154

[See Ord. No. 15 of 1889

$s. 36 & 77.]

ORDINANCE No. 14 of 1845.

Good Order and Cleanliness.

ter whatsoever, on any of the roads, streets, ways, or public passages, or into any well, stream, or watercourse, ford, or reservoir for water, any of the drains or sewers made or to be made within the said Colony; or shall permit or suffer any such noisome or offensive substance as aforesaid to remain exposed in any drain, sewer, or elsewhere, opposite to or within the immediate neighbourhood of his house, or shall allow any accumulation of filth or offensive substances within the premises occupied by him, to the annoyance of the inhabitants or passengers; or shall in any manner defile or pollute any well, or stream, or watercourse, used by any of the inhabitants of the town of Victoria, or for the supplying with water of ships resorting to the harbour of the said Colony.

2. Every person who shall commit any nuisance in the neighbourhood of any house or place of public passage.

3. Every person who shall set out or leave, or cause to be set out or left, any scaffolding, bricks, lime, barrels, bales or cases of merchandise, or any other matter or thing which shall or may obstruct, incommode, or endanger any person or carriage in any public road or thoroughfare.

4. Every person who shall expose anything for sale in or upon, or so as to hang over any carriage-way or footway, or on the outside of any house or shop, or who shall set up or continue any pole, blind, awning, line, or any other projection from any window, parapet, or other part of any house, shop, or other building, so as to cause any annoyance or obstruction in any thoroughfare.

5. Every person who shall encroach on any public way or Crown land by erecting any building, either on or projecting over the same, or shall construct any spout which shall project the rain-water thereon.

6. Every occupier or owner of any house, building, or other erection who shall neglect to repair or remove the same when in a ruinous or unsafe state, and which shall or may endanger the passengers in any thoroughfare.

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