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PORT, CONSULAR, CUSTOMS, AND HARBOUR REGULATIONS, &.
sufficient light to be fixed in a proper place on or near the same, and continue such light every night from sun-setting to sun-rising while such materials or hole remain; and such person shall, at his own expense, cause such materials or other things and such hole to be sufficiently fenced and enclosed until such materials or other things are removed, or the hole filled up, or otherwise made secure. And every such person who fails so to light, fence, or enclose the same, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding Dollars Twenty-five.
12. If any Building, Wall, or Hole, or other place near any Street, be for want of sufficient repair, protection, or enclosure, dangerous to the passengers along such Street, the owner shall repair the same, or, in default, the Council shall cause the necessary repairs to be made, and the expenses of the same shall be recoverable as damages from the owner. If the owner cannot be found, or any agent who will undertake to act for him, within the limits of these Regulations, the Council, after giving twenty-eight days' notice of their intention to do so, by posting a printed or written notice in a conspicuous place on such Building, or on the land on which such Building stood, or other place, may take such Building or Land and sell the same by Public Auction under Consular injunction, and from and out of the proceeds of such sale re-imburse themselves for the outlay incurred, and shall restore any overplus arising from such sale to the owner of such property on demand; but should the proceeds of such sale not cover the expenses incurred, the Council shall have the same remedies for compelling the payment of the balance as are hereinbefore given to them for compelling the payu ent of the whole of the said expenses.
13.-The Council may give notice to the owner or occupant of any house or other building to remove or alter any porch, shed, projecting window, step, or any other obstruction or projection, erected or placed against, or in front of, any house or other Building, within the limits of these Regulations, and which is an obstruction to the safe and covenient passage along any Street; and such owner and occupant sball, within fourteen days after the service of such notice upon him, remove such obstruction, or alter the same in such manner as shall have been directed by the Council, and in default thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten Dollars; and the Council in such case may remove such obstruction or projection, and the expense of such removal shall be paid by the owner or occupant so making default, and shall be recoverable as damages.
14. No person shall obstruct the Public Road or Footpaths with any kind of Goods or Building Materials under a penalty of Dollars Ten for every twenty-four hours of continued obstruction; and after the first twenty-four hours that notice of removal shall have been given to the owner of the same, or the person using, employing, or having control over the same, or in the absence of any such person, or inability on the part of the Agents of the Council to find him, the Council shall remove and retain the same until the expense of such removal shall have been repaid, or may recover the expense of such removal as damages, or may sell the same to recover such expenses, holding the balance, if any, after payment of penalties, expenses, and costs, to the use of the person entitled to the same.
15. In the case of any stagnant pool, ditch, or pond of water, pig-stye, cow-house, stable, privy, or any other building, construction, or thing, being proved a nuisance to the occupiers of adjacent lots or the Public, the Secretary of the Council shall forthwith give notice to the owner, or reputed owner, or agent, that such nuisance must be removed; and if the same be not removed within a time considered reasonable by the Council, the Council may abate such nuisance at the expense of the owner of such property, the same being recoverable as damages.
16.-That no spirit-shop, or house of entertainment of any kind shall be opened within the limits of the Settlement, without a licence first obtained from the Council, countersigned by Her Britannic Majesty's Consul (charges for such licence to be hereafter arranged), under a penalty not exceeding Dollars One Hundred, recoverable from the person committing such offence.
17. All persons causelessly creating a noise or disturbance, and all persons guilty of furious and improper riding or driving, or leading or riding horses upon the
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