BYELAWS WITH RESPECT TO THE COMMON KNOWN AS MERRINGTON GREEN For the Prevention of Nuisances and the Preservation of Order on the said Common

BYELAWS

1. A person shall not without the consent of the Council deposit on any part of the Common, road – sand, materials for repair of roads, dung, rubbish, litter, wood or other matter.

2. A person shall not without lawful authority, dig, cut, or take turf, sods, gravel, sand, clay or other substance from the Common and shall not unlawfully cut, fell or injure any gorse, heather, timber or other tree, shrub, brushwood or other plant growing on the Common.

3. A person shall not without authority of the Council injure, deface or remove any seat, shelter, pavilion, fence, notice-board or other thing put up or maintained by the Council on the Common.

4. A person other that an Office of the Council or a person acting in pursuance of the Council's directions in that behalf, shall not post of paint any bill, placard, advertisement or notice on any tree, fence, erection or notice- board on the Common.

5. A person shall not without lawful authority draw, drive or place any carriage, cart, caravan, truck, motor vehicle, motor cycle, aeroplane, flying machine or other vehicle on the Common or erect or permit to remain on the Common, without the consent of the Council, any building, shed, tent, fence, post, railing or other structure, whether used in connection with the playing of games or not.

6. A person shall not drive any wagon, cart or carriage of any description on the Common other than on the roads crossing the same or in the exercise of the existing public or private rights of way.

7. A person shall not without lawful authority turn out or permit to remain on the Common other than on the roads crossing the same or in the exercise of the existing public or private rights of way.

8. A person shall not without lawful authority turn out or permit to remain on the Common any cattle, sheep or other animals.

9. A person shall not do any act of thing tending to injure or disfigure the Common and shall not obstruct, disturb, interrupt or annoy any other person in the proper use of the Common. A person shall not without lawful authority set traps or nets or lay snares for birds or other animals on the Common or brought there for the purposes of being shot or chased.

10. Any Officer of the Council may, after due warning remove from the Common any vehicle or animal drawn, driven or placed or any structure erected or placed thereon in contravention of any of the foregoing byelaws and may exclude from the Common any person who within his view commits, or whom he reasonably suspects of committing, and offence against any of the foregoing byelaws or against the Vagrancy Act 1824.

11. A person shall not hinder or obstruct an Officer of the Council in the exercised of his powers or duties under the Scheme for the regulation of the Common or under these or other byelaws made thereunder.

12. Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing byelaws shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty of fifty pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence, to a further penalty of two pounds, and in each case of a continuing offence, to a further penalty of two pounds foe each day after written notice of the offence from the Council.

Provided nevertheless that the Court of Summary Jurisdiction before whom any proceedings may be taken in respect of such offence may if the Court thing fit adjudge the payment as a penalty of any such offence may if the Court think fit adjudge the payment as a penalty of any sum less that the full amount of the penalty imposed by this byelaw.