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For the maintenance of cleanliness in and at every
slaughter-house and place used for slaughtering
cattle ;

For the management of cattle kept at any slaughter-
house on behalf of the owner, prior to their being
slaughtered, or without being slaughtered, and the
fees to be taken therefor.

(42.) For the prevention of obstructions of any streets, ways, Streets and footways. footways, water channels, and water-courses therein;

Regulating the paving and repairing of the streets,
ways, and footways;

For cleansing the same;

Compelling the securing, removing, or filling up of
any cellar, ways, or openings which may now or
hereafter be in or under any footway;

Ibid. (27).

Regulating the speed or pace at which persons shall
ride or drive or vehicles be driven round the
corners or across the intersections of any street or
streets, way or ways, or across any bridge, or along
any particular part or parts of any municipality;
Prescribing the removal, at the epxense of the owner
or occupier, of any verandahs or balconies which
obstruct the footway, or street, or way, or are
dangerous, and all other obstructions to the footways, Ibid. (27).
streets, or ways, whether the same have before the
commencement of this Act been or may hereafter be
erected;

Requiring and regulating the painting of all lamp-
posts, bridle-posts, telegraph, telephone, and electric
lighting or tramway poles, and for compelling the
removal of any such poles which may be bent,
dangerous, unsightly, or not in use;

Prohibiting or regulating processions in streets or ways;
Prohibiting or regulating the playing of music in the
streets or ways;

Prohibiting or regulating any advertising through
the streets or ways, and the throwing or discharging
of handbills or other printed matter therein, or in
or upon any private premises;

Regulating or prohibiting bill posting or painting
advertisements;

Requiring

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Requiring and regulating the lighting of wharves and jetties for the purposes of public safety: Provided that, wherever any wharf or jetty is rated, and subject to a lighting rate, one moiety of the cost of lighting shall be paid out of such rate on such wharf;

Prohibiting the erection of dangerous fences, or fences with barbed wire, abutting on public places, and regulating and prescribing the materials of which fences abutting on public places shall be erected; Regulating the traffic for any purpose in or along all or any of the foot and carriage ways of any street or way;

Prohibiting the drawing of any wagon, cart, or other carriage not having springs, or the driving of any animal attached thereto at any faster rate, speed, or pace than a common walk ;

Prohibiting any goods or merchandise, coal or firewood from remaining in any street or way for a longer period than necessary for housing or removing the same;

Regulating the mode and time of the cleansing of footpaths and preventing the shaking of carpets, rugs, or doormats in any street or way;

Prohibiting animals or vehicles being left in the street, or obstructing any portion of any street or way, and permitting the seizure by the municipal officers or police constables of any such animals or vehicles; For the cost of removal and reinstatement and the punishment of any contractor, or other person, who deposits, or causes to be deposited, any rubbish or materials on the surface of any street or way, or who injures or damages any street, way, or footpath, or who excavates or leaves open any excavation without having a sufficient and continuous light burning thereon from sunset to sunrise, and for the cost of the removal of such rubbish or materials and the reinstatement of the street, way, or footpath;

Regulating or prohibiting the use of motor-cars, bicycles, and other velocipedes or perambulators in or upon the streets, ways, and footways, and requiring and regulating the carrying of a lighted lamp

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lamp after sunset by all motor-cars, bicycles, and
other velocipedes, and the carrying and sounding of
a bell by the drivers or riders thereof by day and by
night;

Prohibiting unyoked cattle or unbroken horses being

driven through the streets or ways within certain Ibid. (27).
hours;

For the punishment of persons throwing orange peel,
fruit, or other vegetable substances, or any offensive,
noxious, or dangerous substance on any footpath
of a street or way;

Preventing the over-crowding of tram and motor

cars;

Prohibiting any impure water or any liquid matter of
whatever description being drained or allowed to
flow from any house, land, or premises into or
upon any street, way, footway, or gutter, or being
thrown or placed thereon or therein.

(43) Defining areas within which no swine shall be permitted
to be kept.
(44) Providing for the coating, with some white paint or
whitewash, of buildings and erections composed or
roofed wholly or in part with iron, zinc, or tin, and
occupied or used as dwellings or workshops or work-
rooms or offices.

(45.) Regulating the manner in which leading horses shall be
driven and yoked upon any street, or way, and to prohibit
or regulate the riding or driving of camels through any
street or way; and generally for the regulation and
preservation of order of general traffic.

Swine. Ibid. (28). 【.

Structures of iron,
zinc or tin.
Ibid. (29).

Traffic.
Ibid. (30).

Refreshment stalls.

(46.) Regulating movable or temporarily fixed stalls in or near
any street or way for the sale of any meat, fruit,
vegetables, drink, eatables, or articles of merchandise, and Ibid. (31).
the management thereof, and the conduct of the persons
in charge thereof, and the times when, and positions of
places in which such stalls shall be allowed to carry on
business.

Verandahs.
Ibid. (32).

(47.) For regulating the use of balconies and verandahs now or
hereafter erected over any part of a street or way.
(48.) For prohibiting the use of iron spikes or other projec-
tions, broken glass, or barbed wire on any premises etc.
abutting upon a street or way.

(49.)

Spikes, glass, wire,

Ibid. (33).

Notices and plans.
Ibid. (34).

New.

Generally for carrying out the objects of this Act.

Ibid. (35).

When regulations

may be made.

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(49.) Regulating the mode and manner of giving, and the information to be contained in all notices and plans given under this Act.

(50.) For regulating the licensing, supervision, government, control, and management of water to be condensed for sale, and for securing the cleanliness of any plant and buildings connected therewith, and all places used in connection with the same, and for prescribing the precautions to be taken against the infection and contamination of the water, and the limits within which the business of a condenser of water shall be carried on.

(51.) Enabling any contractor for the removal of nightsoil or other refuse, to collect fees.

(52.) Enforcing the obligation of hawkers and traders to carry scales.

(53) For more effectually regulating, observing, and carrying out all and every the powers and authorities by this Act given to municipalities; and for insuring the good rule and government of the municipality, and the convenience, comfort, and safety of the inhabitants thereof, and for the prevention and suppression of nuisances therein.

Any such by-laws may be limited in their application to any portion of the municipality, or to any catchment, water supply, or other area under the control or jurisdiction of the council as local board of health or otherwise.

168. REGULATIONS and joint regulations may be made for and joint regulations any municipality or municipalities in which any provision of the Tenth Schedule hereto is in force, authorising the making of such regulations or joint regulations, and for the purposes prescribed by such provision.

Local Government
Act (Vic.), s. 192.
Tenth Schedule.

Council may grant licenses for certain

purposes.

59 Vict., No. 10,

8. 105.

169. THE council may, subject to such conditions as it deems fit, grant licenses to persons for any of the following purposes, within a municipality :

(a.) For the erection and use of bathing-houses, sheds, or machines;

(b.) For carrying on the trade of cow-keepers, dairymen, or

purveyors of milk;

(c.) For keeping and depasturing goats and keeping of

pigeons ;

(d.)

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(d.) For the hawking of fruit, fish, and vegetables, or any article of merchandise;

(e.) For movable or temporarily fixed stalls in or near any street for the sale of meat, fruit, vegetables, drink, eatables, or articles of merchandise;

(f) For the driving and keeping of passenger vehicles, tram and motor cars, wagons, drays, carts, or other vehicles. for the carrying of goods and merchandise;

(g.) For the removal of the contents of any drain, watercloset, earth-closet, privy, cesspool, ashpit, or other place used for a similar purpose, or of any noxious or offensive matter;

(h.) For the erection or use of slaughter-houses;

(i.) For carrying on the trade or calling of a chimney

sweep;

(j.) For driving and depasturing horses, sheep, cattle, pigs, goats, camels, asses, or mules over and upon park lands and public reserves;

(k.) For the use and employment of hand-carts in streets or

ways;

(1.) For keeping and maintaining any suitable premises as a bazaar or repository for the sale therein of horses, cattle, carriages, and other vehicles, or any of them, respectively, as the council may deem proper;

(m.) For the appointment of general porters;

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(n.) For the erection in any public place of one or machines or engines with a suitable house or building thereto, for the weighing of vehicles conveying any goods or merchandise whatsoever;

(0.) For the carrying on the trade or business of a condenser of water;

(p.) The council may grant licenses under the Cart and Carriage Licensing Act, 1876, to any cart, as thereby defined, used within the limits of the municipality; and in addition to any other license or fee now required by law for such cart, may charge a license fee for such cart at a rate not exceeding Ten shillings for any one whole year. And the several provisions contained in the Cart and Carriage Licensing Act, 1876, with respect to carriages, shall be deemed to be applicable to carts licensed under this Act; but no person residing at least three miles from the nearest limits of a municipality shall be required to take out from any municipality a

license

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