arms without lawful cause, or letting off any fire-works in any street or public place.

P. Fine £5-10s.: recoverable as offence (1).

S. Id., s. 20. [One Justice].—(16) Any person burning any shavings or other matters or things in any street or public place.

P. Fine £2-5s.: recoverable as offence (1).

S. Id., s. 21. [One Justice].—(17) Any person bathing near to or within view of any public wharf, quay, bridge, street, road, or other place of public resort, between the hours of six o'clock in the morning and eight in the evening. See "Indecency," "Vagrant."

P. Fine not exc. £1: recoverable as offence (1).

N.B.-Any constable may arrest without warrant any person found bathing against the provisions of this section. (S. 21).

S. Id., s. 22. [One Justice].-(18) Any individual offending against decency, by the exposure of his or her person in any street or public place, or in the view thereof. See "Indecency," "Vagrant."

P. Fine £10-£5: recoverable as offence (1).

N.B.-Constable or other person may arrest any person found in the act of committing this offence.

S. Id., s. 23. [One Justice].-(19) Any person whosoever breeding, feeding, or keeping any kind of swine in any house, building, yard, garden, or other hereditaments, situate and being in or within forty yards of any street or public place; or suffering any kind of swine, or any horse, ass, mule, sheep, goat, or other cattle belonging to him, or under his charge, to stray or go about, or to be tethered or depastured in any street or public place.

P. Fine £2-5s.: to be recovered as offence (1).

S. Id., s. 24. Two Justices].-(20) Every owner or occupier of premises wherein any nuisance shall exist, neglecting to remedy or remove such nuisance, pursuant to notice, (R) and to the satisfaction of the Justices.

the removal of such goods, materials, matters, or other things, or coaches, carts, waggons, drays, wheelbarrows, handbarrows, sledges, trucks, or other carriages; but the same, or any of them, being so set or placed in, upon, or over the said carriage or foot-ways, or any part of them, contrary to the directions of this Act, shall and may be seized, forfeited, removed, applied, detained, appraised, or sold in manner herein provided as to any other goods, materials, matters, or things; and the person so committing the said offence, and the owner of the goods, materials, matters, or things, or coaches, carts, waggons, drays, wheelbarrows, handbarrows, sledges, trucks, or other carriages, which shall be so placed or driven, and the master or employer of the person so offending, shall be subject and liable to the same penalty, forfeitures, proceedings, charges, and punishments as if such person so offending had neglected or refused to remove the said goods, materials, matters, or other things, or coaches, carts, waggons, drays, wheelbarrows, handbarrows, sledges, trucks, or other carriages, when required to do so under and by virtue of this Act, and although the said notices or requisitions shall not have been again given or repeated to the person committing or directing or permitting such offences, or any of them; anything in this Act to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding: Provided that nothing in this Act shall prevent any person from placing an awning in front of any shop or house, so that it be at least seven feet above the foot-way, and the posts be placed close to the curb-stone or outer edge of the foot-way. (S. 18).

(R) By this section, (24), in case any privy, hog-stye, or any other matter or thing which shall be at any time in any place within any of the said towns, shall

P. Fine £10: to be recovered as offence (1).

S. Id., s. 25. [One Justice].-(21) Any owner or occupier of any house or place, neglecting to keep clean all private avenues, passages, yards, and ways within the said premises, so as by such neglect to cause a nuisance by offensive smell or otherwise.

P. Fine £2-10s.: to be recovered as offence (1).

S. Id., s. 26. [One Justice].-(22) Any butcher, or the owner or occupier of any shamble or slaughter-house, obstructing or molesting any Justice or constable authorized by writing in the inspection thereof, or refusing or neglecting to comply with their directions (s) within a reasonable time.

P. Fine £2-10s.: to be recovered as offence (1).

S. Id., s. 27. [One Justice].-(23) Any person hauling or drawing, or causing to be hauled or drawn, on any part of the streets or public places, any timber, stone, or other thing otherwise than upon wheeled carriages; or suffering any timber, stone, or other thing which shall be carried principally or in part upon wheeled carriages, to drag or trail upon any part of such street or public place to the injury thereof, or to hang over any part of such carriage so as to occupy or obstruct the street beyond the breadth of the said carriage.

P. Fine £2,-to be recovered as offence (1),-over and above the damages occasioned thereby.

N.B.-Any constable may apprehend any person he shall find in the act of committing any such offence.

S. Id., s. 28. [One Justice].-(24) The owner or occupier of any house, building, or premises, having any iron or wooden rails or bars over the areas or openings to any kitchens or cellars or other part of the said house, building, or premises, beneath the surface of the footway of any streets or public places, or having any doorway or entrance into the basement or cellar story thereof, and not keeping the same or the rails of such kitchens or cellars in sufficient and good repair, or not safely and securely guarding and constantly keeping the same securely guarded by a

be or become a nuisance to any of the inhabitants thereof, then it shall be lawful for any two Justices, upon complaint thereof made to them by any such inhabitants, and after due investigation of such complaint, by notice in writing, to order that any or every such privy, hog-stye, or other matter or thing, being a nuisance, shall be remedied and removed within seven days after such notice shall have been given to the owner or occupier of the premises wherein such nuisance shall exist, or shall have been left for such owner or occupier at his or her last or usual place of abode, or on the said premises; and it shall also be lawful for such Justices to indict for such nuisance such person neglecting or disobeying such notice, at the next Quarter Sessions to be held within any of the said towns, and, if convicted, such nuisance shall be removed, taken down, and abated, according to law with regard to public or common nuisances; and the offender shall be subject to such punishment as the Justices assembled at Quarter Sessions within any of the said towns shall direct. (S. 24).

(s) For preserving cleanliness and health, it shall be lawful for any Justice appointed under this Act, and for any constable authorized by any writing under the hand of any such Justice, whenever and as often as either of them shall see occasion, to inspect the butchers' shambles and slaughter-houses in any of the said towns for which he or either of them shall be so respectively appointed, and to give such directions concerning the cleansing the said shambles, &c., both within and without, as to him shall seem needful. (S. 26).

rail or rails, or covering the same over with a strong flap or trap-door, according to the nature of the case, and so as to prevent danger to any persons passing and re-passing;-or any such owner or occupier leaving open or not sufficiently and substantially covering and keeping covered and secured any coal-hole, or other hole, funnel, trap door, or cellar-flap belonging to or connected with his or her house, building, or premises, (save and except only during such reasonable times as any coals, wood, casks, or other things shall be putting down or taking up out of any such vault or basement story, or during such reasonable times as the flap, trapdoor, or covering thereof shall be altering, repairing, or amending);—or such owner or occupier not repairing, and from time to time keeping in good and substantial repair, to the satisfaction of the Justice appointed under this Act, all and every or any such iron or wooden rails, guard-rails, flaps, trap-doors, and other covering.

P. Fine £5-£2: recoverable as offence (1).

S. Id., s. 29. [One Justice].-(25) Any person making any cellar or any opening, door, or window in or beneath the surface of the footway of any street or public place.

P. Fine £5,-recoverable as offence (1),-over and above the expense of remedying or removing any such cellar, &c., made contrary to the provisions hereof,-such expense to be assessed and allowed by such Justice.

S. Id., s. 30. [One Justice].-26) Any person having any such well as hereby mentioned, (s. 30), and failing to cover and secure the same in the manner and within the time hereby required and directed. (T)

P. Fine 2s. 6d. for every day that such well shall remain open and uncovered contrary to the provisions of this Act: to be recovered as offence (1).

S. Id., s. 31. [One Justice].-(27) Any person or persons digging or making, or causing to be dug or made, any hole, or leaving or causing to be left any hole before any vacant ground, or before or behind or on the side of any house or other tenement or building erected, or being erected, or about to be erected in and adjoining to any street or public place formed, or to be formed, or forming, for the purpose of making any vault, or the foundation to such houses or other buildings, or for any other purpose whatever, and not forthwith enclosing the same in a good and sufficient manner to the satisfaction of the Police (v) Magistrate of the said town respectively;-or keeping up, or causing to be kept up and continued, any such enclosure for any time longer than absolutely necessary in

(T) Every person who shall have a well situate between his or her dwellinghouse, or the appurtenances thereof, and any street or footway within the limits of any of the said towns, or at the side thereof, or in any yard or place open or exposed to such street or footway, shall cause such well to be securely and permanently covered over, and shall not be at liberty to open the same or draw water therefrom unless by a pump fixed closely and securely therein. (S. 30).

(v) 2 Vic., No. 2, is repealed as to regulation of Police, by 14 Vic., No. 38. 11 Vic., No. 44, enacts, That every Justice of the Peace shall have the same power and authority within the limits of any of the said country towns near to his residence as he would have if he had been duly appointed to execute duties of Police Magistrate within such town: Provided that this does not apply to any such town in which there may be now or hereafter a duly appointed Police Magistrate in the performance of the duties imposed by 2 Vic., No. 2.

the opinion of the said Magistrate, or (when thereunto required by the said Magistrate) neglecting well and sufficiently to fence or enclose any such hole, or area, or space opened or left open, and intended for an area, foundation, or any other purpose whatsoever, in front of, or behind, or on the side of any such vacant ground, house, or other tenement or building in and adjoining to any such street or public place formed, or forming, or to be formed, within twenty-four hours after he or they shall be required to do so by the said Magistrate, and in the manner and with such materials as he shall direct, and to his satisfaction; and not placing a light upon the said enclosure, and keeping the same constantly burning, from sunset to sunrise, during the continuance of such enclosure.

P. Fine £5-£2: to be recovered as offence (1).

S. Id., s. 32. [One Justice].-(28) The owner or occupier of any house or building neglecting to provide such house, &c., with gutters, or to be otherwise so constructed as to prevent rain from dropping from the eaves thereof upon any part of the footway of any street or public place within any of the said towns.

P. Fine 5s. for every day that the same be not prevented or remedied, by gutters or otherwise: to be recovered as offence (1).

8. Id, s. 33. [One Justice].-(29) Any person or persons driving, or causing to be driven, any cart or other carriage with any night soil or ammoniacal liquor therein through or in any of the streets or public places, between the hours of five o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock at night, or filling any cart or other carriage so as to turn over or cast any night soil, ammoniacal liquor, slop, mire, or channel dirt, or filth in or upon any of the said streets or other public places.

P. Fine £5: to be recovered as offence (1)

N.B.-Any person may apprehend the offender without other warrant than the authority of this Act, and convey him before a Justice. Provided the offender cannot be apprehended, the owner of such cart or carriage in which such night-soil, &c., shall be put or placed, and also the employer of the offender, shall be liable to and forfeit and pay such penalty as aforesaid. S. Id., s. 34. [One Justice].-(30) Any person emptying or beginning to empty any privy, or taking away night-soil from any house or premises, within the streets or public places, or coming with carts or carriages for that purpose, except between the hours of ten at night and five in the morning;—or putting in or casting out of any cart or tub or otherwise, any night-soil in or near any of the streets or public places.

P. Impr. not exc. 30 days: to be computed from day of commitment. N.D.-It shall be lawful for any constable, (and he is hereby strictly charged so to do), or for any other person whoever, without any warrant or other authority than this Act, to apprehend and convey any person or per· sons found committing any of the said offences, or either of them, to any watch-house, or any other place of confinement or security, and thence to convey him or them, as soon as conveniently may be, before some Justice. The owner of any carts, carriages, horses, or beasts employed in and about emptying and removing such night-soil, or coming for that purpose, (save and except within the hours hereby allowed), or the employer of any person who shall so put or cast out any such night-soil, shall forfeit and pay the sum of £5 for every such offence.

S. Id., s. 35. [One Justice].-(31) Any person wantonly or maliciously breaking or injuring any lamp or lamp-post, or extinguishing any lamp set up for public convenience.

P. Fine £5-£1,-to be recovered as offence (1),—over and above expense of repairing injury committed, to be estimated by the Justice.

N.B.-Any constable may seize any person found committing any such offence, and convey to nearest watch-house.

S. Id., s. 36. [One Justice].—(32) Any person throwing or causing to be thrown any dead animal into any street, lane, road, or other public place within the limits of any of the said towns, or into any river, creek, or other stream flowing through, by, or along any such street, lane, road, or other public place within the same; or leaving, or causing to be left, the same upon the shores thereof.

P. Fine £1-5s.: to be recovered as offence (1).

N.B.-Constable may arrest as under s. 35, or take before Justice.

S. Id., s. 37. [One Justice].-(33) Any person blasting, or causing to be blasted, any rock within the limits of any of the said towns, without giving notice, in writing, twenty-four hours previously, to the (Note v) Police Magistrate, (who shall appoint a time, &c.), or not conforming to such directions given to him by the said Magistrate as he may deem necessary for the public safety.

P. Fine £20-£10: to be recovered as offence (1)

N.B.-The Police Magistrate shall appoint a time when the blasting may take place, and give such other directions as he may deem necessary for the public safety.

S. Id., s. 38. [One Justice].-(34) Any person forming, digging, or opening any drain or sewer, or removing, or causing to be removed, any turf, clay, sand, soil, gravel, stone, or other material used in the formation of the streets, in and from any part of the carriage or foot-ways, without leave first had and obtained from the Police Magistrates; or wantonly breaking up or otherwise damaging the said carriage or foot-ways. P. Fine £5-£1: to be recovered as offence (1).

S. Id., s. 39. [One Justice].-(35) The driver of any waggon, wain, cart, or dray of any kind, riding upon any such carriage in any street or public place, and not having any person on foot to guide the same, (light carts drawn by one horse and guided with reins only excepted);-or the driver of any carriage wilfully being at such a distance therefrom, or in such a situation whilst it is passing on such street or public place that he cannot govern the horses or cattle drawing the same;- —or any person riding on the shaft of any waggon, &c.;-or the driver of any waggon, &c., or other carriage, meeting any other carriage, and not keeping his waggon, &c., on the left or near side of the road;-or any person in any manner wilfully preventing any other person from passing him, or any carriage under his care, upon such street or public place; or, by negligence or misbehaviour, preventing, hindering, or interrupting the free passage of any carriage or person in or upon the same.

P. Fine £2-10s. to be recovered as offence (1).

N.B.-Any constable or other person may apprehend any person so offending, &c., and convey before Justice.

S. Id., s. 40. [One Justice].-(36) Any person riding or driving