Auditors at time of election to be

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in office shall be equal, the Auditors shall retire by ballot; and every Auditor elected to supply any extraordinary vacancy shall for the purposes of retirement only be deemed to have been elected when his immediate predecessor in office was elected, and shall retire accordingly: Provided always that any Auditor so retiring shall be capable of being forthwith re-elected if then duly qualified.

6. No person shall be eligible for election as Auditor unless he resident in Province shall be then resident in this Province, and his office shall be declared and become vacant if such Auditor shall be absent from the Colony at any time for three consecutive months.

of South Australia.

Disqualification for holding office of Auditor.

Proceedings at nominations.

Bazaars may be licensed.

7. If any person holding the office of Auditor shall leave this Province and shall be absent therefrom at the time appointed for the balancing the Corporation accounts, or if any person elected as Auditor shall, after notice delivered at his last known place of abode, refuse, neglect, or fail to be present, and shall not, in the event of illness, send a medical certificate of his inability to attend at the time and place appointed for the swearing in of the Mayor, Councillors, and Auditors, or if such person being present shall refuse, neglect, or fail then and there to take the oath of allegiance, and make and subscribe to the declaration of office, then and in every or any such case such person shall thereupon immediately cease to hold the office of Auditor, and shall be liable to the same fine as if he had refused to accept the said office; and the Council thereupon shall forthwith declare such office to be vacant by advertisement in one or more of the daily newspapers, and the said office shall thereupon become vacant.

8. On the day of nomination for the election of Councillors and Auditors, the Mayor, or, if he shall be unable to attend, a Councillor shall attend at noon, at the place fixed for such nomination, at which time and place he shall cause one or more nominations for each candidate lodged with the Town Clerk to be publicly opened and read aloud; if there shall be such number of candidates as are required to be elected and no more, he shall declare such candidates to be duly elected; but in the event of there being more than the necessary number of candidates nominated, he shall adjourn all public proceedings to the first day of December following, and shall cause such adjournment and the object of such adjournment, and the names of the candidates nominated, to be published daily until the polling-day, and on such day the election shall be by ballot, according to the law then in force regulating elections by ballot for Corporations; but in case of any election occurring in consequence of any extraordinary vacancy, such nomination shall take place within one week from the occurrence of such vacancy, and the public proceedings thereat shall be adjourned to the day of election.

9. It shall and may be lawful for the Council from time to time to grant annual licences to any suitable premises within their corporate

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porate limits as a bazaar or repository for the sale therein of horses, horned cattle, carriages, and other vehicles, or any of them respectively, as the Council may deem proper.

10. The Council may from time to time grant annual licences to Hide and skin marts any premises within the Corporation limits which they upon exami- may be licensed. nation may deem suitable for the purpose of salerooms for the storage and sale of raw or green hides or skins, and may fix, charge, and take such annual fees for the licence of the premises as they may think fit.

Premises not to be

used for the storage or sale therein of

licensed.

11. No person shall, within the limits of any municipality, store, keep, or have any raw or green hides or skins, except in premises specially licensed as aforesaid for that purpose; and any person hides or skins unless offending against this provision shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not being less than One Pound and not Penalty. exceeding Ten Pounds: Provided that nothing herein contained Proviso. shall apply to tanneries where raw or green hides or skins are used for manufacturing purposes solely.

12. The Council may from time to time make such by-laws and regulations as they may think fit for the regulation, supervision, government, and control of the premises licensed as bazaars or repositories for the sale of horses, horned cattle, carriages, and other vehicles, or any of them, as salerooms for raw or green hides or skins, and may impose such reasonable penalties as they shall think fit, not exceeding Ten Pounds, for each breach of such by-law or regulation, and may from time to time alter or repeal all or any of such by-laws or regulations, and make others in lieu thereof.

13. Nothing in this Act contained shall prevent the Council setting apart any building, or erecting any building or premises specially for the purpose of a hide and skin market.

14. Until public abattoirs shall have been duly proclaimed by the Council, the Council shall twice in every year, that is to say, on the first day of May and on the first day of November, constitute an open Court for hearing and determining on the advisability or otherwise of issuing licences or renewing licences already issued to any person to keep a slaughterhouse for slaughtering small cattle or pigs at any place within the municipality; and any person to whom a licence shall be issued shall be liable to all the rules, penalties, and disabilities, and shall do and perform all things which by an Ordinance passed in the fourth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to regulate the Slaughtering and prevent the Stealing of Cattle," or any Act amending the same, any persons thereunder are required to do, and to which they are subject and liable; and after the passing of this Act it shall not be lawful for any persor to slaughter, kill, or dress any cattle whatever, great or small, within any municipality, except at some slaughterhouse established or to be established, or licensed by the Council; and the fees

for

The Council may

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regulate bazaars and

hide and skin

salerooms.

Corporations may skin markets.

establish hide and

Court for licensing small cattle.

slaughterhouses for

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for slaughtering and for such licences may from time to time be varied or altered as the Council may deem necessary.

15. The rules and regulations contained in the Schedule to this Act shall be observed at the slaughterhouses established, or to be established, or being under the control or licensed by the Council: Provided that it shall be lawful for any Council to make, publish, alter, modify, amend, or repeal such rules and regulations, or any of them, as to such Council from time to time shall seem meet, subject, however, to theconditions contained in section one hundred and forty-seven of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1861," or any Municipal Corporations Act in force for the time being.

16. The Council shall have power from time to time to appoint and fix places in the public streets of the municipality to be used as public stands for licensed vehicles plying for hire, and from time to time to alter, vary, or cancel and remove stands so appointed, notwithstanding any such stands may have been or may be declared, included, or named in any by-law of the Corporation, and the Council may appoint other stands as to them may seem necessary, and may direct, order, fix, and regulate the number and class of licensed vehicles to be allowed at any one time to ply for hire on any of such stands as to them may seem expedient.

17. The Council or any Committee of the Council may authorize the Mayor for the time being, as circumstances may arise, to appoint temporary stands in any of the public streets, and to cancel such temporary stands as may to him seem expedient.

18. Where any land which shall adjoin or abut upon any public street within the municipality shall not be fenced in or enclosed to enclosed, to be fenced. the satisfaction of the Council, the Council may from time to time, by writing under the hand of the Mayor or Town Clerk, order that such land, so far as the same shall adjoin or abut upon any street, be enclosed with a substantial wooden fence of posts and rails, having two or more rails in each panel within such time as to the Council may appear expedient; and the owner of the said land, after due service on him of such order, shall, in such manner, and within such time as shall be expressed therein, at his costs, charges, and expenses, well and sufficiently fence, or otherwise enclose, in manner aforesaid, to the satisfaction of the Council, so much of the said land as shall abut upon any such street, court, or alley.

Council to cause streets to be formed, made, paved, and drained.

19. It shall be lawful for the Council from time to time to cause all or any streets now existing within their jurisdiction, not being less than twenty feet in width, or any part thereof respectively, to be formed, made, paved, and drained, or repaired, when and as often, and in such form and manner, and with such materials as such Council may think fit, and to cause the ground or soil thereof to be raised or lowered, and the course of the channels in, into, or through

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the same to be turned or altered in such manner as they think proper.

20. The fee-simple of every private road dedicated to the public, street, court, alley, thoroughfare, or cul-de-sac, which shall have heretofore been, or shall hereafter be formed, made, levelled, paved, or drained by the Corporation, shall become, and be lawfully vested in such Corporation, and such forming, making, levelling, paving, or draining by the Corporation, shall be sufficient evidence that every road, street, court, alley, thoroughfare, or cul-de-sac, is a street within the meaning of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1861.”

21. "Public place" or "place of resort" shall mean, include, and Interpretation clause. apply to every road, street, lane, footway, court, alley, thoroughfare, and cul-de-sac, which the public are allowed to use within the limits of any municipality which may now or hereafter be established, proclaimed, or defined, notwithstanding such roads, streets, lanes, footways, courts, alleys, thoroughfares, and cul-de-sacs, may be formed on private property.

by-laws.

22. The Council may from time to time, in the manner prescribed Power to make for making by-laws under the Municipal Corporations Acts in force for the time being, make, alter, and repeal such by-laws as they may think fit, for all or any of the following purposes, relating to park lands or any other places of public recreation for the time being vested in the Corporation or under their care, control, and management, that is to say

1. For appointing and regulating keepers or servants employed therein:

II. For regulating the time at which any such place of recreation shall be opened and closed:

III. For regulating the conduct of persons frequenting any such place of recreation :

IV. For regulating the days on which and the bounds or limits (as to any such place of recreation) within which games and gymnastics shall be permitted, or for otherwise regulating or prohibiting such games and gymnastics:

v. For preventing or regulating the admission of vehicles, horses, asses, mules, and cattle:

VI. For regulating shooting over, on, or in such places of recreation:

VII. For regulating matches, or training for racing with horses, dogs, or otherwise :

VIII. For enabling Corporation servants, police constables, or special constables, removing persons who shall be guilty of any breach of any by-laws made by the Corporation.

23. "The

Incorporation.

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23. "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1861," and "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1862," and "The Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1873," shall be incorporated and read herewith as forming one Act, except in so far as the said Acts or any of them are or is inconsistent with this Act, or shall have been heretofore repealed or amended.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to this Bill.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS, Governor.

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