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Goats, etc.
Ibid. (12).

Hawking licenses.
Ibid. (13).

Horses.

Ibid. (14).

Loans.

Ibid. (15).

Markets.

Ibid. (16).

New.

Notices.

Ibid. (17).
Officers.

Ibid. (18).

Park lands and reserves.

See ibid. (19).

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Preventing the placing, stacking, or storing of empty cases, paper, shavings, crates packed with straw, or any dangerous or inflammable substances in the open air.

(27.) Prescribing and regulating the manner and mode of keeping dogs and pigeons and of keeping and depasturing goats, and also driving of goats to pasture through or over any

streets.

(28.) For regulating the hawking of fruit, fish, meat, poultry, game, or vegetables, or any articles of merchandise.

(29.) To restrict the breaking in of horses in the streets, either by leading, riding, or driving, and also the driving of cattle along the streets;

Preventing entire horses being led or exhibited through or in the streets or public places at inexpedient hours;

Preventing mares being covered, except in yards, buildings, or premises sufficiently enclosed screened from public view.

(30.) Regulating the taking of the votes of the electors for the municipality upon any proposal to borrow money, as hereinafter stated.

(31.) For the general regulation of all markets, fairs, and public sales for cattle, horses, sheep, and other live stock, wares, merchandise, and provisions, the tolls, dues, and fees to be received thereat, and the maintenance of good order therein;

Prohibiting every kind of fraudulent device and practice in relation to the sale of marketable commodities.

For granting and regulating the licensing of weighbridges in public places.

(32.) Regulating the publication of notices.

(33) Defining the functions and regulating and enforcing the due performance of the duties of officers and servants appointed by the council;

For the punishment of persons falsely representing themselves to be officers of the corporation.

(34.) For the management and conservation of the park lands and public reserves;

For the appointment and guidance of keepers or servants employed therein;

Prescribing

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Prescribing the time at which any such park lands
and public reserves shall be opened and closed;
For the conduct of persons frequenting any such park
lands and public reserves;

Prescribing the days on and the bounds or limits
within which games and gymnastics may be
permitted on any park lands and public reserves,
and otherwise regulating or prohibiting any games
and gymnastics;

Preventing or regulating the admission of vehicles,
horses, camels, asses, mules, and cattle to any park
lands and public reserves;

Regulating shooting over, on, or in any park lands
and public reserves;

Regulating matches and preventing the training for
racing with horses, dogs, or otherwise upon any park
lands and public reserves;

Enabling municipal servants, police constables, or
special constables to remove persons who are guilty
of any breach of any by-law made by the muni-
cipality from any park lands and public reserves;
Regulating or preventing the selling or exposing for
sale goods, wares, or merchandise on the park
lands, public reserves, or places ;

Prohibiting damage or injury to and destruction of
trees, shrubs, and plants in the park lands, public
places, public reserves, and plantations;

Prescribing the fees to be charged the public for
admission to any of the park lands and public
reserves, and the occasions when such fees shall be
payable, and prohibiting admission therein on such

occasions.

Passenger and other

(35) Regulating the licensing, cancellation, or suspension of licenses of drivers, conductors, and owners of passenger vehicles plying for vehicles, motor-cars, tram-cars, wagons, drays, carts, or hire. other vehicles, and generally for regulating all traffic for the carrying of goods and merchandise, by vehicles plying, used, kept, or let for hire within the municipality; and prescribing a limit to the number of licenses to be granted, and for registering the names of the owners, drivers, and conductors of all passenger and other vehicles; and regulating the licensing, driving, and

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and cancellation, or suspension of licenses of passenger vehicles used for the conveyance of goods or merchandise for hire;

For the distinction of vehicles, motor-cars, and tramcars in respect of fares to be taken;

Fixing the rates and fares to be taken, and the mode of computation, of time, or of distances;

Appointing stands for all or any of the above-named vehicles, and prescribing the regulations to be observed thereat;

Enforcing the obligation of owners and drivers to convey passengers on demand; and the obligation of owners and drivers of vehicles licensed for the conveyance of goods and merchandise for hire to carry merchandise and goods on demand.

Limiting the number of passengers (inside and outside), their baggage and goods, and regulating fares for children, and as to taking up and setting down passengers;

For the maintenance of passenger or other vehicles, public motor-cars, and tram-cars in proper condition and order, and regulating how the same shall be furnished, provided, and kept;

Providing for the delivery over and disposal of articles left in passenger vehicles, and public motor-cars, and

tram-cars;

Compelling the licensed driver or conductor to be in charge of such passenger vehicle, motor-car, or tramcar, and preventing the same from being driven by others, and preventing persons not hiring the same from riding with the driver or conductor;

For the prevention of smoking in any passenger vehicle, motor-car, or tram-car, or by the driver or conductor thereof;

Prohibiting coffins, containing the corpse of any deceased person above the age of two years, or any person who dies of an infectious disease, from being conveyed in any passenger vehicle;

For the punishment for misconduct of the drivers and conductors, and persons attending any of the aforesaid vehicles, in carelessly or furiously driving or racing, or in demanding or receiving more than the legal fare, or in using any threatening, abusive, indecent,

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indecent, or insulting language; and also for
punishing persons hiring such vehicles or riding
thereon and evading, or attempting to evade, the
payment of fares;

Regulating the routes to be observed by the licensed
drivers of omnibuses or passenger vehicles plying
as omnibuses;

Requiring and regulating the carrying of a lighted
lamp or lamps by all vehicles, motor-cars, and tram-
cars after sunset, and inside passenger vehicles,
motor-cars, and tram-cars after sunset;

Preventing licensed drivers or others loitering with
vehicles in the streets, or plying for hire in the
streets, except on a stand;

Preventing any person not being of the full age of
seventeen years acting as driver, and any person
not of the full age of fifteen years acting as
conductor of any vehicle;

Preventing licensed drivers from being or standing
away from the vehicle and horses in their charge
whilst on the stand, or regulating the distance at
which such drivers may be allowed to be away
from their vehicles whilst on the stand;

Enforcing the notification inside passenger vehicles of
the rate of fares for time or distance;

Preventing what is called the nursing or shepherding
of passenger vehicles by other passenger vehicles,
and preventing the owner or driver of one pas-
senger vehicle from preceding or following another
passenger vehicle;

Preventing persons standing on the footways or road-
ways of any town or city and touting for passengers
for any vehicles driven by licensed drivers;
For the regulating and punishment of any driver or
rider of horses or other animals who leaves them in
any street or other public place unattended or
insecurely fastened ;

Regulating the use and management of hand-carts
in the streets, and the conduct of persons in charge
thereof.

(36.) Regulating its own proceedings.

Proceedings.

(37.) Ibid. (21).

Public property.
Ibid. (22).

Rates.
Ibid., (23).

Scavengers.
Ibid. (24).

Signboards. Ibid. (25).

Slaughter-houses.
Ibid. (26).

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(37.) For the general control, management, and preservation of the public reserves and commons, and of any public library, museum, botanical garden, or other place of recreation, the control or management of which is vested in the council;

Regulating the conduct of persons using such public reserves and commons;

Regulating the cutting, collecting, or removing of timber, firewood, stone, or other material from or on any public reserves or commons.

For the use and management of all public bridges, jetties, piers, wharves, or landing places which have been handed over by the Governor to the care and management of a council: Provided always, that until any by-laws have been made in pursuance of this sub-section, any regulations made by the Governor shall apply to any such public bridge, jetty, pier, wharf, or landing place as aforesaid. (38.) As to the times and modes of collecting and enforcing payment of the rates, either in arrear or current; and also of any licenses payable under this or any other Act. (39.) Regulating the time and mode of the removal of the contents of any drain, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, cesspool, ashpit, or other place, or of any noxious or offensive matter by nightmen or scavengers, licensed under the provisions of this Act, or by other persons; and prescribing the vehicles by which such removal is to be effected, and the fees to be paid to the nightmen and scavengers so licensed as aforesaid.

(40.) Prohibiting and regulating the erection, putting up, and situation of signboards or other signs, or awnings or blinds, or overhanging lamps, or other things over or near any footway or roadway.

(41.) For the regulation of slaughter-houses and the management of the cattle to be slaughtered thereat, and for defining areas within which no slaughter-house shall be permitted;

For the prevention of the slaughtering both of great and small cattle, except at slaughter-houses established by the council;

For destroying infected cattle which, if slaughtered, would be unfit for human food;

For destroying unwholesome meat;

For

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