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LOCOMOTIVE THRESHING ENGINES ACT 1894

LOCOMOTIVE THRESHING ENGINES ACT 1894 - LONG TITLE

An Act for removal of the Restrictions on the use of Locomotive
Engines for Threshing purposes.
[17th August 1894]
Short title.

LOCOMOTIVE THRESHING ENGINES ACT 1894 - SECT 1

1. This Act may be cited as the Locomotive Threshing Engines Act,
1894.

LOCOMOTIVE THRESHING ENGINES ACT 1894 - SECT 2
Threshing engines to be exempt from previous penalties and
restrictions.

2. Any provision in any Act contained prohibiting under penalty the
erection and use of any steam engine, gin, or other like machine
or any machinery attached thereto within the distance of twenty-five
yards from any part of any turnpike road, highway, carriageway, or
cartway, unless such steam engine, gin, or other like engine or
machinery be within some house or other building, or behind some
fence, wall, or screen sufficient to conceal or screen the same
from such turnpike road, highway, carriageway, or cartway, shall not
extend to prohibit the use of any locomotive steam engine or any
machinery attached thereto for the purpose of threshing within such
distance of any such turnpike road, highway, carriageway, or cartway,
provided that a person is stationed on the road and employed for
the purpose of signalling the driver of the engine whenever it is
necessary to stop the engine on account of the approach of a
horse, and of rendering assistance to the person in charge of the
horse, and that the driver of the engine stops the same when so
signalled.