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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
137. All property left accidentally or found in any street market or public place or in any public vehicle pleasure boat or bathing machine and deposited at any police station or in any way placed in the custody of the Corporation or any of their officers shall if not claimed by and proved to belong to some person within twelve months from the date of the deposit be sold by the Corporation and the proceeds shall be carried to the credit of the borough fund Provided that the Corporation may award thereout to the person who deposited the property such reasonable sum as they think fit And the Corporation map make byelaws far securing the safe custody and re-delivery of such property and the reward to be paid to the finder.
138. The Corporation may direct and prescribe the streets in which and the manner according to which the leading or driving of animals shall be permitted within the borough Provided that the streets which it shall be lawful for the Corporation so to prescribe shall not be such as to prevent the passage of cattle between any
market and any railway station in the borough or any place beyond the boundary of the borough when such animals are merely passing between such markets and railway station or other place as aforesaid and the Corporation shall be bound to allow at all times a reasonably short and efficient route or routes for the passage of such animals Provided also that any such directions shall only operate between the hours of eight in the morning and nine in the evening and shall not prevent the owner of any animals driving the same to his own premises and nothing in this enactment contained shall authorise the Corporation to interfere with the driving of any animals to any slaughter-house so long as the slaughtering therein of animals is lawful.
Any person who acts in contravention of any regulation direction or order of the Corporation to be made under this section shall be liable to a penalty of five pounds.
PART XIII.-HACKNEY CARRIAGES.
139. The inspector of hackney carriages or any person appointed by the Corporation in writing may from time to time examine all public vehicles plying for hire within the borough and shall see that the laws and byelaws relating to such public vehicles are duly observed If any proprietor driver or conductor or other person shall obstruct or hinder such inspector or other person so appointed as aforesaid in the execution of his duties such proprietor driver conductor or person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings.
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