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(Secs.56.57)

Allowance of Rates unnecessary.

As to Collections of Tolls and re

Roads,

pairing
rough of Chel-

&c. in the Bo

tenham ;

by them to the Treasurer, and carried to the District Fund Account mentioned in this Act: Provided also, that neither the Allowance by Justices, nor the Signature by the Local Board of Health, shall be necessary in the Case of any Rate made by the Local Board of Health under this Act.

LVII. That the Trustees of any Turnpike Road (a.) shall not collect Tolls on any Road in the Borough, or lay out any Money thereon, save that the Trustees acting in execution of the Local Act of the First and Second Year of King William the Fourth, Chapter 16, relating to the Cheltenham District of Turnpike Roads, shall continue to repair all such Roads in the said Borough as are now repaired by them, and may collect Tolls at the several Toll Gates and Toll Bars and Weighing Machines at which Tolls are now received by such Trustees, and at any Toll Gate, Bar, or Chain to be at any Time hereafter set up by the said Trustees on, across, or on the Side of any Part of the Road made a Turnpike Road by virtue of the said Act, and leading from or near to the Top or Eastern End of the High Street in the Town and Parish of Cheltenham aforesaid to the Turnpike Road leading from Cheltenham towards Birdlip, not nearer to the Parish Church of Cheltenham than the present Turnpike Gate called the If roads repaired Charlton Park Gate: Provided, that in the event of any Part of ers tolls to cease. the said Turnpike Roads within the Borough which are now repaired by the Trustees not being repaired by them, and being repaired by the Commissioners, then the Power to collect Tolls on such Part of the said Turnpike Roads shall cease; and save of Tolls by Chel- also, that the Trustees acting in execution of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Turnpike Road Act, 1851, may continue to collect Tolls at the several Toll Gates and Toll Bars in the Borough at which Tolls were before the Twentieth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one lawfully collected by such Trustees, and at any Toll Gate, Bar, or Chain to be from Time to Time lawfully set up on or on the Side of any Part of the Roads in the said Trust not nearer to the Parish Church of Cheltenham than the present Turnpike Gate called the Montpellier or Lansdowne Gate, or the present Turnpike Gate, called the Junction Gate, thereto adjoining; but the said Trustees shall not continue or set up any Toll Gate, Bar, or Chain in, upon, or across any Lane or Way within the Borough leading into the same Roads,

by Commission

As to Collection

tenham & Gloucester Trust.

(a) The interpretation clause includes a "Turnpike Road" in the word street. see p. 4 though the Public Health Act excluded it.

or on the Sides thereof, anything in the said Turnpike Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

(Secs.58.59)

may cleanse, &c. Highways or not.

Streets, whether

LVIII. That the Commissioners may efficiently cleanse, light, Commissioners water, and scavenge every present and future Street (a.) in the Borough (whether a Highway or not), but no Street shall thereby become a Highway.

And with respect to Obstructions of the Passage in the Streets, street be it enacted,

Obstructions.

LIX. That the following Sections of the "Towns Police Clauses Sections 21 to 27 Act, 1847," shall be incorporated with this Act:

The Section numbered 21 of the said Act:

of 10 and 11 Vic. c. 89. incorporated with this Act.

Obstructions in

cessions, &c.

XXI. The Commissioners may from Time to Time make Orders for Power to prevent the Route to be observed by all Carts, Carriages, Horses, and Per- the Streets dusons, and for preventing Obstruction of the Streets within the ring public ProLimits of the special Act, in all Times of public Processions, Rejoicings, or Illuminations, and in any Case when the Streets are thronged or liable to be obstructed, and may also give Directions. to the Constables for keeping Order and preventing any Obstruction of the Streets in the Neighbourhood of Theatres and other Places of public Resort, and every wilful Breach of any such Order shall be deemed a separate Offence against this Act, and every Person committing any such Offence shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.

Also the Section numbered 22 of the said Act:

late the Route of

&c. during Di

vine Service,

XXII. On Application to the Commissioners by the Minister or Churchwardens or Chapelwardens of any Church, Chapel, or other Power to reguPlace of public Worship within the Limits of the special Act, the Persons driving Carts, Carriages Commissioner's may make Orders for regulating the Route by which Persons shall drive any Cart or Carriage, or Cattle, or the Manner in which they shall drive them, in the Neighbourhood of such Places of Worship, during the Hours of Divine Service on Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, or any Day appointed for a public Fast or Thanksgiving, and any Orders so made shall be printed and put up on or near the Church, Chapel, or Place of public Worship to which the same refer, and in some conspicuous Places near and leading thereto, and elsewhere as the Commissioners direct, and every wilful Breach of any such Order shall be deemed a separate Offence against this Act, and every Person committing any such Offence shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings.

(a) The interpretation clause includes a "Turnpike Road" in the word street. see p. 4 though the Public Health Act excluded it.

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(Section 59.)

Proprietors of Stage Carriages deviating from Route by Order free from Penalty.

Power to im. pound stray Cattle.

Penalty for Straying.

Power to sell stray Cattle for Penalty and Expences.

Persons guilty of
Pound-breach to
be committed for
Three Months.

Also the Section numbered 23 of the said Act:

XXIII. No Proprietor of any Stage Carriage duly licensed to carry
Passengers for Hire shall be liable to any Penalty for any Devia-
tion from the Route or Line of Route specified in his Licence
which the Driver of such Stage Carriage makes in consequence of
any Regulation or Direction made or given by the Commissioners.
Also the Section numbered 24 of the said Act:

XXIV. If any Cattle be at any Time found at large in any Street
within the Limits of the special Act, without any Person having
the Charge thereof, any Constable or Officer of Police, or any Per-
son residing within the Limits of the special Act, may seize and
impound such Cattle in any common Pound within the said Limits,
or in such other Place as the Commissioners appoint for that Pur-
pose,
and may detain the same therein until the Owner thereof
pay to the Commissioners a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings,
besides the reasonable Expenses of impounding and keeping such
Cattle.

Also the Section numbered 25 of the said Act:

XXV. If the said Penalty and Expenses be not paid within Three Days after such impounding, the Pound-keeper, or other Person appointed by the Commissioners for that Purpose, may proceed to sell or cause to be sold any such Cattle; but previous to such Sale Seven Days Notice thereof shall be given to or left at the Dwelling House or Place of Abode of the Owner of such Cattle, if he be known, or if not, then Notice of such intended Sale shall be given by Advertisement, to be inserted Seven Days before such Sale in some Newspaper published or circulated within the Limits of the special Act; and the Money arising from such Sale, after deducting the said Sums, and the Expenses aforesaid, and all other Expenses attending the impounding, advertising, keeping, and Sale of any such Cattle so impounded, shall be paid to the Commisioners, and shall be by them paid, on Demand, to the Owner of the Cattle so sold.

Also the Section numbered 26 of the said Act:

XXVI. Every Person who releases or attempts to release any Cattle from any Pound or Place where the same are impounded under the Authority of this or the special Act, or who pulls down, damages, or destroys the same Pound or Place, or any Part thereof, with Intent to procure the unlawful Release of such Cattle, shall, upon Conviction of such Offence before any Two Justices, be committed by them to some Common Gaol or House of Correction for any Time not exceeding Three Months.

Also the Section numbered 27 of the said Act.

(Secs.59.60.)

a Pound.

XXVII. The Commissioners may purchase a Piece of Land within Power to provide the Limits of the special Act for the Purpose of a Pound for stray Animals, and may erect a Pound thereon, and such Pound when made shall be kept in repair by the Commissioners.

And with respect to Annoyances in the Streets, be it enacted,

Street

Annoyances.

29 of 10 and 11

porated with this

LX. That the following Sections of the "Town Police Clauses Sections 28 and Act, 1847," shall be incorporated with this Act, and shall ex- Vict. c. 89 incortend not only to the Borough but to any Place within One Mile Act. in a direct Line from the Church of Saint Mary Cheltenham:

The Section numbered 28 of the said Act; but the Prohibition therein contained as to drawing a Carriage on the Footway shall not extend to Wheel Chairs or Fly Chairs which may now be lawfully drawn upon the Footway:

sons committing

Offences herein named.

XXVIII. Every Person who in any Street, to the Obstruction, An- Penalty on Pernoyance, or Danger of the Residents or Passengers, commits any any of the of the following Offences, shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings for each Offence, or, in the Discretion of the Justice before whom he is convicted, may be committed to Prison, there to remain for a Period not exceeding Fourteen Days, and any Constable or other Officer appointed by virtue of this or the special Act shall take into Custody, without Warrant, and forthwith convey before a Justice, any Person who within his View commits any such Offence; (that is to say,)

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&c. Horses, &c.

for sale, &c.

Every Person who exposes for Show, Hire, or Sale (except in a Mar- As to Exposing, ket or Market Place or Fair lawfully appointed for that Purpose) any Horse or other Animal, or exhibits in a Caravan or otherwise any Show or public Entertainment, or shoes, bleeds or farries any Horse or Animal (except in Cases of Accident,) or cleans, dresses exercises, trains or breaks, or turns loose any Horse or Animal, or makes or repairs any Part of any Cart or Carriage (except in Cases of Accident where Repair on the Spot is necessary): Every Person who suffers to be at large any unmuzzled ferocious Dog, or sets on or urges any Dog or other Animal to attack, worry, or put in fear any Person or Animal:

Every Owner of any Dog who suffers such Dog to go at large, knowing

or having reasonable Ground for believing it to be in a rabid State,
or to have been bitten by any Dog or other Animal in a rabid
State:

Every Person, who after public Notice given by any Justice direct-
ing Dogs to be confined on account of Suspicion of Canine Mad-

Dogs.

(Section 59.)

Proprietors of Stage Carriages deviating from Route by Order free from Penalty.

Power to im pound stray Cattle.

Penalty for Straying.

Power to sell stray Cattle for Penalty and Expences.

Persons guilty of
Pound-breach to
be committed for
Three Months.

Also the Section numbered 23 of the said Act:

XXIII. No Proprietor of any Stage Carriage duly licensed to ca
Passengers for Hire shall be liable to any Penalty for any De
tion from the Route or Line of Route specified in his Lice
which the Driver of such Stage Carriage makes in consequenc
any Regulation or Direction made or given by the Commission
Also the Section numbered 24 of the said Act:

XXIV. If any Cattle be at any Time found at large in any
within the Limits of the special Act, without any Person
the Charge thereof, any Constable or Officer of Police, or ar
son residing within the Limits of the special Act, may se
impound such Cattle in any common Pound within the said
or in such other Place as the Commissioners appoint for th
pose,
and may detain the same therein until the Owner
pay to the Commissioners a Penalty not exceeding Forty S
besides the reasonable Expenses of impounding and keep
Cattle.

Also the Section numbered 25 of the said Act:

XXV. If the said Penalty and Expenses be not paid wit
Days after such impounding, the Pound-keeper, or oth
appointed by the Commissioners for that Purpose, may
sell or cause to be sold any such Cattle; but previous t
Seven Days Notice thereof shall be given to or left at tl
House or Place of Abode of the Owner of such Cat
known, or if not, then Notice of such intended Sale sl
by Advertisement, to be inserted Seven Days before
some Newspaper published or circulated within the I
special Act; and the Money arising from such Sale, af
the said Sums, and the Expenses aforesaid, and all of
attending the impounding, advertising, keeping, and
such Cattle so impounded, shall be paid to the Comm
shall be by them paid, on Demand, to the Owner of
sold.

Also the Section numbered 26 of the said Act

XXVI. Every Person who releases or attempts to rel

from any Pound or Place where the same are impor
Authority of this or the special Act, or who pulls
or destroys the same Pound or Place, or any Par
Intent to procure the unlawful Release of such Ca
Conviction of such Offence before any Two Justic
by them to some Common Gaol or House of C
Time not exceeding Three Months.

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