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Roads Ordinance 1869

7. The Roads Ordinance 1869.

[September 4, 1869.]

Whereas it is expedient that provision should be made for the construction and maintenance of roads within the Province:

Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the

Province of Canterbury as follows:

I. Repealing and Interpretation Clauses.

1. Repealing clause.

The several Ordinances specified in Schedule A to this Ordinance shall be and the same are hereby repealed Provided always that every Ratepayers' Roll made or revised or partially made or revised under the provisions of the said repealed Ordinances or any of them shall be deemed to have been so made or revised or partially made or revised under the provisions of this Ordinance and every Board elected and every Officer appointed and every other act or proceeding done or taken in execution of the said repealed Ordinances shall be deemed to have been elected appointed done or taken under this Ordinance Provided also that the provisions of “The Timaru and Gladstone Board of Works Act 1867” shall extend to the Road Boards of each Road District situate within the electoral districts of Timaru and Gladstone in like manner as if the same were formed under the provisions of “The Roads Ordinance 1864.”

2. Interpretation clause.

In the interpretation of this Ordinance the words “The District” “The Board” “The Ratepayers’ Roll” shall mean any District any Board and any Ratepayers’ Roll as the same are severally constituted by the provisions of this Ordinance the word “Ratepayer” shall mean every person of full age whose name shall appear on the Ratepayers’ Roll for the time being and who shall have paid all rates due from and payable by him under this Ordinance and who shall be of sound mind and shall not have been convicted of felony the words “Public Notice” shall mean the publication of such notice in some newspaper ordinarily circulated within the district or the posting of such notice in not less than six public places within the district for a space of not less than ten days prior to the event to which such notice refers a notice shall be deemed to be served when it shall have been served on the person on whom service is required either personally or by leaving the same at his ordinary abode or place of business within the district or if he shall have no such ordinary abode or place of business within the district then by affixing the same to some conspicuous place on the land in respect of which such person shall be liable to be rated or by delivering the same to his known agent and the word “Road” shall be held to mean any public street road lane bridle road footpath bridge or other works included within a reserve for a road laid out on the authenticated map of the Chief Surveyor or which shall have been duly dedicated and set apart as a public road and the word “Property” shall mean all property liable to be rated whether freehold leasehold or personal The term “Gazette” shall mean Provincial Government Gazette except where otherwise expressed.

II. Respecting Districts.

3. Districts.

Every District set forth and described in the Schedule B to this Ordinance shall be deemed to be a District for the purposes of this Ordinance.

III. Respecting Road Boards.

4. Boards, how constituted.

There shall be in every District for the purposes of this Ordinance a Board consisting of five Members of whom three Members and two Members alternately shall be elected in each successive year at the Annual January Meeting of the Ratepayers of the District as hereinafter provided And those Members whether three or two as the case may be who shall have been in office two years shall go out of office on the day of such Annual Meeting Provided that every Member so retiring shall be eligible for re-election.

5. No person eligible as a member of the Board unless he has paid all rates. No person shall be eligible to be elected as a Member of the Board unless he shall be a Ratepayer of the District and shall have paid all rates which he shall have been liable to pay under the authority of this Ordinance at the time of such election And if any member of the Board shall become insolvent or of unsound mind or shall have been convicted of any felony of shall be in arrear of any rates which he shall have become liable to pay under the authority of this Ordinance or shall accept or continue to hold any place of profit or emolument under the Board or shall have any pecuniary interest in any work above the value of Ten Pounds done under the authority of the Board other than as a shareholder in a public registered Company contracting therewith or shall have resigned his seat at the Board by writing under his hand addressed to the Chairman thereof or shall have been absent from four consecutive meetings of the Board without leave from the Board in writing first obtained his seat at the Board shall ipso facto become vacant and the Board shall forthwith by public notice call a meeting of the Ratepayers to elect a Member to fill such vacancy and the Member so elected shall continue in office so long only as the Member would have continued in whose place he shall have been elected Such election shall be conducted in the same manner as the election at the Annual January Meeting of the Ratepayers.

6. Penalty for acting on Board or voting if not eligible.

If any person shall act as a Member of the Board or vote at any meeting thereof not being eligible to hold a seat thereat he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds for every such act or vote to be recovered in due course of law upon the information of any Ratepayer of the District.

7. Board to be body corporate.

Every Board shall be and is hereby declared to be a body corporate under the name and title of the Road Board of the District (as the case may be) and under such name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal with power to alter break and renew the same and may sue and be sued plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity and is hereby empowered to hold and enjoy property both real and personal and to enter into contracts and to enforce the same for the purposes of this Ordinance.

8. Election of Chairman.

Every Board shall at its first meeting elect one of its Members to be the Chairman thereof who shall preside at the meetings of the Board and shall have an original and also a casting vote thereat provided that if the Chairman shall be absent from any meeting the Members present shall elect one of their number to preside in his stead at such meeting and such Chairman shall have the same power at such meeting as the elected Chairman.

9. In case of a vacancy another Chairman to be elected by Board.

If the Chairman shall cease to be a Member of the Board he shall by writing under his hand addressed to the Board vacate the office of Chairman the Board shall at its next meeting thereafter elect another Member to be Chairman in his stead.

10. Three to form a quorum.

All questions coming before the Board shall be decided by a majority of the members present and there shall be no meeting of the Board unless at least three members be present.

11. No act of Board to be invalid through a vacancy having occurred.

No act of the Board shall be invalid by reason of any vacancy having occurred or by reason of any member being ineligible to occupy his seat thereat.

12. Board to keep true and faithful records of its proceedings and accounts.

The Board shall cause true and faithful records to be kept of all its proceedings and of all contracts entered into by it and accounts of all moneys received and expended by it under the authority of this Ordinance and all such records and accounts shall be laid before every meeting of the Ratepayers and shall be open to be inspected at all reasonable hours by any Ratepayer of the district or by the Superintendent or by any person appointed by him to inspect the same A full abstract of such accounts with vouchers and papers relating thereto signed by the Chairman or two members of the Board shall be laid before the annual meeting of the Ratepayers.

13. Board to expend monies.

The Board shall expend all money paid to it under any Ordinance of the Superintendent and Provincial Council in accordance with the provisions of such Ordinance and shall expend all money arising from rates levied within the district and all other moneys received by it under the provisions of this Ordinance in the construction and maintenance of roads and upon the cleansing maintaining and repairing of streams drains or watercourses within the district in the payment of the salaries of its Officers and all other expenses incident to the proper transaction of the business of the Board and generally upon works of public utility to the district.

14. Accounts.

Every Board shall submit its accounts every year to the Provincial Auditor whose duty it shall be to audit the same and whose certificate shall be laid before the next meeting of Ratepayers and a copy thereof together with any report of such Auditor shall be sent to the Superintendent within three months from the commencement of each year The Provincial Auditor shall appoint the time and place within each District at which he will hold such audit and the Chairman of the Board shall cause a full abstract of the accounts of the Board together with all vouchers for the payment of moneys and any papers relating thereto to be produced before such Auditor and if upon the examination of such accounts the certificate of the Auditor shall be withheld by reason of the non-production of such vouchers or full abstracts of accounts it shall be the duty of the Provincial Auditor to report the same to the Superintendent and it shall then be lawful for the Superintendent to withhold his warrant for the issue of any moneys voted by the Provincial Council for the service of such Road Board until the Auditor shall have reported that he has issued his certificate.

15. Board may employ such Officers as it may require.

The Board shall have power from time to time as it shall think fit to employ all such Clerks Treasurers Collectors Assessors Surveyors Engineers Overseers and other persons as may be required to carry this Ordinance into operation and the same so often as it shall think fit to remove and employ others in their stead.

16. Board to have control and management of drains watercourses.

All roads drains watercourses streams ditches and the like not being private property within the district and not being within the jurisdiction of any Conservators appointed under the provisions of " The Canterbury Rivers Act 1868" shall be deemed at law to be under the control and management of the Board and it shall be lawful for the Board to cleanse and clear all natural watercourses within the district from all accumulation of vegetable and other matter calculated to obstruct the flow of water therein whether such watercourses run through private property or not and for such purpose the Board by its Officers may enter on all private property within the District upon giving twenty-four hours previous notice in writing to the occupier thereof Provided that if it shall appear to the Superintendent upon the certificate of the Provincial Engineer or Officer acting in that capacity that any work being executed or proposed to be executed by the Board of any district in connection with any drain watercourse stream or ditch is likely injuriously to affect any adjoining district it shall be lawful for such Superintendent by writing under his hand to order such board immediately to desist from the execution or further prosecution of such work and upon the receipt of such order such Board shall forthwith desist from the execution or further prosecution of such work as the case may be.

17. Penalty for obstruction of drain watercourse &c.

Any person placing obstructions in any drain watercourse ditch or stream within the district and not being within the jurisdiction of any Conservators appointed under the provisions of any Act in force for the time being for the conservation of rivers to the detriment of any public right shall be liable to a penalty of not less than One Pound or more than Ten Pounds to be recovered in a summary way.

IV. Respecting The Ratepayers’ Roll.

18. Ratepayers’ Roll.

There shall be within each District a Ratepayers' Roll according to the form given in Schedule G to this Ordinance which Roll shall contain the names in alphabetical order of all persons occupying property within the District liable to be rated according to the provisions of this Ordinance and also the names of the owners thereof and also in like alphabetical order the names of all persons having the charge control or management of any sheep within the District together with the number of such sheep above the age of twelve months And such Roll shall also contain the several particulars specified under each heading in the said form Provided that whenever the name of any owner liable to rated or to be inserted in such roll cannot after diligent enquiry be ascertained it shall be sufficient to designate such owner as the " Owner " of the property rated without stating his name.

19. Board to cause Ratepayers’ Roll to be revised.

The Board shall on or before the first Tuesday in the month of September in each year cause the Ratepayers' Roll to be revised and corrected both in respect to the names of the persons liable to be rated and in respect to the description of the rateable property entered therein and shall also cause the annual value of such property to be assessed and entered on such Roll.

20. Ratepayers’ Roll to be open for inspection.

The Board shall cause copies of the Ratepayers' Roll to be left for inspection at one or more places within the District and each Board shall exhibit one copy of the Roll at the office of the Secretary for Public Works Christchurch and shall on or before the said first Tuesday in September give public notice of the places where such corrected Roll and copies may be inspected and such Roll shall be open to the inspection of all Ratepayers and of all persons claiming to be affected thereby or of any person authorised by them in writing at all reasonable hours on every day not being a Sunday or public holiday until the first Tuesday in the month of October next following.

21. Superintendent to appoint Revising Commissioner.

The Superintendent shall every year by notice in the Government Gazette appoint a competent person who shall be called Revising Commissioner to revise the Ratepayers ‘Rolls for the several Road Districts of the Province and may from time to time remove such person and appoint another in his stead Such Commissioner shall for the purposes of such revision sit in open court at such place either within or without the several districts as the Superintendent shall appoint by notice in the Government Gazette and at such times between the First day of October and the Thirtieth day of December in every year as the said Commissioner shall think fit and of which he shall give at least six days notice in one or more newspapers circulating within the Province. The said Commissioner shall have power to examine matters upon oath touching any of the matters to be enquired of by him, which oath he is hereby empowered to administer.

22. Objections to Ratepayers’ Roll to be given in form set forth in Schedule C.

If any person shall object to such Ratepayers' Roll on the ground of any error omission irregularity or overcharge therein or unfairness in the valuation of any property included therein he shall on or before the twenty-third day of September give notice of such objection to the Chairman of the Board in the form set forth in Schedule C to this Ordinance or to the effect thereof and also to the person or persons affected by such objection unless he himself is the person so affected;

23. Notice of objection when to be given.

The notices of objection to any Ratepayers' Roll may be given at any time not less than Seven Days previous to the time appointed by the Revising Commissioner for revising such Roll anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

24. Revising Commissioner to hear and determine objections.

The Revising Commissioner shall hear and determine all objections to the Ratepayers’ Roll and shall after hearing all such objections and all evidence which may be offered relating thereto amend the said Roll in such manner as he shall think fit by adding thereto the name of any person omitted therefrom together with the description and assessed value of the property in respect of which he is liable to be rated or by erasing therefrom the name of any person erroneously entered therein or by altering the description or value of the property in respect of which any person is liable to be rated Provided that no such alteration shall be made unless it shall be proved to the satisfaction of such Commissioner that a notice relating thereto as provided in the last preceding section has been served in the manner prescribed by that section.

25. Revising Commissioner may adjourn any Court held by him.

The Revising Commissioner shall have power to adjourn any Court held by him from time to time as he may consider requisite for the due disposal of the business to be transacted thereat.

26. Revising Commissioner may order a fresh assessment to be made.

It shall be lawful for such Revising Commissioner if he shall think fit to order a fresh assessment to be made of the value of any property included in any Ratepayers' Roll whether any objection shall have been made thereto or not and to appoint such valuators as he shall think fit to make such assessment and to order the cost of making such new assessment to be paid out of any moneys at the disposal of the Board for the purposes of this Ordinance.

27. Roll to be signed by Revising Commissioner.

The said Roll when so amended shall be signed by such Revising Commissioner and shall be the Ratepayers' Roll for the district for the ensuing year and shall continue in force until the same shall be amended and signed in like manner in the year following.

V. Respecting Rates.

28. Board may make rate to be called a district road rate.

It shall be lawful for the Board from time to time to make a rate or rates to be called a District Road Rate upon all lands buildings tenements and sheep within the district as the same shall appear in the Ratepayers' Roll and to order the days upon which such rate or rates or any part thereof shall become payable Provided that no such rates may be made or levied on any Iand or premises belonging to and in the occupation of Her Majesty or of the Provincial Government of Canterbury or on any land or building used exclusively for public charitable literary or scientific purposes or on any building used exclusively for public worship or for a public school or school-house provided it be inhabited only by the master or mistress of said school or his or their family No such rate, shall in any one year exceed the sum of One Shilling in the pound on the annual value of the property rated.

29. Board may levy rate to be called a “Separate” rate.

When it appears to the Board that any work or improvement is for the special benefit of any particular portion of the District the Board may for defraying the expenses incurred in doing or executing such work by special order distinctly defining such portion and approved by the Superintendent make and levy a rate or rates to be called a " separate " rate equally on all rateable property situated within such portion and no such rate or rates made in any one year shall exceed in the aggregate the amount of two shillings in the pound of the annual value of such property Provided always that public notice shall be given of the intention to levy such a rate at least one month before the same is levied and if within such time a protest be left at the office of the Board signed by at least one-half of the Ratepayers within such portion reckoned according to their votes then such rate shall not be levied and such separate rate so levied shall be expended only for the purposes for which the same has been made anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

30. Rate to be levied on net annual value of lands buildings tenements and sheep.

The rates shall be levied on the nett annual value of all such annual value of lands buildings tenements and sheep For the purposes of this Ordinance the nett annual value of all such lands buildings and tenements shall be taken to be the annual rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let if leased for a period not exceeding seven years and the nett annual value of sheep shall be taken to be at the rate of forty-five pounds for every thousand sheep.

31. Previously to levying rate Board to cause list to be prepared setting forth amount of proposed rate and names of persons liable for rate which shall be signed by Chairman.

Previously to making, or levying any rate the Board shall cause a list to be prepared setting forth the amount of the rate proposed to be made the names of the persons liable to the payment thereof the sum payable by each of such persons the property in respect whereof each such sum shall be payable and the time at which such rate shall be paid and when such list shall have been completed and approved by the Board the Board shall if it think fit order the rate therein described to be made and levied and the list to be signed by the Chairman thereof and the production of such list so signed shall be evidence that the rate has been duly made by the said Board.

32. When rate becomes due notice to be served in form set forth in

Schedule D.

When any rate shall become due the Board shall cause a notice in the form set forth in the Schedule D hereunto annexed to be served by Collector duly authorized to receive the same upon every person liable to pay such rate and if such rate be not paid to such Collector on the service of such notice it shall be paid at the place named therein within thirty days after the service thereof and if not paid within such thirty days it shall be forthwith recovered as hereinafter provided Provided that no legal proceedings shall be commenced for the recovery of any unpaid rate or part of a rate after the expiration of three months from the time appointed by the Board for the payment of such rate excepting under " The Sale of Land for the Non-payment of Rates Act 1862.”

33. Notice in form set forth in Schedule E to be sent through post to persons not resident in the district.

The Board shall within fourteen days after the completion of the Roll for each year cause a notice in the form or to the effect in the Schedule E to this Ordinance to be sent through the post to any person or persons on the said Roll who shall not be actually resident within the district addressed to his last known place of abode within the Province of Canterbury but not elsewhere and in no case shall a person residing out of the district be liable for rates unless a notice has been posted to him at his residence or last known place of abode within the Province of Canterbury and copies of the Ratepayers' Roll of the district have been exhibited in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.

34. Rates to be the property of the Board and to be recovered at suit of the

Collector.

All rates when made as hereinbefore provided shall be deemed to be the property of the Board and may be recovered at the suit of any Collector duly authorised by the Board to collect and receive the same.

35. Rates by whom payable.

All rates payable in respect of land buildings or tenements shall be paid by the occupier thereof whether his name appear on the Ratepayers' Roll or not or if there shall be no occupier such rates shall be paid by the owner thereof Provided that the owners of all rateable property of which the nett annual value does not exceed ten pounds or which is let to weekly or monthly tenants shall be rated to and pay the rates instead of the occupier All rates payable in respect of sheep shall and maybe recovered either from the owner thereof or the person under whose charge control or management such sheep shall be at the time of the levying of such Rate Provided always that nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to affect the liability of any owner to repay to any person under whose charge control or management any such sheep shall have been at the time of the levying of any rate any sum or sums of money which he shall have been called upon to pay under the provisions of this Ordinance Provided always that in the preparation of such Ratepayers' Roll there shall be deducted from the number of sheep in respect of which any person is liable to be rated one sheep for every acre of natural grass land and five sheep for every acre of enclosed land laid down in artificial grasses in each district in respect of which he is liable to be rated.

36. In case of property jointly occupied or owned who to pay rate.

When any rateable property is jointly occupied or if unoccupied is jointly owned by more persons than one each of such persons shall be deemed to be the occupier or owner of rateable property of equal annual value to that of the whole of such first mentioned property divided by the number of such joint occupiers or owners thereof.

37. Rate may be remitted in case of poverty.

It shall be lawful for the Board if it shall be represented by any person liable to pay any rate that he is unable by reason of poverty to pay such rate and if the Board shall be satisfied of the truth of such representation to remit and excuse the payment of such rate or any part thereof.

38. Rate how recoverable in case of an occupier having quitted property without paying rate.

When the occupier of any rateable property shall have quitted the same without having paid all the rates to which he shall have become liable in respect thereof and then payable by him the Board may either recover such rates from the person so having quitted or may elect to recover the same from the owner of the property who shall thereupon be liable to pay the same.

VI. Meetings of Ratepayers.

39. Who entitled to take part at meetings of Ratepayers.

Every person of full age whose name shall appear on the Ratepayers' Roll and who shall have paid all rates which he shall have been liable to pay under the authority of this Ordinance and who shall be of sound mind shall be entitled to take a part at all meetings of the ratepayers of the district and shall be entitled to vote thereat according to the following scale that is to say every person who shall appear on the Ratepayers' Roll as liable to be rated in respect of property of nett annual value not exceeding twenty-five pounds shall have one vote in respect of property exceeding the value of twenty-five pounds and not exceeding fifty pounds two votes exceeding fifty pounds and not exceeding one hundred pounds three votes exceeding one hundred pounds and not exceeding two hundred pounds four votes and exceeding two hundred pounds five votes Provided that if in any road district there are not six Ratepayers on the Ratepayers' Roll or if no Ratepayers' Roll has been completed every person whose name shall appear on the Electoral Roll for the time being in force for the election of members for the electoral district or districts in which such road district is situated in respect of property situated within such road district and every householder reside within such road district shall be taken and deemed to be a ratepayer for the purposes of this Ordinance.

40. Chairman of Board shall be Chairman of meeting of Ratepayers.

The Chairman of the Board shall be Chairman of every meeting of Ratepayers and if he shall not be present thereat the Ratepayers present shall before proceeding to any other business elect a Chairman who shall preside at such meeting and all questions coming before such meeting shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the Ratepayers present thereat and the Chairman shall have a casting as well as an original vote thereat.

41. Annual meeting of Ratepayers shall be held.

An annual meeting of the Ratepayers shall be held at the hour of noon in the first week in the month of January in each year at such place within the district as the Board shall appoint and other meetings of the Ratepayers shall be held at such other times and at such places within the district as the Board shall appoint and the Board shall give public notice of the time and place of all such meetings and any such meeting may be continued by adjournment.

42. Minutes of meetings to be kept.

The Chairman shall cause to be entered in the minute book of Ratepayers' meetings which the Board shall keep for that purpose and shall lay before every meeting of the Ratepayers true and faithful minutes of all the proceedings of such meeting and shall sign the same.

43. Vacancies in Board to be filled at Annual Meeting.

At the said Annual Meeting the Ratepayers shall elect Members to fill the vacancies occurring in the Board as hereinbefore provided and the Chairman shall put the name of each candidate separately to the meeting and shall declare according to the majority of the votes given personally or by proxy upon whom the election has fallen Provided that the Chairman shall propose no person for election unless he shall be eligible to be a member of the Board as hereinbefore provided.

44. Of demanding a Poll.

If any candidate shall demand a poll such poll shall be held forthwith and shall be closed at four o'clock of the same day and such polling shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Regulations of Elections Act 1858 “ and the Board shall make all necessary arrangements for such poll being held in accordance with such Act and the Chairman of the Road Board or some person authorised by him in writing shall be the presiding officer at such election.

45. Chairman to call public meeting of Ratepayers upon requisition.

Upon the requisition in writing of any Ratepayers representing not less than one- tenth of the votes to which all the Ratepayers on the Ratepayers' Roll for the district are entitled the Chairman shall within fifteen days of the receipt of such requisition call a public meeting of the Ratepayers of the district giving not less than fourteen days' public notice thereof and specifying the business to be transacted thereat.

VII. Respecting Tolls.

46. Board may erect toll gates subject to approval of Superintendent.

It shall be lawful for any Board subject to the approval of the Superintendent from time to time to erect toll-gates or bars and toll-houses upon the roads and bridges within their respective districts at such places as may to them seem convenient and also with such approval as aforesaid to remove whenever they may think fit so to do such toll-gates or bars and toll houses and to impose and levy tolls upon all animals and vehicles at a rate not exceeding the several sums set forth in the schedule to this Ordinance Provided that Her Majesty's mails and persons in charge thereof and volunteers on duty police constables on duty and prisoners in their charge shall be exempt from tolls Provided also that if the Superintendent shall be satisfied that any road or bridge or ferry at which such tolls are payable is in such a state of repair as to be dangerous it shall be lawful for him to direct that such tolls shall cease to be payable until the same has been effectually repaired and thereupon such tolls shall cease to be payable accordingly.

47. Tolls to be paid to collectors appointed by the Board.

All tolls payable under this Ordinance shall be payable to the respective Collectors thereof to be appointed by the Road Board and if any person liable to the payment of such tolls shall after demand thereof neglect or refuse to pay such toll the Collector thereof may seize and distrain any animal carriage or other vehicle in respect of which such toll is payable or the goods and chattels of any person so neglecting or refusing to pay and if such toll with reasonable charges for such seizure and distress shall not be paid within five days the animals goods or chattels seized may be sold and the proceeds applied in payment of such tolls and the charges occasioned by such seizure distress and sale of the surplus (if any) of such proceeds shall be paid on demand to the owner thereof or such tolls may in lieu of such distress be recovered by such Collector by the ordinary process of law.

48. Table of tolls to be put up and maintained at toll-gate.

Before any toll shall be demanded at any toll-gate to be erected as aforesaid the Board shall cause to be put up and maintained at such toll-gate a table painted in legible black letters on a board with a white ground containing at the top the name of the gate distinguishing the several tolls together with the Christian name and surname of the Toll Collector and also a list of the several gates (if any) which shall be cleared by the payment of toll at the toll-gate or bar where such table of tolls shall be affixed and the said Board shall also where more than one gate shall be erected in the district provide tickets denoting the payment of toll and on such tickets shall be specified the name of the gate at which the same respectively shall be delivered and also the names of the several gates freed by such payment one of which tickets shall be delivered gratis to the person paying the toll and on production of such ticket at any gate or gates therein mentioned as being cleared as aforesaid by payment of the toll at the gate where such ticket was delivered the person producing the same shall on the day of the issue thereof pass through the gate or gates therein mentioned without paying any further or additional toll for the same animal or vehicle.

49. Penalty for taking more or less toll than authorised.

Every Toll Collector appointed under the authority of this Ordinance who shall take more or less toll than authorised as aforesaid or who shall refuse to give his name to any person demanding the same after having paid the toll or who shall in anywise hinder any person from reading the inscriptions on such aforesaid table or who shall unnecessarily detain or wilfully obstruct or hinder any passenger from passing through any toll-gate or who shall use any abusive language to any traveller or passenger shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds.

50. Penalty for forcing way through toll-gate or evading payment.

Any person forcing his way through any toll-gate or bar or evading the payment of any toll for passing through or fraudulently claiming exemption from toll shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding five pounds the proof of such exemption shall lie upon the person claiming it.

51. Board may farm out tolls subject to approval of Superintendent.

It shall be lawful for any Board subject to the approval of the Superintendent from time to time to farm out for any term not exceeding three years all or any of the tolls authorised to be collected by this Ordinance together with any toll-bar toll- gate and house such farming out to be either by tender to be advertised for at least three consecutive weeks in the public newspapers and to be published in the Provincial Government Gazette or by public auction duly advertised in like manner and such security shall be taken by the said Board as they shall think fit for the due performance of the conditions of the lease of any tolls and any person to whom such tolls may be leased shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to be a Collector thereof duly appointed under the powers of this Ordinance Provided that previously to so letting out the Board shall fix the maximum rate of toll which shall be demanded within the limits prescribed by the Schedule H to this Ordinance and shall in no case decrease the amount of tolls without the consent in writing thereto of the lessee.

52. Tolls to be expended in making and maintaining roads and bridges. All tolls levied under the authority of this Ordinance shall after deducting the expenses of collecting the same be expended in making and maintaining the roads or bridges whereon such tolls shall from time to time be collected The Board shall keep a separate account of the tolls received by it at each toll gate toll-bar or bridge and also of all moneys expended upon the same and on the roads or bridges on which the same are placed respectively.

53. If road upon which toll shall be payable pass through or into two or more Districts Superintendent to judge how tolls shall be shared.

If any road whether the same be a main road or not shall pass or extend through or into two or more Districts and if Toils shall be payable thereunder upon such road to the Board of any such District and if such road be commonly used for direct traffic by persons passing with animals or vehicles along such road for a length thereof which shall extend not only through or into the District to the Board of which such tolls are payable but also through or into another or others of such Districts of all which matters the Superintendent alone shall judge and if the Board of any one or more of such last-mentioned Districts shall in writing under their common seal complain to the Superintendent that they ought by reason of such traffic being common to their own District with the District in which such tolls shall be payable or for other like cause to have a share of such Tolls it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to proclaim if it shall seem fit such road for such length thereof as shall be as well within the District from which such complaint shall proceed and within the District in which such Tolls are payable as also between the boundaries of both to be a “common toll road” as well of such districts as of all Districts lying between the same respectively and along the line of the said road.

54. Superintendent shall determine proportion of tolls payable to different districts through which the same road may pass.

In and by the last mentioned Proclamation or by any other Proclamation or Order it shall be lawful for the Superintendent from time to time to determine in what proportions the Tolls payable at each and every Toll-gate or Toll-house upon such common Toll road shall after deducting all expenses of maintaining such Toll-Bar Toll-gate or Toll-house and of collecting such Toll be distributed among the several Boards through or into whose Districts such common Toll-road shall extend and every Order made under this or the last Section shall take effect accordingly upon the publication thereof in the Provincial Gazette.

55. Tolls paid on common toll road to be paid over to Provincial Treasurer. If after the Proclamation of any common TolI road under this Act, any moneys shall have been paid to the Board of any District for which such road has been proclaimed as and for Tolls or rents of Tolls levied on such, road within such District the same shall forthwith be paid over to the Provincial Treasurer to be held and dealt with as aforesaid and if any such moneys shall not be so paid over the Provincial Treasurer may recover the same in a summary way on complaint before two Justices and the Provincial Treasurer shall pay them over as such first-mentioned Board was bound to have done.

V. Respecting New Districts.

56. Superintendent may proclaim new districts on petition of Ratepayers. If at any time previous to the first day of August in any year a majority of the Ratepayers of any portion of a District described in Schedule B to this Ordinance shall petition the Superintendent that a portion of the District to be specified in such petition should be formed into a separate District It shall be lawful for the Superintendent in Council by Proclamation to be inserted in the Government Gazette and one newspaper circulating in the District to declare that such part of the District mentioned in the said petition shall be a Road District and thereupon the part of the District specified in such Proclamation shall be constituted a Road District and shall be deemed to be a Road District within the meaning of this Ordinance in like manner as if the same had been set forth and described in Schedule B to this Ordinance Provided that such new District and the boundaries thereof shall be particularly specified in such Proclamation and the name by which such new District shall be known or distinguished shall also be specified.

57. Superintendent may appoint some competent persons to make provision for the formation of Ratepayers’ Rolls in district which he may proclaim.

It shall be lawful for the Superintendent in respect to any District which the Superintendent may proclaim a Road District in accordance with clause 56 of this Ordinance to appoint some competent person to make such provision for the formation of Ratepayers' Rolls in those Districts as he may consider necessary and it shall be lawful for the Superintendent on the formation of such Rolls to call a meeting of Ratepayers in each District as aforesaid respectively at such time and place as he may appoint for the purpose of electing five members who shall constitute the first Board for the District and the Superintendent shall cause public notice of such meeting to be given within each aforesaid District the said elected members for the above-mentioned Districts or any new District shall hold office in the same manner as regards tenure of such office as is hereinbefore provided in respect of members elected in the ordinary course and the Board shall at its first meeting elect a Chairman who shall have the same powers as a Chairman elected for other Boards under the provisions of this Ordinance.

IX. Miscellaneous.

58. Board to have power by itself or its officers to enter upon any land buildings and premises.

The Board shall have power by itself or its officers for the purposes of this Ordinance to enter at all reasonable hours in the day-time into and upon any land buildings and premises within the district without being liable to any legal proceeding on account thereof provided always that except when herein otherwise provided the Board or its officers shall not make any such entry unless with the consent of the occupier until after the expiration of twenty-four hours' notice for that purpose given to the owner or occupier.

59. Board may stop up any road during execution of any work.

The Board may stop up any road and prevent the same from being used as a common thoroughfare for a reasonable time during the execution of any work authorised by this Ordinance.

60. Board during execution of any work or stoppage of road to take precautions against accidents.

The Board shall during the execution of any work or the stoppage of any road take proper precautions for guarding against accident and if any person shall without the authority or consent of the Board take down alter or remove any bar chain or other protection or extinguish any light placed at or near to any bar chain or work, for protection he shall for every such offence on conviction thereof before any Justice of the Peace be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds or to be imprisoned for any period not exceeding fourteen days.

X. Protection of Officers.

61. Board to be responsible for acts of officers.

No act done by any member or officer of the Board acting under the direction of the Board and bona fide for the purposes of carrying into operation any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall subject such member or officer personally to any action suit or demand whatever but the responsibility of such act shall lie upon the Board.

62. Penalty for obstructing Officer in discharge of his duty.

Any person who shaIl obstruct or attempt to obstruct any Member or Officer of the Board acting in the execution of this Ordinance shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds.

XI. Initiatory and Suspending Clause.

63. Three Members to retire at Annual Meeting in 1870.

At the Annual Meeting to be held in the first week in January one thousand eight hundred and seventy, three of the Members who shall be chosen by lot shall retire from the Board and other members shall be elected in their room as herein provided.

64. In certain cases Superintendent may suspend Board and may appoint a

Commissioner for district.

If at any time the Ratepayers of a District shall refuse or neglect to elect Members of the Board or if the Members of the Board shall refuse or neglect to carry this Ordinance into operation or to resign their seats thereat and to make due provision for the election of other Members in their room the Superintendent shall with the advice of the Executive Council by Proclamation published in the Provincial Government Gazette declare the powers of such Board to be suspended and shall by such Proclamation appoint a Commissioner for such District and all the powers rights privileges and duties of such Board shall from the date of such Proclamation vest in and be exercised by such Commissioner on behalf of the Board and the Superintendent shall cause such salary as he shall think fit to be paid to such Commissioner out of any funds belonging to the Board and applicable to the use of the District under the provisions of this Ordinance Provided that such Commissioner shall be guided in the performance of is duties by such instructions as he shall receive from the Superintendent in that behalf.

65. Duties of Commissioner.

It shall be the duty of such Commissioner if no Ratepayers' Roll shall have been made to cause a Ratepayers' Roll to be made and revised in the manner herein provided and if at any time after the making thereof the Ratepayers shall at the Annual Meeting elect five Members to form a Board such Members shall constitute the Board under the authority of this Ordinance and the appointment of the Commissioner together with all his powers shall thereupon cease and determine at the next Annual Meeting after such election three of the Members to be chosen by lot shall retire from the Board and three other Members shall be elected in their room as hereinbefore provided.

66. Penalty for allowing live Fence adjoining public highway to grow to a height exceeding eight feet.

Every occupier of land fronting on any public highway who shall suffer any Live Fence growing on such land and adjoining such public highway to grow to a height exceeding eight feet above the ordinary level of the adjoining land or to overhang such public highway shall be liable to a penalty of not less than Ten Shillings nor more than Five Pounds Every twenty-four' hours during which such occupier shall after being convicted under this section continue to allow his Live Fence to exceed eight feet in height or to overhang a public highway shall constitute a separate offence.

67. Chairman of Road Board may give notice requiring any gorse or broom fence to be cut and trimmed.

The Chairman of any Road Board may at any time give notice in writing to the occupier of land fenced with gorse or broom fronting on any formed road or on any road about to be immediately formed requiring him to cut and trim that side of the fence so fronting on such road and to keep one half the width of the road on which such land fronts clear of gorse or broom and in the event of such

occupier failing to comply with such notice to cause the same to be done and the amount of the cost of such cutting trimming and clearing with all costs shall be recoverable from the occupier of such land in the ordinary course of law.

68. Superintendent may fix another day for Meeting.

If in any case any Annual Meeting or Adjourned Annual Meeting of Ratepayers of any District shall from any informality in their proceedings have heretofore failed to have elected or shall hereafter fail to elect Members to fill up vacancies occurring in the Road Board of such District under the provisions of this Ordinance then notwithstanding anything to the contrary it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the province of Canterbury with the advice of the Executive Council thereof upon a requisition signed by Ratepayers representing not less than one-twentieth of the votes to which all the Ratepayers on the Ratepayers' Roll of the District are entitled to fix another day and time for the Ratepayers of such District to hold a meeting to fill up such vacancies in the Board and the Superintendent with the advice aforesaid shall forthwith give public notice of such meeting and a Chairman thereof shall be elected under the provisions of Clause 40 of this Ordinance and the meeting so called shall elect Members to fill up the necessary vacancies in such Board and the Members so elected shall continue in office and have all the powers as if they had been duly elected at any Annual Meeting or Adjourned Annual Meeting provided for by this Ordinance.

69. Board may make Bye-laws.

The Board may from time to time make such bye-laws as it thinks fit for the purpose of regulating the conduct of its officers and servants and for providing for the due management of the affairs of the Board Provided that no bye-law be repugnant to any Act of the General Assembly or Ordinance of the Provincial Council.

X. Respecting Division of Road Districts into Wards.

70. District may be divided into Wards.

At any time after an Annual Election of Members of a Board under the authority of this Ordinance the Superintendent if he shall have received a petition to that effect signed by one-fourth of the number of Ratepayers within any Road District reckoned according to their votes and if it shall seem fit so to do may by Proclamation divide the Road District into five separate Wards by such names and with such boundaries respectively as shall by such Proclamation be assigned to the same Provided that no such division shall be made until the Ratepayers' Roll for the then current year has been revised.

71. Notice of petition to be inserted in Gazette and newspapers.

Notice of the receipt by the Superintendent of the petition mentioned in the preceding section shall be inserted in the Provincial Gazette and also in one or more newspapers circulating in the District at least three weeks before the division of the District to which it refers.

72. As to election of Members of Board for Wards.

Upon the division of any District into Wards the Members of the Board shall go out of office at the then next annual meeting of Ratepayers but shall be eligible for re-election and each Ward shall return one Member to the Board.

73. Who to vote in Wards.

Where any District shall be divided into Wards every person who under the provisions hereinbefore contained would be entitled to vote for the Election of Members of the Ward and to be on the Ratepayers' Roll shall be entitled to be enrolled on the Ratepayers' Roll to be made as hereinafter provided for the Ward or Wards wherein any rateable property in respect of which he is so entitled is situated and being so enrolled to vote in all elections of Members of the Board to be held in and for such Ward or Wards as hereinafter provided and all provisions hereinbefore contained shall as to each such Ward be read as applying thereto and not to the District at large.

74. Respecting Ratepayers’ Roll for Wards.

Where any District shall be divided into Wards the preceding sections hereof relating to the formation and revising of the Ratepayers' Roll shall be read with reference to such District in manner following that is to say:

Instead of the Ratepayers' Roll for the District at large there shall be a separate Ratepayers' Roll for each Ward of the District The Ratepayers' Roll for each Ward when revised and signed by the Revising Officer shall be the Ratepayers' Roll for the Ward and shall continue in force for the said Ward until another Ratepayers' Roll shall have duly come in force for the same.

And subject to the provisions of this section all provisions hereinbefore contained shall take effect according to their tenor respectively for each separate ward of such District instead of the District at large.

75. Clerk of Board to make out Roll for Wards.

When a District shall have been by the Superintendent divided or newly divided into Wards the Clerk thereof shall forthwith make out from the Ratepayers' Roll in force for the District and all previous Wards thereof a Roll for each such first mentioned Ward of all persons named in any one or more of such first-mentioned Rolls in respect of rateable property which shall to the best of his knowledge and information appear to such Clerk to be situated in such Ward and shall arrange the same in alphabetical order of surnames and shall deliver such last-mentioned Roll to the Chairman of the Board and every such Roll shall be deemed to have been made and be the Ratepayers' Roll for the Ward to which the same shall refer in like manner to all intents and purposes as if made as hereinbefore provided.

76. As to retirement of Members from Board of District which has been divided into Wards.

At the first meeting of the new Board after any District shall have been divided into Wards the Members thereof shall determine among themselves by ballot which two of their number shall retire at the next annual meeting and the two Members of the Board so ballotted shall hold office until such next annual meeting only in like manner as if they had respectively been in office for two years but shall be eligible for re-election but in case such ballot shall not be taken the Chairman shall decide by lot those Members who shall retire under the provisions herein contained.

77. Election of Members for Ward how to be conducted.

The election for Members for each Ward shall be conducted in like manner as hereinbefore provided for election of Members for the District at large and shall be held before such person as the Chairman of the Board shall nominate as presiding officer.

78. Ratepayers residing out of District may vote by proxy.

Ratepayers residing out of the District may record their votes at any election for Members of the Board by proxy Provided that such proxy be a Ratepayer appointed in writing in the form given in Schedule F to this Ordinance and that the signature of the party signing the same be attested by a Justice of the Peace or a Ratepayer of the Province.

79. Nominations to be forwarded to Chairman fourteen days prior to election.

All such nominations shall be forwarded to the Chairman of the Board fourteen days at least before the day appointed for any such election.

80. Scrutineer to be appointed.

The Chairman of the Board shaIl previous to any poll being taken appoint one other Member of the Board to act with himseIf in scrutinizing such nominations and the Chairman shall endorse on such of the said nominations as may be found to be correct the number of votes to which the person signing the same shall be entitled and thereupon the proxy may attend at the election and may poll the number of votes endorsed on such nomination in the same manner as the person signing the same might do if personally present.

81. Penalty for false representation.

If any person not being on the Ratepayers' RoIl shall sign any such nomination or if any person shall falsely represent himself to be the person named as such proxy or if any person not being the person named as such proxy shall vote or attempt to vote at any such election in the name of the party signing such nomination every such person so offending in any or either of the matters aforesaid shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding One Hundred Pounds nor less than Ten Pounds for each offence.

Schedules. Schedule A

“The Roads Ordinance 1864."

"The Roads Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1866."

"The Sheep Rating Ordinance 1866."

"The Roads Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1867 Session XXVI. No.12." “The Roads Ordinance Amendment Ordinance 1867 Session XXVII. No.15."

Schedule B.

1. The Waipara District.

The Waipara District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on tile North by the Province of Nelson on the East by the sea on the South by the south bank of the River Waipara to the summit of the Pass north of Runs Nos 165 166 168 and a line from thence to Ashley Head Esk Head Snowy Peak and the Teremakau Saddle.

2. The Avon District.

The Avon District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the south bank of the River Waimakariri from the sea to the western boundary of Section No.5620 on the East Bank by the sea on the South by the north boundary of the City of Christchurch and the south bank of the River Avon to the sea on the West by the western boundaries of Section Nos. 6 52 105 133 142 299 135 151 and the northern boundary of Section No. 151 to the north-western boundary of the Papanui Church Reserve by the north-western boundary of that Reserve and by the eastern side of the Harewood Road by Papanui to the western boundary of Section No.203 by that boundary and by the western boundaries of Sections Nos. 203 5 8 25 292 291 290 280 279 243 331 1471 and 5620.

3. The Riccarton District.

The Riccarton District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the south bank of the River Waimakariri on the East by the Avon District and the west boundary of the City of Christchurch on the South by the north-west side of the Lincoln Road to Archer's Bridge and the north-east side of the Lincoln and Riccarton Junction Road to its junction with the Great South Road the south side of the Great South Road to its junction with the south side of the Harewood Road by Riccarton the south side of the Harewood Road by Riccarton to a point in a line with the west side of the Prebbleton and Kaiapoi Junction Road on the West by the west side of the Prebbleton and Kaiapoi Junction Road to the Waimakariri at the north-east corner of Rural Section No.2197.

4. The Templeton District.

The Templeton District comprises that portion of the Province of Canterbury bounded on the North by the south bank of the Waimakariri on the East by the Riccarton District to the south side of the Great South Road on the South by the south side of the Great South Road on the West by a true north and south line through Trig. pole C 30 to a point on the south side of the Great South Road.

5. The Heathcote District.

The Heathcote District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the Avon District and the City of Christchurch on the East by the sea on the South by the ridge of the Port Hills on the West by the west side of the Dyer's Pass Road and the west side of the continuation of Colombo Street south to the City of Christchurch

6. The Spreydon District.

The Spreydon District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the City of Christchurch and the Riccarton and Templeton Districts on the East by the Heathcote District on the south by the south bank of the River Heathcote to the south side of the Canal Reserve and the south bank of the River Halswell to the old river bed and the west edge of the old river bed to the Great South Road.

The Halswell District.

The Halswell District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the Spreydon District on the East by the Heathcote District and the ridge of the Port Hills as far as the highest of Cooper's Knobs on the South by a stream rising on Cooper's Knobs and falling into the River Halswell and on the West by the west side of the River Halswell.

8. The Lincoln District.

The Lincoln District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the Spreydon and Templeton Districts and the south side of the Great South Road on the East by the Halswell District and the west bank of the River Halswell on the South by the north bank of the Halswell and the north side of the road from the thirteen-mile bridge to Trig. Pole L 1 and the north side of the Lincoln and Coal Tramway Road to its junction with the Weedon and Springs Road on the east side of the Weedon and Springs Road to its junction with the Great South Road.

9. The Springs District.

The Springs District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the Lincoln District and the south side of the Great South Road on the East by the west bank on the River Halswell on the South by the edge of Lake Ellesmere and the north bank of the River Selwyn.

The Port Victoria District.

The Port Victoria District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the East by the north-east boundary of the Native Reserve at Raupaki a straight line from the south-east corner of the Native Reserve across the Harbour to the Church Gully in. Church Bay the Church Gully to the Mount Herbert Peak Road the west side of the Mount Herbert Peak Road to a point where it is intersected by a straight line from Mount Herbert Peak to the Head of Little River on the South by a straight line from Mount Herbert Peak to Mount Herbert a straight line from Mount Herbert through L 1 to the ridge of the Port Hills and on the West by the ridge of the Port Hills.

11. The Port Levy District.

The Port Levy District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the sea on the East by a line bearing S.8 deg, 30 E. (magnetic) drawn from a point half-way between the East Head of Port Levy and the West Head of Pigeon Bay to the south side of the Purau and Akaroa Road on the South by the south side of the Purau and Akaroa Road and the Mount Herbert Peak Road and on the West by the Port Victoria District.

12. The Pigeon Bay District.

The Pigeon Bay District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the sea on the East by the ridge of the Spur between Decanter Bay and Little Akaroa to a point where it meets the highest ridge of the hills on the South by the highest ridge of the hills and the Akaroa and Purau Road and on the West by the Port Levy District.

13. The Okain’s Bay District.

The Okain’s Bay District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North and East by the sea on the South by the highest ridge of the hills and the spur leading to Putakolo Head and on the West by the Pigeon Bay District.

14. The Town of Akaroa and Wainui District.

The Town of Akaroa and Wainui District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the Port Levy Pigeon Bay and Okain Bay Districts on the East and South by the sea and on the West by the summit of the spur running down to the Eastern Head of Island Bay the main ridge of hills through Mount Bossu Carew's Peak Saddle Hill Kitson's Pole Wainui Peak French Hill Wooded Peak to Barry Pass the south side of the Barry Pass Road to the Little River Railway Reserve the south side of the Terawera Valley Road and continuation thereof to its junction with the North side of the Port Levy and Little River Road the north side of the Port Levy and Little River Road to its junction with the Purau and Akaroa Road.

15. The Little River District.

The Little River District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the Lincoln the Halswell the Port Victoria the Port Levy and Wainui Districts on the East by the Wainui District on the South by the sea on the West by the east shore of Lake Ellesmere and the Springs District

16. The Courtenay District.

The Courtenay District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the south bank of the Waimakariri on the East by the Templeton Lincoln and Springs District on the South by the River Selwyn and the north bank of the Wakaepa branch of the Selwyn to a point opposite to and in a line with the east boundary of Run No.41 thence north-easterly by the boundary of Run No.41 to the south bank of the Waimakariri.

17. The Ellesmere District.

The Ellesmere District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the Springs District on the East by Lake Ellesmere on the South by the sea and north bank of the Rakaia on the West by the west side of the Great South Road.

18. The Malvern District.

The Malvern District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North and East by the south bank of the Waimakariri and the Courtenay District on the South by the Wakaepa branch of the Selwyn to its junction with a creek running from the Thirteen-mile Bush thence north-westerly in a straight line to the southernmost point of Lake Lyndon thence in a straight line to the southernmost point of the Black Range thence following the summit of the range to the head waters of the Waimakariri.

19. The Rakaia District.

The Rakaia District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the Oxford Malvern and Courtenay Districts on the East by the Ellesmere District on the South by the north bank of the Rakaia to its south-westernmost source thence by a straight line due west true to the Watershed forming the eastern boundary of the County of Westland and on the West by the County of Westland.

20. the Ashburton District.

The Ashburton District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the Ellesmere and Rakaia Districts on the East by the sea on the South by the north bank of the Rangitata to the source of its north-west branch and a true west line thence to the Watershed forming the eastern boundary of the County of Westland and on the West by the County of Westland.

21. The Kowai District.

21. The Kowai District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the north by the Waipara district on the East by the sea on the South by the south bank of the River Ashley to its source at Ashley Head.

22. The Cust District.

The Cust District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the north by the Kowai district on the east by a true north and south line drawn through Trig. pole C 30 on the bank of the Waimakariri to the south bank of the River Ashley on the south by the south bank of the Waimakariri and on the west by the boundary line between Runs Nos. 2 and 29 14 and 34 108 Class 2 and 35 119 and 135.

23. The Oxford District.

The Oxford District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the north by the Waipara and Kowai districts and the Province of Nelson on the east by the Cust and Kowai districts on the south by the south bank of the Waimakariri to the head waters of its westernmost source and a true west straight line to the summit of the dividing range forming the eastern boundary of the County of Westland and on the west by the County of Westland.

24. The Mandeville and Rangiora District.

The Mandeville and Rangiora District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the north by the south bank of the Ashley on the east by the sea on the south by the south bank of the River Waimakariri from Trig. pole C 30 to the sea on the west by the Cust district save and except the town of Kaiapoi.

25. The Geraldine District.

The Geraldine District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the Ashburton District on the East by the sea on the South by the south bank of the River Opihi to a point in a line with the eastern boundary of Run No.254 a branch of the River Opuha forming the northern boundary of Runs Nos.

254 357 and an East and West line forming part of the northern boundary of Run No.357 continued to the ridge on the West by the east boundary of Run No.254 and the ridge of the hills dividing the waters of the Opihi and Rangitata from the waters of the Tekapo.

26. The Levels District.

The Levels District comprises that portion of the Province not included in the Town of Timaru and bounded on the North by the Geraldine District on the East by the sea on the South by the north bank of the Pareora on the West by section No. 6192 on the south bank of the River Opihi following the watercourse therefrom and the stream following into the Tengawai the east bank of the RiverTengawai to a point opposite Section No. 5209 crossing the river and following down a small stream to the River Pareora.

27. The Waimate District.

The Waimate District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the North by the Levels District the south bank of the Pareora to its westernmost source and an east and west line from thence to the Hakateramea on the east by the sea on the south by the Province of Otago on the west by the east bank of the Hakateramea.

28. The Mount Cook District.

The Mount Cook District comprises that portion of the Province bounded on the north and west by the County of Westland on the east by the Ashburton Geraldine and Levels districts on the south by the Waimate district and the Province of Otago.

Schedule C.

To the Chairman of the Road Board.

I hereby give you notice that I object to the following portion of the List of Rate- payers for the district now deposited for inspection at [here state place where Roll is deposited for inspection and the part objected to] that the following are grounds of my objection [here state the grounds of objection ] and that I shall appear in support of such objection at the Meeting of Revising Commissioners to be held for revision of such Roll.

Signature of Objector

Description

Address

Schedule D.

Notice to Pay Rate. Road District of

To Mr.

I hereby give you notice that at a Meeting of the Road Board for the District above-mentioned held on the day of at a Rate of in the pound on the rateable property in the District was ordered to be made and levied The sum which you are liable to pay under this order is which sum you are required to pay to me either on the service of this notice or within thirty days after such service at my residence at

If the said Rate is not paid within the time above specified it will be recovered by legal process.

Collector of Rates for the District.

Schedule E.

Take notice that your name appears as a Ratepayer on the Roll of the

District.

(A.B.) Chairman of the Board.

Schedule F.

Appointment of Proxy to Vote at Election of Members of the Board.

I (A. B.) of hereby appoint of and on my behalf at the election of (a Member or Members as the case may be) for the Road Board of the District (or for the Ward of the of the Road Board of the District as the case may be) to be held on the day of next and at any adjournment thereof.

As witness by hand this day of 18 . Signed by the said A.B. (A.B.)

In the presence of

(C.D.)

a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand (or) Ratepayer of the Province.

Schedule G.

Ratepayers’ Roll for the Road Board of the District.

Surname of Occupier in alphabetical order. Christian Name of Occupier

Occupier’s Trade or Occupation.

Owner: Surname,

Christian Name

Residence

Trade or Occupation

Description and situation of rateable property name of person having the charge control or management of any sheep within the district and number of such sheep above the age of twelve months.

If let for what term and in what manner,. Net Annual Value.

Schedule H.

For every horse ass or mule Sixpence. For every beast carrying a burden Sixpence. For all horned or neat cattle per head Fourpence. For every wheeled vehicle drawn by one horse or other beast One Shilling. For every additional horse or beast drawing such vehicle Sixpence. For every sheep lamb goat or pig in one drove not exceeding 100 One Penny. For every additional sheep lamb goat or pig Halfpenny.