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TOWN GARDENS PROTECTION ACT 1863

TOWN GARDENS PROTECTION ACT 1863 - LONG TITLE

An Act for the Protection of certain Garden or Ornamental Grounds
in Cities and Boroughs.{1}
[4th May 1863]

TOWN GARDENS PROTECTION ACT 1863 - SECT 4

4. Where any such garden or ground is managed by any committee of
the inhabitants of any square, crescent, circus, street, or place,
such committee may make, and from time to time revoke and alter,
byelaws for the management of the same, and for the preservation of
the trees, shrubs, plants, flowers, rails, fences, seats,
summer-houses, and other things therein, which byelaws shall be
entered in a book kept for that purpose by the committee, signed
by the chairman of the meeting at which the same shall be passed,
and which book shall and may be produced and read, and taken as
evidence of such byelaws, in all courts whatever; and any inhabitant
or servant, or other person admitted to such garden by any
inhabitant, offending against the same, after they shall have been
duly allowed as herein-after provided, upon proof thereof before a
magistrate acting for the district in which such garden is situate,
shall be liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding [#20]:
Provided always, that such byelaws shall not come into operation
until the same shall have been allowed by some judge of one of
the Superior Courts, or by the justices in quarter sessions; and it
shall be incumbent on such judge or justices, on the request of
such committee, to inquire into any byelaws tendered to them for
that purpose, and to allow or disallow the same as they think
meet.