or any other document affixed thereon or thereto by direction of or by the authority of the mayor, town council or town clerk, or of the justices having juris diction within the said borough, or of any public officer thereunto lawfully authorized. 5. No person shall play at any game, or loiter, or smoke at the entrance of any church, chapel, meetinghouse or other place of worship in the said borough during the time of divine service, or at the assembling at or departure therefrom of the congregation. 6. Every person who shall offend against or otherwise act in contravention of any of the foregoing general bye-laws shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay the sum of five pounds for each such offence or act of contravention. 7. All justices having jurisdiction within the said borough who shall act in enforcing any penalty or forfeiture imposed or made payable for any offence against the foregoing general bye-laws, or any of them, shall have power to mitigate or reduce any penalty or forfeiture so imposed and made payable as aforesaid to such sum as they in their discretion shall think fit. 8. In the construction of the above bye-laws, the following words and expressions shall have the meaning hereby assigned to them, unless such meaning be repugnant to or inconsistent with the context or subject matter in which such words or expressions occur, that is to say words importing the singular number shall include the plural number, and words importing the plural number shall include the singular number; words importing the masculine gender shall include females; the word "person," and words applying to any person or individual, shall apply to and include corporations, whether aggregate or sole; the word "street" shall include every and every part of any present or future square, crescent, terrace, yard, court, alley, road, lane, carriage-way, horse-way, bridge, footway, footpath, foot-road, public thoroughfare, public passage, highway or other public open place within the said borough. was on the Mayor. (L.S.) day of I do hereby certify that a copy of the foregoing byelaws, sealed with the corporation seal of the borough of 187-, sent to her majesty's principal secretary of state for the home department; and that another copy thereof, sealed as aforesaid, was on the same day affixed on the outer door of the town hall of the said borough, pursuant to the directions of the statute in that case made and provided: And I further certify that her majesty has not thought fit to disallow any of the said byelaws. Borough of P——————— WE, the council of the said borough, at a meeting of the council duly holden on the 187-, in pursuance day of of the statute made and passed in the session of parliament holden in the second and third years of the reign of her present majesty (cap. 28), intituled "An Act for more |