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For preventing certain nuisances.
1st offence.
2d offence.
3d offence.
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64. Every person who shall commit or be guilty of any of the offences herein-after specified in any city, borough, or town, in which this Act shall be carried into execution, shall be subject and liable to such penalties as are herein-after specified and set forth; that is to say, if any person shall, in or upon any way used or appointed to be used as a footway only, in any such city, borough, or town, draw, drive, or carry, any truck, sledge, wheel-barrow, bier, or other carriage, except directly across such footway on necessary occasions, or shall lead, ride, or drive, on any such footway, any horse or other beast, except directly across the same as aforesaid, or shall suffer to stand or shall tie or fasten any horse or other beast on or across the same; or shall, in or on any of the streets, squares, lanes, or passages, within any such city, borough, or town, set up any stall or table, or erect any shade or awning, or expose any goods or wares for sale, or place or leave therein or thereon any thing whatsoever, so as to create any impediment or annoyance to the free passage thereof, and shall not remove the same when thereunto required by any person whomsoever; or shall, in or on any of such streets, squares, lanes, or passages, ride or drive any horse or other animal in a furious and improper manner; or shall thereon drive or suffer to proceed any cart, waggon, or other carriage, without some person leading or guiding with reins the horse or horses yoked thereunto; or shall leave or suffer to remain in any of such streets, squares, lanes, or passages, any cart, waggon, or other carriage, with any horse or horses, or other cattle or animal, being yoked thereunto, without a proper person to take charge of the same; or shall place or leave in or on any of such streets, squares, lanes, and passages, in such a manner, as to obstruct or endanger the passage thereof, any cart, waggon or other carriage; or shall shew or expose any stallion or stone horse kept for the purpose of being let to mares, except in such place or places as the commissioners for the execution of this Act shall appoint, and except in directly proceeding to and returning from such place; or shall in or on any cart, waggon, or other carriage, carry or convey any timber, iron, or other thing, in such a manner as to protrude two feet beyond the wheel of such cart, waggon, or other carriage; or shall, in or on any of such streets, squares, lanes, and passages, place or leave any mortar, lime, sand, bricks, stones, timber, or other materials for building, or shall sift or screen any lime, sand, or other thing, such mortar or other thing being so placed or left, or such sifting or screening being without the permission of the commissioners for the execution of this Act, or not so defended and enclosed, within a frail or otherwise, and in conformity to such regulations as such commissioners at their discretion shall impose, and which they are hereby authorized to impose; or shall cast or leave any dung, dirt, rubbish, or other thing, or suffer to flow or fall from any slaughter house, soap house, tan yard, or other yard or premises, any muck, mire, blood, or other noisome matter, in or upon such streets, squares, lanes, and passages, except only in such manner and in such place or places as such commissioners shall direct and appoint or allow; or shall, in any of such streets, lanes, and passages, kill or slaughter or scald and dress any animals for meat; or shall, in any of such streets, lanes, or passages, play at bullets or quoits, or other dangerous game, to the annoyance or obstruction of passengers; or shall make any bonfire, or let off any fire works or squibs, or unnecessarily and wantonly discharge any fire arms; or if any person shall do or commit and act, or shall leave or place or set up any material or thing whatever, which shall cause or create any impediment, obstruction, nuisance, danger, or annoyance, in or to the free passage of such streets, squares, lanes, or passages; every such person shall for the first time of committing such offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty shillings and not less than five shillings, and for the second time of committing any such offence shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding forty shillings and not less than ten shillings, and for the third or any subsequent time of committing any such offence shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five pounds and not less than twenty shillings: Provided always, that every such offence shall be deemed to be a first offence in all cases, unless the same shall be proved to have been committed within one calendar month next after some such former offence of the same nature and quality.
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