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crossing travellers on horse provided by lessee to render it as comfortable for the accommodation of travellers as the circumstances of position and distance from towns will fairly allow.

1. Stilling; officers of the Supreme Court, magistrates and police constables on duty, and prisoners, to be ferried free of charge. To afford every assistance in his power in directing strangers to a safe fording across the river.

2. Nil.

3. The license to be cancelled by order of any three Justices of the Peace, if it be proved to their satisfaction that any of the conditions of the license are not regularly fulfilled, or if any drunkenness be proved to have been allowed on the premises, or if any spirits shall be supplied from the house or premises to any Aboriginal Native of New Zealand.

4. A printed or fairly-written copy of these conditions, and a tariff of all charges to be kept at all times posted up in some conspicuous place in the tap-room, and in all the sitting-rooms, for the information of travellers.

5. To provide a Visitor’s Book, which shall be kept in the custody of the licensee, but whenever asked for shall be produced to visitors and lodgers for the insertion of any remark on the accommodation or attendance; a notice to this effect to be kept posted in the same manner as the tariff of charges. The book to be open at all times to inspection by Magistrates or the Police, and to be sent to the Clerk of the Bench, at Christchurch, a week before the annual licensing meeting, for the purpose of being produced at that meeting.

BEDFORD, GEORGE—COAL TRACK.

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the tap-room, or room answering as such, one public and one private sitting-room.

2. To provide not less than six beds for travellers, in not less than three separate bed-rooms.

3. To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least six horses.

4. At all times to keep a proper supply of water for the house, and for horses and cattle, and to provide, in a convenient position, a proper trough for watering cattle.

5. To keep at all times a proper supply of oats, and oaten or grass hay. Oats to be charged for to travellers at not more than 6d per quart, and to be always served out with the authorised quart measure.

6. To provide and keep in repair a good and sufficient stockyard for cattle, containing a superficial area of not less than 225 square yards. For the occupation of this yard during the night, the licensee may make a charge at rates not exceeding the following, viz.—Twopence per head for all cattle under 50 in number, and one penny per head for all over that number.

7. To provide and keep in repair a good and movable sheep-proof yard, containing a superficial area of not less than 900 square yards or, at the option of the licensee, to keep one acre of land enclosed by a permanent sheep-proof fence. For the occupation of this yard or paddock during the night, the licensee may make a charge at rates not exceeding the following, viz.—Sixpence per score for all sheep under 300 in number, fourpence per score for all over that number and under 500, and twopence per score for all over 500.

8. To keep a lamp burning, with two burners, from sunset to sunrise, giving a sufficiently bright light, and being so lighted as to be conspicuous from a distance all round the house.

9. To be sworn in and act as a constable, especially when required by the Magistrates or the Police.

10. On all occasions to render every assistance, and to supply information to Magistrates and to the Police, in the execution of their duty.

11. To keep a clean and orderly house, and

WILLIAM BIRDLING—LAKE ELLESMERE.

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the tap-room, or room answering as such, one public and one private sitting-room.

2. To provide not less than seven beds for travellers, in not less than seven separate bed-rooms.

3. To provide a shed sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least four horses.

Conditions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, same as Bedford’s.

12. Nil.

Conditions 13, 14, and 15, same as Bedford’s.

WILLIAM BUNDLE’S EXECUTRIX, TEMPLETON.

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in her house, besides the tap-room, or room answering as such, one public and one private sitting-room.

2. To provide not less than twelve separate beds for travellers, in not less than eight separate bed-rooms.

3. To provide a shed, sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least twelve horses.

Conditions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, same as Bedford’s.

12. Nil.

Conditions 13, 14, and 15, same as Bedford’s.

CHAPMAN, JOHN—HERN VALLEY, HILLSBOROUGH.

1. All the premises to be kept in good repair. To provide in his house, besides the tap-room, or room answering as such, one public and one private sitting-room.

2. To provide not less than five beds for travellers, in not less than three separate bed-rooms.

3. To provide a shed, sufficiently weather-tight, and fit for the accommodation of at least six horses.

Conditions 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 11, same as Bedford’s.

12. Nil.

Conditions 13, 14, and 15, same as Bedford’s.