Also the Section Tuned of the and Ava The Commissioners may purchase a Piccatul Fand today Limits of the special Act for the Purpose of a Pound the and may erect a l'ound thereon, und auch Panel whit be kept in repair by the Commissumta respect to Annoyances in the cla, Towing Sections of the "Town Poder Clau corporated with the 4, without Laugh but to any Carei of So get " (Section 60.) Slaughtering, &c. cattle. Waggons, Carts, Driving furiously. Carriages, &c. Horses, &c. obstructing. Drawing Timber. Obstructions, projections, &c. on footways. ness, suffers any Dog to be at large during the Time specified in Every Person who slaughters or dresses any Cattle, (a.) or any Part Every Person who at one Time drives more than Two Carts or Every Person who rides or drives furiously any Horse or Carriage, or drives furiously any Cattle: Every Person who causes any public Carriage, Sledge, Truck, or Barrow, with or without Horses, or any Beast of Burden, to stand longer than is necessary for loading or unloading Goods, or for taking up or setting down Passengers (except Hackney Carriages, and Horses and other Beasts of Draught or Burthen, standing for Hire in any Place appointed for that Purpose by the Commissioners or other lawful Authority), and every Person who, by means of any Cart, Carriage, Sledge, Truck, or Barrow, or any Animal, or other Means, wilfully interrupts any public Crossing, or wilfully causes any Obstruction in any public Footpath or other public Thoroughfare: Every Person who causes any Tree or Timber or Iron Beam to be drawn in or upon any Carriage, without having sufficient Means of safely guiding the same: Every Person who leads or rides any Horse or other Animal, or draws or drives any Cart or Carriage, Sledge, Truck, or Barrow [a] See the Interpretation of the word "Cattle" in the Note Page 7, Sec. 3, ante. upon any Footway of any Street, or Fastens any Horse or other Animal so that it stands across or upon any Footway: Every Person who places or leaves any Furniture, Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, or any Cask, Tub, Basket, Pail, or Bucket, or places or uses any Standing-place, Stool, Bench, Stall, or Showboard on any Footway, or who places any Blind, Shade, Covering, Awning, or other Projection over or along any such Footway, unless such Blind, Shade, Covering, Awning, or other Projection is Eight Feet in Height at least in every Part thereof from the Ground: Every Person who places, hangs up, or otherwise exposes to Sale any Goods, Wares, Merchandize, Matter, or Thing whatsoever, so that the same project into or over any Footway, or beyond the Line of any House, Shop, or Building at which the same are so exposed, so as to obstruct or incommode the Passage of any Person over or along such Footway: Every Person who rolls or carries any Cask, Tub, Hoop, or Wheel, or any Ladder, Plank, Pole, Timber, or Log of Wood, upon any Footway, except for the Purpose of loading or unloading any Cart or Carriage, or of crossing the Footway: Every Person who places any Line, Cord, or Pole across any Street, or hangs or places any Clothes thereon: (Section 60.) Every common Prostitute or Nightwalker loitering and importuning Prostitutes. Passengers for the Purpose of Prostitution: Exposing person. Songs, &c. Every Person who wilfully and indecently exposes his Person: Every Person who publicly offers for Sale or Distribution, or exhibits Profane, &c. to public View, any profane, indecent, or obscene Book, Paper, Print, Drawing, Painting, or Representation, or sings any profane or obscene Song or Ballad, or uses any profane or obscene Language: Every Person who wantonly discharges any Firearm, or throws or Fire-arms, &c. discharges any Stone or other Missile, or makes any Bonfire, or throws or sets fire to any Firework : &c. Every Person who wilfully and wantonly disturbs any Inhabitant, by Ringing Bells, pulling or ringing any Door Bell, or knocking at any Door, or who wilfully and unlawfully extinguishes the Light of any Lamp: Every Person who flies any Kite, or who makes or uses any Slide Kites, Slides. Ice or Snow: upon Every Person who cleanses, hoops, fires, washes, or scalds any Cask Cleaning Casks, cutting timber, or Tub, or hews, saws, bores, or cuts any Timber or Stone, or &c. slacks, sifts, or screens any Lime : Every Person who throws or lays down any Stones, Coals, Slate, Every Person who beats or shakes any Carpet, Rug, or Mat (except Every Person who fixes or places any Flower-pot or Box, or other Every Person who throws from the Roof or any Part of any House or other Building any Slate, Brick, Wood, Rubbish, or other Thing, except Snow thrown so as not to fall on any Passenger: Every Occupier of any House or other Building or other Person who orders or permits any Person in his Service to stand on the Sill of any Window, in order to clean, paint, or perform any other Operation upon the Outside of such Window, or upon any House or other Building within the said Limits, unless such Window be in the sunk or Basement Story : Every Person who leaves open any Vault or Cellar, or the Entrance from any Street to any Cellar or Room underground, without a sufficient Fence or Handrail, or leaves defective the Door, Window, or other Covering of any Vault or Cellar, or who does not sufficiently fence any Area, Pit, or Sewer left open, or who leaves such open Arca, Pit, or Sewer without a sufficient Light after Sunset to warn and prevent Persons from falling thereinto: Every Person who throws or lays any Dirt, Litter, or Ashes, or Nightsoil, or any Carrion, Fish, Offal, or Rubbish, on any Street, or causes any offensive Matter to run from any Manufactory, Brewery, Slaughter-house, Butcher's Shop, or Dunghill into any Street: Provided always, that it shall not be deemed an Offence to lay Sand or other Materials in any Street in Time of Frost, to prevent Accidents, or Litter or other suitable Materials to prevent the freezing of Water in Pipes, or in case of Sickness to prevent Noise, if the Party laying any such Things causes them to be removed as soon as the Occasion for them ceases: Every Person who keeps any Pigstye to the Front of any Street, not being shut out from such Street by a sufficient Wall or Fence, or who keeps any Swine in or near any Street, so as to be a common Nuisance: Also the Section numbered 29 of the said Act: (Sections 60. drunken Persons, &c. guilty XXIX. Every Person drunk in any Street, and guilty of any riotous 61. 62.) or indecent Behaviour therein, and also every Person guilty of any Penalty on violent or indecent Behaviour in any Police Office or any Police Station House within the Limits of the special Act, shall be liable of riotous or into a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings for every such Offence, haviour. or, in the Discretion of the Justice before whom he is convicted, to Imprisonment for a Period not exceeding Seven Days. decent Be walls, &c. Also any Person who wantonly, mischievously, or idly chalks, Chalking, &c. writes, or paints upon any House or other Building, Wall, or Pavement : offensive words, And also any Person who writes, paints, exposes, or designates Writing. &c. any obscene, immoral, or offensive Word, Picture, or Repre- &c. sentation upon a Place, Matter, or Thing, so as to be legible or visible from or in any Street. used as Beasts of Burden. Spread of Canine LXI. That no Dog shall be used as a Beast of Draught or Dogs not to be Burden within the Borough or within One Mile in a direct Line Draught or from the Church of Saint Mary, Cheltenham; and every Person so using any Dog shall forfeit any Sum not exceeding Five Pounds, and any Constable may seize and detain any Dog so used for any such Purpose; and any Constable may also within the said Limits For preventing seize and detain any unmuzzled ferocious Dog, or any Dog going Madness. at large which there is reasonable Ground for believing to be in a rabid State, or to have been bitten by any other Dog or Animal in a rabid State, or any Dog which on the Expiration of Twelve Hours after public Notice given by the public Crier, by Order of the Commissioners, directing Dogs to be confined, is found at large in the Borough during the Period specified in such Notice, and any Constable may destroy any such Dog, or sell any such Dog not suspected to be rabid, at any Time not less than Two Days after the same has been so seized: Provided always, that such Seizure and Destruction shall not exempt the Owner of any such Dog from any Penalty to which he may be in any way liable in respect of such Dog; and that after Payment of all Expenses the Proceeds of the Sale of any such Dog shall go to the Borough Fund. And with respect to naming and numbering the Streets, be it street Naming. enacted, LXII. That the following Sections of "The Towns Improve- Sections 64 and ment Clauses Act, 1847," shall be incorporated with this Act: The Section numbered 64 of the said Act: 65 of 10 and 11 Vict. c. 34. incorporated with this Act. |